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Will Sharpe and Stephanie Hsu lead the English-language voice cast of Phuong Mai Nguyen’s debut feature, an animated adaptation of a graphic novel by AJ Dungo.
The nonbinary Belfast-born actor — and THR's next Cannes Rising Star — tackles our universal need for community and the newfound festival trend of apolitical messaging: "It’s a sorry state of affairs when artists don’t really believe in anything."
French producers Richard Grandpierre and Olivier Delbosc on their $47 million bet with Studiocanal that audiences are ready for a reimagining of Victor Hugo’s epic as a propulsive action thriller — with the original politics very much intact.
EXCLUSIVE: The World Cup kicks off in Mexico City in less than a month, promising enough moments of athletic brilliance, excitement and tension to grip a global audience. But for sheer drama and importance, it will be hard if not impossible for any single World Cup match to equal one played 40 years
The “naughtiest show on television” is back,” and Season 2 is “150%” a tribute to the late, great Jilly Cooper, the author of the source material who was beloved by millions. Cooper’s agent, Felicity Blunt, was one of five Rivals executive producers who delved deep into why the author meant so much
The animated feature, the directorial feature debut of Nicolas Athané and Marco Nguyen, world premieres in the Cannes Film Festival's Midnight Screenings program.
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's competition title, produced by David Thion ('Anatomy of a Fall'), also stars Mélanie Thierry as a young novelist who meets Gabrielle, who has a carefully constructed life and career.
With Kore-eda, Hamaguchi and Fukada in competition and a new generation pitching at the market, the country of honor is making the most of its moment.
“Babygirl” writer/director Halina Reijn is continuing to expand the cast for her next film with A24, this time adding a BAFTA winner into the mix. David Jonsson, who won the BAFTA Rising Star award in 2025 for his breakout turns in “Rye Lane” and “Alien: Romulus,” has joined “Please,” which reunites
Dennis To will reprise his role as the legendary Wing Chun grandmaster in “Ip Man: Kung Fu Legacy,” the next installment of the martial arts franchise. All Rights Entertainment has launched presales at the Cannes Film Market for the new feature. Production is scheduled to begin in October, with the
L.A.-based Myriad Pictures has snapped up “A Silent Death,” the latest psychological crime thriller from Sebastian Schindel. The deal, hammered out between Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico and FilmSharks’ Guido Rud and Federico Pascua, targets a North American release in the third quarter of 2026. Set in ‘80s
Garret Dillahunt (“No Country for Old Men”), Michelle Hurd (“Star Trek: Picard”) and Henry Ian Cusick (“Lost”) are set to lead upcoming psychological thriller “Bloodwood.” The film marks the feature directorial debut of Robert Menzies, who also wrote the original screenplay based on his novel. Essen
Italy’s RAI Cinema Intl. Distribution has scored a batch of sales on “The Sound of Something New,” the new film by “Perfect Strangers” director Paolo Genovese, which is being sold at the Cannes Marché du Film. “Something New,” which is produced by Lotus Production, a Leone Film Group company, in tan
Japanese auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu returns to competition at Cannes with “Sheep in the Box,” a thorny yet sensitive meditation on the encroachment of AI on our ability to let go of those who are no longer with us. In the film, Otone (Ayase Haruka) and Kensuke (Yamamoto Daigo) adopt a humanoid android
Foreign Concept Entertainment is developing “The Ideal Man,” a thriller centered on Jim Thompson — the former CIA operative who built one of Thailand’s most recognized lifestyle brands before vanishing without explanation in 1967. The script is set during the Vietnam War, with the story hinging on T
Director-actress-producer Sadie Frost and producer Simon Jones have launched Frost & Jones, a production company developing premium documentary and scripted film and television. The venture follows the critical and commercial performance of Frost’s documentary “Twiggy” and is designed to span both s
Skyline Media, a Vietnam-based international sales agent, is heading to the Cannes Film Market with a five-title slate led by “The Scourge,” one of the first feature film adaptations of a Vietnamese video game IP. The source game has topped China’s Steam Early Access chart, accumulated over 60,000 d
Having joined forces on WWII drama-thriller “Frontier,” a Menemsha Films U.S. pickup, Catalan director Judith Colell and Barcelona-based studio Filmax are reuniting on another war tale. This time, however, it will be told through an animated feature and the story of the friendship between Moss, a l
The host's lips are making their rounds before 'The Late Show' signs off the air for good.
Gibb was best known for playing the not-so-bright jock Frederick “Ogre” Palowaski in three 'Revenge of the Nerds' films.