Title: Ghost Cat AnzuSection: Directors’ FortnightDirectors: Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro YamashitaLogline: A young girl named Karin finds herself abandoned by her father and living with her monk grandfather in the Japanese countryside. Then Anzu, a phantom feline, steps in as her guardian.Distributor: GKIDSPane…
Title: AnimaleSection: Critics WeeksDirector: Emma BenestanLogline: Camargue, France – famous for its traditional bull race, an exhilarating and graceful challenge of agility and respect between man and beast. Surrounded by men, 22-year-old Nejma trains hard to fulfill her dream of winning the upcoming…
Deadline photo studio hosted talent at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival, as cast members of Cannes premiering films stopped by including David Cronenberg and Vincent Cassel for The Shrouds; Cayden Wyatt Costner, Jena Malone, Isabelle Fuhrman, Abbey Lee, Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Ella Hunt, Wase Chief, Georgia…
Title: Queens of DramaSection: Critics WeeksDirector: Alexis LangloisLogline: In 2005, Mimi Madamour, the young pop idol, lives a curse and fiery romance with queer punk icon Billie Kohler. Amongst love, hatred, and torn desires for the spotlight, their pursuit of glory and their passion for each other…
Rumours, a political satire that's the latest entry in the oeuvre of filmmaking trio Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, world premiered out of competition to a nearly six-minute standing ovation in Cannes this weekend, marking the first time veteran Maddin has had a movie here. In fact, the Green…
Title: Dog on TrialSection: Un Certain RegardDirector: Laetitia DoschLogline: April, an idealistic lawyer dedicated to lost causes, agrees to defend Cosmos, a dog that has bitten three people, leading to the first canine trial. She has no choice but to win the case, as otherwise, her unusual client will…
Self-taught director Ryan J. Sloan is at the Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of his first feature Gazer in Directors' Fortnight, with partner and longtime collaborator Ariella Mastroianni, who co-wrote, produced and stars in the film.
Mastroianni, whose grandfather according to family…
Just call us the kings of wishful thinking.
Is there a three-times-a-charm for Richard Gere and Julia Roberts following the 1990s Garry Marshall rom-coms Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride?
Gere tells the Deadline Studio at Cannes that “She just called — which is amazing.”
Sike.
“Garry…
Title: Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost TapesSection: Cannes ClassicsDirector: Nanette BursteinLogline: With extraordinary access to her personal archives, and 70 hours of newly unearthed intimate audiotapes, this documentary offers an unprecedented look at the life of one of Hollywood's biggest stars.Distributo…
In Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer, Julian McMahon is surrounded by a maelstrom of toxic masculinity and simmering violence.
Starring as the leader of a pack of young men whose mission is to keep their Australian surf beach for ‘locals only’, McMahon plays Scally, a man standing in the way of Nicolas…
"Fiction was the tool I needed right now to make links and connections between the state of America today and where it all started," Roberto Minervini told us of his decision to clock his first narrative feature with The Damned.
The pic, which debuted this week in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at…
What kind of Christmas movie do you get when your director’s inspirations are early-90s Nickelodeon live-action shows and 1960s European cinema? In Tyler Taormina’s case, the answer is Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point.
The movie sees four generations of the Balsano family get together for what, it…