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The San Sebastian and Zurich film festivals today announced plans to introduce larger film markets at their respective events given the disruption to the spring and summer film calendar wrought by coronavirus. José Luis Rebordinos, Director of the San Sebastián Film Festival (SSIFF), and Christian Jungen, Artistic…

The Palais des Festivals in Cannes would ordinarily be gearing up to host MIPTV, and the town getting ready to welcome throngs of TV executives. Instead, in a stranger than fiction twist, streets are empty, the beach is closed and inhabitants are under lockdown due to the coronavirus. In striking images, the Palais…

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One day after we revealed that U.S. agencies and a collection of the industry’s leading independent film companies are working on a virtual market solution to take place in early May in the eventuality that Cannes doesn’t happen, the Cannes Marché has confirmed that it is also working on an online buying and selling…

With Hollywood under orders to stay out of the office, away from theaters, off the set and especially at a safe social distance from those most germ-friendly of mass gatherings — film festivals — coronavirus suddenly has clarified a change that crept over movie culture in the decades just past. As recently as the late…

The mayor of Nice, the neighbouring city to Cannes in the south of France, has tested positive for coronavirus. Christian Estrosi revealed the diagnosis on Monday afternoon shortly after taking a test. He will continue to work from home where he is isolating with his family. Estrosi commented to local press, “We have…

Despite a global pandemic, thousands of cases of coronavirus in France and mass entertainment cancellations, the Cannes Film Festival is ploughing ahead with plans to stage an event in early May. The festival reiterated to us today, “The festival staff members are currently working to prepare the event scheduled, as…

Cannes is claiming a 9% year-on-year increase in accreditation, despite global anxiety over the coronavirus. “Accreditations continue at an intensive pace as we count so far an increase of 9%,” the festival said today in an email to industry confirming the location of its April 16th lineup reveal. The festival’s…

This morning's Berlinale Competition line-up announcement featured 33% films (six of 18) with women directors, including one project, DAU. Natasha, which is co-directed by a man and a woman (Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel). That's a drop on last year's percentage of 41%, when seven of 17 pics selected were…

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…