Latest Cannes Film Festival News

Cannes sets lineup with Lanthimos, Coppola and Trump film 'The Apprentice'

Apr. 11, 2024 09:37 AM EDT

New films from Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrea Arnold and Francis Ford Coppola, as well as a portrait of 1980s Donald Trump, will compete for the Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival next month, organizers announced Thursday. Thierry Frémaux, Cannes’s artistic director who...

Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' to premiere at Cannes

Apr. 09, 2024 16:46 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly half a century after Francis Ford Coppola won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, he will return to the French Riviera festival to premiere his self-financed epic “Megalopolis.” The premiere was confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday by a person...

George Lucas to receive honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival

Apr. 09, 2024 12:01 PM EDT

George Lucas will receive an honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced Tuesday. Lucas will be honored at the closing ceremony to the 77th French film festival on May 25. He joins a short list of those to receive honorary Palmes. Last...

Kevin Costner's Western epic 'Horizon, An American Saga' will premiere at Cannes

Apr. 08, 2024 13:30 PM EDT

Kevin Costner's multi-episode epic “Horizon, An American Saga” will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced Monday. The first chapter of “Horizon" will debut at the French film festival on May 19, giving the world its first glimpse of...

What to stream this weekend: Shakira, Paul Simon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kristen Wiig and Princess Peach

Mar. 22, 2024 00:06 AM EDT

Chef and restaurateur Jose Andrés inviting actors Jamie Lee Curtis, Bryan Cranston and O’Shea Jackson Jr. over for dinner in a new TV special and Jake Gyllenhaal starring in an update of the pulpy cult classic “Road House” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a...

'Furiosa,' the follow-up to 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' will premiere at Cannes Film Festival

Mar. 21, 2024 12:51 PM EDT

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” George Miller's eagerly awaited follow-up to “Mad Max: Fury Road, ” will make its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. “Furiosa,” a prequel to “Fury Road” starring Anya Taylor-Joy, will roar down the Croisette nine years after...