Cannes Film Festival
Greta Gerwig Named Cannes Jury President for 2024
Greta Gerwig is hitting the Croisette. The Barbie helmer, fresh off her first-ever best director nomination at the Golden Globes (Gerwig’s $1.4 billion toy-to-screen blockbuster picked up a total of 9 Golden Globe noms), has been confirmed as the Jury President for the 2024 Cannes International Film Festival. “A heroine of our modern times, Greta […]
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Water Works: Can Tears at a Festival Premiere Boost an Awards Campaign?
Brendan Fraser already had a fair amount of Oscars hype ahead of The Whale’s premiere in Venice in 2022, but it was his reaction afterward that, for many, laid the path toward his best actor win. While nobody’s taking anything away from Fraser’s powerful performance as a 600-pound recluse, several figures close to the A24 film have […]
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‘The Beasts’ Review: Spanish Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Searing Small-Town Thriller
French actors Denis Ménochet and Marina Foïs star as a couple desperately trying to keep their organic farm afloat in a hostile foreign land.
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Kino Lorber Takes Cannes Camera d’Or Winner ‘Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell’ for North America (Exclusive)
Kino Lorber has snatched up North American rights to Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, the mesmerizing first feature from Vietnamese director Pham Thien An, which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section in Cannes this year, where it won the Camera d’Or for best directorial debut. The film fulfills the promise shown in Pham’s acclaimed shorts, […]
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‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ Breakout Daryl McCormack Talks ‘Twister’ Remake and Next Phase of His Career
Minari director Lee Isaac Chung’s remake of the 1996 disaster epic Twister is now shooting, and one of the film’s stars — Good Luck to You, Leo Grande breakout Daryl McCormack — took a break from acting duties to pop over to Cannes, where he too accepted a Trophée Chopard prize from the jeweler and […]
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Johnny Depp’s Cannes Starrer ‘Jeanne du Barry’ Lands Domestic Distribution
Jeanne du Barry, the opening night from this year’s Cannes Film Festival that stars embattled actor Johnny Depp, will get a North American release. Vertical has landed the domestic rights to the period drama, which was directed by and co-stars Maïwenn. Depp play King Louis XV and the film follows his relationship with Jeanne Vaubernier, […]
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Johnny Depp’s ‘Jeanne du Barry’ Enjoys Decade-Best Start for a Cannes Opener at French Box Office
Bien joué. Jeanne du Barry — starring Johnny Depp — took a triumphant bow at the box office in France timed to its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. The period drama racked up 401,481 admissions in its first week of play, the best showing in a decade for a Cannes opening-night film, […]
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‘The Buriti Flower’ Review: Indigenous History Unfolds in a Striking Mix of Nonfiction and Drama
Filmmakers João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora collaborated with villagers in Brazil for their hybrid feature.
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Cannes: Alicia Vikander, Marion Cotillard, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and More in The Hollywood Reporter’s Festival Photo Gallery
That’s a wrap on the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Movie stars, cinephiles, press and jet-set glitterati mixed with celebrated auteurs and the international film industry’s next generation on the French Riviera for a jam-packed schedule of black-tie world premieres, starry gatherings and beach-set parties. And what a run it was from May 16-27. After opening […]
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 20 Best Films of Cannes 2023
Favorites included Scorsese’s wrenching true-crime epic, two riveting French courtroom dramas, a chilling Holocaust film like no other, a handcrafted Moroccan documentary, and the latest from veteran auteurs Aki Kaurismaki, Wim Wenders and Victor Erice.
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‘Elemental’ Review: Pixar’s Timely High-Concept Bonanza Underwhelms
Director Peter Sohn ('The Good Dinosaur') tells the story of a fire family immigrating to a metropolis dominated by the opposing element of water, and the romance that ensues.
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Jeremy O. Harris and Mel Ottenberg on Cannes Style: “Revel in the Joy of Dressing”
Jeremy O. Harris is a bona fide Broadway-meets-Hollywood multihyphenate. And at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Tony Award-nominated playwright and producer on HBO’s Euphoria added another title to his resume: an actor in Sean Price Williams’ The Sweet East. The drama follows a young woman traveling along the northeastern coast of the United States […]
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