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UPDATE: Xavier Giannoli's Illusions Perdues (Lost Illusions) leads nominations for the 2022 César Awards, France's equivalent to the Oscar. The Venice premiere scored 15 mentions, followed by Leos Carax's Annette, which opened the Cannes Film Festival last year and has 11 nominations. They are followed by Valérie…

The Lumières International Press Awards, voted for by foreign press working in France, have crowned Audrey Diwan's Happening as Best Film. Scroll down for the full list of winners. It was also a good day for Leos Carax's Annette, the offbeat musical starring Marion Cotillard, Adam Driver and a puppet, which opened…

French film exports generated 91.4M euros ($103.6M) in 2021, a 5.5% increase on the previous year’s provisional figures, while admissions were up 8% to 14.8M. Comparatively, French films within France sold 39.2M tickets during the year. The figures were announced during the annual Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French…

EXCLUSIVE: Let the race begin. On the eve of the fall film festivals that signify the official start of Oscar season (just as Emmy final voting is prepared to wrap up Monday evening), the Academy Screening Room this week put up their first four films in the section labeled FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION — and all of them are…

Questlove's Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will hit a cumulative $1.4 million rising to an estimated $1.47 million Monday with a $375,000 second-week gross in 752 theaters. The best performing documentary so far this year "may possibly get to $2 million, that's our goal," said…

"So may we start?" asked the teaser trailer for Leos Carax's anarchic musical Annette, which proved to be an ebullient, if divisive, introduction to the 74th Cannes film festival. Starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as two ill-fated lovers—one a comedian, the other an opera singer—the film chalks up another…

At a Cannes Film Festival like no other, Leos Carax's Annette may have been the perfect opening movie. Our Pete Hammond described it as an "offbeat rock opera musical fantasy" (not the most populated of genres) in his Deadline review last night, and the film's creativity and originality, typical of Carax, has set the…

Tonight’s Cannes Film Festival world premiere of Leos Carax’s musical rock opera Annette has been a long time coming as it was actually announced to be part of the fest’s 2020 edition. That was canceled, of course, but this film decided to wait 14 months until it could have its moment on the red carpeted steps of the…

The 74th Cannes Film Festival kicked off in earnest Tuesday evening as big names came out to support the event that's just getting back to business after last year's cancellation and this year's delays. Assembled together, 2019 Oscar and Palme d'Or winner Bong Joon-ho, Cannes veteran Pedro Almodóvar, jury president…

Since 1984, Leos Carax has only made five features, and all but one of them have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, usually to feverish anticipation. This year, festivalgoers will be looking to see how the 60-year-old French maverick—aka Alex Christophe Dupont—will top his intoxicatingly strange 2012 competition…

Mubi has acquired all UK and Ireland rights for Leos Carax's Annette which is due to open the Cannes Film Festival in competition on July 6, a day ahead of its French release. The distributor and streamer has set a theatrical UK and Ireland release on September 3. This is the second recent UK deal for Mubi on a Cannes…

Here’s the charming first full trailer for musical romance Annette, which was this morning announced as the opening-night pic at the Cannes Film Festival. Marion Cotillard, Adam Driver and Simon Helberg star in the movie set in contemporary Los Angeles. It tells the story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce…