The Specials, the latest feature from The Intouchables filmmaking duo Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, has been set to close out the 72nd Cannes Film Festival — just don’t call it the “Closing Film.” Cannes organizers said today that they’re doing away with the distinction, preferring to brand the final pic of the…

HBO's sprawling sci-fi drama series Westworld is getting a another major new cast addition. French actor Vincent Cassel is joining the upcoming third season of the series. The producers are being tight-lipped on the character but I hear Cassel will play a new villain and will be a series regular. He will co-star…

The Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival has provided some strong picks this year, including French heist comedy The World Is Yours which was rousingly received. The second feature from Romain Gavras (son of Costa-Gavras), who is best known for his music video work with such artists as MIA, Kanye…

EXCLUSIVE: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Bruhl and Vincent Cassel are in talks to board Jose Padilha’s Entebbe for Brit production powerhouse Working Title. Participant is also on board as producer and in negotiations to fully finance. In what is a near-perfect union of filmmaker, subject and cast, this is shaping up to be a…

Entertainment One's boutique division Seville International has racked up strong sales to Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s Only The End of the World is an adaptation of the play by Jean-Luc Lagarce, and tells of the afternoon of…

Film Movement has usurped U.S. rights to My King, director Maïwenn’s pic that is up for eight Cesar Awards including Best Film. The company plans a 2016 theatrical release for the drama, which premiered at Cannes and will make its Stateside bow at NYC’s Rendez-vous with French Cinema in March. In My King, Tony…

Vincent Cassel has joined the cast of Universal Pictures' yet-untitled Jason Bourne movie, which has Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass returning to the fold. Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander and Julia Stiles have also been cast in the pic, the logline of which is being kept quiet. Greengrass and Christopher…

With hues of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Canterbury Tales as well as the carnivalesque absurdity of Federico Fellini, Matteo Garrone’s Tale Of Tales is a sideways Renaissance fairy tale — bawdy, ornate, hysterical and visceral. “He’s a painter, he’s very pictorial,” says Vincent Cassel, who was drawn to play a…

Marion Cotillard, Lea Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye and Gaspard Ulliel will lead a loaded cast for It’s Only The End Of The World (Juste La Fin Du Monde), written and directed by Cannes-winning Canadian director Xavier Dolan. It looks to be his next pic now as it is set to kick off sales at this year’s Cannes…

French distributor Le Pacte has dropped a teaser for Cannes Film Festival competition entry Tale Of Tales. The movie is one of a trio in the section that hails from an Italian director. Reality and Gomorra helmer Matteo Garrone here turns his lens on a collection of 17th century fairy tales by Giambattista Basile. In…

EXCLUSIVE: Vincent Cassel (Black Swan, Mesrine, Ocean’s Twelve and Thirteen) has been tapped as a last-minute addition to Summit’s now-filming Soviet thriller Child 44. The Cesar-winning thesp is replacing previously cast Philip Seymour Hoffman in the pic which has been filming since June under director Daniel Espinosa…

Beauty And The Beast is having quite the resurgence these days. There are 2 TV pilots in the works with the fairy tale as source material and now there’s going to be a new film adaptation courtesy of Christophe Gans. The picture marks a return to the big screen for the Silent Hill director after a six-year absence…