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Days after a federal judge quickly shot down a Taylor Swift circus of sorts that seemed poised to take took over the multiple lawsuits battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the Another Simple Favor actress is calling out her It Ends With Us co-star for using an investigation on her sexual harassment claims to […]

EXCLUSIVE: You haven’t really made it as a mogul until you’ve written a memoir. Few rise to that rarefied space and have lasted there as long as has Barry Diller, a first-ballot Hall of Fame exec whose Simon & Schuster memoir Who Knew I happened to lay hands on. It hits bookshelves Tuesday. It takes […]

Spike Lee returned to the Cannes Film Festival Official Selection tonight with his latest feature, Highest 2 Lowest, which is running in the Out of Competition strand. Starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, A$AP Rocky and Ilfenesh Hadera, the Akira Kurosawa-inspired crime thriller garnered a six-minute ovation at its world premiere. Highest 2 Lowest is a […]

Michael Angelo Covino’s sophomore feature directing effort, Splitsville, was unveiled this evening as part of the Cannes Film Festival Premiere section. It was greeted with a eight-minute reception. The comedy, co-written by Covino and Kyle Martin, follows Ashley (Adria Arjona) who, after asking for a divorce, spurs the good-natured Carey (Kyle Marvin) to run to […]

Ahead of the Cannes premiere of his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson reflected on the 12 (going on 13) features he’s made, including his approach to keeping costs down while employing elaborate world-building set designs. In a new interview with The Times U.K., the Oscar winner reflected on how his breakthrough sophomore film […]

After a marathon 10-year production journey, Hong Kong dystopian thriller Sons of the Neon Night finally hit the red carpet yesterday, premiering in the Midnight Screenings section of the Cannes Film Festival. Starring veteran actors Takeshi Kaneshiro (Chungking Express), Sean Lau (Papa), Tony Leung Ka-fai (Double Vision), Louis Koo (Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In), […]

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson took to the Cannes red carpet this evening for the world premiere of new film Die My Love, directed by Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here). The Competition movie is based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz and also stars LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte. Set […]

One of the starrier titles to hit the Croisette this week, Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love just had its debut at the Palais, earning a nine-minute ovation. Led by Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, the Competition entry is based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz and also stars LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.  […]

Die My Love, Lynne Ramsay’s fifth film, ends with a familiar song sung by an unfamiliar voice: The director herself delivers a stripped-down version of Joy Division’s 1980 hit “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Marital-breakdown songs are usually the stuff of country and western, but this stark post-punk anthem was written by Manchester’s Ian Curtis, […]

Take Jaws, throw in a bit of Saw, add some Room and The Silence of the Lambs, a little Point Break, plus a touch of Gidget, and voila! You have the recipe for Dangerous Animals, a deviously demented combination of shark and serial killer genre movies that had its world premiere tonight in Cannes as […]

When I was growing up, the lessons of 1984 – the dystopian novel by George Orwell – were all thought to pertain to the Soviet Union. Big Brother was Josef Stalin – controlling the thoughts of his people, punishing dissenters. If that had been correct, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and freeing of its […]

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 5 with the world premieres of Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and New Wave, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Guillaume Marbeck, Aubry Dullin, and Zoey Deutch. Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, set in rural America, portrays a woman consumed by love […]

Following its Cannes premiere, Richard Linklater‘s black-and-white tribute to Jean-Luc Godard has released a sneak peek. In the first teaser for Nouvelle Vague (New Wave), premiering October 8 in theaters, Guillaume Marbeck portrays the French-Swiss filmmaker as he directs his first feature, 1960’s Breathless, in Paris. Featuring the same warm black-and-white ’60s film aesthetic of […]

Richard Linklater’s Cannes Competition title Nouvelle Vague had its world premiere the Palais this evening and was welcomed with a 11-minute ovation. Quentin Tarantino was at tonight’s screening as well and helped lead the long-lasting applause. It was the second time he’d watched the film in about eight hours, having also caught a special screening […]

In 1983, Jim McBride attempted an English-language remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 cinema landmark, Breathless with Richard Gere. It broke one of Godard’s cardinal rules: It was in color. Although not as terrible an idea as Gus Van Sant’s disastrous shot-by-shot 1998 color remake of Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho — which, like Godard’s forever-influential movie the […]

Legendary Entertainment has elevated industry veteran Di Mu to CEO of Legendary East. The executive was previously EVP Marketing for the China-based promotion and marketing division that’s dedicated to releasing Legendary and third-party content in the territory. She is replacing outgoing CEO Sirena Lu. In her new role, Mu will expand the company’s reach by […]

Charles Strouse, the musical composer for such Broadway hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie, films including Bonnie and Clyde (1967) The Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968) and All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989) and for the TV series All In The Family, died at his home in New York City on May 15. […]

French-Spanish director Óliver Laxe makes his debut in the Cannes Film Festival Competition with a film that arguably would be better placed in one of the festival’s Midnight slots. Part existential road movie, part apocalyptic sci-fi, it’s a puzzling mix of Zabriskie Point and Fury Road that starts with a bang but ends in a […]

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that 1923 actress Natalie Grace has joined the cast of Atomic Monster and Blumhouse’s Lee Cronin’s The Mummy along with young thespians Shylo Molina and Billie Roy. The pic, which stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, Veronica Falcón, May Calamawy and May Elghety, is currently lensing in Spain and Ireland. Cronin is at […]

Promise Studios Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer Dave Clark hit the Cote D’Azur and showed glimpses of film projects NinjaPunk and Extinction as part of the Cannes Market’s deep focus on AI. The generative AI studio boss also talked about how Promise sees AI meshing with traditional filmmaking. “I don’t personally forsee generative AI coming […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emilia Jones (CODA) and Leo Woodall (One Day) are set for roles in A24’s Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony, Deadline has learned. Character details are under wraps. The duo joins an ensemble led by The Holdovers breakout Dominic Sessa, who plays the title role, which also includes Oscar nominee Antonio Banderas. Written by Todd Bartels […]

David Leitch is in negotiations to direct a feature adaptation of the hit video game Gears of War for Netflix. Dune scribe Jon Spaihts is penning the script. Leitch and his producing partner Kelly McCormick will produce via their 87North banner along with The Coalition. The game is set on a planet on the brink […]

EXCLUSIVE: While he hasn’t yet found the actress who’ll play Joan of Arc in his epic Jehanne d’Arc, Baz Luhrmann found an exceptional young voice to help him unlock the screenplay. That would be Ava Pickett, a playwright who wrote the script with Luhrmann. Here’s how impressed the filmmaker was with Pickett: Recently, pretty much […]

Editor’s note: When President Donald Trump proposed to “fix” runaway Hollywood production by imposing 100% tariffs on films shot abroad, Pandemonium Films CEO Bill Mechanic answered Deadline’s call quickly to break down whether such a kneejerk solution could remedy a problem long in the making. A former producer of the Oscars and top executive at […]