Latest Cannes Film Festival News

‘Smile 2’ grinning to No. 1 at box office while ‘Anora’ glitters in limited release

Oct. 20, 2024 14:18 PM EDT

Horror movies topped the domestic box office charts and an Oscar contender got off to a sparkling start this weekend. “Smile 2,” in its first weekend, and “Terrifier 3” in its second proved to be the big draws for general movie audiences in North America, while the Palme d’Or...

Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan on 'The Apprentice': 'We're way out on a limb'

Oct. 10, 2024 14:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Even in an election year, most seem to agree on one aspect about Ali Abbasi’s much-debated Donald Trump film “The Apprentice”: Sebastian Stan is a remarkably good Trump and Jeremy Strong is chillingly riveting as the New York power broker Roy Cohn. One...

Asylum-seeker to film star: Guinean's unusual journey highlights France's arguments over immigration

Oct. 10, 2024 06:21 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — A few months ago, Abou Sangare was an anonymous, 23-year-old Guinean immigrant lacking permanent legal status in northern France and, like thousands of others, fighting deportation. Now a lead actor in “Souleymane’s Story,” an award-winning feature film that hit...

Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' is one from the heart

Sep. 24, 2024 13:30 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola believes he can stop time. It’s not just a quality of the protagonist of Coppola’s new film “Megalopolis,” a visionary architect named Cesar Catilina ( Adam Driver ) who, by barking “Time, stop!” can temporarily freeze the world for a...

Trump film 'The Apprentice' finds distributor and will open before the election

Aug. 30, 2024 14:28 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — After struggling to drum up interest following its Cannes Film Festival premiere, “The Apprentice,” starring Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump, has found a distributor that plans to release the film shortly before the election in November. Briarcliff...

Here’s everything you need to know about the Venice Film Festival

Aug. 28, 2024 16:26 PM EDT

VENICE, Italy (AP) — The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival is underway, with major Hollywood films and stars arriving in Italy. The festival kicked off Wednesday with the world premiere of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” before it opens in theaters worldwide next week. ...

French actor and heartthrob Alain Delon dies at 88

Aug. 18, 2024 12:10 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, died at age 88, French media reported. With his handsome looks and tender manner, the prolific actor was able to combine...