We say it every year over the course of Oscar reason, as we puzzle over the quirks and oversights of the Academy's choices: Actors and filmmakers are not critics. We don't say it enough at Cannes.
Streaming video giant, Netflix has acquired U.K. rights to Australian TV series "Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane." The six-part musical comedy series is produced by Sticky Pictures in association…
"The Angry Birds Movie" opened well in China over the past weekend with a cute $30 million. But it stands to have its wings clipped by a flock of Hollywood new releases in the Middle Kingdom…
LONDON — Tribune Publishing Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times, has rejected Gannett Co.’s revised takeover bid to acquire the entire company for $15 per share, but said Monday that it was open to…
CANNES — Paris-based Mondex & Cie has boarded "33 Days," starring Antonio Banderas as Picasso and recounting the painter's emotional turmoil as he worked on "Guernica," his reaction to the Nazi…
Wang Jianlin, chairman of China's Wanda group, took a couple of potshots Sunday at the soon-to-open Shanghai Disneyland. He said that the $5.5 billion Shanghai Disney Resort, which opens for business…
CANNES — Separated by just a three-hour short-haul flight, Argentina and Chile have both looked in the past to France and Spain to top up films' finance via co-production. That may now be changing…
CANNES — Rodrigo Teixeira's RT Features, an "Indignation" and "Little Men" producer and Martin Scorsese co-producer on Josh and Benny Sadie's "Uncut Gems," has boarded "Late To Die Young," from…
"The Angry Birds Movie" opened on top of the Chinese box office with a score that was within shouting distance of its estimated North American weekend. "Birds" opened on Friday and flew off with the…
There are two kinds of underdog boxing drama: those that end in against-all-odds glory, and those that end, happily or otherwise, in upheld underdog status.
Asghar Farhadi's return to Cannes with his double prize-winning “The Salesman" comes after the Iranian auteur's Paris-set "The Past" vied for a Palme d'Or in 2013. It also marks his somewhat…
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