American fans of Taylor Swift have been taking advantage of cheaper ticket prices for the European leg of her record-breaking Eras tour. The Times of London reports that, in the 40,000-capacity Defense Arena in Paris where Swift recently performed, up to 9,000 of the seats were filled by American…

The anarchic spirit of Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or winner Titane lives on in Emma Benestan's Critics’ Week closer Animale, the genre-busting debut of a director who cites Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark, and the naturalist films of Chloé Zhao as influences. More surprisingly, she…

Madonna has made a country choir's dreams come true, sharing their video performing one of her hits with her 19.8 million followers on Instagram. The choir from Northampton in the middle of the UK had sung their own version of Madonna's 2000 hit Music and shared it on social media – where the BBC…

SATURDAY AM EARLY: IF is looking at $30.5M opening this weekend after a $10M Friday + previews, at 4,041 theaters and while that might scream lower than expected on the surface since it’s below its $40M projections, triple note, it’s a PG-rated live-action film. There’s a reason why they haven’t been…

The BBC’s Motherland universe is living on with a spin-off following a post-divorce Amanda. One of Sharon Horgan’s hit show’s most popular characters, Amandaland will follow the protagonist after her divorce, who has had to downsize and up sticks to South Harlesden, or as the Estate Agent calls it…

Paul McCartney has been one of the UK's wealthiest musicians for the last 60 years due to his Beatles royalties. Now he has reportedly become the first UK musician to become a billionaire ($1.27bn). The Sunday Times Rich List, published annually, reports that Sir Paul has seen his immense fortune…

Adria Arjona and Edgar Ramirez have been announced to co-star in Jayro Bustamante's dystopian thriller El Sombreron as The Match Factory launches worldwide sales on the project in Cannes, with CAA Media Finance representing North America. Guatemalan director Bustamante previously made waves with…

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has been rolling out sales on the first instalment of Germany-language film trilogy Woodwalkers in Cannes. A joint production between Blue Eyes Fiction and Studiocanal Germany, it is one the most ambitious German-language productions to date for both partners. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Swiss filmmaker Claude Barras, best known for his 2016 Oscar-nominated feature My Life As a Zucchini, returns to Cannes this year with the animated stop-motion Savages.  The film's synopsis reads: In Borneo, at the edge of the tropical forest, Keria is given a baby orangutan that has been…

The first iteration of the Cannes Film Festival, planned for 1939, was scuppered when Germany invaded Poland to trigger the start of World War II. But when the festival finally got off the ground in 1946, Indian cinema came out swinging. Mounted shortly after the conclusion of the war, the first “real&#8221…