“When I made this show, I was interested in going into the world of where the teenagers control,” says director Nicolas Winding Refn, who returns to Cannes for a fourth time in eight years with his upcoming Amazon LAPD cop streaming series Too Old to Die Young, which he co-created with Ed Brubaker. “This is their…

A consortium of media and entertainment investors led by Atwater Capital and KKR’s new German indie conglomerate are launching local-language production financier Library Pictures International, it was announced today in Cannes. The idea is to invest in global filmmakers and distributors directly through local…

EXCLUSIVE: Denise Richards and John Schneider have joined John K. D. Graham’s teenage faith-based movie Switched. In the project, which is currently filming in Louisville, Kentucky, ultra-popular high schooler Katie Sharp (Madeleine Byrne) torments Cassandra Evans (Miya Horcher) until a nighttime prayer switches their…

EXCLUSIVE: Wolfe Releasing has taken U.S. rights to director Rhys Ernst's coming-of-age comedy Adam starring Nicholas Alexander (I Love You Phillip Morris), Bobbi Salvör Menuez (Nocturnal Animals, I Love Dick), Leo Sheng, Chloë Levine (The OA) and Margaret Qualley (Fosse/Verdon, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood). In the…

As of 3:36 p.m. Cannes Film Festival Time on Saturday–6:36 a.m. as time is reckoned here in Los Angeles– the online case records of the Los Angeles County Superior Court still showed no sign of a response by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Roman Polanski's demand for reinstatement as an Academy…

Three years after director Nicolas Winding Refn defended the theatrical experience before exhibitors at CinemaCon 2016, tonight at the Cannes premiere of his Amazon series Too Old To Die Young, the Danish filmmaker expressed his love for streaming before a packed house in the Grand Lumiere Theatre. Refn made these…

EXCLUSIVE: From Cornwall to the Croisette. the UK band Fisherman’s Friends, subject of the recent UK box office hit of the same name, was in Cannes today, where stops included the Deadline party. Next stop: Australia. While at our annual Riviera bash, producers behind the breakout movie, which recently took close to…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has taken U.S. rights to LD Entertainment's Jacob's Ladder, a re-imagination of the 1990 thriller about a Vietnam vet who suffers from a severe case of dissociation. DISH will premiere Jacob’s Ladder in an exclusive July window, followed by a theatrical release in August. David M…

At today’s Cannes press conference for Paramount’s Rocketman, the media was eager to compare the Elton John musical biopic to Fox’s Freddie Mercury multi-Oscar winner Bohemian Rhapsody.  A journalist asked wither Taron Egerton could see himself at the Oscars in February, just like Rami Maleck earlier this year who…

EXCLUSIVE: Phoenix International is selling the Brian Dennehy family comedy Life Support (working title) at Cannes which stars Whiplash Oscar winner J.K. Simmons, Victor Victoria Oscar-nominated actress Lesley Ann Warren, Tom Arnold, and Anchorman‘s David Koechner. Pic directed and written by stage and film actor…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group has purchased North American and some foreign rights to Nick Hamm’s John DeLorean movie Driven which made its world premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival and continued on to TIFF. Pic will hit theaters on Aug. 16. Inspired by true events, Driven is…

Where’s there’s demand, there’s a black market. Cannes is no different and it has been that way for many years. In the days leading up to the festival some attending industry (and presumably many others) were sent (some by an unknown Whatsapp sender) a breakdown of supposed Cannes goodies they could gain by parting…