Three years ago, Cannes audiences fell in love with Renata Reinsve, the titular star of Norwegian competition entry The Worst Person in the World. Chances are, they won't be quite as well disposed to her character in this austere drama from fellow countryman…

Tom Rothman, the Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman and CEO, wined and dined a select few at a splendidly swish soirée Friday at Mamo Michelangelo in Antibes, hosted by Charles Finch as part of his annual Filmmakers Dinner honoring 100 years of Columbia Pictures, and there was something he said about why…

EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas has acquired world sales rights for Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa's Tokyo-set drama Renoir ahead of the project's presentation in the Investors Circle event at the Cannes Marché du Film on Sunday. The film is Hayakawa's second film after dystopian euthanasia drama Plan 75…

Focus Features has taken worldwide rights to Yorgos Lanthimos' latest project Bugonia, the remake of South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet, which sees the Greek director reunite yet again with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. The trio are here in Cannes with their Competition title Kinds of Kindnes…

EXCLUSIVE: Syrian actor Samer Ismail, whose international roles include Darren Lynn Bousman's Saudi shot horror movie The Cello, has signed with talent management and promotional agency MAD Celebrity. Ismail first achieved fame in the Middle East and North Africa as the title character in 2012 MBC…

Mikey Madison says the call from Sean Baker came entirely out of the blue. "I guess he'd seen a horror film I did, Scream [2022], on the opening weekend, and decided to call my agent the very next day. I met him and Samantha Quan, his producing partner, for coffee, and they pitched me this amazing, crazy…

As fears stack up in the industry over a possible Sony and Paramount merger, subtracting one major motion picture studio from the industry, The Chairman of NBCU Studio Group and Chief Content Officer Donna Langley at a Cannes Kering talk weighed in on what that impact will be. “Consolidation is…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a multi-buyer tug of war, horror movie The Monkey, the adaptation of the Stephen King short story, is heading to Neon for domestic here at the Cannes market. Theo James (The White Lotus) stars in the movie with Tatiana Maslany (She–Hulk: Attorney at Law), Elijah Wood (The Lord Of…

"It’s f–ing hard to make a good airplane movie,” Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund emphasized multiple times Saturday morning in Cannes as he spoke to international press about his plans for The Entertainment System Is Down, the latest feature he has set to direct starring a buzzy cast led by Kirsten Dunst…

Paul Schrader revealed first details about his next feature project entitled Non Compos Mentis during a press conference Saturday for his Cannes Competition title Oh, Canada. "I've written a noir, as a kind of a sexual obsession, called Non Compos Mentis about the stupid things men do for love," he…