‘Final Cut (Coupez!)’ Review: Cannes Opens With an Annoying Zombie Comedy Misfire

Doja Cat has shared the video for her May single “Vegas,” the lead offering from the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic, ELVIS, coming to theaters June 24. The soundtrack will arrive the same day via Iona/RCA Records.

Doja Cat has shared the video for her new track ‘Vegas’, which she recorded for the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann’s new Elvis Presley biopic.The footage, which you can see below, features a cameo by Shonka Dukureh, the singer and actress who plays early rock n roll pioneer Big Mama Thornton in Luhrmann’s Elvis. Thornton’s original version of ‘Hound Dog’ is incorporated into Doja Cat’s new track, and was famously re-recorded by Presley to huge success.Eminem, Tame Impala, Stevie Nicks and Jack White are among the others who will feature on the soundtrack.It will also include “original songs and recordings” by Presley himself along with the film’s star, Austin Butler.

Cat Deeley has taken to Instagram following her colleague Matthew Morrison's shock exit from So You Think You Can Dance.It was confirmed last week that Matthew was leaving the show after not following “competition production protocols”. "Having the opportunity to be a judge on So You Think You Can Dance was an incredible honor for me. Therefore, it is my deepest regret to inform you that I will be leaving the show," Morrison said in a statement shared with PEOPLE."I cannot apologize enough to all involved and I will be watching alongside you all on what I know will be one of the best seasons yet." Now, further details have been revealed about Matthew’s sudden departure with a source close to the Fox reality show telling PEOPLE that the 43-year-old was fired from the series "after he had an inappropriate relationship with a female contestant".“…He reached out to her through flirty direct messages on social media," the source added.

NEON earned bragging rights tonight with the third consecutive Palme d’Or Cannes winner in a row, that being Ruben Östlund’s satirical comedy Triangle of Sadness, which was a huge crowd pleaser during the fest.

Doja Cat has teased details of her fourth studio album in a new interview with Elle, noting she will be focused more on rapping than singing this time around.The cover story with the fashion and beauty magazine charts Doja’s ascent from niche internet figure to a Number One pop artist. While her biggest hits – such as ‘Say So’ and ‘Kiss Me More’ – have mostly focused on her singing, the article notes that the next Doja Cat album will be “predominantly rap” according to her.While she noted that she has “not started” making the album yet, she assured writer Marjon Carlos that work on the album is “coming up”.“I have been getting songs and things sent to me,” she said.

Doja Cat has announced that she’ll be pulling out of her scheduled summer performances in support of the Weeknd as well as a string of slated festival appearances. The unorthodox California pop star was expected to join the Canadian crooner on his After Hours Til Dawn Tour, which starts July 8 at Toronto’s Rogers Centre and ends September 3 in Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium.

Zack Sharf Harry Styles just released his third studio album “Harry’s House,” but it’s his acting that everyone will be talking about this fall. The singer has two movies set for release, Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling” and Michael Grandage’s “My Policeman.” He has sex scenes in both movies, but it’s only in “My Policeman” where the actor bares it all for nude scenes. Styles stars in the film as a gay man in the 1950s whose marriage to his wife is complicated by his love for a male museum curator.“It does feel vulnerable.

Doja Cat has announced that she’s cancelled her 2022 live dates, including festival shows and a tour with The Weeknd, to recover from tonsil surgery.Yesterday (May 20), the artist tweeted that her “whole throat is fucked” after the surgery, and that she “might have some bad news for yall coming soon.”Accordingly, she has now pulled out of all her festival dates for this summer, including at Wireless in the UK, as well as her planned support tour with The Weeknd.“Hi guys, I wanted you to hear it from me first,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories. “Unfortunately I have to have surgery on my tonsils ASAP.

Doja Cat won't be taking the stage anytime soon. The 26-year-old singer took to her Instagram Story on Friday to announce that she'll no longer be performing at festivals or opening for The Weeknd on his tour this summer due to necessary tonsil surgery.«Hi guys. I wanted you to hear it from me first,» she wrote.

Doja Cat has revealed that her throat is in bad condition following surgery on her tonsils.The rapper shared the news yesterday (May 19) on Twitter, noting that she had to have an “abscess” removed before adding that she might have “bad news” for fans.“Dr. just had to cut into my left tonsil,” Doja said in the post.

Doja Cat is sharing some painful details about a recent tonsil procedure she needed due to an infection that was exacerbated by drinking and vaping during her time at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.The singer — who took home two trophies at the big awards show over the weekend — took to Twitter on Thursday to share the news of her oral surgery and she hinted that it might mean she won't be singing in the near future.«Dr. just had to cut into my left tonsil.

Ever since Michel Hazanavicius’ Oscar-winning tribute to silent cinema “The Artist,” the French filmmaker has continued to focus his work on the process of filmmaking itself, for better and, mostly, for worse. After “Redoutable,” centered on the relationship between Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Wiazemsky during the filming of “La Chinoise,” he again explored la magie du cinéma in “The Lost Prince,” where Omar Sy (the biggest star on French Netflix and, maybe, in French cinema tout court) saw the rich fantasy film-set world he had created for his daughter begin to crumble as she started to outgrow his fairytales.

Manori Ravindran International EditorBérénice Bejo was thrilled to be asked how she came to be involved in Michel Hazanavicius’ “Final Cut.”The French-Argentine actor — who plays a mad make-up artist in the zombie romp that opened Cannes on Tuesday — revealed that it wasn’t easy convincing director Hazanavicius, who is also her husband, to let her have a role.“He said, ‘I’m really sorry but this time I don’t think we’ll be working together.’ He said I was ‘too pretty’ and I said, ‘What is that?’ I got a bit upset,” said Bejo.“Final Cut,” Hazanavicius’ eighth feature, is a remake of Japanese zombie comedy “One Cut of the Dead” (2017), which became a cult sensation. The film begins as a French zombie comedy, but soon lifts the lid on how the film was made and becomes more a commentary on — in Variety critic Owen Gleiberman’s words — the “creative innocence of terrible filmmaking.” Bejo seemingly took great pleasure in explaining how it was only when Hazanavicius caught COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic in 2020 and she took care of him morning, noon and night that he finally relented.“After a week of agony, he said, ‘Can you please read my screenplay?’ and I said, ‘Well, I’m too busy and I’m not even going to be in the film,'” said Bejo.

EXCLUSIVE: Berenice Bejo (The Artist) agreed that making Cannes opening-night film  Final Cut (Coupez!) with filmmaker husband Michel Hazanavicius (The Players) had been a family affair.

Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria led the glamour as she attended the screening of Final Cut at the opening ceremony of Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday.The 47 year old was joined by Julianne Moore and Lashana Lynch and looked incredible as she wore a plunging, semi-sheer black gown. She finished the look with a black choker, complete with diamanté detail, and paired it with black high heels. Eva's gown had a semi-sheer ruffled skirt with sequins and thin spaghetti straps.  Her dark hair was swept into an elegant up do with loose curls framing her face.

Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorA visit from the dead? How chic.The Cannes Film Festival sprung back into action on Tuesday night, as this year’s opening night movie, “Final Cut (Coupez!)” received a 5-minute standing ovation. The gory zombie line, which straddled a tone somewhere between “The Blair Witch Project” and “Call My Agent,” kicked off a festival where few patrons were wearing masks in these COVID times.To commemorate the 75th edition of Cannes, festival director Thierry Fremaux selected a French movie — not to mention a French jury president, “Titane” actor Vincent Lindon — to keep things local at the start of the celebration of movies in the French Riviera.

Originally planned to open the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year before the worsening Covid situation forced the festival to again go virtual, Oscar-winning writer-director Michel Hazanavicius made the right decision in insisting his comedy Final Cut (Coupez!), about the making of a low-budget bad zombie movie, should be presented with a full house in a theatre, thankfully not to be watched on your computer at a prestigious film festival. In holding out for the real thing he scored big as it was chosen as the opening-night out-of-competition film of the 75th Cannes Film Festival.

Z began to be used as a symbol of support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film is now called “Coupez!” in France.A remake of the 2017 Japanese horror-comedy “One Cut of the Dead,” “Final Cut” is silly and excessive and completely over-the-top, but it also brings out the lightness and deftness of Hazanavicus’ touch with comedy; the director somehow manages to fling body parts and bodily excretions at the audience for almost two hours, and yet you leave feeling as if you’ve seen a feel-good movie.Like the original Japanese film, “Final Cut” takes place in three parts.