Cannes: Lola Quivoron on Overcoming the Genre Challenges of Her Un Certain Regard-Winning Debut ‘Rodeo’

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMusic Box Films has acquired North American rights to “Rodeo,” the bold feature debut of Lola Quivoron which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes where it won the Coup de Cœur du Jury special prize. Produced by Charles Gillibert (“Annette”) at CG Cinema and represented by Les Films du Losange, “Rodeo” stars newcomer Julie Ledrue a Julia, a hot tempered and fiercely independent young woman who infiltrates an underground dirt bike community in France.After a chance meeting at an urban ‘Rodeo,’ Julia finds herself drawn into a clandestine and volatile clique and striving to prove herself to the ultra-masculine group, but is she is faced with a series of escalating demands that will make or break her place in the community.

The Smile have announced their first-ever tour of North America for November and December 2022, in support of their debut album ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’.The band, which features Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood, will begin their debut tour across the continent in Providence, Rhode Island. The tour will then take them across the US and Canada, including two New York dates at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre and the city’s Hammerstein Ballroom.A pre-sale for the tour will begin this Thursday (June 16) from 10am local time, with the general sale following the next day at the same local time.

James Corden is reportedly returning back to the UK once The Late Late Show concludes next year. The 43-year-old actor has hosted the late night US programme since 2015 but will bow out in 2023 after agreeing to a one-year extension.  Confirming his exit, he said: ‘It’s been a really hard decision to leave because I’m so immensely proud of the show.

Refresh for awards updates Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss have won the Tony for their original score for Six: The Musical.

Big Brother 23 winner Xavier Prather and Survivor victors Tyson Apostol, Ben Driebergen and Sarah Lacina are among the 28 fan favorites who will compete on The Challenge: USA this summer on CBS.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentGlobal arthouse movie streamer, producer and distributor MUBI has acquired all Turkish rights to Iranian director Saeed Roustaee’s timely Cannes title “Leila’s Brothers.”A female empowerment drama set against the backdrop of a family crushed by debts linked to international economic sanctions, “Leila’s Brothers” won the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) prize for best film in Cannes’ main competition.  The film, which is Roustaee’s third feature, follows from his tense actioner “Just 6.5,” about a cop trying to pin down a drug lord.

is stepping back up to the plate!A teaser trailer for the upcoming Prime Video series was released on Tuesday, giving fans a first look at the new series, which expands on the world of the Penny Marshall-directed movie of the same name. The 1992 film featured standout performances from Geena Davis, Rosie O'Donnell, Madonna and more, and told a fictionalized story of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was started in 1943 as a way to keep baseball popular while many American men were fighting in World War II.The new series features a fresh crop of talent, including creator and star Abbi Jacobson,  Chanté Adams,  D'Arcy Carden, BAFTA winner Gbemisola Ikumelo and more, and the teaser trailer shows the ragtag group of ladies fighting to find their way on the field, in the factories and in an ever-evolving cultural landscape.Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television said in a press release that " evokes the joyful spirit of Penny Marshall's beloved classic, while widening the lens to tell the story of an entire generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball. The show takes a deeper look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a whole new ensemble of characters as they carve their own paths towards the field, both in the league and outside of it.«The series — which is set to debut all eight episodes of their first season on Prime Video on Friday, Aug.

UPDATED: Dr. Oz is now the presumptive GOP candidate for the open U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, per Politico. Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick bowed out of the Republican primary which, while votes were case weeks ago, has been held in limbo by Oz’s razor-thin lead of about 1,000 votes.

EXCLUSIVE: Erin Moriarty (The Boys), Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad), Dina Shihabi (Archive 81) and Ryan Corr (House of the Dragon) have signed on to star in Catching Dust—an upcoming Texas noir marking the feature debut of writer-director Stuart Gatt, which will enter production in the Canary Islands this month.

The Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar handed out its prizes tonight with top honors going to Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret’s The Worst Ones (Les Pires). The Jury Prize was awarded to Saim Sadig’s Joyland, the first Pakistani movie ever in official selection at Cannes.

Guy Lodge Film CriticFrench film “The Worst Ones (Les Pires)” is the surprise winner of the top prize at this year’s Un Certain Regard awards ceremony, with Italian actor-director Valeria Golino and her fellow jurors also handing prizes to Pakistani breakout “Joyland,” Romanian drama “Metronom” and “Corsage” star Vicky Krieps.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Plan 75,” Hayakawa Chie’s Japanese dystopian drama which world premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, has been sold in a raft of territories by Urban Sales. The movie is set in Japan, in a near future where a government program called Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized in order to remedy the aging society. The film weaves the stories of an elderly woman who isn’t able to live independently, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman and a young Filipino caregiver.

In a moving speech, James Corden has condemned US gun laws in the wake of the tragic school shooting in Texas, which has reportedly left nineteen children and two adults dead. On Tuesday 24 May, 18 year old gunman Salvador Ramos opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, before a Border Patrol agent eventually gunned him down following a shootout with Texas law enforcement officers.

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed filmmaker R.J. Cutler and his production company This Machine, fresh off the announcement of Cutler’s upcoming documentary on Elton John.

Courtney Love has apparently changed her course.

Courtney Love is expressing regret after her message of support for Johnny Depp went viral online.

Wow. Several celebs have weighed in on the defamation trial, choosing to throw their support behind either Johnny Depp or Amber Heard. But we don’t think we’ve seen one so confessional!

Courtney Love is speaking out after publicly expressing her support for Johnny Depp. Over the weekend, in a since-deleted video posted to social media, the 57-year-old singer explained how Depp had helped both her and her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, in the past, and questioned Amber Heard's motives, amid the star's defamation trial against the actress.«My side of the street, needs to stay clean; I engaged in expressing thoughts online,» Love captioned a video of herself walking her dog. «The platform accidentally posted a story I didn’t want public (I’m sure it was not deliberate) in it I am weaponising snark (what else do we do with snark?) Was it my own (granted, massive, a character defect, ego?) Was it a genuine, expression of support for someone whose been a wondrous presence in our lives? Is it ANY OF MY F**KING BUSINESS? No.»«What about the times I’ve been publicly defamed? My true friends have done so much to help me during these public ritual systemic humiliations? That s**t matters,» she continued.

Courtney Love has revealed that Johnny Depp gave her CPR and saved her life after a 1995 overdose at Los Angeles’ Viper Room.Love shared her memories of her friendship with Depp, who is currently in an ongoing defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, in a now-deleted video that was shared on Instagram by her friend Jessica Reed Kraus.“I don’t really wanna make judgments publicly, but I just want to tell you that Johnny gave me CPR in 1995 when I overdosed outside the Viper Room with Sal,” Love said in the video.Adding how Depp supported her and Kurt Cobain‘s daughter Frances Bean during her own addiction struggles, Love said: “Johnny – when I was on crack and Frances was having to suffer through that with social workers – wrote her a four-page letter that she’s never showed me on her 13th birthday. He didn’t really know me.“Then he sent limos to her school when the social workers were crawling around – again, unasked – for her and all of her friends.”A post shared by Jessica Reed Kraus (@houseinhabit)In a further comment Love shared her “empathy” for Heard, saying: “I’ve been the most hated woman in the world before TikTok and it’s a really… I have a lot of empathy for what that must feel like for Amber.