Tearful Kevin Costner Unveils Western Gamble ‘Horizon’ at Cannes: “Sorry You Had to Clap So Long”
Kevin Costner rode into Cannes with cowboy swagger, making finger pistols on the red carpet to cheers from the crowd ahead of the premiere for Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1, a partially self-financed western that is one of the biggest swings of his long career. Inside the Grand Lumiere Theatre, Costner was greeted […]
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Sony Brings Stable of Filmmakers to Cannes for Columbia 100th Anniversary Bash
Sony brought together a multiverse’s worth of its filmmakers past and present together Friday at Cannes for a dinner celebrating the 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures. The attendees at Mamo Michelangelo included Cannes jury president and Barbie director Greta Gerwig (who made Little Women for Columbia), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Oscar winners Phil Lord and […]
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Emma Stone Bats Around Questions of Feminism as ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Hits Cannes
Just eight months after filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone unveiled Poor Things at Venice, the duo are back on the festival circuit with Kinds of Kindness. The frequent collaborators faced the press at Cannes, where they tried to define the alchemy between their relationship, which netted Stone an Oscar for Poor Things and […]
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Cannes: Léa Seydoux Starrer ‘The Unknown’ Lands at Neon
Neon is plunging into the great unknown with Léa Seydoux and filmmaker Arthur Harari. The indie outfit has landed North American rights to The Unknown, and appropriate for its title, its logline is currently unknown. But Harari’s pedigree may offer some clues. Harari earned acclaim as the screenwriter of Anatomy of a Fall, which Neon landed out of Cannes before it went on […]
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Lily Allen Joins Haley Bennett in Virginia Woolf Adaptation ‘Night and Day’ (Exclusive)
Lily Allen is the latest star ready to lighten up Night and Day, an adaptation of the comedic Virginia Woolf novel. The singer and actress joins a cast that includes Haley Bennett, Elyas M’Barek and Timothy Spall, who will bring to life the 1919 novel revolving around the daily lives and romances of two women. […]
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George Miller Won’t Rule Out Another ‘Mad Max’ Movie as ‘Furiosa’ Team Meets the Press in Cannes
The dust was just beginning to settle and the smell of guzzolene was still in the air after Wednesday night’s high-octane Cannes premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. But after more than a decade of development and a grueling shoot, the work was not done for filmmaker George Miller and stars Anya Taylor-Joy and […]
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Cannes: ‘Furiosa’ World Premiere Greeted With 7-Minute Standing Ovation
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the fifth installment in George Miller’s celebrated action franchise, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night and was greeted with a seven-minute standing ovation in the Grand Lumiere Theatre as Miller and members of his cast, including stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, looked on. […]
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Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Brühl Join Ruben Östlund Cannes Package ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’
Ruben Östlund is checking in two new actors for his next feature. Kirsten Dunst and Daniel Brühl are the latest to join the Swedish filmmaker’s The Entertainment System Is Down. The feature takes place on a long flight in which the onboard entertainment system fails, leaving the passengers to deal with their own boredom — […]
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Léa Seydoux Says “There’s Greater Respect” on Set After #MeToo as New Film Hits Cannes
Cannes regular Léa Seydoux joined playful press conference for fest opener The Second Act, where talk occasionally turned serious as the actress was peppered with several questions from the international press about her thoughts on the #MeToo era. “I have been a very fortunate person as an actress. At the beginning of my career, I […]
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Hollywood’s Franchise Power Couple
Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver are so in sync that they tend to finish each other’s sentences, a habit that has come in handy during decades spent together writing some of Hollywood’s biggest movies — all while maintaining a 35-year-long marriage. The duo arrived on the scene with The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, the […]
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‘Fantastic Four’ Casts John Malkovich
John Malkovich is the latest actor to join Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Character details are being kept in the Negative Zone. Fantastic Four stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben […]
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‘Superman’ Unveils First Look at David Corenswet as the Man of Steel
David Corenswet gets dressed as Superman one boot at a time in the first look at the actor in costume. Superman writer-director James Gunn revealed the image on social media Monday. The unveiling of an actor in costume as Superman is a rare affair, akin to the first look at a new James Bond. Only […]
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