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Cannes: Baloji, Emmanuelle Béart to Lead Golden Camera Jury
Baloji and Emmanuelle Béart will oversee this year’s Golden Camera jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, organizers said on Tuesday. Organizers said French actress Béart and director and songwriter Baloji will serve as president of the jury that selects the best first film from across the official selections of the film festival. “Being a […]
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Beat Music Fund, Part of Armin van Buuren’s Armada, Buys Amsterdam Music Publisher Cloud 9
Independent dance label Armada Music, founded in 2003 by Dutch trance DJ and producer Armin van Buuren, Maykel Piron and manager and agent David Lewis, said Tuesday that its investment vehicle Beat Music Fund has acquired Amsterdam-based music publisher Cloud 9 Music, bolstering its publishing division. Cloud 9’s roster includes the likes of U.S. house […]
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Fremantle Re-Ups First Look Deal With Pablo Larrain’s Fabula
Fremantle has renewed its first-look deal with Fabula, the Chilean production company run by acclaimed director Pablo Larrain and brother Juan de Dios Larrain. Fabula’s filmography includes Larrain’s Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman and the Oscar-nominated Jackie as well as Spencer and El Conde. The agreement will see Fremantle and Fabula continue to work together with […]
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Donna Langley to Receive Kering’s Women in Motion Award
NBCUniversal Chair Donna Langley will be honored with the 2024 Kering’s Women in Motion Award at the Cannes Film Festival, celebrating, according to Kering and Cannes “a lifelong career committed to steadfast leadership and the fostering of a more inclusive industry that has helped shape diversity both in front and behind the camera.” Langley is […]
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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Lineup Unveiled
The Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section has unveiled its lineup for the 2024 festival, which will open with This Life of Mine, the final feature from the late French director Sophie Fillières. The drama features Agnès Jaoui as a woman whose identity starts to unravel when she turns 55. Fillières died shortly after wrapping principal photography […]
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‘Blue Lights’ Star Siân Brooke on How the BBC’s Belfast Police Drama Has “Hope at Its Heart”
Siân Brooke is back on U.K. screens this week as Grace Ellis in the BBC’s Belfast, Northern Ireland-based police drama Blue Lights season 2. Blue Lights, about three probationary police officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland struggling with the general pressures of the job and crime and tensions in Belfast, has become a hit […]
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‘Jurassic World’ Eyes ‘Wicked’ Star Jonathan Bailey for Lead
Universal is looking to stay in business with Jonathan Bailey, one of the stars of its upcoming Wicked films. Bailey is in early talks for a leading role in the studio’s new take on Jurassic World, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Scarlett Johansson is already on the call sheet for the feature, which has Gareth […]
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Netflix Earnings Preview: Analysts Raise Stock Price Targets on Ad Tier, Paid Sharing Optimism
Netflix is getting ready to kick off the first-quarter 2024 earnings season for Hollywood on April 18, and the momentum of its subscriber growth, advertising tier and password-sharing crackdown will be among the focus areas for investors and Wall Street analysts. Investors will also keep an ear out for possible commentary on content strategy, including […]
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Demi Moore to Host amfAR’s 30th Cannes Gala
The 30th edition of amfAR’s Cannes gala now has a host: Demi Moore. The actress has been tapped for an official role at the glitzy event, which will take place at the end of this year’s Cannes Film Festival on May 23. She will be joined at the gala by Cher, who is confirmed to […]
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Hollywood Reporter ‘Con Queen’ Investigation Gets Apple TV+ Docuseries Treatment (Exclusive)
Original deep reporting by The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Johnson is getting the true-crime docuseries treatment at Apple TV+. The streaming giant has picked up the three-parter Hollywood Con Queen from director Chris Smith, based in part on Johnson’s book Hollywood Con Queen: The Hunt for an Evil Genius from Harper Collins. The docuseries, to premiere […]
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Cannes Critics’ Week Unveils 2024 Lineup
The Cannes Critics’ Week, the parallel film festival sidebar organized by the French film critics’ union, has unveiled its 2024 selection. The psychological thriller Ghost Trail, the first feature from acclaimed French shorts director Jonathan Millet, will open the 2024 sidebar. Adam Bessa (star of 2022’s Un Certain Regard winner Harka) plays the lead in […]
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China Box Office: ‘Boy and the Heron’ Sails to $94M, ‘Godzilla x Kong’ Hits $110M
Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning anime The Boy and the Heron floated to an easy second-weekend win at China’s theatrical box office, earning $12.8 million from Friday to Sunday, according to data from Artisan Gateway. The Studio Ghibli blockbuster has now earned $93.8 million in China, with local ticketing app Maoyan projecting that it will soon sail […]
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