Cannes Film Festival News

Several trade reporters attending the Cannes Film Festival observed that Blindness, the, er, dark film that opened the festival Wednesday....

Read news story: CRITICS VIEW BLINDNESS WITH JAUNDICED EYE

The CHARLATANS frontman TIM BURGESS has been collaborating with actor JOAQUIN PHOENIX on a new project. Along with ANTHONY LANGDON of....

Read news story: JOAQUIN PHOENIX COLLABORATES WITH CHARLATANS FRONTMAN

Angelina Jolie has revealed in a television interview that she and husband Brad Pitt are expecting twins. The Tomb Raider actress was being....

Read news story: ANGELINA JOLIE CONFIRMS SHE HAS TWINS ON THE WAY

The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival gets under way tonight (Wednesday) with a screening of Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles apocalyptic....

Read news story: ALL EYES ON BLINDNESS AT CANNES

Michael Moore is taking on the Bush administration again with a sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11, producers said at the Cannes Film....

Read news story: MICHAEL MOORE MAKING FAHRENHEIT 911 SEQUEL

The great and the good of the film industry are congregating on the French Riviera ahead of today's opening of the 61st Cannes film....

Read news story: MOVIE WORLD RELOCATES AS CANNES BEGINS

A new film festival is offering free screenings of Leonardo DiCaprio's ecological documentary The 11th Hour to encourage UK cinemagoers to....

Read news story: CAN FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES FREE 11TH HOUR SCREENINGS

For only the second time in the 61-year history of the Cannes Film Festival, a Canadian film has been selected as the opening-night film.....

Read news story: CANNES EYES WIDE OPEN FOR BLINDNESS

New films from Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh are to be premiered at the 2008 Cannes film festival, it has been announced. Eastwood's....

Read news story: EASTWOOD AND SODERBERGH TOP CANNES LINEUP

Barry Levinson's What Just Happened? , a movie about a producer (played by Robert DeNiro) whose film opens at the Cannes Film Festival, will in....

Read news story: A FLOP AT SUNDANCE LEVINSONS FILM GOES TO CANNES

IRON MAIDEN singer BRUCE DICKINSON is set to unveil his new horror film at Cannes Film Festival. CHEMICAL WEDDING was co-written by the rock....

Read news story: IRON MAIDEN STAR TO UNVEIL FILM AT CANNES

The award-winning French animated film Persepolis has been banned in Lebanon, a country with strong cultural ties to France. Daily Variety....

Read news story: FRENCH ANIMATED FILM BANNED IN IRAQ

TRANSFORMERS star SHIA LABEOUF has said that he is "embarrassed" by his arrest last year. The 21-year-old actor was apprehended by....

Read news story: LABEOUF EMBARRASSED BY HIS ARREST

The Bourne Ultimatum has won the final accolade of the award season in being named Britons' favourite film of the year. The action sequel....

Read news story: THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM NAMED BRITS FAVOURITE FILM OF 2007

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is likely to have its official worldwide premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, FoxNews.com....

Read news story: INDY 4 TO DEBUT AT CANNES

Matt Damon is to reunite with director Paul Greengrass for a fourth movie in the Jason Bourne franchise. Oscar-winner Damon has played the....

Read news story: DAMON AND GREENGRASS TO MAKE FOURTH BOURNE MOVIE

MICHAEL JACKSON's children made a rare, unmasked appearance this week. The fallen king of pop was spotted out with Prince Michael and Paris....

Read news story: MICHAEL JACKSONS KIDS MAKE RARE APPEARANCE

The Cannes Film Festival announced Wednesday that Sean Penn will serve as jury president at the 2008 festival, which begins May 14 and ends May 25.....

Read news story: SEAN PENN NAMED PRESIDENT OF CANNES JURY

SEAN PENN has been named as the new president of the Cannes Film Festival jury. The actor, writer and director will follow in the footsteps....

Read news story: SEAN PENN TO BE PRESIDENT OF CANNES JURY

A year and a half after it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to a chorus of boos, Richard Kelly's Southland Tales is opening tonight (Wednesday)....

Read news story: MOVIE REVIEWS SOUTHLAND TALES

Spider-Man 3 brought Transformers crashing down from the top of the DVD charts for the week that ended November 4. However, some retailers noted....

Read news story: TRANSFORMERS NO MATCH FOR SPIDEY

Richard Kelly (Johnny Darko) has reedited his apocalyptic film Southland Tales since it was lambasted by several critics at the Cannes Film Festival....

Read news story: BUFFY ACTRESS DEFENDS RICHARD KELLY MOVIE

Ben Stiller's new comedy The Heartbreak Kid has reached the top of the UK box office chart after its opening weekend. Ending the month-long....

Read news story: HEARTBREAK KID TOPS UK BOX OFFICE

The winner of this year's top prize at the Cannes Film Festival says he hopes his film won't be relegated to a few art houses and other film....

Read news story: CANNES WINNER HOPING FOR TICKET BUYERS NOT TROPHIES

The award-winning animated film Persepolis, which tells the story of an Iranian girl growing up at the time of the Islamic revolution, has been....

Read news story: CONTROVERSIAL ANIMATED FILM TO BE FRANCES OSCAR ENTRY

The Iranian animated film Persepolis, which tied for the Cannes Film Festival's Jury Award last May despite protests from the Iranian government,....

Read news story: CONTROVERSIAL IRANIAN FILM TO CLOSE NY FILM FESTIVAL

Sean Penn, who controversially visited Iran as a journalist during the 2005 presidential elections there and wrote a series of articles for the San....

Read news story: SEAN PENN TO APPEAR IN MOVIE CRITICAL OF IRAN

Only days after it was banned by the Bangkok Film Festival, the animated film Persepolis made a sensational debut in France over the weekend, coming....

Read news story: FILM BANNED IN THAILAND NO 1 IN FRANCE

A controversial animated film by two Iranian filmmakers that drew complaints from Iranian officials when it was screened at the Cannes Film Festival....

Read news story: BANGKOK YANKS IRANIAN FILM AFTER PROTEST BY IRANIAN OFFICIALS

HandMade PLC, the British film company founded by the late Beatle George Harrison, outfaced a falling London Stock Exchange Thursday as it posted a....

Read news story: HANDMADE FILMS REPORTS BETTER-THAN-EXPECTED CANNES RESULTS