West End “Romeo & Juliet” star Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Daisy Bevan (“Too Much”) and Amy Spalding (BBC’s “I Kissed a Girl”) will lead “Notice Me,” a new short film produced by Lena Dunham. “Notice Me” is “a messy heartfelt romantic comedy about queer longing and the
Over his three-decade career, Rob Stevenson has racked up an impressive track record as an A&R executive: the Killers, Fall Out Boy, 30 Seconds to Mars, Sum-41, the final Beastie Boys album, teaming up with Tyler Arnold to sign Post Malone. Yet after he left
For the first time since 1988, Spain has two movies in Cannes main competition, neither of whose directors are Pedro Almodóvar: Carla Simón’s “Romería” and Oliver Laxe’s “Sirat.” That says much about this year’s Cannes Official Selection, packed with emerging talent. The double also marks, however,
In the week before Cannes, Spain’s production sector was still digesting the news of U.S. PresidentDonald Trump’s call for tariffs of 100% on movies made outside the U.S. “Tariffs will not resolve any of the necessities which the U.S. administration indicates as a justification,” the
The Cannes Film Market and the Consumer Technology Assn., the owner of technology event CES, have teamed to launch a new CES Innovation Award category: Filmmaking and Distribution. The award is in partnership with Cannes Next, the innovation-focused program that runs as part of the
Marvel has released the first official trailer for “Ironheart,” starring Dominique Thorne as a super-smart teen who creates her own powerful, Iron Man-inspired amor. The show will premiere on June 24 on Disney+ and run for six episodes. This isn’t the first time Marvel fans
Scarlett Johansson has a bone to pick with the Oscars. In an interview with Vanity Fair touting her directorial debut “Eleanor the Great” (premiering at Cannes) and her acting role in this summer’s “Jurassic World Rebirth,” the Oscar nominee expressed continued shock over “Avengers: Endgame”
In a wide-ranging masterclass at the Cannes Film Festival, Christopher McQuarrie delved into the evolution of the “competitive” film business and why his collaboration with Tom Cruise offers a blueprint for how to keep theatergoers heading to the cineplex. The “Mission: Impossible — The Final