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The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 5 with the world premieres of Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and New Wave, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Guillaume Marbeck, Aubry Dullin, and Zoey Deutch.

Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, set in rural America, portrays a woman consumed by love and madness. The film stars Robert Pattinson as the husband of Lawrence’s character and Lakeith Stanfield as her lover, with Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, and Sarah Lind in supporting roles.

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Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, set in rural America, portrays a woman consumed by love and madness. The film stars Robert Pattinson as the husband of Lawrence’s character and Lakeith Stanfield as her lover, with Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, and Sarah Lind in supporting roles.

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A pedestrian was reportedly seriously injured near the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday after strong winds blew down a palm tree.

A section of the walkway along the Croisette, the main boulevard that runs through the seaside resort, was closed as emergency workers cleared debris. The accident occurred near the Mademoiselle Gray Plage Barriere beach, a venue where many parties and events are held during the festival.

A spokesperson for Cannes confirmed that a pedestrian had been injured, but referred other inquiries to City Hall. A spokesperson for City Hall did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

It was not immediately clear what injuries the person had suffered, but according to Screen International, “A man was…seen lying on the ground with blood coming from his head, being attended to by fellow pedestrians, and emergency services were called.”

Another witness told the Afp: “There was a terrible...

As you walk up The Croisette toward the Palais, there’s a long, winding series of tents overlooking the yachts anchored in the Bay of Cannes. Atop each tent is a flag representing the country that hopes to impress the producers, financiers and executives gathering at Cannes on the hunt for locations (and most importantly, financial incentives) for their next projects.

Near the end of these tents is the American Pavilion, which historically has been a place for the world’s biggest exporter of entertainment to meet with international guests, and for individual U.S. states to tout their tax incentives and facilities.

New York had its own dedicated day in the early 2000s, but never before had California made a concerted effort to court the Cannes crowd. After all, Los Angeles has long been the most influential city on earth when it comes to entertainment, an entire town built...

Producer Jason Michael Berman feels he has an advantage with the launch of A/Vantage Pictures.

The former president of Mandalay Pictures has built his career identifying the space where artistry meets impact. Now, with A/Vantage, he’s placing that mission front and center, starting with the Cannes Film Festival premiere of the Spike Lee-directed “Highest 2 Lowest,” starring Denzel Washington.

Launched in April, A/Vantage is committed to culturally resonant, commercially viable films. The name reflects its goals: “A” for authentic, “Vantage” for a unique point of view, and a nod to Berman’s childhood as an Av club kid.

“I’m an Av kid at heart,” he says with a chuckle and smile. “This is about perspective, giving filmmakers the vantage to tell stories that matter, and giving audiences a vantage to see the world differently.”

Berman has long supported visionary storytellers with something personal to say.

The black market for Cannes parties and screenings is alive and well, according to a list seen by Screendaily.

One of the most expensive offerings is a pair of tickets to Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor The GreatUn Certain Regard premiere and after-party on May 20, which are being touted for $5,495 per person. A photo with Johansson is on offer for an extra $1,995.

The film’s distributor Sony Pictures Classics was unavailable for comment. However a festival spokesperson responded robustly.

“Tickets issued by the Festival de Cannes are free of charge and strictly prohibited from being sold. Any attempt to sell or...

The black market for Cannes parties and screenings is alive and well, according to a list seen by Screendaily.

One of the most expensive offerings is a pair of tickets to Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor The GreatUn Certain Regard premiere and after-party on May 20, which are being touted for $5,495 per person. A photo with Johansson is on offer for an extra $1,995.

The film’s distributor Sony Pictures Classics was unavailable for comment. However a festival spokesperson responded robustly.

“Tickets issued by the Festival de Cannes are free of charge and strictly prohibited from being sold. Any attempt to sell or...

The 78th Cannes Film Festival takes place May 13-24, 2025, with Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche presiding over the main competition's jury. Held on the stunning French Riviera, this annual event culminates in the prestigious Palme d'Or prize, given to a director for their feature film, which officially kicks off the year's awards cycle. To date, four winners of the Palme d'Or have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture: The Lost Weekend (1945), Marty (1955), Parasite (2019), and Anora (2024).

A highlight of this year's Cannes opening ceremony was Leonardo DiCaprio's presentation of the Honorary Palme d'Or to Robert De Niro, DiCaprio's costar in films like Killers of the Flower Moon and This Boy's Life. De Niro follows in the footsteps of such recent recipients as Meryl Streep, George Lucas, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, and Tom Cruise.

U.S. films that competed for the 2025 Palme d'Or included Die, My Love (Lynne Ramsay...

Inside Man: Most Wanted didn’t need to exist, but here it is, sitting pretty on Netflix six years later as a surprise hit. It never lived up to the legacy of Spike Lee’s original, and adding Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn didn’t exactly fix that. The sequel felt like a straight-to-stream cash grab with none of the original’s brains or tension.

But somehow, folks, it’s found an audience now. Maybe people just can’t resist a good old-fashioned heist, even when it’s wrapped in a forgettable follow-up. It’s chaotic, unnecessary, but weirdly watchable, and that’s probably enough for Netflix.

Inside Man: Most Wanted: Denzel Washington’s forgotten Inside Man sequel, is now a Netflix hit Denzel Washington in Inside Man | Credits: Universal Pictures

Inside Man: Most Wanted is having an unexpected moment in the limelight, six years after its quiet release.

One rumor is gaining serious traction (and backlash): Denzel Washington is stepping into the role of Magneto. According to recent reports, the legendary actor is confirmed to play a race-swapped version of the iconic X-Men villain. While many fans are hyped to see what Washington brings to the table, not everyone’s on board.

The announcement has sparked waves of racist outrage online, proving once again how deep-rooted bias runs in fandom spaces. As Marvel continues pushing for more inclusive casting, this move could reshape the MCU and challenge some uncomfortable truths along the way.

Marvel eyes Denzel Washington for the Magneto role, but fan reactions are divided Denzel Washington in Crimson Tide | Credits: Hollywood Pictures

Marvel reportedly wants Denzel Washington to play Magneto in the MCU. On May 16, “Comic Media” posted the update via Instagram. Jeff Sneider from The Hot Mic podcast claims Marvel is seriously considering Washington for the role.

The American Pavilion is proud to announce a dynamic lineup of guest speakers, panels, and parties for the second week of its programming at Cannes 2025. Among the headliners are actor Lakeith Stanfield, and filmmakers Kevin Smith, Eugene Jarecki, Charlie Polinger, and Lucy McKendrick. This is in addition to already-announced special guests such as Spike Lee, Vicky Krieps, as well as many others in the days ahead — AmPav will have hosted more than 30 events before the festival wraps.

These events take place at the Roger Ebert Conference Center and are available to American Pavilion members.

“We’re honored so many talented filmmakers, actors, and industry leaders choose to share their stories at The American Pavilion,” said Julie Sisk, American Pavilion’s Founder and President.

See the full lineup of events below.

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Back in 2020, it was big news in film circles when Netflix picked up the original script by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Simon Kinberg for Here Comes The Flood in an undisclosed seven-figure deal. Then, the agreement for this not-so-conventional heist movie seems to have fallen into the shadows, with the early possibility that Jason Bateman will direct an iteration that will never occur.

Five years on, and the whole project is back on track, with the directing duties, production team, and principal cast officially announced. Here Comes The Flood, based on Kingberg’s screenplay, will have a strong cast featuring Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones in key roles.

Oscar-nominated Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles takes on directing duties, and Samson Mucke is executive producer. The production is yet to start, so no trailers or release date are available.

What is Here Comes The Flood going to be about?

So far, the plot details are pretty sketchy,...

Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones have been added to the cast of Netflix heist movie ‘Here Comes The Flood.’

The project tells the story of a bank guard plotting with a master thief to steal, the rise and fall of his relationship with a bank teller and a series of twists that unveil the con game at the centre of it all.

Fernando Meirelles will take the helm. Simon Kinberg penned the script. Producers include Kinberg and Audrey Chon for Genre Films and Meirelles. Samson Mucke serves as executive producer.

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Netflix’s official logline reads: an unconventional heist movie about a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses.

Washington was recently seen in ‘Gladiator 2’ and will next appear in Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest.

Denzel Washington's salary for streaming movies has reportedly been revealed. With a career that spans over three decades, Washington is an award-winning, celebrated performer. He has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning two, and continues to act in high-caliber projects. His latest undertaking is Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest, which is a modern-day, New York-set reimagining of the Akira Kurosawa film High and Low. The movie is a co-production of Apple TV+ and A24 and is expected to be released on August 22, 2025.

As per Puck, Washington's pay for streaming movies has seemingly been unveiled. The actor is getting a hefty $35 million for Netflix's Here Comes the Flood. This information reportedly comes from "three sources familiar," though there was no quote from Washington himself nor Netflix, Apple, or A24. It is thought that this salary was set to match what he was given by Apple and A24 for Highest 2 Lowest,...

Inside Man: Most Wanted, the 2019 sequel to Spike Lee’s classic crime thriller starring Denzel Washington, is now trending around the world on streaming. The direct-to-video movie was released on Netflix to little fanfare six years ago and has been completely overlooked by critics ever since, but has now made its way into the streaming platform’s global top 10. Directed by M. J. Bassett and starring Aml Ameen in the Denzel Washington role as an NYPD hostage negotiator, Inside Man: Most Wanted appears to have benefited from the arrival of its forerunner on Netflix last year.

The streaming giant first dropped Spike Lee’s heist movie Inside Man on its platform in May 2024, and after leaving later in the year, the film returned to Netflix in January 2025. Meanwhile, its sequel has been available to watch on Netflix since December 2019. Inside Man: Most Wanted is set five years after the original movie,...

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Michael Almereyda’s Cymbeline screens on Friday with the director present for an intro and Q&a.

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A celebration of Malcolm X’s centennial brings Spike Lee’s biopic, Black Orpheus, Nothing But a Man, and more; Haydn Keenan’s Going Down, newly restored, begins a run.

Film at Lincoln Center

A career-spanning Kira Muratova retrospective begins with new restorations.

Roxy Cinema

Mad Max: Fury Road plays on 35mm this Friday and Sunday; Saturday and Sunday bring a print of Caligula: The Ultimate Cut; A Bug’s Life plays for free on Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art

A Larry Gottheim retrospective and The Lady at 100 continue.

Film Forum

A Jack Lemmon centenary retrospective has started; a restoration of René Clément’s Forbidden Games (watch our trailer debut), the new 35mm print of 8½, and Mort Rifkin...

Illustration by Franz Lang.As an American, I usually avoid spending too much time at a festival considering the films from my own country—Notebook has an international lens, and those films will get more than enough attention from the mainstream American press. But it’s hard to ignore the American titles in this year’s Cannes selection; to look at this year’s competitors—Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, Richard Linklater, and Kelly Reichardt—is to experience cultural dissociation that suggests not only that our cinema is fine and dandy, but that, gee whiz, our country might be too. At festivals, art films are often burdened with representing the state of an entire country; perhaps too readily, they are taken as national allegories. The positive artistic force on display at Cannes, however, belies the reality back home, where misanthropic, self-serving leaders are governing with unfathomable authoritarian cruelty. These films seem...

As Spike Lee’s neo-noir crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest debuts at Cannes film festival, we index the most ravishing Hollywood redos of all time

Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) obsesses over the fate of his missing girlfriend in George Sluizer’s American remake of his own 1988 Franco-Dutch psychochiller. Is it as devastating as the original? Absolutely not! But Jeff Bridges has never been creepier, and at least the dumb Hollywood ending won’t give you nightmares.

Ciara and Adam Lambert are heading to the South of France to join the lineup of the glitzy amfAR Gala Cannes.

As previously announced, the starry program for the 31st Cannes gala features a headline performance by Duran Duran and host Taraji P. Henson. The gala, which takes place annually at the tail end of the Cannes Film Festival, is set for the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on May 22.

“We are thrilled to have such a sensational lineup of talented artists — the iconic Duran Duran, Ciara, and Adam Lambert — performing for us at amfAR Gala Cannes this year and we are deeply grateful for their support of our work,” said amfAR CEO Kevin Robert Frost. “We are also delighted that the incomparable Taraji P. Henson has graciously agreed to act as host for the evening.”

In conjunction with the news about Ciara and Lambert, amfAR revealed the chairs for the event,...

Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones are to star in the Netflix thriller Here Comes The Flood, directed by City Of God's Fernando Meirelles.

Netflix has announced quite a coup this morning, having attracted Denzel Washington to headline its upcoming heist thriller, Here Comes The Flood. Washington’s potent star power will be buttressed by two other impressive names, with Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones joining the project.

It’s said to be a ‘non-linear’ and ‘unconventional’ heist thriller about “a bank guard, a teller and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses” according to a plot description on The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the story.

The script is by Simon Kinberg, one-time steward of the X-Men series and potential overseer of a new Star Wars trilogy. In the director’s chair will be Fernando Meirelles, who made 2002’s City Of God, the...

Cannes Film Festival is known for its standing ovations and this year, we’re trying to predict how long they’ll last.

The Cannes Film Festival, perhaps the glitziest, most glamorous film festival of them all, is now in full swing. Celebrities and journalists alike have gathered on the French Riviera for 11 days of movie premieres and press conferences.

In the next few days, the internet will be full of reviews for the new films by Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Lynne Ramsay and even Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (here’s one!). We’re also going to be getting daily updates on the lengths of the standing ovations each film gets, a scoring methodology that’s Cannes’ own version of a Rotten Tomatoes score.

Most films presented at the festival will get a standing ovation and (some) headlines love to highlight the specific minutes the audience stayed standing up and clapping.

Netflix is preparing to develop a new heist film, and it's one that has three major Hollywood stars attached. The studio has announced that Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jonesare set to star in the upcoming film Here Comes the Flood, a crime thriller that will be directed by Fernando Meirelles. Details of the plot are largely unknown, but the film sounds like it's shaping up to be a large venture.

Specifics remain in the dark on where exactly this project will take us. However, the film will be an "unconventional heist movie about a bank guard, a teller and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses," according to a logline from Netflix. It is unclear who of the trio will be playing which role. However, it sounds like this is the type of Ocean's-brand heist film that has seen a resurgence in recent years.

Netflix has assembled an exciting cast for a heist thriller from “City of God” and “The Two Popes” director Fernando Meirelles. Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones will all star in “Here Comes the Flood” for the streaming service.

Netflix content chief Bela Bajaria announced the news during the streamer’s Upfronts presentation on Wednesday. The film hails from writer Simon Kinberg, who is also producing the film alongside Audrey Chon for his Genre Films banner, as is Meirelles. Samson Mucke is executive producing.

“Here Comes the Flood” is an unconventional heist movie about a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses.

Kinberg’s script dates as far back as 2020, when Netflix first won the spec script from Kinberg and later when Jason Bateman was in talks to direct the film. Now though, Pattinson has just closed his deal to star.

Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to lead heist film “Here Comes the Flood” at Netflix. The feature directed by Academy Award nominee Fernando Meirelles tells the story of a bank guard plotting with a master thief to steal, the rise and fall of his relationship with a bank teller and a series of twists that unveil the con game at the center of it all.

The project was announced during Netflix’s Upfront presentation on Wednesday. Simon Kinberg (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”) penned the script for “Here Comes the Flood.” Producers include Kinberg and Audrey Chon for Genre Films and Meirelles. Samson Mucke serves as executive producer. According to Netflix’s official logline, “Here Comes the Flood” is an “unconventional heist movie about a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses.”

Washington will next appear in...

Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in Here Comes the Flood, a Simon Kinberg-penned crime thriller that Fernando Meirelles will direct for Netflix.

Meirelles is also producing the feature with Oscar nominee Kinberg and Audrey Chon, the latter two via their Genre Films banner.

Netflix picked up the original screenplay in 2020, making a splashy seven-figure deal to win a heated spec script auction. It was a markedly different era, with the streaming wars in full swing and the streamer’s film unit being run by Scott Stuber, who always had Netflix’s wallet open. Still, the project survived (at one point Jason Bateman was in talks to direct an iteration but a deal never took), and now five years later has attracted top-shelf talent.

Logline details are being kept in the dark, but Flood is being described as an unconventional heist movie about a bank guard,...

Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to star in Here Comes the Flood, a new Netflix heist film from Fernando Meirelles, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind the streamer’s lauded drama The Two Popes.

The news emerged from Netflix’s Upfront presentation on Wednesday.

Written by Simon Kinberg (Mr. & Mrs. Smith), the film is described as an unconventional heist flick about a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses.

Kinberg and Audrey Chon will produce for Genre Films, alongside Meirelles, with Samson Mucke exec producing.

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Coming off of lauded turns in Gladiator II and The Tragedy of Macbeth, Washington will next be seen leading Spike Lee’s crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest, based on Akira Kurosawa’s classic High and Low, which A24 releases in August, ahead of the...

Hollywood has been betting on sequels for decades as they are almost always guaranteed hits, especially after the huge success of a first installment. However, the recipe doesn't always work.

In 2006, two-time Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington starred in Spike Lee's successful, star-studded movie Inside Man. It was a critical and commercial hit, and over a decade later, Inside Out: Most Wanted was released. Although the sequel didn't make a splash, it achieved success on Netflix, debuting in second place in the global streaming charts, per Tudum.

Although this is not Inside Man: Most Wanted's first stint on Netflix, the movie was back in the charts for the week between May 5 and 11. It amassed 12.3 million views and 21.8 million hours viewed, debuting in second place just behind Vince Vaughn's new feel-good comedy Nonnas. The heist film entered the Top 10 in 69 countries, and became the number one film in 21 territories across the globe.

Academy-award nominated Austin Butler and Emmy-winning Jeremy Allen White are set to star in Henry Dunham’s new crime saga “Enemies” at A24, the company announced on Wednesday.

The upcoming film is written and directed by Dunham and will be his sophomore effort following his directorial debut “The Standoff at Sparrow Creek,” which was released in 2018.

The official logline for the film is as follows: A relentless detective and an infamous contract killer collide in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

The film kicks off production in Chicago this Summer.

Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen of Square Peg will produce alongside A24. Alejandro De Leon will also produce. Josh Bachove will executive produce.

Ahead of the film’s debut at the Cannes Film Festival this week, A24 and Apple will also be unveiling “Highest 2 Lowest.” The new Spike Lee joint stars Denzel Washington as a music mogul with...

Who out there hasn't stood in line at the bank, looked around at the layout and the guards and the security cameras, and wondered: How could I rob this place and get away with it? I bet some of you have even figured out what kind of masks your crew would wear. It's a fun game to play and maybe that's why we all love a good heist flick. They give us the vicarious thrill of taking part in a masterplan for a few hours and be part of the gang while wondering how exactly they're going to pull it off. 

Spike Lee's "Inside Man" ranks among the most enjoyable modern capers and one of his 8 best movies overall. Released in 2006, Lee assembled a superb cast including Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and a host of great character actors for a twisty...

The Cannes Film Festival kicked off its 78th edition with the Opening Ceremony and the world premiere of Amélie Bonnin’s debut feature, Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day), led by Juliette Armanet, Bastien Bouillon, and François Rollin.

The premiere was attended by the cast of the film, including Quentin Tarantino, Rossy De Palma, Julia Garner, Nava Mau, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, and Leonardo DiCaprio, who presented the honorary Palme d’Or to Robert De Niro.

Leave One Day follows Cécile, a budding restaurateur whose ambition to open a gourmet haven in Paris takes an unexpected detour. A family crisis compels her return to her rural roots, where, amidst the echoes of her youth, she reconnects with a long-lost love.

Related: ‘Leave One Day’ Review: Amélie Bonnin’s Nostalgic Musical Debut Is A Stealth Charmer – Cannes Film Festival

The festival formally kicked off on Monday with the poster installation, then moved to the Hotel Martinez,...

The NBA has always been part of Hollywood. Not that they run it or anything, but it might as well be their favorite game. Over the years, basketball has embedded itself in many places, gaining a huge fan following and becoming a key actor in the world of entertainment. At this time and age, it’s not just about respect and scores but also about the spotlight and showboating, something Hollywood loves.

Whether it’s appearing in movie plots, celebrity interviews, or red carpet conversations, the NBA has found a permanent place in the heart of Hollywood. Many Hollywood actors are die-hard NBA fans. You can see some of them courtside more than some season ticket holders, and reacting to buzzer-beaters like their lives depend on it.

Some of these actors’ obsessions have even come on screen, writing, producing, or starring in basketball-related movies that genuinely show their love for the sport.

All eyes were on Halle Berry as the Cannes Film Festival kicked off on Tuesday with its jury press conference, where the Oscar winner was questioned on everything from Cannes’ new dress code to if she would ever go back to the James Bond universe.

When asked by Variety if she would be open to revisiting a spinoff involving her character Jinx — or if she would take on the role of the famous spy herself — Berry said: “I don’t know if 007 should be a woman.” On the spinoff, she added that “there was a time that that could have happened. Probably should have happened. I would have loved for that to happen.”

Elsewhere during the jusry press conference — which also included president Juliette Binoche and “Succession” star Jeremy Strong — Berry was quizzed on the news of a stricter dress code banning nudity and “voluminous outfits.” In fact, Berry revealed...

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24) is the festival’s 78th edition in France, and this year the premier international movie event features new films from the likes of Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, Joachim Trier, Christian Petzold, Kelly Reichardt, Bi Gan, Julia Ducournau, and many more auteurs and rising filmmakers. A few actors turned filmmakers are in the mix (and all three make our curtain-raiser), with Scarlett Johansson, Harris Dickinson, and Kristen Stewart all trying their hand behind the camera.

As previously announced, this year’s main competition jury president will be Juliette Binoche, who will oversee the choosing of the Palme d’Or and other festival awards alongside a jury yet to be announced. Typically, it’s made up of international filmmakers and onscreen talent. The Cannes Film Festival expects robust attendance — especially compared to the strike and pandemic editions — as the Côte d’Azur...

When I wrote my inaugural Critic’s Take some seven Cannes ago, it made sense to explore the apparent chasm between the films celebrated at cinema’s high temple — where austere and unsparing fare could feed the zeitgeist — and those that made inroads within the American industry, where hard auteurism had a tougher time cracking the mainstream, Palme d’Or or not.

Suffice it to say, I didn’t have a similar impetus this time around. How could I? Not when Cannes rides high on recent awards glories as festival honcho Thierry Frémaux relishes his kingmaker status; not when so many international distinctions have collapsed; and not when the very nature of a Palme d’Or has so strikingly shifted in the intervening decade.

Indeed, the cascading effects of streaming wars, labor unrest and widespread social shifts have fundamentally altered film culture. Since that first column, the theatrical market has continued to contract,...

Compulsion Games’ mythical adventure game, South of Midnight, is a one-of-a-kind tale. Drenched in folklore and unique stop-motion graphics to bring the dark tales and heroic stories of the Southern Gothic to life, the Xbox Game Studios property is a serious contender for 2025 Game of the Year, especially considering that in just under a month of its release, the game has already amassed 1 million players.

The story follows a young woman named Hazel, reeling after a hurricane devastated her hometown as she journeys through the highest peaks and the bayou to find her mother, who went missing during the flood. Pulled into a magical reality where folklore creatures emerge, Hazel embraces her powers as a Weaver—a magical mender of broken spirits—to confront formidable creatures called Haints as she unravels the secrets of her family and those around her.

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival gets underway this week, which means that the world’s biggest filmmakers will be descending upon the Croisette to debut their latest works. It also means that the American Pavilion (AmPav) is rolling out a predictably robust lineup of educational programming aimed at providing an inside look at the film industry to students and seasoned veterans alike.

Taking place at the Roger Ebert Conference Center from May 14-22, AmPav’s series of conversations and panels will see the likes of Spike Lee, Michael Angelo Covino, and Vicky Krieps sitting down to share their words of wisdom with festival attendees. There will also be specialty programming such as California Day, a series of panels aimed at promoting film production in California; and House Party, a two-day summit aimed at elevating global perspectives in film.

IndieWire will also debut its inaugural Future of Filmmaking Summit at AmPav, which...

Cannes boss Thierry Fremaux addressed Trump’s proposed tariff of 100% on foreign-produced movies and the resilience of American cinema at his press conference on Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump threw the film industry into confusion on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival which hosts the world’s biggest market, by proposing a 100% tariff on all movies produced outside of the U.S. Asked to react to this, Fremaux said he’d prefer to hold off on commenting, suggesting that Trump has a habit of changing his mind.

“The American president has, over the last three months, accustomed us to saying one thing and then adding to it, elaborating on it, contradicting it, etc. So, no, I don’t know what to say,” he said.

“The idea that American cinema could be penalized by foreign countries is, I think, an idea that can be discussed, but there is one thing we have noticed,...

At Cannes last year, Jon Voight’s weapon of choice was the crossbow phallus.

In a scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (a Cannes competition title last year), Voight, playing the deranged capitalist Hamilton Crassus III, pulls back a bed sheet to reveal it conceals not his grotesquely exaggerated manhood, as his wife Wow Platinum (Aubrey Plaza) had expected, but a device even more dangerous and deadly.

Executives heading to Cannes this year are feeling a lot like Plaza. They are tempted to mock Voight, with his Trump-backed plan to Make Hollywood Great Again, while still fearing the damage the “special ambassador” could do to the international film industry.

Voight’s plan, a confusing stick-and-carrot combination of taxes and tariffs on “foreign-made films” and new but vague promises of domestic production incentives, has rattled the film world. It will be the talk of the Croisette.

“At all the panels,...

Oscar season is ready to start.

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival kicks off on Tuesday with a lineup that includes new movies from Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, Richard Linklater, Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, and more of the world’s top auteurs.

In many ways, the Cannes Film Festival is more important than ever for the awards race. Over the last five years, multiple movies that premiered on the French Riviera have gone on to receive Best Picture nominations at the Academy Awards, including Oscar winners Parasite and Anora, and nominees Top Gun: Maverick, Triangle of Sadness, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Substance, and Emilia Pérez. With the 2025 lineup loaded with some highly anticipated titles, it would be considered an upset if at least one or two of the following movies failed to secure eventual Oscar bids in the top categories.

Ahead of the Cannes Film Festival, here are the 11 projects...

Acclaimed Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker Tarik Saleh spotlights the fraught history of the Arab film industry with his latest film, “Eagles of the Republic.” Saleh concludes his Cairo trilogy films with the satirical political thriller, which takes place in Egypt.

Swedish actor Fares Fares plays a fictionalized Egyptian superstar actor who is pressured to star in a government-commissioned film. After he reluctantly accepts the role, he finds himself thrown into the inner circle of power and begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general overseeing the film. Lyna Khoudri, Cherien Dabis, Zineb Triki, and Sherwan Haji co-star. “Eagles of the Republic” will premiere in competition at Cannes 2025.

Saleh’s Cairo trilogy began with his 2017 Sundance Grand Jury prize winner, “The Nile Hilton Incident.” Saleh was exiled from Egypt prior to shooting his 2017 film, yet he continued to set films in the country while shooting instead in Turkey. “It’s very sad.

In the 24 hours after President Trump declared he would be putting 100 percent tariffs on all films produced in foreign lands, and with little clarity about what that even means, the gut reaction was to declare it a death sentence for independent films looking to get funding from international pre-sales. It seemed like a scary coincidence that the announcement came a week before the industry jetted off to France for Cannes, the biggest global film market of the year.

“It’s not helpful,” one sales agent told IndieWire, adding that anything that creates more uncertainty isn’t a good thing, especially for international folks who are only responding to a headline. The agent said he received a lot of worried calls and emails on Monday.

Now, a few days removed from that initial panic, the industry is approaching the Cannes Market as “business as usual.” Another agent told us they wish...

Ludi Lin, who stars as Liu Kang in the upcoming “Mortal Kombat II,” is making moves behind the camera. The Chinese-Canadian actor has signed on as both lead actor and producer for “The Unlucky,” a new sci-fi chiller from filmmaker Quentin Lee.

The project is being shopped to international buyers at the Cannes Film Market by executive producer Jennifer Price, who previously served as the Los Angeles representative for the Quebec Film and Television Council.

“The Unlucky” draws from Lee’s personal experience as an international student in America. The Canada-certified feature follows a Yale graduate student from overseas who falls for a captivating young woman and accepts her Thanksgiving invitation, only to become entangled in a con that spirals into horror.

“‘The Unlucky’ is a genre twisting sexy thrill ride and I am so excited to be a part of it,” Lin said.

The screenplay was co-written by Dennis Escobedo...

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¡Arranca la semana Cannes! Todos los ojos (al menos los cinéfilos) se posan ya sobre La Croisette, expectantes por descubrir las películas que darán más que hablar… y quién se alzará con la codiciada Palma de Oro, que el año pasado fue para Anora, luego coronada con el Oscar a la Mejor Película. ¿ Habrá esta vez victoria española, con Carla Simón u Oliver Laxe entre los aspirantes? Crucemos los dedos. ¿Repetirá Julia Ducournau la hazaña de Titane? Quién sabe. Lo que sí podemos hacer es seguir de cerca las reacciones, y para eso os dejamos un calendario con los estrenos mundiales de las películas en competición… y otras de las más esperadas del Festival.

MIÉRCOLES 14 Mayo COMPETICIÓN

15:00 | Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)

22:30 | Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)

Fuera De COMPETICIÓN

18:45 | Misión imposible: Sentencia final (Christopher McQuarrie)

Jueves 15 Mayo COMPETICIÓN

18:30 | Dossier 137 (Dominik Moll)

21:30 | Sirat (Oliver Laxe...

Tom Cruise explained why Mission: Impossible was the first film he boarded as a producer and reflected on his inaugural filmmaking experience in the UK, during a wide-ranging discussion at the BFI Southbank ahead of collecting the organisation’s Fellowship award.

“I went to Stanley Jack, he was at Paramount, and Sherry Lansing, who I’d both known since I was 18, because I felt at that time, I wanted to produce something,” he explained, going to say he was drawn to the Mission: Impossible series.

“I loved the theme music,” Cruise joked. “I thought it’d be interesting to take...

Tom Cruise is in London to receive the honorary BFI Fellowship. On his trip, however, he appears to have made time for a leisurely stroll up one of the city’s most iconic buildings.

On Sunday afternoon, the Mission: Impossible actor was photographed on the roof of the BFI IMAX building in London. It’s unclear how exactly the actor scaled up the roof, but we’ve confirmed with sources close to Cruise that it was indeed him.

From the footage, which you can view below, you can see the BFI IMAX building is currently wrapped in an advertisement for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Paramount Pictures will launch the eighth installment in the franchise in the U.S. on May 23. Before that, Cruise will debut the film in Cannes next week. The movie will play Out of Competition on May 14 with Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie, and the cast walking the famous red carpet.

Seven films down with an eighth and final edition launching in cinemas this month, Mission: Impossible is undoubtedly one of contemporary cinema’s most enduring franchises.

But back in 1996, what made a young Tom Cruise, red hot in Hollywood thanks to hits like A Few Good Men and Interview with the Vampire, board the spy thriller?

“It was the music,” Cruise joked this evening in London, where he took part in a wide-ranging discussion about his career onstage at the British Film Institute. “I loved the theme music.”

The first Mission film was Cruise’s first credit as a producer, and he told the crowd in London that he sought the franchise out because he was interested in investigating how he could change the action genre.

“It was about looking at Mission and thinking ‘what can we do with action’,” he said. “It was about how I can evolve action...

A new image from Fountain of Youth, Guy Ritchie's upcoming Indiana Jones-inspired movie, shows John Krasinski and Natalie Portman in action. The movie comes out later this month.

Per Screen Rant, the new image shows Krasinski and Portman in what looks to be a planning session, with both characters at a table and speaking to Domhnall Gleeson's character of Owen Carver. The film, directed by Ritchie and written by James Vanderbilt, follows a pair of estranged siblings as they go on a journey to find the fabled Fountain of Youth from mythological stories. The movie is scheduled to be released on Apple TV+ on May 23.

Krasinski, Portman and Gleeson are joined by Eiza Gonzalez, Ariyan Moayed, Laz Alonso, Carmen Ejogo and Stanley Tucci in the Apple TV+ movie. It's been described as being 'in the vein' of Indiana Jones, with Apple TV's official synopsis teasing the action that will unfold.

Out of the several successful collaborations between Spike Lee and Denzel Washington, heist thriller Inside Man, released back in 2006, was probably not the best, but it sure was entertaining in the way the narrative blended the heist motif with historical context. The movie was supposed to get the sequel treatment in later years, plans for which fell off with the departure of the original cast and director from the project. However, a continuation still came in the form of Inside Man: Most Wanted, with director M. J. Bassett helming the project and an entirely new cast starring in lead roles. Unlike its predecessor, the sequel lacked any narrative depth as it tried to ape the original entry beat by beat, and a forgettable bunch of characters coupled with a predictable plot leaves a bad aftertaste.

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Who Was the Leader of the Recent Heist?

Inside Man: Most Wanted opens...

Actor Timothée Chalamet and veteran director Spike Lee—two of the most celebrated people in modern cinema—might be joining forces, and the buzz is roaring. A picture of the two together surfaced online at the Knicks-Celtics Game. The internet is buzzing with speculation that something big might be brewing between the two.

Ever since the highly anticipated run for the 2025 Oscars, with a biographical musical drama A Complete Unknown, ended in disappointment despite eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor, the Dune actor may now be eyeing a role that could finally bag him his first golden statue. And if anyone can guide him through, who but Spike Lee could?

A career-crowning opportunity for Chalamet

We all remember his performance in Call Me By Your Name. That’s Timothée Chalamet for us – a boy who has long been hailed as one of the most gifted actors of his generation,...

Tom Cruise has spoken for the first time about how he suggested to Stanley Kubrick that his then wife Nicole Kidman star opposite him in 1999s Eyes Wide Shut “because obviously she’s a great actress.”

The actor makes the rare public acknowledgement of Kidman’s thespian abilities in the May issue of Sight and Sound, the film magazine published by the British Film Institute.

Cruise will be honoured by the BFI on Monday with the awarding of a distinguished BFI Fellowship.

He joins the ranks of other BFI Fellows including giants of the calibre of David Lean, Bette Davis, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Thelma Schoonmaker, Derek Jarman, Martin Scorsese, Satyajit Ray, Barbara Broccoli, Michael G Wilson, Spike Lee and Christopher Nolan.

The actor-impresario will also discuss his career In Conversation at the BFI cinema complex on London’s Southbank on Sunday evening. Cruise activity is at full speed ahead...

As your “Screen Talk” co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio pack for Cannes, we preview the hot titles for sale, the studio marketing launches, the possible Competition prize contenders, and the movies that have already released trailers. We speculate about the potential brought by President Trump’s latest proposal of a 100 percent tariff on movies filmed overseas. And we preview the summer lineup.

In new news, the already sprawling Cannes Film Festival has just welcomed a few new additions: Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” finally joins the competition after much speculation and anticipation, as well as Eugene Jarecki’s delayed Julian Assange documentary “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” which was pulled from Sundance due to developments in the story.

Among the competition titles without North American berths are Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” with Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg,...