The first Saturday of Cannes, usually the busiest day in terms of just about everything, belonged to Gus, Carol and Amy. First up, Gus Van Sant and total revenge against booing critics’ negative reaction Friday night to the press screening of his moving new film Sea Of Trees, which they just didn’t seem to get…

EXCLUSIVE: Gus Van Sant’s The Sea Of Trees was launched as one of the hot projects in Cannes last year, and now it’s back — in Competition. Matthew McConaughey stars as Arthur Brennan, a man dealing with love and loss who treks to Japan's mysterious dense forest known as The Sea of Trees where people go to contemplate…

The Official Selection lineup for the 68th Cannes Film Festival is only 90% complete as it was announced this morning in Paris, but it's already full of a number of films that had been expected, along with strong representations for international directors — several of whom are working in English. Fest chief Thierry…

UPDATED: The Official Selection roster for the 68th Cannes Film Festival was announced in Paris this morning. After another down-to-the-wire process this year with few details emerging ahead of today, we’ve now got a lot more clarity. Among the more high-profile titles are Todd Haynes’ Carol, Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth…

Gus Van Sant‘s next directorial Sea Of Trees starring Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe and Naomi Watts is currently in production in rural Massachusetts and will be moving its production to Japan in September.  Financier and producer Ken Kao and Alex Walton's international sales, production and financing company, BLOO…

If there is a recurring theme among buyers and sellers we've spoken to in the early moments of the Cannes Film Festival, it is that none can remember the last time there was such a sellers' market here on the Croisette. The trouble is, nobody seems to really have anything all that compelling to sell, and that is…

Matthew McConaughey‘s remarkable ride over the last two years arguably started at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where he had two films — Mud and The Paperboy in competition — and another, Magic Mike, about to be released. Now after a Best Actor Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club a couple of months ago, he blew back…

BREAKING: Lot of naysayers out there predicting there will be little worthy product in Cannes, but here’s a title that should draw interest. As Exclusive Media winds down, former head of International Sales and Distribution Alex Walton has teamed with financier and producer Ken Kao for a Cannes launch of Bloom. The…

The Dallas Buyers Club Oscar nominee has lined up his next role. Matthew McConaughey will star in Sea Of Trees, a drama from director Gus Van Sant about a suicidal American who befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mount Fuji. Ken Watanabe also stars. Chris Sparling is scripting the film, with Gil Netter (Life…