There can be no doubt if there is one person bound and determined to keep Hollywood’s long history of Westerns alive it has been Kevin Costner. Okay, well Clint Eastwood too. And that has been true right from the beginning of his career when he played the freewheeling scene stealer Jake in Lawrence Kasdan’s Silverado […]
Meredith Firetog, a partner at Wigdor LLP, has lashed out in response to Sean Combs’ video post today in which he apologizes for the assault on his former girlfriend that was captured on a hotel video. Wigdor represented Cassie Ventura in her settlement with Combs over an assault. The incident was captured on video that […]
Kevin Costner’s Western epic Horizon: An American Saga had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, getting an 11-minute, 40-second ovation after the credits began rolling at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. The three-hour movie is the first chapter of a planned four-part series directed by and starring Costner, who soaked in the […]
EXCLUSIVE: In a highly competitive situation at the Cannes market, A24 is landing an eight-figure deal to acquire U.S. rights to one of the biggest art house crossover projects in town in The Entertainment System is Down, the next movie from two-time Cannes Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund. The deal was struck between A24 and […]
Remember the communiqué from the Rambouillet G7 conference back in 1975? Of course they do. Tramping through a wooded estate somewhere in Germany, pursued by the zombie remains of Iron Age chieftains recently exhumed from the grounds of the nearby stately home, the leaders of the world’s richest democracies recite it by heart. What could […]
Jerry Seinfeld’s Saturday night comedy show in Norfolk, Virginia was interrupted several times by at least one Pro-Palestinian protester. The incident was the second protest of a Seinfeld event this month. Earlier, protesters walked out of a commencement speech Seinfeld gave at the graduation ceremony for Duke University. Both protests were rooted in Seinfeld’s staunch […]
Refresh for latest…: After starting early offshore release on John Krasinski’s IF last weekend, Paramount expanded the imaginary friends film to another 56 international box office markets this session. The overseas frame was worth $20M, bringing the international running cume to $24M. With domestic’s $35M debut, the worldwide total is now $59M. Despite some unfriendly […]
On Sunday at Cannes, Diane Kruger put her star power behind a worthy cause, attending the ‘Transcending Borders’ gala at the Campari Lounge hosted by Breaking Through the Lens—an organization that works to support female filmmakers. “I know first hand how incredibly difficult it is as a woman in this industry,” Kruger told Deadline. “Even […]
The employees of Revolt, the media company cofounded by Sean “Diddy” Combs, have reacted to the video showing him assaulting a former girlfriend at a hotel. In an Instagram post, employees stated, “We are deeply saddened and disturbed by the recent video circulation of our former chairman, Sean “Diddy” Combs. “Even with his recent separation […]
MGM/Imax’s The Blue Angels lands a hefty $1.3 million on just 255 domestic Imax screens from limited showtimes in the large format exhibitor’s exclusive theatrical engagement. The Paul Crowder film, with Glen Powell and Bad Robot as producers, follows the Navy’s famed demonstration flying squadron. It also “ushers in a new era for IMAX Documentaries, or Docu-busters,” the company said. […]
Sean “Diddy” Combs on Sunday posted a video apology on Instagram for a 2016 assault on his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura. The apology arrives days after a hotel surveillance video emerged in which Combs appeared to grab, shove, drag and kick Ventura. “My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions […]
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the narrative of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. EXCLUSIVE: One of the many talking points to emerge from this week’s Cannes Film Festival screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Megalopolis is whether distributors will be able to replicate the film’s ‘fourth wall moment’. As most reviews for the film […]
In the Moscow Times’ obituary for Eduard Limonov, who died four years ago aged 77, writer Mark Galeotti summed up the poet-turned-politician in two simple sentences: “Was Limonov a visionary or a poser, an artist or a politician, a leftist or a rightist? The answer to all of them is, of course, yes.” This is […]
Demi Moore teased details of her role in Taylor Sheridan’s upcoming Paramount+ drama Landman and revealed she expects to be back on set for a second season in early 2025. “It’s a very interesting world in the boomtown of Fort Worth, Texas. It’s kind of this subculture that we haven’t seen before, which is what […]
It has been seven years since Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Emmanuel Lubezki presented CARNE y ARENA at the Cannes Film Festival. In an airport hangar 20 minutes down the coast from the Palais, the pair had created a vast volume with a sand floor as participants strapped into a virtual reality headset and found themselves […]
Strange but true: after 15 years as an international movie star, propelled to fame in 2004 by Wolfgang Petersen’s historical epic Troy, German-born Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award in Cannes for her first-ever performance in her native language. Fatih Akin’s provocative 2017 drama In the Fade, in which she played a widow consumed […]
Kevin Costner was honored with France’s Order of Arts and Letter at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, ahead of the Out of Competition world premiere of his two-part Western epic Horizon: An American Saga. “You represent the America of wide spaces, the America of free minds, the America of cinema and the love of […]
In Japan the very first few snowflakes begin to fall signaling the change of seasons. Another clue is we see young Takuya (Keitatsu Koshiyama) and his baseball-playing buddies taking those final swings at bat and moving on to ice hockey. That is basically how this quiet and lilting charmer of a coming-of-age story is introduced, […]
Reflecting on her career, Lena Waithe says, “I think about legacy a lot.” The writer-producer-actor, whose body of work includes creating Showtime drama The Chi and BET’s Twenties, has been on a steady upward trajectory since winning a primetime Emmy Award in 2017 for outstanding writing on Netflix’s Master of None. But for Waithe, success […]
A glowing brain, world leaders lost in the woods, a U.S President with a glaring British accent, oh, and bog men — mummies whose manhood has been severed and wrapped around their necks. Such are the sundries of Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson’s political comedy Rumours here at Cannes. The film, which world premiered […]
When Hayao Miyazaki’s long-awaited and supposed swansong The Boy and the Heron opened at No. 1 at the North American box office last December with a record-breaking $12.8 million tally, it was not only the first original anime title to achieve such a feat, but it was the biggest ever opening for U.S. distributor Gkids. […]
UK media is spending another weekend poring over the invitation list of “the society wedding of the year” with reports that Prince William is set for a high-profile role with his son George also set to feature, while his brother Prince Harry will be binning his invitation, and their father King Charles’s attendance remains unconfirmed. […]
You know a movie has left a big impression at Cannes when the applause explodes in the press room as the cast files in. Such was the case Sunday morning for Emila Pérez. Jacques Audiard’s latest movie follows Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an overqualified and undervalued lawyer who goes from repping guilty criminals to a cartel […]
Director Richard Linklater rues that Hollywood has taken to creating sexless characters and superheroes without genitalia. The writer/director of films including the Before trilogy and Boyhood is behind Netflix’s Hit Man, one of the standout successes at last year’s Venice Film Festival. Linklater calls the movie, starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona, a “sexy crime […]
Leading producer Martin Moszkowicz, who recently moved away from his role as CEO of German giant Constantin to focus on producing, was honored with the Carl Laemmle Producer Award in Laupheim for his multifaceted and extensive work as a filmmaker and producer. The veteran producer and exec has been behind major projects such as Monster Hunter, Fack […]
