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Cannes: 'The Selfish Giant' Wins Europa Cinemas Label's Best European Film Nod
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London -- Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, a contemporary update of the Oscar Wilde fairy story, has won the Europa Cinemas Label for the best European film unspooling during the Cannes Film Festival. The film premiered in Cannes' Directors' Fortnight sidebar and marks the 10th time the Label has been awarded in Cannes. The prize means the Europa Cinemas Network, a exhibitors association which represents over 3,000 screens in Europe and elsewhere, will provide additional backing to exhibitors to exhibit the film. This year's Europa Cinemas jury in Cannes consisted of Alice Black of Dundee Contemporary Arts in the U.K.,
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- Stuart Kemp
TV Ratings: 'Save Me' Sinks, 'Rookie Blue' Dips, 'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Wipeout' Rise
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Summer programming saw its official start on Thursday night -- and Fox regained a demo edge with the time period premiere of Hell's Kitchen. The series rose three tenths of a point from last week's Monday outing, averaging a 2.1 rating with adults 18-49. The premiere of layoff reality show Does Someone Have to Go? (1.3 adults) lost a sizable portion of its lead-in, but still managed to top the 9 p.m. hour. Fox averaged a 1.7 rating with adults 18-49 and 4.3 million viewers. Photos: Summer TV Preview And while the rest
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- Michael O'Connell
Cannes: Sony Pictures Classics Acquires 'The Lunchbox' for North America
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Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American rights to Indian film The Lunchbox (Dabba), winner of the Grand Rail d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2013 Critics' Week. In the film, written and directed by Ritesh Batra, a mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together by leaving notes in a lunchbox, but their fantasy gradually threatens to overwhelm reality. Cannes Review: The Lunchbox The Lunchbox stars Irrfan Khan (Life of Pi), Nimrat Kaur and Nakul Vaid. “The Lunchbox
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- Pamela McClintock
Box Office Report: 'Fast 6' Earns $6.5 Mil Thursday Night, Overtakes 'Hangover III'
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Memorial Day weekend got off to tospy turvy start on Thursday as Universal's Fast and Furious 6 raced out of the gate with a strong $6.5 million in late night shows, while Warner Bros.' The Hangover Part III failed to draw many laughs with a soft $11.8 million for the full day. Most box office observers had expected a relatively close race between the two movies over the long holiday weekend; now, Fast 6 is expected to easily outpace Hangover III with a four-day gross in the $80 million to $90 million range. THR Cover: The
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- Pamela McClintock
'Katie': Another Executive Producer Exits
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Another executive producer is exiting Katie Couric's freshman talk show. Michael Morrison, who joined the show last January after Jeff Zucker exited to run CNN, will depart when the show wraps its first season in July. His replacement will be Rachel Miskowiec, a veteran of daytime television who has produced The Tyra Banks Show as well as Dr. Drew's Lifechangers. The announcement was made Friday by Vicki Dummer, executive vp ABC Media Group. Morrison's exit was expected as the show has cycled through a number of producers since it launched in September 2012. Multiple producers have left including Michael
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- Marisa Guthrie
Manuscripts Don't Burn: Cannes Review
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Cannes – Certain to be seen as an act of provocation by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s censorious regime, director Mohammad Rasoulof unveiled his new political thriller in Cannes earlier today. Shot in Iran without permission, and shrouded in secrecy until this week, Manuscripts Don’t Burn bravely defies Rasoulof’s 20-year ban from making films or traveling outside his homeland. Chillingly, cast and crew credits remain under wraps for fear of state retribution. Timely political context alone should guarantee small but committed audiences at future festivals and art-house theaters. But this film also happens to be a fairly gripping thriller,
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- Stephen Dalton
News Corp. Board Formally Approves Company Split for June 28
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News Corp. said Friday that its board has formally approved the separation into two publicly traded companies, entertainment company 21st Century Fox and the publishing firm that will be known as new News Corp. The separation is expected to occur on June 28, the conglomerate said Friday. The board has approved the distribution of one share of the new News Corp. for every four shares of the current company. Photos: THR's Executive Roundtable: 6 Movie Moguls Sound Off on Second Careers, Favorite Movies and Awards The entertainment conglomerate also announced appointments to the boards of both companies. Rupert Murdoch and
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- Georg Szalai
Study Finds Film Criticism Dominated by Men
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A San Diego State University study released today finds that men continue to dominate as film critics and reviewers tend to gravitate toward films written and directed by people of their own sex. The study, titled Gender @ the Movies: On-Line Film Critics and Criticism and written by Martha Lauzen, tracked more than 2,000 reviews by 145 writers designated as “top critics” on the film review aggregator RottenTomatoes.com over a two-month period in the spring of 2013. The study examined the percentages of male and female critics, the numbers of reviews they wrote during that period and the length and
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- Tatiana Siegel
'Young and the Restless' Tribute: Jeanne Cooper Remembered (Exclusive Video)
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The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive look at "bonus footage" from CBS' The Young and the Restless tribute to the late Jeanne Cooper airing next week. The daytime soap is planning a special episode Tuesday dedicated to the actress who portrayed Katherine Chancellor for four decades, at 12:30 p.m. Et (11 a.m. Pt). Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2013 Fellow castmembers and friends including Melody Thomas Scott, Christian Le Blanc, Tracey Bregman, Eric Braeden and The Bold and the Beautiful's John McCook as well as family members such as her son, Corbin Bernsen, recently gathered on the set
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- Kimberly Nordyke
Jewel on Playing June Carter Cash: 'I Needed People to Forget About Me'
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Jewel takes on the role of country music legend June Carter Cash in Lifetime's original movie Ring of Fire. It's not the first time the icon has been brought to life on the screen. Reese Witherspoon won an Oscar for her portrayal in 2005's Walk the Line, but that movie centered more on the life of her husband, Johnny Cash. Photos: A-Listers Angle to Play Music's Biggest Icons Ring of Fire, meanwhile, tells June's story from her point of view (it's based on the book Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash, written by her son,
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- Kimberly Nordyke
TV Broadcasters Launch Aereokiller Lawsuit in Washington
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Television broadcasters are taking the fight over unauthorized streaming to the nation's capital. On Thursday night, Fox, NBCU, Disney/ABC, Allbritton Communications and Telemundo filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Alki David's TV digital distribution services in Washington D.C. federal court. The complaint (read in full here) seeks to restrain Aereokiller and FilmOn.TV from retransmitting local TV programming online. Alki David, an eccentric billionaire, has been operating his digital TV units since 2008 and his companies bear some functional similarity to Aereo, the Barry Diller-backed company that is subject to litigation in another jurisdiction. The move to file
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- Eriq Gardner
Google's Eric Schmidt Says Hollywood's 'Storytelling Wins' in 'The New Digital Age'
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This story first appeared in the May 31 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Forget all the talk about the machines taking over," write Google chairman Eric Schmidt and former State Department adviser Jared Cohen in their just-released book, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business. "The future is up to us." It's a future the pair says will be made less by the 2 billion people in the developed world who already have the Internet than the 5 billion who get it next. The co-authors, who met when Cohen, 31,
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- Andy Lewis
UTA Hires Top Investment Banker to Explore Finance Options
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United Talent Agency has engaged a top Wall Street banker to help evaluate investment offers in the wake of the sale of minority interests in its two larger competitors. UTA declined to comment, but sources confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the Beverly Hills-based agency is working with Ken Moelis, founder of Moelis & Co., to possibly take on a financial partner. A source said that UTA is not aggressively seeking capital but has been approached by several suitors and would consider selling a stake in the agency if the arrangement fits its growth strategy. Photos: Secrets of Hollywood
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- Alex Ben Block
Max Rose: Cannes Review
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Cannes – Even making allowances for the veneration of French cinephiles for the work of Jerry Lewis, it’s hard to comprehend the inclusion in the official Cannes selection of Max Rose, a staggeringly artless geriatric soap that sinks its dentures into every trite platitude about aging, mortality, regret and surrender, only to regurgitate them again and again. Starring as a jazz pianist, Lewis says of one particular gig, “I was playing simplistically and way too melodramatic.” Sadly, he could be talking about any aspect of this sub-Hallmark Channel schmaltz. Screenwriter-director Daniel Noah’s first feature shamelessly panders to
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- David Rooney
German Soccer Rules Europe, Can It Conquer the World?
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Cologne, Germany – Sprechen Sie Deutsch? That was the headline French sports daily L'Equipe splashed over its front page last month after Bayern Munich defeated – some would say destroyed – Spanish champions Barcelona last month to qualify for the Champions League final, where they will face their local rivals Borussia Dortmund. For the 200 million viewers who will watch the first-ever all-German Champions League final on Saturday, the message is clear: European soccer now speaks with a German accent. Photos: David Beckham's 23 Most Memorable Moments While German teams have traditionally been only grudgingly admired outside the country
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- Scott Roxborough
Cannes: 'Magic Magic' Stars Juno Temple, Michael Cera on Culture Shock in Chile (Video)
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Actress Juno Temple may not have a lot in common with her conflicted, extremely disturbed character in Magic Magic, but she did get to experience some of the culture shock for herself while working on the film. "It really feels like you have been plopped in a place where you have no idea where it works," she says in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in Cannes. "Everything was different. It was crazy." Photos: 'Nebraska' in Cannes: Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee Step Out for Alexander Payne's Premiere In Sebastian Silva's dark thriller, Temple plays a young woman named
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- Rebecca Ford
The Immigrant: Cannes Review
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The emotional and moral price of the immigrant experience, circa 1921 in New York, is expressed in quietly wrenching terms in The Immigrant, James Gray’s sensitively observed melodrama about a Polish woman forced to run a gauntlet of degrading experiences to secure a foothold in the New World. Enhanced by a splendidly atmospheric recreation of the Lower East Side, the intimately focused work is anchored by another superior performance by Marion Cotillard, which, one can be sure, The Weinstein Company will spotlight to build the often downbeat, slightly off-kilter film into a draw in specialized release. Photos: Cannes: Jessica Chastain,
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- Todd McCarthy
Cannes Rocked by Another High-Profile Jewelry Heist
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The Cannes Film Festival has been hit by yet another suspected high-profile theft, after a diamond necklace worth $2.6 million (2 million euros) vanished from a star-studded party, according to Swiss luxury jeweler De Grisogono.
De Grisogono founder and creative director Fawaz Gruosi said in a statement released to The Hollywood Reporter: “These incidents are rare; it is actually the first time it happened in our 20-year history. However when they occur one must be proactive," he said, adding that the company is cooperating with authorities. A police report has been
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- Patrick Brzeski, Rhonda Richford
Robert Redford to Direct Segment in 3D Doc Series 'Cathedrals of Culture'
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Robert Redford has joined Wim Wenders' ambitious 3D documentary project, Cathedrals of Culture and will direct a 26-minute segment of the six-part film series about iconic buildings. Redford, whose last feature as a director was the thriller The Company You Keep (2012), will helm the second part of the series, a look at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, which was built by the architect Louis Kahn. Redford's Sundance Productions and @radical.media in New York will produce the segment together with Wenders' Berlin-based shingle Neue Road Movies. The other directors in the series are Oscar-
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- Scott Roxborough
Sony to Sell $1.5 Billion in Corporate Bonds in Japan
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Tokyo – Sony Corp will issue $1.5 billion in five-year bonds June 19 to ordinary Japanese investors, the company said Friday. Of that, $1.1 billion is earmarked for paying down existing debt, with the rest used for capital investment. The entertainment to electronics giant is attempting to strengthen its financial position as it restructures under CEO Kaz Hirai, who took the reins at Sony in April 2012. The company registered its first profit in five years in the fiscal period to March 2013, though this was achieved through asset disposals and from the benefits of a weaker
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- Gavin J. Blair
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