Cannes Film Festival 2024: Read All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews, Including Palme d’Or Winner ‘Anora’
Read all of Deadline’s Cannes Film Festival reviews below, including Palme d’Or winner Anora.
The New York-set romantic dramedy charts the story of a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch.
The film, playing in the official Competition three years after Baker’s success in Cannes with the Simon Rex-starring Red Rocket, scored a 10-minute ovation earlier this week. It was one of a number of critically praised films this edition. Check out all our reviews below.
All We Imagine as Light ‘All We Imagine as Light’
Section: Competition
Director: Payal Kapadia
Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya KAdam, Hridhu Haroon
Deadline’s takeaway: And at a time when so much attention is being paid to the lives of the haves and the have-nots amid such financial imbalance worldwide, it’s refreshing to see the spotlight...
The New York-set romantic dramedy charts the story of a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch.
The film, playing in the official Competition three years after Baker’s success in Cannes with the Simon Rex-starring Red Rocket, scored a 10-minute ovation earlier this week. It was one of a number of critically praised films this edition. Check out all our reviews below.
All We Imagine as Light ‘All We Imagine as Light’
Section: Competition
Director: Payal Kapadia
Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya KAdam, Hridhu Haroon
Deadline’s takeaway: And at a time when so much attention is being paid to the lives of the haves and the have-nots amid such financial imbalance worldwide, it’s refreshing to see the spotlight...
- 5/29/2024
- by Pete Hammond, Joe Utichi, Damon Wise, Stephanie Bunbury and Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
The Little Couple celeb Zoey Klein has grown up a lot since viewers last saw her on TLC. Based on the latest updates from her mother, Jen Arnold, many fans think they know the ideal career path for her to pursue as she gets older. So, what should Zoey pursue?
The Little Couple: Zoey Klein Has Come A Long Way
For many veteran The Little Couple viewers, they remember when Jen Arnold and Bill Klein first adopted little Zoey. From that point, viewers watched the little girl grow up, all the way up until the last TLC episodes aired in 2019.
Since then, The Little Couple fans have turned to Jen Arnold’s updates on social media to stay in the loop with everything this family does. For many, it’s not as good as getting to watch full seasons on television, but it’s enough to keep people current...
The Little Couple: Zoey Klein Has Come A Long Way
For many veteran The Little Couple viewers, they remember when Jen Arnold and Bill Klein first adopted little Zoey. From that point, viewers watched the little girl grow up, all the way up until the last TLC episodes aired in 2019.
Since then, The Little Couple fans have turned to Jen Arnold’s updates on social media to stay in the loop with everything this family does. For many, it’s not as good as getting to watch full seasons on television, but it’s enough to keep people current...
- 5/28/2024
- by Evan Morgan
- TV Shows Ace
The Cannes Film Festival has a storied history of infamous moments. We think of Brigitte Bardot in her bikini, Spike Lee threatening Wim Wenders with a baseball bat after losing the Palme d’Or, pretty much everything Lars Von Trier has said or done…But one that really caught the media’s attention was when Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren went at it on the red carpet, with people under the impression that the Universal Soldier co-stars and European macho men were really at each other’s throats. Turns out, it was all just a gag for the press.
It’s one thing that Universal Soldier was even being represented at the Cannes Film Festival but another entirely that it wasn’t even screened! As it was, despite a minor presence on the Palais des Festivals, Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi action flick wasn’t part of any screenings because it wasn’t complete.
It’s one thing that Universal Soldier was even being represented at the Cannes Film Festival but another entirely that it wasn’t even screened! As it was, despite a minor presence on the Palais des Festivals, Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi action flick wasn’t part of any screenings because it wasn’t complete.
- 5/27/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Kodak, which had a momentous 2023 with more than 60 movies shot on film has gotten off to a promising start in 2024 with Luca Guadignino’s “Challengers” and Jane Shoenbrun’s “I Saw the TV Glow, which A24 released wide May 17. Upcoming releases include Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders” and Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu.”
Meanwhile, Kodak premiered 33 movies shot on film at Cannes. These included nine winners, including Sean Baker’s “Anora,” which earned the Palme d’Or prize, Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language”, which took the first Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award, and “Grand Tour,” which grabbed Best Director for Miguel Gomes. In addition, Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness” earned Jesse Plemons Best Performance by an Actor, and “Armand” won the Caméra d’or Prize for director Halfdan Ullmann Tondel.
Also, 16mm film continues to prove its popularity and relevance, with 26 of the on-film titles at the festival choosing it as their capture medium.
Meanwhile, Kodak premiered 33 movies shot on film at Cannes. These included nine winners, including Sean Baker’s “Anora,” which earned the Palme d’Or prize, Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language”, which took the first Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award, and “Grand Tour,” which grabbed Best Director for Miguel Gomes. In addition, Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness” earned Jesse Plemons Best Performance by an Actor, and “Armand” won the Caméra d’or Prize for director Halfdan Ullmann Tondel.
Also, 16mm film continues to prove its popularity and relevance, with 26 of the on-film titles at the festival choosing it as their capture medium.
- 5/27/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Hollywood veterans Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce Willis are widely regarded as 3 of the greatest action heroes of all time, having gifted some of the most immersive pieces to the cinema. That’s why, when they collaborated for The Expendables films series, the result was nothing short of a pure blissful experience for audiences and big bucks for the actors.
The Expendables 2. | Credit: Lionsgate.
However, years before they even started working together in this action-packed franchise created by Sly — nearly two decades, to be precise — this star-studded trio collaborated for a joint project in 1991 to earn millions of dollars merely from promotion. How? Well, simply because this project was the themed restaurant chain Planet Hollywood, investing in which brought in big bucks for the trio.
Arnie, Sly, and Bruno Joined Forces Before The Expendables as Well
Years ago, in October 1991, the themed restaurant chain Planet Hollywood International Inc. was...
The Expendables 2. | Credit: Lionsgate.
However, years before they even started working together in this action-packed franchise created by Sly — nearly two decades, to be precise — this star-studded trio collaborated for a joint project in 1991 to earn millions of dollars merely from promotion. How? Well, simply because this project was the themed restaurant chain Planet Hollywood, investing in which brought in big bucks for the trio.
Arnie, Sly, and Bruno Joined Forces Before The Expendables as Well
Years ago, in October 1991, the themed restaurant chain Planet Hollywood International Inc. was...
- 5/27/2024
- by Mahin Sultan
- FandomWire
Jeff Harris and Bernie Kukoff's sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" debuted in 1978 and ran 189 episodes over a whopping eight seasons. The series starred Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two impoverished kids from Harlem whose mother had recently died. They were adopted by the wealthy Mr. Drummond (Conrad Bain), a Park Avenue millionaire. The series revolved around the relationship Arnold and Willis developed with their adopted father, new sister Kimberly (Dana Plato), and one of three kindly housekeepers. In the 1984 season, Mr. Drummond married a woman named Maggie, and she was played by Dixie Carter for two years before being replaced by Mary Ann Mobley.
"Diff'rent Strokes" wasn't just overwhelmingly popular, but it also served as a template for a decade's worth of booming sitcoms. It was "Diff'rent Strokes" that famously presented "very special episodes" about serious issues like drug addiction, homelessness, eating disorders, and looking out...
"Diff'rent Strokes" wasn't just overwhelmingly popular, but it also served as a template for a decade's worth of booming sitcoms. It was "Diff'rent Strokes" that famously presented "very special episodes" about serious issues like drug addiction, homelessness, eating disorders, and looking out...
- 5/27/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Mubi has doubled down on Andrea Arnold’s “Bird” — starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogoswki — swooping on North American and Turkish rights to the Cannes competition entry less than two weeks after it announced it had bought the film for the U.K. and Ireland.
The acquisition — which Variety understands came after a fierce bidding war — marks another buzzy U.S. deal for the arthouse distributor, production house and streaming platform as it looks to expand its theatrical presence in North America. Before Cannes kicked off, it made a major splash by picking up body-horror “The Substance” — starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley and one of the biggest talking points of Cannes — for North America, U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Latin America and Benelux, where it will release theatrically this year.
The “Bird” deal was arranged between CAA Media Finance, Cornerstone and Mubi. Further release details the film’s release in North America,...
The acquisition — which Variety understands came after a fierce bidding war — marks another buzzy U.S. deal for the arthouse distributor, production house and streaming platform as it looks to expand its theatrical presence in North America. Before Cannes kicked off, it made a major splash by picking up body-horror “The Substance” — starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley and one of the biggest talking points of Cannes — for North America, U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Latin America and Benelux, where it will release theatrically this year.
The “Bird” deal was arranged between CAA Media Finance, Cornerstone and Mubi. Further release details the film’s release in North America,...
- 5/26/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy and Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Since The Little Couple has been off the air, fans may be curious about what Bill Klein and the rest of the gang have been up to. Recently, Bill let his followers in on a little secret regarding how he stays in shape. So, what did he have to say?
The Little Couple: Bill Klein Keeping Busy
The Little Couple fans might think that no longer filming scenes for TLC would open up a lot of free time for Bill Klein and the rest of his family. However, each family member continues to stay busy, and it always seems like there is something going on in the Arnold/Klein household.
Both Bill Klein and Jen Arnold have built comfortable lives for themselves and their children. So much so that they could take it easy and live comfortably for many years to come. As fans keeping up with their social media updates regularly see,...
The Little Couple: Bill Klein Keeping Busy
The Little Couple fans might think that no longer filming scenes for TLC would open up a lot of free time for Bill Klein and the rest of his family. However, each family member continues to stay busy, and it always seems like there is something going on in the Arnold/Klein household.
Both Bill Klein and Jen Arnold have built comfortable lives for themselves and their children. So much so that they could take it easy and live comfortably for many years to come. As fans keeping up with their social media updates regularly see,...
- 5/25/2024
- by Evan Morgan
- TV Shows Ace
Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger might look like an odd couple – which is exactly why Twins worked as an outlandish concept – but they’ve been pals for decades. Although their onscreen collaborations are few, they do have another project in the pipeline. Unfortunately, it doesn’t involve taking down Michael Keaton’s Batman…
Speaking with Deadline, DeVito said of his pal and a future project, “Arnold and I love working together. We’re doing a movie together next year. We’ve been working on it…Since Twins and Junior, and all the stuff we’ve done together, we’ve become friends.”
What exactly this project between Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger is remains a mystery at this point but we do know it will be set up at Warners Bros. This would further indicate it’s undoubtedly not the do-we-really-want-this? sequel to Twins (a Universal movie), which Arnold himself has...
Speaking with Deadline, DeVito said of his pal and a future project, “Arnold and I love working together. We’re doing a movie together next year. We’ve been working on it…Since Twins and Junior, and all the stuff we’ve done together, we’ve become friends.”
What exactly this project between Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger is remains a mystery at this point but we do know it will be set up at Warners Bros. This would further indicate it’s undoubtedly not the do-we-really-want-this? sequel to Twins (a Universal movie), which Arnold himself has...
- 5/24/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Franz Rogowski and Barry Keoghan are only in one scene together in Andrea Arnold’s “Bird,” but you wouldn’t know it seeing them together at Cannes.
Rogowski, the breakout New York Film Critics-winning lead of “Passages,” and Keoghan, the Oscar-nominated “Banshees of Inisherin” star turned “Saltburn” meme machine, play roles in “Bird” that demanded a lot from the actors without much in the way of a script. The Cannes competition premiere centers on 12-year-old Bailey (newcomer Nykiya Adams), coming of age and confused about her identity on the fringes in a middle-of-nowhere England, living with her father Bug (Keoghan) on the other side of town from her mother and two sisters. And on the verge of puberty.
Barely coping with life and the news that her father is about to marry a woman he’s known for only three months, Bailey meets Bird (Rogowski), a vagabond who drifts into...
Rogowski, the breakout New York Film Critics-winning lead of “Passages,” and Keoghan, the Oscar-nominated “Banshees of Inisherin” star turned “Saltburn” meme machine, play roles in “Bird” that demanded a lot from the actors without much in the way of a script. The Cannes competition premiere centers on 12-year-old Bailey (newcomer Nykiya Adams), coming of age and confused about her identity on the fringes in a middle-of-nowhere England, living with her father Bug (Keoghan) on the other side of town from her mother and two sisters. And on the verge of puberty.
Barely coping with life and the news that her father is about to marry a woman he’s known for only three months, Bailey meets Bird (Rogowski), a vagabond who drifts into...
- 5/24/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Generating robust admissions for UK independent film at the global box office remains a challenge, but the figures do not paint the complete picture of what marks a release as a success, according to Stephan De Potter, CEO at Benelux distributor Cineart.
De Potter was talking about the release of Georgia Oakley’s debut Blue Jean, a feature debut and Venice premiere that was backed by BBC Film and the BFI.
It garnered $357,412 at the box office outside of the UK, and $384,232 within the UK, according to Box Office Mojo.
“It was not great [in terms of admissions], but we were very happy,” said De Potter.
De Potter was talking about the release of Georgia Oakley’s debut Blue Jean, a feature debut and Venice premiere that was backed by BBC Film and the BFI.
It garnered $357,412 at the box office outside of the UK, and $384,232 within the UK, according to Box Office Mojo.
“It was not great [in terms of admissions], but we were very happy,” said De Potter.
- 5/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
Dancing With The Stars season 33 spoilers are beginning to roll in. ABC is keeping a tight lid on the celebrity dancers that will be participating, but we have an idea of what pro dancers will be returning. Is Rylee Arnold going to return after her Harry Jowsey drama on DWTS Season 32? Here’s what she had to say about her future on the show!
When Dancing With the Stars Season 32 premiered last year, all eyes were on new pro-dancer Rylee Arnold. Not only was she stunning, but the young dancer is also the little sister of DWTS fan fave Lindsay Arnold.
What Happened Between Rylee Arnold And Harry Jowsey
Little did the producers know, Rylee and her partner Harry Jowsey were going to put on a bigger show than they ever anticipated. It wasn’t long before Rylee and Harry were thought to be in a relationship by Dancing With The Stars fans,...
When Dancing With the Stars Season 32 premiered last year, all eyes were on new pro-dancer Rylee Arnold. Not only was she stunning, but the young dancer is also the little sister of DWTS fan fave Lindsay Arnold.
What Happened Between Rylee Arnold And Harry Jowsey
Little did the producers know, Rylee and her partner Harry Jowsey were going to put on a bigger show than they ever anticipated. It wasn’t long before Rylee and Harry were thought to be in a relationship by Dancing With The Stars fans,...
- 5/21/2024
- by Amanda Austin
- Celebrating The Soaps
English actress Hannah New debuted on Bridgerton season 3 as Lady Tilley Arnold. Hannah New joins the list of actors who appeared in season 3, Part One, with her character introduced as a love interest of Benedict Bridgerton (played by Luke Thompson). New’s character is introduced in the air balloon screen when Benedict goes to hide in the tent. Besides being a widow and Lady of the Arnold family, Lady Tilley Arnold is portrayed as independent, intelligent, and beautiful. While Lady Tilley Arnold might have captured Benedict Bridgerton’s eyes and hearts, audiences could not help but wonder about the beautiful
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- 5/20/2024
- by Onyinye Izundu
- TVovermind.com
by Elisa Giudici
Bird
A couple of renowned names in competition have presented less-than-perfect movies, while newcomers have showcased some convincing entries today at Cannes Film Festival.
Bird by Andrea Arnold
Since Fish Tank, I've never quite rekindled my enthusiasm for Andrea Arnold's films. However, Bird came very close. Some may argue that it feels more like a feature-length attempt to mimic Arnold's style than an actual Arnold film, but I personally found it compelling...
Bird
A couple of renowned names in competition have presented less-than-perfect movies, while newcomers have showcased some convincing entries today at Cannes Film Festival.
Bird by Andrea Arnold
Since Fish Tank, I've never quite rekindled my enthusiasm for Andrea Arnold's films. However, Bird came very close. Some may argue that it feels more like a feature-length attempt to mimic Arnold's style than an actual Arnold film, but I personally found it compelling...
- 5/20/2024
- by Elisa Giudici
- FilmExperience
Barry Keoghan, Andrea Arnold and Franz Rogowski in Cannes Photo: Richard Mowe Ask British director Andrea Arnold to explain herself and her films usually results in a left-field answer that nobody could have guessed.
And so it transpired with Bird, her latest film in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, which stars stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda. It follows a 12-year-old youngster (Adams) who lives with her brother (Buda) and single father (Keoghan) in a squat by the seaside. As puberty looms the girl seeks attention and excitement elsewhere. Enter Bird (Rogowski), an enigmatic figure, who provides the promise of escape.
So what was that image that provided the genesis for Bird? Arnold gives a laugh and launches forth regardless: “So a very long time ago I had an image of a very thin and tall young man with a large penis standing on a roof.
And so it transpired with Bird, her latest film in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, which stars stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda. It follows a 12-year-old youngster (Adams) who lives with her brother (Buda) and single father (Keoghan) in a squat by the seaside. As puberty looms the girl seeks attention and excitement elsewhere. Enter Bird (Rogowski), an enigmatic figure, who provides the promise of escape.
So what was that image that provided the genesis for Bird? Arnold gives a laugh and launches forth regardless: “So a very long time ago I had an image of a very thin and tall young man with a large penis standing on a roof.
- 5/20/2024
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As the 77th Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) arrives at its halfway point, here is THR executive editor of awards Scott Feinberg’s assessment of the awards prospects — at the Cannes closing ceremony and later in the fall — of the films that have screened at the fest so far.
The Two That Popped
One cannot know what the specific preferences and priorities of the Greta Gerwig-led main competition jury are, but one can categorically state that two competition films — both of which are so original and out-there that they have to be seen to be believed — have been particularly well received. Both garnered nine-minute standing ovations and rave reviews, including particular praise for their leading lady.
The first is The Substance, a body-horror flick from French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat that might be described as Sunset Blvd. meets Freaks, and an instant classic. Demi Moore, in a gutsy career-best turn...
The Two That Popped
One cannot know what the specific preferences and priorities of the Greta Gerwig-led main competition jury are, but one can categorically state that two competition films — both of which are so original and out-there that they have to be seen to be believed — have been particularly well received. Both garnered nine-minute standing ovations and rave reviews, including particular praise for their leading lady.
The first is The Substance, a body-horror flick from French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat that might be described as Sunset Blvd. meets Freaks, and an instant classic. Demi Moore, in a gutsy career-best turn...
- 5/20/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chris Pratt would love to make a movie with Katherine Schwarzenegger.The 44-year-old actor has been married to Katherine since 2019, and Chris has admitted that he'd relish the chance to work with his wife one day.Asked if he'd ever work with Katherine on a film project, Chris told People: "I've asked her. I think she could be great. Because she's actually a very good actress."Chris has been impressed by Katherine's acting talents. However, the 34-year-old author - who is the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver - doesn't share his confidence.Chris explained: "When she's doing impressions and I'm like, 'You're really good.' And she's like, 'No way. I could never do it. I would laugh too much.'"Meanwhile, Chris recently revealed that he loves turning to Arnold for career advice.The movie star admitted that he likes to lean on the 'Terminator' actor for guidance.
- 5/20/2024
- by Josh Evans
- Bang Showbiz
Danny DeVito is opening up about plans for his new movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“We really want to work together and we’ve been talking about it for quite a while,” DeVito said to Et on the red carpet for Poolman. “We’re onto something now, we have a script being written.”
He wouldn’t give details on whether the project will be a sequel to any of their previous collaborations, Twins or 1994’s Junior — but said that they already have a major studio behind them.
“As soon as that comes in, we’ll know better. But we’ll do it at Warner Brothers, so there you go,” DeVito said.
The Schwarzenegger/DeVito chemistry is a proven commodity.
“He’s a good buddy, you know? He’s just a good pal. So you know, and we go together, kind of. We fit, right?” he said.
Reunions of the two are gaining steam.
“We really want to work together and we’ve been talking about it for quite a while,” DeVito said to Et on the red carpet for Poolman. “We’re onto something now, we have a script being written.”
He wouldn’t give details on whether the project will be a sequel to any of their previous collaborations, Twins or 1994’s Junior — but said that they already have a major studio behind them.
“As soon as that comes in, we’ll know better. But we’ll do it at Warner Brothers, so there you go,” DeVito said.
The Schwarzenegger/DeVito chemistry is a proven commodity.
“He’s a good buddy, you know? He’s just a good pal. So you know, and we go together, kind of. We fit, right?” he said.
Reunions of the two are gaining steam.
- 5/18/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.As part of our Cannes 2024 coverage, we invited critics, filmmakers, and programmers to give their first impressions of the festival. Sign up for the Weekly Edit to receive exclusive reports from the Croisette straight to your inbox.Giovanni Marchini CamiaThe reconstruction of Napoléon, as seen by Abel Gance, was the first film to play at this year’s festival—after the Berlinale’s TinyHouse, this is symbolism at its most ready-made. Impossible to watch this inordinately glorious, inordinately chauvinistic film at Cannes without thinking of Thierry Frémaux, the festival world’s very own Napoleon, the man everyone loves to hate. As rumors of an impending labor strike and #MeToo bombshell crescendoed ahead of that evening’s opening ceremony, no image could have been more fitting than Napoleon braving a furious storm on a rickety fishing boat, a French flag fashioned into a sail as his only lifeline.
- 5/17/2024
- MUBI
This year’s Cannes competition began with a film set in a working-class environment where a young woman with a single mother dreamed of escaping it all through dance. It was Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond, but squint the eyes and forget the sunny coastal scenery and you could have been watching Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, a winner of the jury prize here fifteen years ago. Arnold now returns to the Croisette with Bird, remarkably just her third narrative film since and her closest to it, in many ways––up-and-coming stars next to non-professional actors, kitchen-sink realism, great music, sketchy dudes––although this time with Franz Rogowski playing a queer-coded Mary Poppins who might be a seagull.
Bird stars Nykiya Adams as Bailey, a young girl living with her father, Bug (a tattooed Barry Keoghan in a touching performance), in a free-spirited community house in a British coastal town.
Bird stars Nykiya Adams as Bailey, a young girl living with her father, Bug (a tattooed Barry Keoghan in a touching performance), in a free-spirited community house in a British coastal town.
- 5/17/2024
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Dole Days: Arnold Flutters About with Strange Bedfellows
There’s certainly a definable emotional core in Andrea Arnold’s fifth narrative feature, Bird, but the ideas and themes tying it all together are about as wispy and freewheeling as scattered feathers drifting along the course of a gently idling wind. Once again mixing anthropomorphic inspired motifs with working class realities, Arnold’s new marriage of social miserabilism and magical realism sadly feels a bit exploitative as it rushes through thinly drawn characters and connections before gliding into a pat, feel-good resolution. Whether due to methods of improvisation without a clearly defined script or a rushed edit to make the demands of its world premiere, Arnold’s latest is something of a disappointment, playing as it does so fiercely into the eternally forgiving arena of the sentimental.…...
There’s certainly a definable emotional core in Andrea Arnold’s fifth narrative feature, Bird, but the ideas and themes tying it all together are about as wispy and freewheeling as scattered feathers drifting along the course of a gently idling wind. Once again mixing anthropomorphic inspired motifs with working class realities, Arnold’s new marriage of social miserabilism and magical realism sadly feels a bit exploitative as it rushes through thinly drawn characters and connections before gliding into a pat, feel-good resolution. Whether due to methods of improvisation without a clearly defined script or a rushed edit to make the demands of its world premiere, Arnold’s latest is something of a disappointment, playing as it does so fiercely into the eternally forgiving arena of the sentimental.…...
- 5/17/2024
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis has divided Screen International’s Cannes jury grid critics, receiving an average score of 2.1.
The sci-fi epic from the veteran director scored five threes (good) and four ones (bad) with three critics giving it twos (average).
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
Adam Driver leads Coppola’s latest feature as an architect trying to rebuild New York. Other cast include Aubrey Plaza, Laurence Fishburne, Shia Labeouf and Nathalie Emmanuel.
Also landing on the jury grid was Andrea Arnold’s Bird with an average score of 2.4. The surrealist drama received five threes and five twos,...
The sci-fi epic from the veteran director scored five threes (good) and four ones (bad) with three critics giving it twos (average).
Click on the jury grid above for the most up-to-date version.
Adam Driver leads Coppola’s latest feature as an architect trying to rebuild New York. Other cast include Aubrey Plaza, Laurence Fishburne, Shia Labeouf and Nathalie Emmanuel.
Also landing on the jury grid was Andrea Arnold’s Bird with an average score of 2.4. The surrealist drama received five threes and five twos,...
- 5/17/2024
- ScreenDaily
Less than 24 hours after the world premiere of Cannes favorite Andrea Arnold’s new competition entry Bird, the filmmaker joined her cast for the festival press conference inside the Palais on Friday. The wide-ranging session covered Arnold’s creative influences, casting choices and the music playlists she gives to her actors.
It also touched on star Barry Keoghan‘s dance abilities as the actor delivers another on screen dance break, this one following his viral fully nude Saltburn finale to the tune of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dance Floor.” In Arnold’s Bird, Keoghan busts a move to “Cotton Eye Joe” and then delivers a solo performance at the microphone, singing and dancing to serenade his new bride at their wedding reception. (In a surprise twist, his character also name drops Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dance Floor” while trying to find the right song that will get...
It also touched on star Barry Keoghan‘s dance abilities as the actor delivers another on screen dance break, this one following his viral fully nude Saltburn finale to the tune of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dance Floor.” In Arnold’s Bird, Keoghan busts a move to “Cotton Eye Joe” and then delivers a solo performance at the microphone, singing and dancing to serenade his new bride at their wedding reception. (In a surprise twist, his character also name drops Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dance Floor” while trying to find the right song that will get...
- 5/17/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Andrea Arnold’s initial inspiration for her Cannes competition entry “Bird” was perhaps not what many people might have been expecting.
“A very long time ago, I had the image a tall, thin man with a long penis, standing on a roof,” she explained at the press conference for the film on Friday when asked about her initial visual prompt. “But I didn’t know if he was good or bad or what he was.”
From this bizarre starting point, Arnold crafted a social realist drama about a family on the fringes of society living by British seaside and an unexpected visitor who becomes close to a young girl entering puberty. Alongside stars Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogoswki, she once again peppered her cast with first-timers.
For Keoghan, he didn’t even need to look at the script before signing up, with Arnold having been on a list of filmmakers...
“A very long time ago, I had the image a tall, thin man with a long penis, standing on a roof,” she explained at the press conference for the film on Friday when asked about her initial visual prompt. “But I didn’t know if he was good or bad or what he was.”
From this bizarre starting point, Arnold crafted a social realist drama about a family on the fringes of society living by British seaside and an unexpected visitor who becomes close to a young girl entering puberty. Alongside stars Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogoswki, she once again peppered her cast with first-timers.
For Keoghan, he didn’t even need to look at the script before signing up, with Arnold having been on a list of filmmakers...
- 5/17/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
After prancing through the hallways showing his man-ness at the end of Saltburn last year, Barry Keoghan is back with a another illustrious ditty performance in Bird. In the Andrea Arnold movie that had its world premiere Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival, Keoghan plays a young father, and at one moment he croons an off-key version of Blur’s “The Universal” in what is a sweet moment with dance involved.
For the actor, music is part of the full commitment to the roles he plays.
“I don’t think I can dance. I’m a bad dancer,” the Oscar-nominated actor confessed during a post-premiere press conference in Cannes on Friday. “I think the beauty of dancing on screen is the effort to try.”
‘Bird’ director Andrea Arnold and stars Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski arrive at the #CannesFilmFestival press conference pic.twitter.com/1aKI80MeBM
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For the actor, music is part of the full commitment to the roles he plays.
“I don’t think I can dance. I’m a bad dancer,” the Oscar-nominated actor confessed during a post-premiere press conference in Cannes on Friday. “I think the beauty of dancing on screen is the effort to try.”
‘Bird’ director Andrea Arnold and stars Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski arrive at the #CannesFilmFestival press conference pic.twitter.com/1aKI80MeBM
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline...
- 5/17/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Eight years ago, the writer-director Andrea Arnold packed up her handheld-camera brand of kitchen-sink British austerity and took it across the pond to make “American Honey,” a movie about a wolf pack of kids in a van who seemed to incarnate the tumult of the 21st century. The movie, crafted in a style that I thought of as hip-hop Dardenne brothers, was an indie explosion that felt like a landmark. Now, though, in “Bird,” the first dramatic feature that Arnold has made since, she’s back to chronicling the miserablism of aimless, scroungy British young folk who experience their lives as a dead zone. Forgive me if I wish she hadn’t left the party so soon.
For years, Arnold has been a Cannes darling, and a critics’ darling too. So I expect to be out of the loop when I say that “Bird,” which premiered at Cannes today, doesn...
For years, Arnold has been a Cannes darling, and a critics’ darling too. So I expect to be out of the loop when I say that “Bird,” which premiered at Cannes today, doesn...
- 5/17/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Children forced to grow up too fast understand the pained nature of powerlessness like few others. This is true of the pre-teen at the center of director Andre Arnold’s “Bird,” Bailey (Nykiya Adams). Born and bred in the small town of Gravesend, just 20 miles from the hustle and bustle of London, the 12-year-old lives in a heavily graffitied council block alongside her far too young father, tatted hopeful druglord Bug (Barry Keoghan) and older brother, Hunter (Jason Buda).
Continue reading ‘Bird’ Review: Franz Rogowski Shines In Arnold’s Beautiful Coming Of Age Tale [Cannes] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Bird’ Review: Franz Rogowski Shines In Arnold’s Beautiful Coming Of Age Tale [Cannes] at The Playlist.
- 5/16/2024
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- The Playlist
British auteur Andrea Arnold follows up her last feature, the poignant, non-verbal slice-of-farmyard-life that is the documentary Cow, with a new member of her cinematic menagerie: drama Bird, an uplifting competitor for Cannes’ Palme d’Or.
With mostly human characters and actual dialogue, in some ways this is taxonomically more like her gritty-as-asphalt, early social-realist work, especially Fish Tank and Oscar-winning short Wasp, which, like Bird, were shot in the southerly county of Kent, U.K., where Arnold grew up. But then suddenly, out of the milieu’s marshy semi-urban landscape of empty beer cans, cigarette butts, domestic abuse and despair, the film takes magical-realist flight and transforms into something unlike anything Arnold’s done before. Thanks to the director’s magisterial knack with actors (especially non-professionals such as terrific adolescent discovery Nykiya Adams, who, as the protagonist, is in nearly every frame of the film), the result is quite entrancing.
With mostly human characters and actual dialogue, in some ways this is taxonomically more like her gritty-as-asphalt, early social-realist work, especially Fish Tank and Oscar-winning short Wasp, which, like Bird, were shot in the southerly county of Kent, U.K., where Arnold grew up. But then suddenly, out of the milieu’s marshy semi-urban landscape of empty beer cans, cigarette butts, domestic abuse and despair, the film takes magical-realist flight and transforms into something unlike anything Arnold’s done before. Thanks to the director’s magisterial knack with actors (especially non-professionals such as terrific adolescent discovery Nykiya Adams, who, as the protagonist, is in nearly every frame of the film), the result is quite entrancing.
- 5/16/2024
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cannes film festival
Toads who sweat hallucinogens, lonely pre-teens and a sudden German in a kilt: Arnold’s pick’n’mix latest dives as much as it soars
Andrea Arnold’s flawed, garrulous new movie is a chaotic social-realist adventure with big, chancy performances, grimly violent episodes, tragedy butting heads with comedy and physical existence facing off with fantasy and imagination.
It meditates on identity and belonging, the poignancy of not being valued, not being seen, the transition from childhood to adulthood, girlhood to womanhood, sexism and cruelty. The energy and heartfelt good humour offset the moments of cliche and implausibility.
Barry Keoghan plays Bug, a lairy bloke who is over the moon at his imminent wedding and his foolproof idea for easy money: he has imported from Colorado a certain kind of toad whose slime is a powerful (and expensive) hallucinogen. It’s just that the toad needs the...
Toads who sweat hallucinogens, lonely pre-teens and a sudden German in a kilt: Arnold’s pick’n’mix latest dives as much as it soars
Andrea Arnold’s flawed, garrulous new movie is a chaotic social-realist adventure with big, chancy performances, grimly violent episodes, tragedy butting heads with comedy and physical existence facing off with fantasy and imagination.
It meditates on identity and belonging, the poignancy of not being valued, not being seen, the transition from childhood to adulthood, girlhood to womanhood, sexism and cruelty. The energy and heartfelt good humour offset the moments of cliche and implausibility.
Barry Keoghan plays Bug, a lairy bloke who is over the moon at his imminent wedding and his foolproof idea for easy money: he has imported from Colorado a certain kind of toad whose slime is a powerful (and expensive) hallucinogen. It’s just that the toad needs the...
- 5/16/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Andrea Arnold was last in Cannes with Cow in 2021, a documentary about a bovine’s pitiful existence on a farm from birth to death. Her new film, Bird, might switch animal classifications — and return her to narrative features about human beings — but there’s connective tissue between the two. Once more, Arnold is perfecting her meandering journey through marginalized existences.
This time, we’re in Gravesend, in Kent, a estuary town east of London, in the dying days of summer, when the grass has yellowed but the sweaty heat hasn’t quite abated. Bailey (Nykiya Adams) is a 12-year-old mixed-race girl who is old beyond her years, as everyone in her chaotic community seems to be. Her father Bug (Barry Keoghan) is barely twice her age; her 14-year-old half brother Hunter (Jason Buda) is a masked vigilante, teaming up with a similarly pint-sized gang to take revenge against anyone they...
This time, we’re in Gravesend, in Kent, a estuary town east of London, in the dying days of summer, when the grass has yellowed but the sweaty heat hasn’t quite abated. Bailey (Nykiya Adams) is a 12-year-old mixed-race girl who is old beyond her years, as everyone in her chaotic community seems to be. Her father Bug (Barry Keoghan) is barely twice her age; her 14-year-old half brother Hunter (Jason Buda) is a masked vigilante, teaming up with a similarly pint-sized gang to take revenge against anyone they...
- 5/16/2024
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Barry Keoghan smiled from ear to ear as Andrea Arnold’s latest film, “Bird,” earned a seven-minute standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival premiere on Thursday.
Festival favorite Arnold, who brought the Shia Labeouf-starring “American Honey” to Cannes in 2016 and her documentary “Cow” in 2021, basked in appreciation as the audience applauded the drama. “Thank you, this is really lovely but I really want to go and party right now,” she said as laughter erupted in the room.
While Keoghan was the biggest name in “Bird,” the loudest cheers were offered to his young co-stars, including Jason Buda and Jasmine Jobson. Some of the cast, although they may have been on the red carpet outside, were too young to make it into the screening.
Barry Keoghan and the cast of Andrea Arnold's "Bird" receive a standing ovation at the film's #Cannes premiere. pic.twitter.com/xy7mIv17me
— Variety (@Variety) May 16, 2024
“Bird,...
Festival favorite Arnold, who brought the Shia Labeouf-starring “American Honey” to Cannes in 2016 and her documentary “Cow” in 2021, basked in appreciation as the audience applauded the drama. “Thank you, this is really lovely but I really want to go and party right now,” she said as laughter erupted in the room.
While Keoghan was the biggest name in “Bird,” the loudest cheers were offered to his young co-stars, including Jason Buda and Jasmine Jobson. Some of the cast, although they may have been on the red carpet outside, were too young to make it into the screening.
Barry Keoghan and the cast of Andrea Arnold's "Bird" receive a standing ovation at the film's #Cannes premiere. pic.twitter.com/xy7mIv17me
— Variety (@Variety) May 16, 2024
“Bird,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Alex Ritman and Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Andrea Arnold‘s anticipated new film Bird touched down at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday for an afternoon world premiere at the Grand Lumiere Theatre. And it got a warm reception, including a seven-minute standing ovation.
The competition title stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda star in the film which follows a 12-year-old (Adams) who lives with her brother (Buda) and single dad (Keoghan) in a squat in North Kent. As she approaches puberty she seeks attention and adventure elsewhere. The drudgery of everyday life is thrown off kilter when she meets Bird (Rogowski).
The showing marked a triumphant return to Cannes for Arnold, who has become one of the festival’s most beloved and award-winning veterans. She last was on the Croisette to present her film, Cow, in 2021. Before that, she picked up a jury prize in 2016 for American Honey, a fable of life in the U.
The competition title stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda star in the film which follows a 12-year-old (Adams) who lives with her brother (Buda) and single dad (Keoghan) in a squat in North Kent. As she approaches puberty she seeks attention and adventure elsewhere. The drudgery of everyday life is thrown off kilter when she meets Bird (Rogowski).
The showing marked a triumphant return to Cannes for Arnold, who has become one of the festival’s most beloved and award-winning veterans. She last was on the Croisette to present her film, Cow, in 2021. Before that, she picked up a jury prize in 2016 for American Honey, a fable of life in the U.
- 5/16/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There is only one Andrea Arnold, as much as her contemporaries in Europe and beyond try to imitate her particular style: emotionally heightened social realism with often first-time actors playing characters not far from their real selves. That itself started in the 1950s with British kitchen sink realism. Yet Arnold has done much to imbue it with a radical poetry that finds the beauty in a hardscrabble life, from a volatile East London teenager with hip-hop ambitions in “Fish Tank” (2009) to the rumbling road odyssey “American Honey” (2016) that found Arnold shooting in the United States for the first time.
Her latest film “Bird,” continuing a tradition for one-word titles centered around animalia Arnold started in 2001 with her short film “Dog” and more recently with the documentary “Cow,” is a departure for Arnold in a key way: This sensitively drawn if opaque coming-of-age fable about 12-year-old Bailey (newcomer Nykiya Adams) uses,...
Her latest film “Bird,” continuing a tradition for one-word titles centered around animalia Arnold started in 2001 with her short film “Dog” and more recently with the documentary “Cow,” is a departure for Arnold in a key way: This sensitively drawn if opaque coming-of-age fable about 12-year-old Bailey (newcomer Nykiya Adams) uses,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
In the late eighties/ early nineties, shortly after they did Predator together, Arnold Schwarzenegger, John McTiernan and writer Shane Black were all set to team on a big-budget movie adaptation of the DC comic book Sgt. Rock. This is why, at the end of Predator, Black is seen reading a Sgt Rock comic during the cast roll. According to author Nick de Semlyan’s new book, “The Last Action Heroes” (buy it here), the project was heavily developed in ’88 and ’89, only to be demolished by an unlikely candidate – Monty Python’s John Cleese.
At the time, Cleese was riding high on the success of A Fish Called Wanda, and McTiernan thought he would be an ideal addition to the movie’s cast. The film was set to adapt an old Danny Kaye comedy called Imitation General. Cleese would play an English cook posing as a general during WW2 and being...
At the time, Cleese was riding high on the success of A Fish Called Wanda, and McTiernan thought he would be an ideal addition to the movie’s cast. The film was set to adapt an old Danny Kaye comedy called Imitation General. Cleese would play an English cook posing as a general during WW2 and being...
- 5/16/2024
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
On the eve of the world premiere of her new film Bird at the Cannes Film Festival, festival favorite Andrea Arnold revealed that the shoot was the toughest of her career.
“It was the hardest film I ever made,” Arnold said from the stage on Wednesday while accepting the 2024 Carrosse d’Or, or Golden Coach Award, at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. “There were many challenges, more than usual, and there seemed to be more restrictions than I’d ever known. Lots of things I’ve put on the page and cared about got lost, so the edit was really hard. It was proving really hard to carve from the rushes something of the film I had intended. I was grieving the losses and I felt pretty vulnerable.”
The competition title, Bird, stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda star in the film which follows a...
“It was the hardest film I ever made,” Arnold said from the stage on Wednesday while accepting the 2024 Carrosse d’Or, or Golden Coach Award, at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. “There were many challenges, more than usual, and there seemed to be more restrictions than I’d ever known. Lots of things I’ve put on the page and cared about got lost, so the edit was really hard. It was proving really hard to carve from the rushes something of the film I had intended. I was grieving the losses and I felt pretty vulnerable.”
The competition title, Bird, stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda star in the film which follows a...
- 5/16/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The heart of “Wild Diamond,” the only debut to play in competition at Cannes this year, is a story we’ve seen before. A young woman living in grim-to-disappointing circumstances has dreams of stardom, and her journey toward fame takes her to dark places, physically and emotionally. You can find versions of this scenario in Andrea Arnold’s “Fish Tank” to Ninja Thyberg’s “Pleasure.” Director Agathe Riedinger’s debut feature has little new to say about the pursuit of fame and the toll it takes despite a truly unique heroine in Liane, played with a strange and alluring distance by Malou Khebizi. It’s only a shame that the film does her a disservice in leaving the world around her underdeveloped.
The 19-year-old Liane has mastered the art of making herself up for the internet. In one sequence, we watch as she gets ready. She contours her face with precision.
The 19-year-old Liane has mastered the art of making herself up for the internet. In one sequence, we watch as she gets ready. She contours her face with precision.
- 5/15/2024
- by Esther Zuckerman
- Indiewire
The boys have had their turn, so now it's time to meet Catherine, the Einberg order's "Weiss Queen" voiced by Nao Toyama (Ruka in Rent-a-Girlfriend ), in the latest character trailer from the first of Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture 's four parts . The trailer also features a clip of the anime's opening theme song, "Running In My Head" by Miyavi ( ID: Invaded Ed). Part 1 screens in Japanese theaters from May 10 , followed by Part 2 on June 7, Part 3 on July 5 and the final part on August 2. The series was also announced to be released as 12 episodes on Disney Plus under the 'Star" brand. Related: Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture Anime Releases Greede and Gran, Arnold Character Trailers Set in the world created by Goro Taniguchi and Ichiro Okouchi, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture is directed by Yoshimitsu Ohashi at studio Sunrise, with scripts by Noboru Kimura and new...
- 5/15/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.This interview, part of our Cannes 2024 coverage, was originally published in the Notebook Cannes Special, a limited-edition print publication distributed at the Cannes Film Festival.Bird.The cinema of Andrea Arnold—where the industrial landscapes of working-class Britain and the US are home to stories of disenfranchised, defiant youth—is defined by its vivid intimacy. Across her nearly 30-year career, Arnold has crafted a visual language and storytelling framework that centers closeness and familiarity; relationships, challenged by their own intensity or dysfunction, are evoked through intricate details, like beads of sweat on a shoulder blade or the textures of a wasp’s wings. As well as receiving this year’s Carrosse d’Or, Arnold presents her new feature Bird in the official selection, marking her fourth appearance in competition.Her early short films, Milk (1998), Dog (2001), and Wasp (2003)—all snapshots of young women living through personal...
- 5/14/2024
- MUBI
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival may be lighter on glitz and glamour than in years past, but that means arthouse and international fare from emerging and established filmmakers will get a chance to shine. Still, at least two American auteurs, Francis Ford Coppola (“Megalopolis”) and Paul Schrader, have films in the main competition for the first time in decades. David Cronenberg (“The Shrouds”) and Yorgos Lanthimos (“Kinds of Kindness”) are also back at the festival, with both making personal stories in their own way: Cronenberg, here, reckons with grief over the death of his wife seven years ago, while Lanthimos appears to retreat back into “Dogtooth” territory in a film that’s almost a rebuke of the global success he’s acquired with “Poor Things” and “The Favourite.”
Sean Baker, Andrea Arnold, Ali Abbasi, Jia Zhangke, Karim Aïnouz, and Paolo Sorrentino are also back at Cannes this year with new films in the competition.
Sean Baker, Andrea Arnold, Ali Abbasi, Jia Zhangke, Karim Aïnouz, and Paolo Sorrentino are also back at Cannes this year with new films in the competition.
- 5/14/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio, David Ehrlich and Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Mubi Swoops For Andrea Arnold’s ‘Bird’
Mubi has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Bird, the Andrea Arnold feature that is getting its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Written and directed by Arnold, the pic stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski (Passages, Great Freedom), and newcomers Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda. The plot follows a 12-year-old girl, Bailey, who lives with her dad and brother in a squat in north Kent in southern England. As her dad has little time for his kids, Bailey seeks attention and adventure elsewhere. BBC Studios-owned House Productions made the film, which was shot in the UK around the Kent area. Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Lee Groombridge are the producers. Financiers include BBC Film, the BFI through National Lottery funding), Pinky Promise, FirstGen Content and Access Entertainment. Cornerstone is handling international sales and distribution, striking the deal with Mubi.
Mubi has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Bird, the Andrea Arnold feature that is getting its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Written and directed by Arnold, the pic stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski (Passages, Great Freedom), and newcomers Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda. The plot follows a 12-year-old girl, Bailey, who lives with her dad and brother in a squat in north Kent in southern England. As her dad has little time for his kids, Bailey seeks attention and adventure elsewhere. BBC Studios-owned House Productions made the film, which was shot in the UK around the Kent area. Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Lee Groombridge are the producers. Financiers include BBC Film, the BFI through National Lottery funding), Pinky Promise, FirstGen Content and Access Entertainment. Cornerstone is handling international sales and distribution, striking the deal with Mubi.
- 5/14/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Are we headed for a bon marché?
A new class of finished films and packages (unmade movies with big stars and a director attached) will travel to Cannes this week in search of cash and homes with the studios, streamers and global indie players.
The 2024 Cannes market comes equipped with some interesting contradictions. Stateside, the content buying machine is fraught. Major media stock prices are getting hammered day by day, and a new age of austerity has gripped the once free-spending tech giants. At the same time, distributors paralyzed by the 2023 Hollywood labor strikes need content to fill their slates for the end the year and the top of 2025.
“We’d agree that finished film volume isn’t as high due to the strikes, but Cannes is a much better setting for packages to begin with,” one top sales agent told Variety. “These movies can get financed out of the international marketplace,...
A new class of finished films and packages (unmade movies with big stars and a director attached) will travel to Cannes this week in search of cash and homes with the studios, streamers and global indie players.
The 2024 Cannes market comes equipped with some interesting contradictions. Stateside, the content buying machine is fraught. Major media stock prices are getting hammered day by day, and a new age of austerity has gripped the once free-spending tech giants. At the same time, distributors paralyzed by the 2023 Hollywood labor strikes need content to fill their slates for the end the year and the top of 2025.
“We’d agree that finished film volume isn’t as high due to the strikes, but Cannes is a much better setting for packages to begin with,” one top sales agent told Variety. “These movies can get financed out of the international marketplace,...
- 5/14/2024
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi has bought UK-Ireland rights to Andrea Arnold’s Bird, ahead of its Cannes Competition launch on Thursday.
The distributor acquired the film from Cornerstone Films, which is handling international rights and co-representing the US sale with CAA Media Finance.
Bird tells the story of Bailey, a 12-year-old girl living with her single father and brother in a North Kent squat. As her father has little time for her, Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks adventure elsewhere.
Barry Keoghan stars as the father, with Franz Rogowski also on the cast alongside newcomers Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda.
Bird was written and directed by Arnold,...
The distributor acquired the film from Cornerstone Films, which is handling international rights and co-representing the US sale with CAA Media Finance.
Bird tells the story of Bailey, a 12-year-old girl living with her single father and brother in a North Kent squat. As her father has little time for her, Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks adventure elsewhere.
Barry Keoghan stars as the father, with Franz Rogowski also on the cast alongside newcomers Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda.
Bird was written and directed by Arnold,...
- 5/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
Actor Chris Pratt left fans divided after he excluded ex-wife Anna Faris from a social media Mother’s Day tribute. Pratt and Faris were married in 2009, two years after the couple met in 2007 on the film Take Me Home Tonight. After eight years of marriage, the couple filed for divorce in 2017, later finalized in 2018—the two share a son, Jack, born in 2012.
Pratt began a relationship with Katherine Schwarzenegger, daughter of The Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Pratt and Schwarzenegger married in 2019. The couple have two daughters together, Lyla and Eloise.
This Sunday, on Mother’s Day, Pratt expressed his gratitude to his wife in an Instagram post. The carousel featured photos of Schwarzenegger and Pratt’s mother, Kathy.
“Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas out there! Love to my Mom Kathy, who set a high bar for her love, patience, humor, and joy in motherhood,” Pratt wrote. “And a special thank you,...
Pratt began a relationship with Katherine Schwarzenegger, daughter of The Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Pratt and Schwarzenegger married in 2019. The couple have two daughters together, Lyla and Eloise.
This Sunday, on Mother’s Day, Pratt expressed his gratitude to his wife in an Instagram post. The carousel featured photos of Schwarzenegger and Pratt’s mother, Kathy.
“Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas out there! Love to my Mom Kathy, who set a high bar for her love, patience, humor, and joy in motherhood,” Pratt wrote. “And a special thank you,...
- 5/14/2024
- by Ann Hoang
- Uinterview
Rylee Arnold is the youngest professional dancer on Dancing With The Stars, but she’s already had her share of hurdles. When the Utah native was only 15 years old, she received a diagnosis that would change her life forever.
She still struggles with it from time to time but manages it effectively. On the anniversary of her diagnosis, she’s sharing more about her story with fans.
Rylee Arnold Felt Determined To Keep Dancing, No Matter What
Dealing with a chronic illness at a young age is incredibly difficult. But through proper treatment and support from loved ones, Rylee Arnold manages her diagnosis effectively.
Rylee Arnold/Instagram
Those who have followed the Arnold family for years are well aware of Rylee’s battle with Type 1 diabetes. It was an incredibly scary chapter for her family as they struggled for answers. Three years later, the Utah teen is thriving and well.
She still struggles with it from time to time but manages it effectively. On the anniversary of her diagnosis, she’s sharing more about her story with fans.
Rylee Arnold Felt Determined To Keep Dancing, No Matter What
Dealing with a chronic illness at a young age is incredibly difficult. But through proper treatment and support from loved ones, Rylee Arnold manages her diagnosis effectively.
Rylee Arnold/Instagram
Those who have followed the Arnold family for years are well aware of Rylee’s battle with Type 1 diabetes. It was an incredibly scary chapter for her family as they struggled for answers. Three years later, the Utah teen is thriving and well.
- 5/13/2024
- by Nikole Behrens
- TV Shows Ace
In a case of art imitating life, The Neighborhood’s creative team has taken a big moment from Marcel Spears’ (Marty) life and has written it into the May 6 episode. The actor’s wife, actress Sarah Francis Jones, gave birth to the couple’s daughter Nola Renai Spears while at a Beyoncé concert in Los Angeles last September. In the season finale of The Neighborhood, titled “Welcome to the World,” Marty and his girlfriend Courtney, his parents, Calvin (Cedric the Entertainer) and Tina (Tichina Arnold), and their neighbors, Dave (Max Greenfield) and Gemma (Beth Behrs), attend a Toni Braxton concert. Before she can belt out “Un-Break My Heart,” the tearful ballad many bawled their eyes out to back in the 1990s over failed relationships, Courtney’s water breaks and she goes into labor – just as Jones’s had. Below, Arnold previews the big episode. The family gets a little bigger...
- 5/6/2024
- TV Insider
After months of rumors and speculation about their relationship status, it seems that reality star Harry Jowsey and professional dancer Rylee Arnold unfollowed each other on Instagram.
This dramatic move comes just after Harry launched his new podcast, where he confirmed that he and Rylee were never romantically involved. But that’s not all — he also said some pretty demeaning things about the 18-year-old.
Now, internet sleuths think they found the reason why the pair ended their friendship altogether. Read on to get the scoop.
Harry Jowsey Seemingly Confirms Why He & Rylee Ended Their Friendship
When Rylee Arnold and Harry Jowsey met on the set of Dancing With The Stars, they seemed to be the best of friends. The pair had a lot of fun taking photos and videos behind the scenes.
But somewhere along the line, things went horribly wrong. Today, it seems that the two aren’t even...
This dramatic move comes just after Harry launched his new podcast, where he confirmed that he and Rylee were never romantically involved. But that’s not all — he also said some pretty demeaning things about the 18-year-old.
Now, internet sleuths think they found the reason why the pair ended their friendship altogether. Read on to get the scoop.
Harry Jowsey Seemingly Confirms Why He & Rylee Ended Their Friendship
When Rylee Arnold and Harry Jowsey met on the set of Dancing With The Stars, they seemed to be the best of friends. The pair had a lot of fun taking photos and videos behind the scenes.
But somewhere along the line, things went horribly wrong. Today, it seems that the two aren’t even...
- 5/4/2024
- by Nikole Behrens
- TV Shows Ace
Exclusive: Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek Pinault and Brendan Fraser will star in Sacrifice, a film co-written and to be directed by Romain Gavras. Like his last film Athena that premiered last Venice and was released on Netflix, Sacrifice has a similar combustible and propulsive anarchy coursing through the film.
This is closer to satire, but the script by Gavras and Will Arbery was strong enough to compel the leads to commit over the span of four days since the script was sent to talent. More actors will be set shortly, and I expect that the project — CAA Media Finance is selling the world with Rocket Science — won’t have a lot of territories left by the time buyers hit the Croisette. All the elements are there to launch Gavras as a major writer-director, here making his first English-language film.
Here is the logline: a high end charity gala...
This is closer to satire, but the script by Gavras and Will Arbery was strong enough to compel the leads to commit over the span of four days since the script was sent to talent. More actors will be set shortly, and I expect that the project — CAA Media Finance is selling the world with Rocket Science — won’t have a lot of territories left by the time buyers hit the Croisette. All the elements are there to launch Gavras as a major writer-director, here making his first English-language film.
Here is the logline: a high end charity gala...
- 5/2/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Dancing With The Stars pro Rylee Arnold isn’t letting life pass her by. She’s currently the youngest pro dancer on DWTS, joining the show just after graduating high school. But that’s not the only thing she has to celebrate.
At just 18 years old, she just accomplished a major milestone. Her friends, family, and numerous fans couldn’t be prouder.
So what did Rylee achieve this week that has everyone buzzing? Keep reading to get the scoop.
Rylee Arnold Accomplishes A Very Mature Goal
Fans who follow Rylee Arnold on social media know she was recently at the Stagecoach Festival in California. She enjoyed the country music scene along with her oldest sister, Lindsay Arnold.
But now, she’s ready to take on one of the biggest challenges of her life.
Rylee Arnold/Instagram
As just 18 years old, Rylee Arnold has purchased her very own house. That’s...
At just 18 years old, she just accomplished a major milestone. Her friends, family, and numerous fans couldn’t be prouder.
So what did Rylee achieve this week that has everyone buzzing? Keep reading to get the scoop.
Rylee Arnold Accomplishes A Very Mature Goal
Fans who follow Rylee Arnold on social media know she was recently at the Stagecoach Festival in California. She enjoyed the country music scene along with her oldest sister, Lindsay Arnold.
But now, she’s ready to take on one of the biggest challenges of her life.
Rylee Arnold/Instagram
As just 18 years old, Rylee Arnold has purchased her very own house. That’s...
- 4/30/2024
- by Nikole Behrens
- TV Shows Ace
The 96th Academy Awards saw Oppenheimer taking home the most awards of the night, a fine selection of memorable speeches and even a dog in the audience. But some of the funniest moments of the Oscars came in between all of these. For us, the highlight was undoubtedly a showdown for the ages between Michael Keaton and two foes of Batman: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
One presenter — well, pair of presenters — that got big laughs was the duo of Schwarzenegger and DeVito, who gave out the Oscars for Best Visual Effects and Best Editing. Now we all know that the two headlined Twins (which Oppenheimer editor Jennifer Lame was cool enough to shout out), but what they really wanted to focus on was taking down Batman, as Mr. Freeze and The Penguin were both discarded by the Caped Crusader in Batman & Robin and Batman Returns, respectively. And...
One presenter — well, pair of presenters — that got big laughs was the duo of Schwarzenegger and DeVito, who gave out the Oscars for Best Visual Effects and Best Editing. Now we all know that the two headlined Twins (which Oppenheimer editor Jennifer Lame was cool enough to shout out), but what they really wanted to focus on was taking down Batman, as Mr. Freeze and The Penguin were both discarded by the Caped Crusader in Batman & Robin and Batman Returns, respectively. And...
- 3/11/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
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