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In the wake of the Cannes Palme d’Or and Oscar winning success of Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, NEON is re-teaming with CJ ENM to pick up the North American distribution rights to Broker, from writer-director Kore-eda Hirokazu ahead of the pic’s global premiere at Cannes.

Vincent Cassel will reunite with David Cronenberg for “The Shrouds,” a new thriller from the director of “A History of Violence” and “Dead Ringers.” The film, which Cronenberg will write as well as direct, centers on Karsh (Cassel), an innovative businessman and grieving widower, who builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.Cassel and Cronenberg previously teamed up on “Eastern Promises” and “A Dangerous Method.” Their latest collaboration seems very much in the same envelope-pushing vein. According to the official longline for “The Shrouds,” Karsh’s revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery are vandalized and nearly destroyed, including that of his wife.

David Cronenberg has found his next movie: thriller The Shrouds, which will star his Eastern Promises and Dangerous Method collaborator Vincent Cassel.

We’re ecstatic that Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg (“Naked Lunch“) will be returning to body horror. The subgenre’s popularity has a lot to do with his previous efforts.

Zack Sharf Welcome back, David Cronenberg. Neon has debuted the official trailer for the filmmaker’s “Crimes of the Future,” which is set to compete for the Palme d’Or at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.

There is no better way to say it: The king of body horror is back. “Crimes of the Future” is not just the first film David Cronenberg has made since “Map to the Stars” from 2014.

CinemaCon attendees to sleep well tonight.The director, an architect of the body horror genre with “A History of Violence,” “Dead Ringers” and “The Fly,” made his first-ever trip to Las Vegas to showcase his next grisly film “Crimes of the Future,” testing the stomachs of movie theater owners across the nation.“It seems an appropriate place to launch our attack on the world with ‘Crimes of the Future,'” Cronenberg told the crowd at Caesars Palace in reference to Sin City.Though Cronenberg says he started writing the screenplay 20 years ago, Neon, the film’s distributor, called “Crimes of the Future” an “evolution of David’s work: past, present and future.” Without detailing any specifics, it will contain “key references to his previous films.” As for the never-before-seen footage, it begins with a man who has several sets of ears on his head and concludes as a woman rips open a man’s stomach with her finger and slides her tongue closer to the open wound.Set in a world where the human species adapt to a synthetic environment and their bodies undergo disturbing transformations and mutations, “Crimes of the Future” centers on a celebrity couple (played by Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux) who have turned the horrifying process into avant-garde performance art. All the while, their every move is being tracked by an investigator from the National Organ Registry named Timlin (Kristen Stewart).

“It’s my first time in Vegas,” said filmmaker David Cronenberg today at NEON’s CinemaCon presentation, where he was introducing the full trailer for his upcoming Cannes movie, Crimes of the Future.

Like the oracle he is, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg told us all months ago that his next film, “Crimes Of The Future,” his first film since 2014’s “Maps To The Stars,” would likely premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and sure enough, early this morning, the film was announced as part of the Cannes Competition Official Selection. READ MORE: David Cronenberg, James Gray & Park Chan-wook Top Cannes Film Festival 2022 Slate Starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart, along with Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, and Don McKellar, ‘Crimes Of The Future” has the same name as a 1970 film by Cronenberg but is not a remake.

The creepy new “Crimes of the Future” trailer has just been released.

Crimes Of The Future, starring Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart and Viggo Mortensen. It takes place in the not-so-distant future where humankind has evolved and is “learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings”.Other films in the running for the festival’s top prize include new outings from filmmakers Claire Denis, Kelly Reichardt, Arnaud Desplechin, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, James Gray and Hirokazu Kore-eda.Top Gun: Maverick and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic were previously announced for the festival, although they’ll be played out of competition.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThere will be gore. David Cronenberg returns to the body horror genre that served him so well with his new film “Crimes of the Future,” his first big screen release in eight years. The movie will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it will inject some serious star power onto the Croisette.

Like the oracle he is, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg told us all months ago that his next film, “Crimes Of The Future,” his first film since 2014’s “Maps To The Stars,” would likely premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and sure enough, early this morning, the film was announced as part of the Cannes Competition Official Selection. READ MORE: David Cronenberg, James Gray & Park Chan-wook Top Cannes Film Festival 2022 Slate Starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, and Kristen Stewart, along with Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, and Don McKellar, ‘Crimes Of The Future” has the same name as a 1970 film by Cronenberg but is not a remake.

Refresh for latest…: After being jockeyed about by the pandemic these past two years — and just in time for its 75th anniversary — the Cannes Film Festival is finally headed back to its regular May slot. And as such, President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux are announcing the lineup for the event this morning from Paris’ UGC Normandie cinema on the Champs-Elysées. (Scroll down for the full list as we update live.)

Disney/Pixar’s anticipated animated movie Lightyear will not be playing in the Cannes lineup, Deadline has confirmed.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAs the Cannes Film Festival will announce its Official Selection on Thursday, Variety is starting to get a slightly clearer picture of what 75th edition will look like, though fewer titles than usual have leaked. Led by Cannes’ artistic director and general delegate Thierry Fremaux, the selection committee has been flooded with late submissions and is now in the thick of deliberations.Most surprisingly, according to two well-informed sources, there will even be a David Lynch feature film which has been completely off the radar and stars Laura Dern — either as a cameo or a supporting role — along with some other Lynch regulars.We already know the sun-dappled celebration will land several high-profile films from U.S.

Avril Lavigne has said she wants Kristen Stewart to play her in a biopic.While on the red carpet at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Awards, the singer was asked about who she’d want to play her in a movie about her life.After a pause, Lavigne said: “Like Kristen Stewart would be cool to play me in a film. She’s dope.”Lavigne released her seventh studio album, ‘Love Sux’, last month, which features collaborations with Machine Gun Kelly, Blackbear and Mark Hoppus of Blink-182.Avril Lavigne says she would like Kristen Stewart to play her in a potential biopicpic.twitter.com/i3hBxCXWCX— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) March 23, 2022In NME’s three-star review, the album is described as a “progressive pop-punk album that eschews the old rules – but not at the expense of maximalist, joyful guitar themes.”Stewart is going up against Jessica Chastain, Olivia Colman, Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz in the race for Best Actress at the Oscars on Sunday (March 27).

Oscar-winning actor William Hurt, known for his leading dramatic roles on both the stage and screen, has died at the age of 71. Born in 1950, his celebrated career spanned decades and won him Oscar, Tony, and Golden Globe nominations in the process.

EXCLUSIVE: Louise Lombard (After franchise) has signed on to a role in Christopher Nolan’s Universal Pictures thriller Oppenheimer.

The Rings of Power is an epic drama series is coming to Amazon Prime Video, set as a prequel to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and . The show is Amazon Studio's first go at a Game of Thrones-style big budget fantasy series.

EXCLUSIVE: After notching, what I hear, is the best test scores in MGM history, Ron Howard’s Thai cave rescue movie Thirteen Lives is moving from Easter weekend this year, April 15-17 to Friday, Nov. 18 into the aorta of awards season.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentNew York-based Visit Films has swooped on world sales rights to “Robe of Gems” (“Manto de Gemas”) which will world premiere in main competition at next’s month’s Berlinale.Produced by some of the best known producers on the art film and crossover scene in Mexico and Argentina, “Robe of Gems” marks the directorial debut feature of  Natalia López Gallardo who has edited some of the most acclaimed and challenging films coming out of Latin America in the last decade, such as Lisandro Alonso’s “Jauja,” starring Viggo Mortensen,  and Carlos Reygadas’ “Post Tenebras Lux” and Amat Escalante’s “Heli,” the latter two both best director award winners at the Cannes Festival.

Lord of the Rings is his favourite movie trilogy, before launching into a rap called The No 1 Trilly with Jon Batiste. Rappers Method Man and Killer Mike helped the duo along with the lyrics as a number of stars from the JRR Tolkien movies joined in.

Stephen Colbert has been singing the praises of The Lord of the Rings for 20 years, and now, as he says in last night’s musical tribute, he’s ready to rap. Joining him in “The #1 Trilly” – short for trilogy – are some folks who know their way around Middle-earth: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Hugo Weaving, Andy Serkis, Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen.

Fans are blown away after learning an interesting fact about Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, and their movie The Lord of the Rings.

You wouldn’t be crazy to associate filmmaker Alex Gibney with documentaries. Over his decades-long career, a vast majority of his work has been in non-fiction filmmaking.

Manori Ravindran International EditorAlex Gibney, best known for documentaries such as “Taxi to the Dark Side” and “Going Clear,” is helming a new feature starring Viggo Mortensen and Caleb Landry Jones.Produced and sold internationally by Altitude, thriller “Two Wolves” will be introduced to buyers at the virtual American Film Market next week.

Viggo Mortensen and Caleb Landry Jones will lead the cast of Two Wolves, a Vietnam War-set thriller being helmed by Oscar nominated documentarian Alex Gibney.

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg (“Naked Lunch,” “Eastern Promises”) is considered by many as one of the boldest and innovative genre directors and has been working for more than 40 years. Next year will seemingly see Cronenberg’s return to the world of sci-fi with his latest film “Crimes of The Future” expected to be released at some point in 2022.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentChile’s Picardia Films, headed by director-producer Diego Rougier, has boarded “The White Room” (“La Habitación Blanca”), the next feature by Argentina’s Ana Piterbarg who caught international attention with Viggo Mortensen starrer “Everybody Has a Plan,” her 2012 feature debut distributed by Fox Intl.

The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Joel Edgerton and Colin Farrell as three members of the international rescue team that discovered, to the surprise of the world, that the soccer players were still alive in the cave despite being trapped for 10 days. Then, with the world watching, the team devised a risky plan to lead the players one by one out of the flooded, dark caverns.

official statement as “one of contemporary cinema’s most talented and versatile actors”.He will be presented with the Donostia award at the Kursaal Auditorium on Wednesday (September 22), during the 69th edition of the festival.

Manori Ravindran International EditorCameras have begun rolling on David Cronenberg’s sci-fi thriller “Crimes of the Future” with Tanaya Beatty (“Yellowstone”) and Nadia Litz (“Big Muddy”) joining the cast alongside Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart.Principal photography has begun on the movie in Athens, Greece, where shooting will run until September.

Filming is underway in Europe on David Cronenberg’s Crimes Of The Future, starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart and Scott Speedman.

The Toronto International Film Festival announced today films from around the globe that are included in the Contemporary World Cinema programme presented by Sun Life and the Discovery programme presented by Dyson as part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s 46th edition, plus recently confirmed additional Gala and Special Presentations titles.

Kristen Stewart and Viggo Mortensen are ready for their next big role.