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She is beloved for her portrayal of Claire Randall, the femme lost in time on Starz’s Outlander series, but Irish actress Caitriona Balfe continues her Hollywood feature streak this summer with Jodie Foster’s Money Monster after appearing in such pics as Super 8, Now You See Me and Escape Plan.  In Money…

5TH UPDATE, MONDAY, 2:35 PM: The final tallies are in and Disney/Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War dropped 59% in its second weekend to gross $72.6 million, bringing it total domestic cume to $295.9.M. Today, it will become the third $300M+ film from Disney this quarter, along with its animated Zootopia and Jon…

In Mike Fleming’s big interview with Jodie Foster last week—part of Deadline’s first Cannes print edition—she said she felt seminal work like Taxi Driver, which she starred in when she was 13, would never get off the ground today. Following the Cannes premiere of her latest directorial project, Money Monster, she…

It takes a rare talent to clock up a volume of impressive performances in a career that’s only a decade old. But British actor Jack O’Connell has done just that, coming a long way since his solid debut aged 15 in Shane Meadows’ This Is England. In the last few years alone, his work leading Starred Up and ’71 brought…

This weekend, two newcomers try to carve out their niche of box office receipts in a weekend that will once again be dominated by Disney/Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. Sony’s Money Monster, which just enjoyed a star-studded screening and ovation at Cannes, pulled in $600K last night with previews that started at…

It took about 17 minutes into the Cannes Film Festival press conference for tonight’s out of competition premiere of Money Monster for star and co-producer George Clooney to deliver the line that inevitably will be lighting up Twitter — especially notorious tweeter Donald Trump’s account. In answer to a question about…

Movies don’t get much timelier than Money Monster, but I am not quite sure if the filmmakers were thinking that when they made this thriller about a disgruntled blue-collar worker (Jack O’Connell) who interrupts the live broadcast of a CNBC-style financial show and takes its showman-like host Lee Gates (George…

The Jodie Foster directed-thriller Money Monster starring George Clooney as a financial news talk-show host who is taken hostage on air by a crazed young man premieres tonight at the Cannes Film Festival out of competition. Julia Roberts plays Clooney’s TV producer Patty Fenn who tries to keep the situation together…

UPDATE: Jodie Foster, who first came to Cannes for the controversial Palme d’Or-winning Taxi Driver and later for the ill timed Mel Gibson starrer The Beaver, received a long standing ovation from the Cannes crowd with stars Julia Roberts (in her first Cannes Palais premiere experience) and George Clooney. It marked…

This weekend the box office will again be dominated by Captain America: Civil War, which should bring in an estimated $75 million to $80 million for Disney and Marvel. The film has grabbed more than $700M worldwide to date — $104.6M of that from China — and it’s not slowing down. Its Monday box office of $13.3M is…

UPDATE 9 PM with more from conversation throughout: Julie Taymor (Across The Universe, Titus) interviewed Jodie Foster, whose film Money Monster with George Clooney and Julie Roberts just got a berth in Cannes (and whose Taxi Driver is a centerpiece of this year’s festival) before a packed audience Wednesday afternoon…

The Cannes Film Festival has been slow to tease main offerings at next month’s event ahead of tomorrow’s big reveal, with only the opening night film made public in a year that counts so many pics from which to choose. The Official Selection roster is only truly official when Cannes Fest chief Thierry Frémaux reads…