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The Lumière brothers pointed a camera at a train in 1895, and the audience ran from their seats. Not because the train was real, but because the story was. Because something in the human animal recognized, in that flickering light, the possibility of shared experience at a scale that had never exist
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s near-future drama “Sheep in the Box,” in which a grieving couple welcomes a state-of-the-art humanoid as their son, premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday to a 3.5-minute standing ovation. Kore-eda earned warm but not sustained applause after the credits
The filmmaker's 17th feature imagines the world in the near future, at a time when artificial intelligence has come to dominate virtually every aspect of our lives.
Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky has revealed he is pushing on with American Revolution-themed AI project On This Day… 1776, the first part of which was widely panned on its release in January. The director told the AI for Talent Summit in Cannes on Saturday that the spir
Who do the dead belong to? This strange but thoughtful question is incredibly on brand for Japan’s Hirokazu Koreeda, and he explores it in one of his purest, most dream-like films to date. Built around three extraordinary performances, including one from first-timer Kuwaki Rumi, it’s a light yet som
Garcia directs and stars in 'Diamond' at this year's Cannes Film Festival; in 1995, he brought his whole family.
“Lioness” and “The Walking Dead” actor Jay Huguley has joined the cast of “Ally Clark,” Phillip Noyce’s upcoming Amazon MGM Studios thriller. The film, starring and produced by EGOT winner Viola Davis, follows investigator Ally Clark as she uncovers a conspiracy involving an international conglomera
Lixi Frank and David Bohun discuss their past successes at Berlin, Venice and Locarno, their two Cannes films from Sandra Wollner and Valeska Grisebach, how they pick their collaborators, and what is next.
In a special three-part series — including All the Presidents’ Men and Taxi Driver — Deadline is looking back a half-century at 1976, an incredible year for movies. Things could have gone very differently for Sylvester Stallone in the year he broke out; by 1976, he was just a jobbing actor with seve
EXCLUSIVE: Rose Leslie (Game Of Thrones), Andreas Pietschmann (Nuremberg), and Daniel Zovatto (Don’t Breathe) are joining Oscar winner Russell Crowe in action-drama The Last Druid, which will begin production on June 8 in Barcelona and the Canary Islands, Spain. A quarter century after Crowe waged w
Travolta wrote, produced, narrated and appears in this Apple film, alongside a flock of his own family members.
“Double Freedom,” the latest by the Argentine auteur Lisandro Alonso, marks a return to the simplicity of his earliest works following the more complex likes of “Eureka,” his 2023 tripartite epic starring Viggo Mortensen. A direct sequel to his 2001 debut “Freedom,” an intriguingly noneventful obser
K5 Intl. has closed a raft of sales on action-thriller “The Butler,” starring Jean Reno and Tom Hollander, which receives its final market screening in Cannes on Saturday evening. Buyers are Arna (CIS), SPI/Canal+ (Eastern Europe, Benelux), CineSky (Airlines), Eagle Pictures (Italy), Falcon Films (M
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A German leg of the refreshed Dogma filmmaking movement has been established by Tom Tykwer, Ilker Catak, Nora Fingscheidt, Helene Hegemann, and Kurdwin Ayub. The five filmmakers announced their intention to produce feature projects under the new Dogma rules during a press conference this afternoon
EXCLUSIVE: The actor chosen to play the next James Bond has got “to ooze sex appeal,” as well as the obvious stuff, like well, actually being able to act, says 007 casting director Nina Gold. Plus, as this column noted way back, the successful applicant picked to take on Ian Fleming’s Commander Bond
EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a few years since we heard about writer-director Michael Winterbottom’s A Farewell to Arms adaptation, but it now has fresh impetus with producer-financier Tribune Pictures and UK sales firm Embankment Films, which is bringing it to the Cannes market. Fremantle is among the orig
Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev breaks down his journey to making ‘Minotaur’ for the first time, from a devastating illness that left him unable to move for a year to the war with Ukraine that he felt determined to respond to.
Italy’s Taormina Film Festival will host the world premiere of Australian action thriller “Bear Country” that reunites Russell Crowe with “Unhinged” helmer Derrick Borte, with Crowe expected to make the treck to the storied fest in the Sicilian resort known to U.S. audiences as the location of “The
Christmas will never be the same again after the premiere of “Red Snow,” directed by Finnish filmmaker Ilja Rautsi and boasting the world’s first vampire Santa Claus. Charades has sold the upcoming horror comedy to Selecta Vision (Spain) following the film’s presentation at Cannes during the Next fr