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Film Noémie Merlant Talks Sisterhood Tale ‘The Balconettes’, Sparked By Her Experiences With “Microaggressions, Major Aggressions And Even Physical Violence”
The French star is hitting Cannes with her second film in the director’s chair, a gorefest that came out of her past experiences with misogyny and a recent bonding session with her BFFs. It also happens to be riotously funny in parts. “What helps me, my friends, to escape from past trauma is humor, the absurd.”
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Francis Ford Coppola On Motion Picture Industry: “Streaming Is What We Use To Call Home Video,” But Major Studios May Become Extinct – Cannes
As Megalopolis looks to seek a U.S. distribution deal, pic’s filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola was asked to comment on the state of the film industry and whether the movie’s best destination is on streaming.
“Streaming is what we use to call home video,” was the director’s first response to the…
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‘Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot’ Director Rithy Panh On The Urgency And Difficulty Of His Career-Long Cinematic Interrogation Of The Khmer Rouge – Cannes Studio
Rithy Pahn returns to Cannes with Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot, his continuing journey to process and unpack the horrors of the genocide in his home country of Cambodia enacted by the Khmer Rouge regime. Pahn has dedicated his entire career to this pursuit, having himself been caught up in the Killing Fields…
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Lili Reinhart To Lead Social Media Thriller ‘American Sweatshop’ About “Dark Side Of The Internet”; Barry Levinson & Tom Fontana Among Producers — Cannes Market Hot Project
EXCLUSIVE: Riverdale and Hustlers star Lili Reinhart is set to lead mystery thriller American Sweatshop, whose producers include Oscar winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and acclaimed American showrunner Tom Fontana (Oz) who will be producing his first feature.
Myriad Pictures will be launching…
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‘Clarkson’s Farm’ Producer Andy Wilman: Ratings Success Has Been Unexpected, But Jeremy Will Walk Away When He’s Got Nothing Left To Say
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Wilman looks like a man who's not seen sunlight for a while. Peering down the barrel of a Zoom call, he's got a touch of man flu after a spell in his editing bunker. Wilman is perpetually "in an edit." He's currently honing the final episode of The Grand Tour, but he could just as well be…
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‘Maxton Hall – The World Between Us’ Renewed For Season 2 By Amazon After German Series Breaks Prime Video Viewing Records
Prime Video’s German series Maxton Hall – The World Between Us has been handed a swift recommission after becoming the streamer’s most-watched international show of all time in its first week.
The YA series about a British boarding school from UFA Fiction “achieved the largest first week global…
Piers Morgan Slams “High Profile People In The Business” Who Have Said They Know The Real Identity Of Richard Gadd’s Abuser In ‘Baby Reindeer’
Fresh from his bombshell interview with ‘the real Martha,’ Piers Morgan has slammed “high-profile people in the business” who have said they know the identity of Richard Gadd’s abuser portrayed in Baby Reindeer.
Along with the furious guessing game to find Gadd’s female stalker sparked by the…
Barry Keoghan On His ‘Bird’ Musical Number In The Wake Of That ‘Saltburn’ Ending: “I Don’t Think I Can Dance, I’m A Bad Dancer” – Cannes
After prancing through the hallways showing his man-ness at the end of Saltburn last year, Barry Keoghan is back with a another illustrious ditty performance in Bird. In the Andrea Arnold movie that had its world premiere Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival, Keoghan plays a young father, and at one…
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View All What We're WatchingMAD Solutions & Arab Cinema Center Founders Alaa Karkouti And Maher Diab Talk 15 Years Of Promoting Arab Cinema: “People Told Us We Were Crazy”
It's a momentous Cannes for Cairo-based film professionals Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab as they mark the 15th anniversary of the creation of marketing and distribution company MAD Solutions and the 10th anniversary of spin-off the Arab Cinema Center (ACC).
Under these banners, the pair have been at…
Renate Reinsve On Her Return to Cannes With ‘Armand’, “The Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done”
Before making Joachim Trier's 2021 hit The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve was about to jack it all in. Three years later — after A Different Man, with Sebastian Stan, Another Life, with Gael García Bernal, and Handling the Undead, a chiller from Let the Right One In writer John Ajvide Lindqvist…
‘Sloane: A Jazz Singer’, Screening At Cannes Market, Elevates Brilliant Vocalist To Rightful Place In Music History
Later today, the Cannes Film Festival will reverberate with the sound of one of America's great jazz singers.
An exclusive screening of Sloane: A Jazz Singer will take place this afternoon at the Riviera 1, the primary screening venue of the Marché du Film. The documentary directed by Michael Lippert…
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View All Cannes Film Festival 2024The LA Screenings Are Back: Talent Returns & Slates Get International As Buyers Head For Studio Showcases
As buyers touch down at LAX for the annual LA Screenings, it will be a case of a return to the norm following the unusual circumstances of last year. The Hollywood labor strikes not only threw confusion on what would be a realistic purchase, but also stopped acquisitions executives getting face time (and…
Noémie Merlant Says Gory Sisterhood Tale ‘The Balconettes’ Was Sparked By Her Experiences With “Microaggressions, Major Aggressions And Even Physical Violence”
Noémie Merlant's star is rising as an actress. Baby Ruby and Tár won her international recognition across 2022 and 2023, while anticipation is growing around her starring role in Audrey Diwan's English-language reboot of erotica classic Emmanuelle. In the meantime, Merlant is hitting Cannes with The Balcon…
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