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David Cronenberg has found his next movie: thriller The Shrouds, which will star his Eastern Promises and Dangerous Method collaborator Vincent Cassel. Cronenberg is heading to the Cannes Film Festival next week with thriller Crimes Of The Future, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart and Lea Seydoux. Meanwhile, Fi…

Apple TV+ has greenlit Liaison, an English and French-language thriller series starring Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Eva Green (The Luminaries). Co-produced by French outfit Newen’s Ringside Studios and Leonis Productions, here’s the logline: “Liaison is a high-stakes, contemporary thriller exploring how the…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details about tonight's Westworld season 3, episode 5 "Genre" on HBO. Tonight we got to know a little bit more about Engerraund Serac, the current Incite boss, and co-creator of supercomputer Rehoboam, which he designed with his brother. Sure, Serac has some redeeming qualities…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details about tonight's Westworld season 3, 2nd episode “The Winter Line” on HBO. And then there’s Maeve. Just as the whole world is falling apart, that uncompromising, enterprising, anything but tranquilizing host is looked upon as a possible savior to right the looming wrongs…

The plot, or any semblance of one, is what is really underwater in this shameful zillionth ripoff of Alien, the clear template for this kind of sci-fi horror movie. Underwater is another remnant of the 20th Century Fox slate that Disney is stuck releasing. Fox was the expert studio in making and distributing this…

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…