UPDATED: Talk to anyone on the Croisette and they would have bet that this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or belonged to Pedro Almodovar and his latest movie Pain and Glory. Not so, as South Korean director Bong Joon-ho finally got his due in his fifth time at Cannes, winning the Palme d’Or for his thriller Parasite about a…

Four-time Oscar winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu today begins his first job in a while, heading the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. He has a few things to get off his chest before he heads into darkened theaters for the next 10 days. DEADLINE: You are the first Mexican born person to head the main jury…

Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu will preside over a Cannes Film Festival main jury comprising U.S. actress Elle Fanning, actress and director Maimouna N'Diaye from Burkina Faso, U.S. director Kelly Reichardt, Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, French author Enki Bilal, French filmmaker Robin Campillo, helmer Yorgos…

Four-time Academy Award winner Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu has been chosen as the president of the Cannes Film Festival jury. He will head the Official Selection competition at the 72nd edition of the highly regarded festival, and will be the first Mexican artist to sit in the position. Iñárritu’s relationship with…

An elite group of film directors have appealed directly to Warner Bros Picture Group chairman Toby Emmerich to try and save FilmStruck, the subscription streaming service that offers indie and prestige titles that are part of the Criterion Collection. This after WarnerMedia said it would shutter the service at the end…

Multi-Oscar winning filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu spoke at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday saying that before turning in earnest to the big screen, he had been a "frustrated musician." He still wishes he could have succeeded. "I think it's the highest expression of human beings by far," said Iñárritu during…

EXCLUSIVE: At a time when the Best Actor aspirants are elbowing for position, watch out for Michael Keaton. A fixture in the last two Best Picture Oscar winners Birdman and Spotlight, Keaton this year arrives in the John Lee Hancock-directed The Founder. He plays Ray Kroc, who in his 50s evolved from a failing…

While two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu hasn’t fixed on a movie project after his harrowing Best Picture nominee The Revenant, he is working on an intriguing sideline: a virtual reality short. It’s one that he’s been developing for four years, and the short is being produced and financed by…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses, and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that myster…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety.In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. BART: The Best Picture quarrels may continue into perpetuity but an instant consensus has emerged about Worst Picture. Since no one I…

Alejandro G. Iñárritu made Oscar history in a couple of ways Sunday night becoming the first director to win back to back Oscars in 66 years, and only the third ever to do it after Joseph L. Mankiewicz and John Ford. He also became the third Mexican director in a row to win (his victory last year for Birdman, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from winning five BAFTA Awards for The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu is on UK holiday, trying to reemerge from coming out the other side of the most arduous, ambitious logistically challenging shoot since Francis Ford Coppola headed to the Philippines to turn Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness…