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Showing in competition, domestic drama The Past is the follow-up to Oscar-winning A Separation by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. A devastating tale of secrets, lies and scalding, squirm-inducing truths, it will surely feature come awards time. Set in Paris, it sees Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) return from Tehran after a four-year absence to sign the divorce papers on his marriage to Marie (The Artist`s Berenice Bejo), a French woman who balances motherhood with a job in...

Given his status as the UK`s premiere director of large-scale event cinema, it was perhaps inevitable that Christopher Nolan would become linked to the vacant director`s chair on Bond 24, and sure enough, that`s exactly what`s happened. The Daily Mail`s Baz Bamigboye reports that Nolan is in early talks with Bond bigwigs Barbara Broccoli and Michael G .Wilson, with a view to the director stepping into the position recently vacated by Sam Mendes. Our instant reaction to this one would be that with Nolan embarking upon pre-production on his forthcoming sci-fi film Interstellar, the likelihood o...

The recent behind-the-scenes featurette for apocalypse comedy This Is The Endmade much of its wide array of celebrity cameos, and the latest clip follows a similar pattern, with Emma Watson shacking up with the boys at James Franco`s house. With all of LA seemingly a burning wasteland outside, Watson tips up clutching an axe and talking about an impending zombie holocaust. Naturally, this is disturbing news, although Franco seems more concerned about how the sleeping arrangements are going to pan out... Take a look, below... Hopefully the slew of cameos won`t become too indulgent, but when the...

Sylvester Stallone has taken to Twitter to tease forthcoming sequel The Expendables 3, confirming Mickey Rourke`s return before hinting at some other new arrivals. "Mighty Mickey is back" tweeted the action star, revealing that Rourke will return to reprise his role as tattoo artist, Tool. However, Stallone didn`t stop there, hinting that both Jackie Chan and Wesley Snipes are officially on board...Mighty Mickey is back............ -...

A new red-band trailer has arrived forThe Hangover Part 3, in which Alan reminisces about the adventure so far, before revealing that he must leave the Wolfpack for good. Naturally, this resolution lasts for all of five minutes, as it isn`t long before the boys are on the road again, in over their heads in another outlandish adventure. This time, their troubles are all the work of Leslie Chow, who owes a lot of money to some very angry people. One of who, pleasingly enough, is "Black Doug"! Take a look, below... We`ve said it before, but we`re still not sure about beefing up Chow`s involvement...

CANNES -- Switching gears after several surrealist comic features and medium-length works, French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie delivers a dark and at times, absorbing contemplation on love, sex, desire and murder with the minimalist homoerotic drama, Stranger by the Lake (L`Inconnu du lac). Set entirely in one summery location, this not-very-straight story of a man`s infatuation with a local killer is at once lighthearted and gloomy, passionate and pared-down, and despite some longueurs, it provides a powerful critique on the dangers of social isolation and carefree living. A longtime vetera...

With superhero sequels ten a penny these days, its somewhat surprising that we`ve yet to see a follow-up to 2004`s The Incredibles, although according to Brad Bird, there could yet be a sequel coming our way. "I have been thinking about it," admits the director. "People think that I have not been, but I have. Because I love those characters and love that world. I am stroking my chin and scratching my head." "I have many, many elements that I think would work...

Michael Meyer is joining Good Universe, the motion picture financing and production company, as executive vp of international. He previously served as executive vp of international business and legal affairs at Lionsgate. In his new post, he will partner with Helen Lee-Kim, president of international, to grow Good Universe's international film business, including aligning the company with third party producers and financiers, creating co-financing opportunities, and developing new business. His responsibilities will include oversight of business and legal affairs and overall administration ...

Image Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Last Love, the drama from Mostly Martha director Sandra Nettlebeck starring Oscar winner Michael Caine. Image plans to bow the film, which Global Screen is selling in Cannes theatrically this Fall. Global Screen has already locked up multiple presales on the title, with deals for Germany (Senator), Spain (A Contracorriente) and Benelux (A-Film) signed ahead of Cannes and new territories including Hong Kong (Edko Communications) and Turkey (MIR Productions) recently boarding the project. The German sales agent said it expects to se...

The Weinstein Co. has inked a deal for Stephen Frears` Philomena paying $6.5 million for the U.S., Canada and Spain. The film stars Judi Dench as Philomena Lee, an Irish woman who searches for her son that she was forced to give up for adoption as a teenager, and is based on BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith's 2009 book, "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee." British comedian Steve Coogan stars opposite Dench in the film which he co-wrote with Jeff Pope and stars as a journalist who helps Lee search for her son. The title is being shopped to distributors at the Marche du Film by Pathe Internat...

HONG KONG - International Film Festival Rotterdam will award 50,000 euros to the Dutch producers of Paraguayan director Pablo Amar`s La ultima terra and Chilean filmmaker Niles Atallah`s Rey as part of its initiative to encourage co-productions in the Netherlands. Fortuna Films, joint producers of La ultima terra with Sapukai Cine from Paraguay and also co-producers alongside France`s Mandra Films and Brazil`s Bananeira Filmes, is one of two recipients of this year`s Hubert Bals Awards Plus as announced by the IFFR in a statement on Thursday. The other winner is Circe Films, who are co-prod...

Dev Patel will star in The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan for producer Edward R. Pressman and Prashita Chaudhary`s Cinemorphic Entertainment Company. Patel, star of Slumdog Millionaire and...

Veteran independent film executive Cassian Elwes and Robert Ogden Barnum are teaming to form new financing and production company e2b Capital, with an eye to working on 10 to 12 films annually. Working with producers, talent agencies and foreign sales companies, e2b will arrange equity financing, gap financing and other debut solutions. The Los Angeles-based operation is a natural extension of the collaboration between Elwes and Barnum on a number of films,...

Southern Europe continues to face economic challenges, which have affected the film-market presence and activity of buyers and sellers from traditional cinema powerhouses Spain and Italy. Box-office revenue declined 8 percent in Italy and 6.5 percent in Spain last year, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory. The first quarter showed a further 7 percent drop in Spain and 6.8 percent decline in Italy. The crisis is expected to again cast a shadow over Cannes. At the American Film Market in November, major di...

Bruno Wu is descending on Cannes as the backer of three films in the festival`s official selection: He is executive producer of James Gray`s The Immigrant, and a financier of Nicolas Winding Refn`s Only God Forgives and Guillaume Canet`s Blood Ties. That trifecta marks his transformation from a Chinese media mogul to a major player in the international film industry. Born in China and educated in the U.S., Wu has a business management degree from Culver-Stoc...

The Hollywood Reporter's third Cannes daily, features stories on the significant amount of violence in a trailer for the in competition Cannes films, news on Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut project and the first cast photo and from Lars von Trier's controversial film Nymphomaniac. Also, chairman & CEO of Seven Stars Media Bruno W...

With a recent Motion Picture Association report confirming that Chinese filmgoers generate the second-highest box-office revenue in the world and Hollywood producers rushing to court China`s financiers, one would expect an explosion of China-related activities at Cannes this year. Indeed, China Film Group will continue to host its annual China Night party while the Shanghai Film Group will revel in events celebrating its Palme d`Or entrant, Jia Zhangke`s A Touch of Sin. But the country`s privately owned companies have been comparatively low-profile this year - a sign that the country`s ent...

Let's head into the future, again. Star Trek Into Darkness, sequel to 2009's Star Trek, sees Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) leading a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction and settle a personal score. Aboard the USS Enterprise are returning cast members...

Sofia Coppola has made a career out of lensing lost souls blighted by ennui and emptiness, and her fifth film, The Bling Ring, spies the same subject from a different angle. Playing in the Un Certain Regard section, Coppola`s achingly hip, down-with-the-kids movie takes for its inspiration a Vanity Fair article entitled `The Suspects Wore Louboutins`, and recounts the strange 2008-2009 tale of the Hollywood Hills Burglars. And so we`re greeted with a gang of...

Matt Ember and Tom Astle, a fast-rising writing duo in animation, have signed with Verve for representation. They were previously at UTA. Ember and Astle wrote Epic, the upcoming 3D CGI feature from Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox that is an adaptation of the William Joyce book The Leaf Men. The movie opens May 24. The pair just came off of working on Me and My Shadow for DreamWorks Animation and are now working on DWA`s Happy Smekday!, which is in production and has a release date of November 26, 2014. On the live action side, they did a rewrite on My Week With Will fo...