Cannes: Percentage Of Female Filmmakers In Competition Decreases But Wider Official Selection Shows Gender Balance Improvement

Kate Winslet has teamed up with L'Oreal Paris to help pick the winner of the beauty brand's first-ever Lights on Women Award. The Oscar-winning actress was announced as the new global brand ambassador for the French cosmetics giant earlier this month, and she will be taking her partnership with the company to the Cannes Film Festival next month.

Marco Bellocchio Cannes Honor Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at this year’s edition of Cannes. He will travel to the French fest to present his latest picture, Marx Can Wait, film on July 16, before receiving his prize at the closing ceremony on July 17.

The Cannes Film Festival is around the corner, which means companies like The Match Factory are dropping trailers for their new films. The latest is “Prayers For The Stolen” (aka “Noche de Fuego“) by Mexican director Tatiana Huezo (‘Tempestad“), which will make its world premiere at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section next month.

What’s one of the most anticipated film of 2021? French filmmaker Julia Ducournau‘s “Titane,” the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed horror film “Raw.” Starring Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Lindon, the movie is a thriller about a long-lost child who returns suddenly, but what seems to be the end of a long nightmare soon turns into something else. READ MORE: 52 Films Directed By Women To Watch In 2021 The film is also set to debut at the Cannes Film Festival.

It’s familia.

IFC Midnight has boarded U.S. rights to UK genre pic Burial.

MTV’s Teen Mom 2 alums Chelsea Houska and Cole DeBoer are building their dream home, and the father-of-three has ripped his shirt off in a new video. The couple, who have documented the building process on their IG page downhomedeboers, posted a clip on June 13 which showed Cole sitting on the grass while painting a pattern using a stencil.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched Part 2 of “Lupin,” streaming now on Netflix.Much of the fun of watching Netflix’s original series “Lupin,” inspired by the Maurice Leblanc books, is in anticipating what cleverness and charm Assane Diop (played by Omar Sy) will deploy to meet his goals.

Another early morning, another early announcement from France. As promised by the organizers previously, new titles have been added to the Cannes Film Festival, nine of them in total.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThe Cannes Film Festival has completed the extensive film lineup of its Official Selection, including the animated feature “Where Is Anne Frank?” directed by Oscar-nominated Ari Folman (“Waltz with Bashir”).The festival has also added “Vortex” by Gaspar Noe to the Cannes Premiere section and “Mes Freres Et Moi” by Yohan Manca to Un Certain Regard.Additional midnight screenings include “Tralala” by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu and “Supremes” by Audrey

Ben Croll Cannes XR, NewImages Festival and Tribeca Festival have partnered to create XR3, a virtual exhibition space that will host a selection of 50 XR projects from the three festivals’ programs.Set to launch on Wednesday – the opening day for this year’s Tribeca and NewImages editions – the digital exhibition will be available via the Museum of Other Realities (MOR), a virtual gallery that specializes in innovative scenography.The digital exhibition will run from June 9-20, concurrent with

Jennifer Lopez is bringing her behind-the-camera talents to Netflix.

One of Universal Pictures‘ biggest franchises is “Fast & Furious,” once focused on a ragtag group of street racers dealing in stolen DVD players. However, the films have evolved into a slightly more digestible for parents.

Last week, it was announced that “Petrov’s Flu,” the new Russian language film by Kirill Serebrennikov, will bow in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this summer for the pic’s world premiere. In addition, they’ve released an enticing trailer (see below) with English subtitles that echo the comedic tone and showcases Serebrennikov’s strong visual style.

After taking a year off due to COVID-19, Cannes’ Critics’ Week, the parallel side-bar part of Cannes that focuses on first and second films by emerging filmmakers, is back and has revealed its line-up. The head of the jury for the 60th edition of Semaine de la Critique, as it is known in France, will be led by Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu, and it’s a very French-heavy line-up.

The Cannes Film Festival’s parallel Critics’ Week section has unveiled its lineup for the 60th edition which will run from July 7-15. There are seven feature films in competition, each of which is a debut meaning they are all eligible for the Camera d’Or.

After a pandemic-induced delay of 14 months, cinema is returning to la Croisette. The 74th Festival de Cannes will finally take place this July, and we now know what films will join the previously announced titles “The French Dispatch,” “Annette,” and “Benedetta.” And if you’re fans of filmmakers such as Andrea Arnold, Sean Baker, Asghar Farhadi, François Ozon, Mia Hanson-Love, Justin Kurzel, Jacques Audiard, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, you should be very excited.

Working mom! Christine Quinn fulfilled her real estate agent duties until the last possible moment of her pregnancy.

While it seemed like yesterday’s announcement of the lineup for the 2021 Cannes Film Festival couldn’t have been better, festival boss Thierry Fremaux has since revealed that a wider range of movies could have joined the rostra of major titles premiering on the Croisette – and they’re not, because of Netflix.