Latest Cannes News – Page 3
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NewsCannes Market to launch AI and virtual production-focused Village Innovation
New venue will be dedicated to technology and innovation in the film industry.
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NewsChristophe Honoré to chair Queer Palm jury at Cannes
This award celebrates its 15th anniversary this year.
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NewsLav Diaz prepares Alexandre Dumas adaptation; hopes to launch ‘Magellan’ at Cannes
Diaz aims to shoot Alexandre Dumas adaptation at the end of the year.
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NewsCannes La Residence programme selects six writer-directors for 2025 edition
Participants include Hungary’s Flora Anna Buda, Brazil’s Rodrigo Ribeyro.
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NewsCannes confirms 2025 Official Selection announcement date
This year’s festival runs May 13-24, 2025.
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NewsCannes Directors’ Fortnight unveils Harmony Korine-designed 2025 poster
“The characters in the painting are called Twitchys,” says Korine.
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NewsFinal call for Screen’s Global Production Awards submissions
Entries close this Friday, March 14.
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NewsCannes Marché du Film selects 2025 country of honour
Selected country has a diplomatic anniversary with France this year.
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NewsFocus Features acquires Wes Anderson’s Cannes-tipped ‘The Phoenician Scheme’
Universal Pictures International handles distribution outside North America.
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NewsMarcelo Caetano’s Cannes Critics Week title ‘Baby’ closes UK theatrical deal (exclusive)
Film about a young man abandoned by his parents who turns to sex work on the streets of Sao Paolo is sold by M-Appeal.
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NewsJuliette Binoche named 2025 Cannes jury president
French star won best actress on the Croisette in 2010 for Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy.
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NewsCannes animated space thriller ‘Mars Express’ lands UK deal (exclusive)
A theatrical release is planned for May.
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NewsCannes Film Festival re-elects Iris Knobloch as president for second term
Knobloch reaffirmed her committment to ensuring equality at the festival, particularly for women.
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NewsCannes head Thierry Fremaux: “If I do bad selections two years in a row, I will leave”
”I will say I am not connected anymore with the cinema of my times,” said Fremaux at Red Sea.
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week Next Step Programme selects eight international directors
The workshop to help them prepare theri first feature is taking place in Normandy and Paris from Dec 8-13.
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week closing film ‘Animale’ sells to North America (exclusive)
Film Movement has picked up Emma Benestan’s French female-driven supernatural horror.
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NewsMagnolia’s Magnet Releasing acquires Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection ‘Sister Midnight’
Film will play AFI Fest this month. Magnet plans spring 2025 theatrical release
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NewsDonald Trump trashes ‘The Apprentice’ as “politically disgusting hatchet job”
Filmmaker Ali Abbasi responds.
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News‘The Apprentice’ US distributor Tom Ortenberg on eve of release: “You have to be fearless”
Ali Abbasi’s Trump origins story opens in 1,740 theatres.
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NewsCannes Résidence programme unveils six writer-director participants for 48th edition
This year’s crop of rising talents includes four female filmmakers.