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…

Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski took to the rooftop of the Palais yesterday to visit the Deadline Studio in Cannes, and the high vantage point seemed fitting; the pair are on a cloud after the triumphant premiere of Andrea Arnold’s Bird, in which they both star. Keoghan tipped his hat to this…

EXCLUSIVE: Fundamental Films chairman Mark Gao and his CEO Ivy Hua are in Cannes to reconnect with the international industry as part of the Shanghai-based company's return to international acquisitions and production.  One of the biggest and longest-established Chinese buyers before the pandemic…

Forget the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Bill Maher spent the first segment of Friday’s Real Time asking about a cultural battle – the feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar. To explain the war of words, Maher brought in Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Vanderbilt University and…