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Zulu: Cannes Review
1 hour ago
The steady invasion of auteur genre films into the Cannes film festival steps over the line with Zulu, a French policier distinguished only by Forest Whitaker’s deeply resonant performance as a detective and its South African setting. Were it not for the star power of Whitaker and Orlando Bloom, one might seriously doubt whether this well-built vehicle would have received the honor of closing le festival. French director Jerome Salle, who made the round-the-world adventure films Largo Winch I and II, uses the scars left by apartheid as a political subtext, but it’s not fore-fronted enough
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- Deborah Young
Only Lovers Left Alive: Cannes Review
2 hours ago
The Thin Man with blood cocktails, an ode to hipsterism through the ages, a mainline shot of cool and a playful tribute to artistic fetishism, Jim Jarmusch’s vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive is an addictive mood and tone piece, a nocturnal reverie that incidentally celebrates a marriage that has lasted untold centuries. Almost nothing happens in this minor-key drift through a desolate, imperiled modern world and yet it is the perennial downtown filmmaker’s best work in many years, probably since 1995’s Dead Man, with which it shares a sense of quiet, heady, perilous passage. A modest-sized
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- Todd McCarthy
Cannes: Philippe Rousselot Awarded Festival's First Cinematography Honor
4 hours ago
Cannes – Kristen Scott Thomas and Uma Thurman celebrated Oscar-winner Philippe Rousselot for being awarded the first annual Pierre Angenieux Excellens in Cinematography Honor. "It’s not just me being honored, but all cinematographers," Rousselot tells The Hollywood Reporter at the beachside dinner ceremony. "I’ll take it for everyone." The Oscar and Cesar-winner is known for his work on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sherlock Holmes and Lions for Lambs. He worked with Thurman on Dangerous Liasons (1998) and Henry & June (1990), and with Scott Thomas on Random Hearts (1999). He won an Oscar for 1992's A River Runs Through It and was also a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury in 1995. Cannes:
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- Rhonda Richford
Mariska Hargitay Inks New Deal to Return to 'Law & Order: SVU'
6 hours ago
It's official: Detective Olivia Benson will be back. Mariska Hargitay has closed a new deal with studio Universal Television to return to NBC's long-running procedural Law & Order: SVU, the actress announced Saturday. "Happy weekend. It's official. Season 15--i'LL Be Back!" she announced via Twitter page. NBC renewed Law & Order: Svu in late April in anticipation that Hargitay would return. Photos: Broadcast TV's Returning Shows 2013-14 Wednesday's season 14 finale left the door open for Hargitay's Benson, with the character last seen at home -- not expected to return to work for two days and being
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- Lesley Goldberg
Will Smith Hosts 'Fresh Prince' Theme Song Reunion on BBC One (Video)
9 hours ago
The Fresh Prince theme song and Carlton Dance both live on in a reunion during Will and Jaden Smith's BBC One appearance. The father and son, both on tour to promote their new sci-fi film After Earth, were guests Friday on The Graham Norton Show. After being entreated by the host, they showed off some of their rap, singing and dance skills set to the 90s sitcom. Story: Kanye West Is 'Pushing' Will Smith To Make New Music Smith noted that the last time he appeared on the show his rendition of the Fresh Prince rap became a hit on YouTube. So
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- Erik Hayden
Box Office Report: 'Fast 6' Topping Biggest Memorial Day Weekend of All Time
9 hours ago
Universal's Fast & Furious 6 is leading a record Memorial Day weekend at the domestic box office, opening to a fuel-injected $38.2 million on Friday for a projected $119.3 million debut, one of the top showings for the holiday and a franchise-best. Thanks in large part to the action pic, Memorial Day revenues could reach nearly $320 million, besting the previous record set in 2011 when ticket sales clocked in at roughly $276 million. Overseas, Fast 6 is recording the biggest opening numbers ever for Universal, earning another $36 million on Friday for an estimated weekend
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- Pamela McClintock
Cannes: 'The Missing Picture' Wins Un Certain Regard Prize
11 hours ago
Cannes – The Un Certain Regard sidebar announced its winners on the second to last day of the festival, with the jury awarding the top prize to Rithy Panh for The Missing Picture, in a casual ceremony in the Palais' Salle Bunuel. Cannes Jury Prize winner Thomas Vinterberg presided over the announcement. Along with Vinterberg, Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi, French actress Ludivine Sagnier, Rio Film Festival director Ilda Santiago and Spanish producer Enrique Gonzalez Macho selected the winners from 18 films in the parallel section. Vinterberg thanked everyone for the opportunity of the jury to select from a very "powerful" slate that he categorized as "brutal, insistingly unsentimental, sometimes disturbing, diverse, political,
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- Rhonda Richford
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight: Cannes Review
11 hours ago
One of the most headline-making U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the tumultuous early-1970s era is given a tantalizing but cut-and-dried behind-the-scenes treatment in Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, a lively, overly cutesy inside look at how the justices ended up vindicating the boxer’s refusal to serve in the Army and Vietnam. Unavoidably interesting historically and legally, this HBO Films original movie provides details unknown even to informed people who lived through the period and will illuminate younger viewers concerning an important aspect of the legendary sporting figure’s life. Photos: Cannes: Jessica Chastain, Christoph Waltz Attend
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- Todd McCarthy
Venus in Fur: Cannes Review
12 hours ago
Cannes – Roman Polanski’s penchant for psychosexual mind games conducted in claustrophobic spaces is deliciously revisited in Venus in Fur (La Venus a la Fourrure), adapted in French and yet mostly faithful to American playwright David Ives’ Broadway hit of the same name. A teasing dialectic of subjugation and power, female objectification and emasculating rebuke, the film should titillate European audiences with its mischievous combination of think and kink, while seducing a more limited niche in the U.S. The play premiered Off Broadway in 2010 and transferred uptown the following season, making an overnight New York stage star and
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- David Rooney
Jimmy Fallon Unleashes Epic 'Game of Thrones' Parody (Video)
19 hours ago
Who knew 30 Rock had so much in common with Casterly Rock? Jimmy Fallon has unveiled a new Digital Original, Game of Desks, in which the Late Night host explores just how similar the cuthroat world of late night TV has in common with HBO's Game of Thrones. In the short, Fallon plays an Eddard Stark sort of character, and is forced to discipline a member of the writers Late Night’s Watch for writing hacky jokes and defend his Iron Desk from a Joffrey-esque usurper. We don’t want to spoil too much, but sufficed to, say Late Night has
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- Aaron Couch
Cannes: Hollywood Gives Back at Star-Filled AmfAR Gala (Column)
23 hours ago
AmfAR’s annual Cannes fundraiser, Cinema Against AIDS, has auctioned off some crazy stuff over the years, but the event’s latest edition went way beyond. Just before we sat down for the benefit dinner last night, the gala’s co-host Harvey Weinstein told me about an unusual auction item on the block. At first, I thought I’d heard him say, “I’m going to sit on Leo’s face.” What? (And, ew.) He repeated: “I’m going to send Leonardo DiCaprio into space.” He added, “A lot of people in Hollywood would like me to go into space, but only on
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- Sharon Swart
SAG-aftra Responds to Foreign Royalties Lawsuit
24 May 2013 5:12 PM, PDT
Responding to a lawsuit filed Friday against SAG-aftra regarding its foreign levies program, the union told The Hollywood Reporter that it had not yet been served with the suit but that “the claims as presented in the plaintiff’s earlier correspondence have been thoroughly reviewed and are completely without merit.” The union added that it would “vigorously respond in the appropriate forum in due course.” The suit was reportedly filed by former SAG president Ed Asner and others. Counsel for the plaintiffs did not respond to a message left Friday afternoon. Foreign levies (also called foreign royalties) result
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- Jonathan Handel
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