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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…

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…

All day today in Cannes is dedicated to Sylvester Stallone whose 43-year plus storied career is being lauded by the fest. The three-time Oscar nominated filmmaker/actor was at the Hotel du Cap for a junket about Rambo V, sat down for a Masterclass at the Salle Debussy, and will be feted tonight with an early glimpse…

Quebec wunderkind filmmaker Xavier Dolan, who ten years ago at the age of 20 arrived at Cannes and knocked their socks off with I Killed My Mother, returns to the Croisette with Matthias and Maxime about two young childhood male friends, who after a kiss as adults, begin to question their true feelings. As a filmmaker…

“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…