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Yesterday we told you that Netflix has picked up Todd Haynes' latest Cannes Competition title, May December, and it looks like the filmmaker has already lined up his next project. Haynes' told a French culture mag this week that he is prepping his next film, a gay romance pic with Oscar-winner…

On the heels of his $11 million Netflix deal for his film May December, Todd Haynes stopped by the Deadline studio at Cannes to discuss his feelings on the sale and what went into making the film. “The news of the Netflix deal was just remarkable, as such an incredible vote of confidence in their…

EXCLUSIVE: After an old-style all-night auction, Netflix is finalizing an $11 million deal for North American rights to May December, the Todd Haynes-directed drama that stars Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. It is far and away the big deal of Cannes so far, and a deal of this size ought to send a jolt…

May December, Todd Haynes' film that received an eight-minute standing ovation at Cannes late on Saturday evening, is a film all about transgression, star Julianne Moore told the press Sunday.  Asked to explain the title, Haynes said it referred to an English expression for an "age-gap relationship."…

Todd Haynes returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night with his latest, May December, playing in competition. The complex melodrama starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore scored an eight-minute standing ovation inside the Grand Theatre Lumière. The screening started late after an…

Todd Haynes has a way with female stars. I would even call him the new-age George Cukor in that regard. Whether in Carol with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, or his HBO limited series Mildred Pierce with Kate Winslet, or his homage to the director of so many…

EXCLUSIVE: Charles Melton has landed the coveted lead in May December opposite Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in the next film by director Todd Haynes. Melton is coming off The Sun Is Also A Star and, Bad Boys For Life. This role has starmaking potential. It takes place two decades after the scandalized romance…

The Oscar-contending documentary The Velvet Underground, about the influential 1960s avant-garde rock band fronted by Lou Reed, has been praised as a "superb testament to a lost world that helped make our own." Those words come from New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who listed The Velvet Underground as number…

Edgy rock band the Velvet Underground was an outgrowth of manager Andy Warhol's avant garde art movement that over time has emerged as one of the most influential groups of the 1960s and '70s. It also exerted a powerful influence – particularly in the image crafted in Warhol's films – on the way filmmaker Todd Haynes…

Apple TV+ has released the trailer for Todd Haynes documentary The Velvet Underground, the director’s debut doc that premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The pic will be in theaters on streaming on the service on October 15. A deep dive into the seminal 1960s avant-garde rock band, the doc dissects just what…

If The Velvet Underground had known how popular they would become in the years after their demise, they might never have split up. Instead, one by one, the original members quit the band formed by Lou Reed and John Cale in the mid-60s, leaving newcomer Doug Yule to soldier on with a completely different band until…

Fresh off premiering his first feature documentary at Cannes Film Festival last night, The Velvet Underground filmmaker Todd Haynes told press today that he remains committed to theatrical, despite the movie heading to Apple TV+ in the fall. The pic, premiering here Out of Competition, will receive a dual theatrical…