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Two years after BlacKkKlansman debuted on the Croisette, Spike Lee is heading back to Cannes to serve as jury president. The 62 year-old U.S. filmmaker will award the Palme dO’r at the close of the 73rd edition, which will take place from 12-23 May, 2020. Jury members will be announced in mid-April. BlacKkKlansman…

If Ladj Ly’s Cannes jury prize-winning Les Misérables seems stunningly true to life, that’s because it depicts the environment Ly grew up in down to the last detail. “It’s a scene that I experienced in real life,” Ly said Thursday, speaking through an interpreter after an Awardsline screening of the film at the…

Cannes is set for a revamp. At an event in Paris this week, Cannes mayor David Lisnard unveiled the $556m (€500m) 'Cannes On Air' project, which aims to bring a film museum, multiplex cinema, and a revamp of the Palais des Festivals, the hub for the Cannes Film Festival, MIP events and advertising confab Cannes…

Mounia Meddour’s debut feature Papicha has been selected by Algeria to represent the country in the Oscars’ newly-dubbed International Feature Film category – formerly known as the Best Foreign Language Film race. This appears to be the first film chosen for the category by any country this year; typically submissions…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her feature directorial debut Atlantics, French-Senegalese filmmaker and actress Mati Diop will be jointly represented worldwide by ICM Partners and Film Talents. Up until this point, Diop was solely repped by Paris-based Film…

NEON has set Dec. 6 as the opening date for its Cannes Film Festival winner Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The pic directed by Celine Sciamma won best screenplay at the fest last weekend. NEON will take the period feature out in LA and NY first before platforming into the heat of awards season. NEON and Hulu acquired the…

Bong Joon-Ho’s multi-genre comedy-thriller Parasite takes aim at a number of themes occurring in our world, from class struggle to global warming. But criticizing North Korea isn’t one of the movie’s dominant motifs according to the director. Parasite follows a struggling family who worm themselves into the good…

Netflix has scooped up the global rights to Cannes Grand Prix Winner Atlantics from female director Mati Diop and the Cannes Critics' Week Award Winner I Lost My Body from Xilam Animation. That pic reps director Jérémy Clapin's Animated Feature Debut. For Atlantics, the deal doesn’t include China, Benelux…

Michael Moore took the opportunity to jab at his favorite punching bag tonight — U.S. President Donald Trump — during the 72nd Cannes Film Festival Awards ceremony. In presenting the Jury Prize, which was a tie between France’s Les Miserables and Brazil’s Bacurau, the director of last year’s anti-Trump documentary Fahr…

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…

Typically when a rock star or his estate is heavily involved in the production of their auto-biopic, they take the safe way out, diluting what really occurred offstage. Not Elton John who is an EP on Paramount/Marv Films’ Rocketman. He gave star Taron Egerton and director Dexter Fletcher full reign to deep dive and…

Sylvester Stallone’s Friday at the Cannes Film Festival ended with a honorary career retrospective of the Rocky and Rambo star, topped off with an early look at his upcoming Millennium Entertainment movie Rambo V – Last Blood, which he co-wrote. Following a standing ovation (off which Stallone teared up) and an…