The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is officially underway in the South of France as A-listers, auteurs and America’s most revered actress, Meryl Streep, converged at the Palais’ Grand Theatre Lumiere on Tuesday for a typically glamorous opening ceremony. The anticipation was as thick as the clouds in …
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The 2024 Cannes Film Festival competition jury, led by president Greta Gerwig, met the international press Tuesday — and it didn’t take long before the assembled stars were urged to address the various fraught political issues swirling around this year’s edition of the world’s most glamorous film fest. On the eve of …
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The 77th Cannes Film Festival is poised to serve up a feast for film lovers, including new movies from celebrated directors such as Yorgos Lanthimos and Paolo Sorrentino, as well as living legends like Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg and George Miller. Lanthimos will bring Poor Things follow-up Kinds of Kindness to the Cannes competition. The Greek auteur’s …
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AMC Networks Film Group head Scott Shooman and his team really took the phrase “dinner and a movie” to heart. When they released The Taste of Things, the Juliette Binoche-starring French-language movie that IFC acquired out of last year’s Cannes Film Festival, the distributor partnered with restaurants like New York’s Frenchette and Los Angeles’ …
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When Daisy Shang first came to Cannes in 2008, the Chinese animation industry was still really just starting to find its feet, and billion-dollar franchises must have seemed like a dream. As the executive president of Fantawild Holdings and chairwoman of Fantawild Animation tells it now, animated productions that pushed their box …
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Adam Bessa finds himself in the unique position of being both a Cannes Un Certain Regard award winner and a frequent collaborator with Hollywood’s best-known blockbuster brothers, Anthony and Joe Russo — two spheres with marginal overlap. Nonetheless, a decade after Bessa began acting in earnest, he is a regular …
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It’s been just a few hours since Nathalie Emmanuel has seen Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis for the first time, and she’s settling on the right words to describe the experience. “It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen,” says the actress, talking over Zoom from London in late April, as she pauses …
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After a partial comeback in 2023, Chinese cinema is returning to this year’s 77th Cannes Film Festival in a major way. While unveiling his 2024 lineup in April, festival chief Thierry Frémaux noted that “it’s been three or four years that China has been less present in world cinema,” but …
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Demi Moore, documentarian Frederick Wiseman and Billy Zane are among the actors, filmmakers and other industry professionals who will be featured at The American Pavilion at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Moore, Wiseman and Zane will be featured in separate sessions of the “In Conversation” series, along with a group …
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Cannes through the looking glass is a series by 9honey that celebrates, and spotlights the fascinating stories behind, one of France’s most famed celebrity events, the Cannes Film Festival, in the lead-up to the Olympic Games Paris 2024. She’s one of Hollywood’s most popular actresses, rising to fame thanks to …
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Mark Damon, who starred in the Vincent Price horror classic House of Usher and spaghetti Westerns before revolutionizing the foreign sales and distribution film business and producing features including 9 1/2 Weeks, Monster and Lone Survivor, has died. He was 91. Damon died Sunday of natural causes in Los Angeles, his …
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It’s not unusual for Hollywood couples to be defined by their red carpet moments. It is, however, somewhat rare for royals to enjoy the flash of cameras at a star-studded event. In 1987, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Charles and Diana, were invited to the 40th Cannes Film Festival. …
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