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The 75th Cannes Film Festival has so far seen Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, jet fighters, fireworks and, today, a woman protesting sexual assault with screams and body paint on the red carpet. It’s been quite a spectacle, with the premiere of George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing delivering the aforementioned…

James Gray returned to Cannes for the fifth time with what was a personal story inspired by his childhood during 1980s Queens, NY, and the premiere tonight was nothing but emotional. The first screening of Focus Features’ Armageddon Time drew a five-minute standing ovation, the pinnacle of which was Gray addressing…

Writer-director James Gray has been to the Cannes Film Festival in competition on four previous occasions with We Own the Night, The Yards, The Immigrant and Two Lovers but has yet to walk away with a prize. Maybe the fifth time will be the charm? It certainly would be deserving as Gray comes back to his beloved New…

"We have our own superheroes here at Focus Feature and they are going to bring older filmgoers back to your movie theaters," Lisa Bunnell, Focus Features distribution chief, promised thousands of cinema execs at Universal’s CinemaCon presentation Wednesday. "They want to see something new. They come," she said…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Polk (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Billions) will star alongside Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway in Armageddon Time, James Gray’s coming-of-age film for Focus Features, which has now wrapped production. The film, written and directed by Gray, is inspired by his life in a pre-Reagan…

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Strong are set to join the cast of Focus Features Armageddon Time with James Gray writing and directing. Anne Hathaway is also on board as are newcomers Banks Repeta along with Jaylin Webb and Ryan Sell. The film is currently in production in New York. The film is a coming of age…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert De Niro, Oscar Isaac, Donald Sutherland, and Anne Hathaway are set to join previously announced Cate Blanchett in Armageddon Time, the period drama that James Gray will next direct for RT Features. Wild Bunch International will introduce the film to buyers at the virtual Cannes market and represent…