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Some movies are willed into existence, some organically happen by chance, and some are severely birthed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Terry Gilliam has been through it all, especially in the two-decade-plus production of his cherished The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. His first go-round with the project starred Johnny…

At the start of Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a title card appears. "And now, after more than 25 years in the making… and unmaking… a Terry Gilliam film." The history behind the director’s tortured attempt to adapt Miguel de Cervantes' seminal novel is the stuff of legend, beginning in 1989. He first…

It has been a typically fast-moving day at the world’s biggest film festival. In the space of just a few hours we have had a string of updates on already epic Cannes closer The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. We’ve had confirmation that director Terry Gilliam was taken unwell in London, that Amazon has backed out of U.S…

In the ongoing war of words and court filings over Terry Gilliam's troubled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, comes a new, strongly-stated missive. On behalf of French distributor Océan Films and the movie's producers, the communiqué released today is titled "Why Paulo Branco Was Never, Is Not And Never Will Be The…

UPDATE, writethru with follow-up response from Paulo Branco: As Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote faces yet another hurdle on its way to the screen, the Cannes Film Festival has pledged itself firmly on the side of the filmmaker. Releasing a statement to that effect, Cannes today addressed a legal challeng…

Veteran actor Gérard Depardieu is set to play Russian dictator Joseph Stalin in Le Divan De Staline, based on the well-received 2014 book by Jean-Daniel Baltassat. The casting is particularly significant given that Depardieu renounced his French papers in late 2012 and a few weeks later was granted Russian citizenship…