After months of grosses that often fell short of last year, Friday's results indicate a huge uptick in business just as the summer season revs into high gear. With three new films joining three May hits, the top 10 yesterday grossed around $84 million, nearly double the Friday of Memorial Day weekend last year ($44 million).
Read More »The 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival is quickly coming to a close In fact, the Un Certain Regard winners were just announced a short while ago (you can see them all right here). But this year’s line-up, unlike year’s past, placed a lot of heavy weights near the end of the festival like Roman Polanski’s “Venus In Fur” (which screened today) and Jim Jarmusch’s deadpanned, odd and deeply enjoyable vampire movie, “Only Lovers Left Alive” which screened last night (you can read our review right here).
Read More »When it screened at Cannes last week, the Mexican film “Heli” raised eyebrows and some hackles for its unsparing evocation of Mexico’s drug-war violence, including torture. A compelling story of one simple family who, through no real fault of their own, stumble into a nightmare, “Heli” is director Amat Escalante’s third film at Cannes, and his first in competition.
Read More »The Cannes sidebar Un Certain Regard 2013 presented in competition 17 films from 15 different countries, six of which were first films. Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" opened the program out of competition. The jury led by Danish director Thomas Vinterberg ("The Hunt") included actresses Zhang Ziyi (China) and Ludivine Sagnier (France) as well as Ilda Santiago, the Head of Festival do Rio, and Enrique Gonzalez Macho, the Spanish producer, distributor, exhibitor.
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