Producer Glen Zipper On His Cannes Premiere Doc ‘Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes,’ Upcoming John Candy Film, And Soaring With ‘The Blue Angels’

When will the “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” casting flood end? Well, they seemingly are getting close to the end, as we are in week 2 of the news. And what a way to possibly end the barrage than to announce Josh Brolin.

Swifties are in for a treat as they head to the first of Taylor Swift's sold-out Eras Tour shows this weekend. The 'Fortnight' singer is set to perform in Edinburgh, and in celebration, the city is launching a new food trail themed around the pop star.

It has begun. We are now in the stage of “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” where a new cast member is announced each day or so.

Elton John was not feeling the original choices in The Lion King to sing his Oscar-winning ballad, Can You Feel The Love Tonight?

Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae and Jodie Turner-Smith hit the red carpet at the premiere of their new Disney+ series The Acolyte held at El Capitan Theatre on Thursday evening (May 23) in Hollywood.

The first trailer from the June 25 release on Prime Video of I Am Celine Dion is out.

The Beach Boys on their upcoming ‘Endless Summer Gold’ tour, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of their 1974 compilation album ‘Endless Summer’.John Stamos will join The Beach Boys on 16 of the group’s upcoming shows from May to August this year. These include concerts in states such as New York, North Caroline, Chicago and more.This will follow the actor’s recent appearance at the band’s Stagecoach Festival 2024 set, where he performed ‘Do It Again’ alongside the band and guest musician Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath.MAY 202430 – Staten Island, New York, St. George Theatre31 – Utica, New York, Stanley TheatreJUNE 202401 – Holmdel, New Jersey, PNC Bank Arts Center02 – Vienna, Virginia, Wolf Trap15 – Manteo, North Carolina, Roanoke Island Festival Park16 – Asheville, North Carolina, Salvage Station18 – Roanoke, Virginia, Bergland Center19 – Greensboro, North Carolina, Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts20 – North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Alabama Theatre (Matinee)20 – North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Alabama TheatreJULY 202405 – Rochester Hills, Michigan, Meadow Brook Amphitheatre06 – Indianapolis, Indiana, Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park07 – Highland Park, Illinois, Ravinia FestivalAUGUST 202430 – Los Angeles, California, Greek Theatre31 – Temecula, California, Pechanga Resort Casino – Pechanga SummitSEPTEMBER 202401 – San Diego, California, The Rady Shell at Jacobs ParkThe actor has enjoyed a long relationship with The Beach Boys dating back to the 1980s.

Kevin Costner had the support of five of his seven children at the premiere of his new film. “Horizon,” which premiered in Cannes this week, has been a film that Costner has been developing for the past three decades, which he ultimately wrote, directed, and starred in. Kevin Costner named his son after a character in ‘Horizon’, his new filmWhy Kevin Costner didn’t cast Chris Hemsworth in his movieCostner and his kids were dressed up for the occasion.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Rolling off its buzzy world premiere at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, Oscar-nominated Icelandic filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson’s poignant drama “When The Light Breaks” has sold to a raft of territories. Represented in international markets by The Party Film Sales, the movie has been picked up for Italy (Movies Inspired), Switzerland (Xenix), Norway (Arthaus), Denmark (Ost for Paradis), Finland (Cinemanse), Hungary (Vertigo), Greece (Cinobo), Israel (New Cinema), Poland (Aurora), Turkey (Bir Film) and Baltics (Estofilm).

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Atoms & Void, the Netherlands-based production and sales company run by Sergei Loznitsa and Maria Choustova, has closed a French sale on Loznitsa’s most recent feature documentary “The Invasion,” which premiered on Thursday as a Special Screening in Cannes. Potemkine Films has taken all rights for France, while the film’s French co-producer ARTE France maintains its exclusive TV/VOD window.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Michel Hazanavicius, the Oscar-winning director of “The Artist,” makes a first foray into animation with “The Most Precious of Cargoes” which world premieres at the Cannes Film Festival on May 24. Adapted from Jean-Claude Grumberg’s bestselling novel, “The Most Precious of Cargoes” is the first animated feature to vie for a Palme d’Or since Ari Folman’s “Waltz With Bashir” in 2008; and it will be the last movie watched by the competition jury, presided over by Greta Gerwig, before the closing ceremony. Hazanavicius developed the project for years and wrote the script with Grumberg, as well as created the drawings.

Is Billie Eilish going more Taylor Swift? Or are fans just quicker to pick up on this kind of thing thanks to Tay? Either way, we’re kind of into it!

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic A year ago, the Cannes Film Festival presented the world premiere of what was widely taken to be Jean-Luc Godard’s final film. He had died by assisted suicide eight months before, and the 20-minute-long “Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars'” felt, by nature, like the aestheticized version of a last will and testament. It was a collage film, and it was (surprise!) oblique, yet it offered tea leaves to read about Godard’s state of mind as he prepared to leave the world.

There have been countless books written about the immortal star, Elizabeth Taylor, even some credited to her as both memoir or autobiography including 1989’s “Elizabeth On Elizabeth”. But a book released on January 1, 1965 probably comes closest to a pure autobiography, and looking at the cover it simply says “Elizabeth Taylor by Elizabeth Taylor”. It is a by the numbers account of her life through her own words up until that point, but the fact is it was actually written by Richard Meryman, a journalist credited with among other things the last interview with Marilyn Monroe (published two days before her August 4, 1962 death). Meryman got Taylor to sit for some taped recorded sessions in 1964 out which he would be able to write the book as if Taylor did it herself. Now exactly 60 years later those presumed “lost” tape recordings have been found and cleared for release by Taylor’s and Meryman’s estates. They have been in fact in Meryman’s wife’s possession all these years, but now filmmaker Nanette Burstein (Hillary, The Kid Stays In The Picture) has rediscovered a treasure trove of about 40 hours of interview in order to produce the new HBO Documentary, Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes“.

Christopher Vourlias Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa arrives at the Cannes Film Festival this week with his latest documentary, “The Invasion,” worried that the world’s attention has largely drifted from the Ukraine conflict in the two-plus years since Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion. The film premieres with a special screening May 16. Yet from the movie’s powerful opening sequence, which follows a funeral procession for four soldiers killed in battle, Loznitsa reminds us that the war continues to extract a devastating cost from its victims.

The stars of the movie Furiosa are at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival!

Ben Croll Shortly before last year’s Cannes Film Festival, director Sophie Fillières attended a cast and crew screening of “Anatomy of a Fall.” The filmmaker had a supporting role in the film, playing the deceased’s sister, and she soon celebrated her work’s Palme d’Or win from afar, hanging back in Paris, where she was preparing to shoot her seventh feature, “This Life of Mine.” The five-week production kicked off in late June, running smoothly and wrapping on the last day of July. The next day, Fillières checked into the hospital; in less than a month, she was gone.

You may be shocked to learn that in the two hour and 30 minute long movie, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the film’s star Anya Taylor Joy only has about 30 lines of dialogue.

Julia Roberts also will be joining George Clooney for a Los Angeles fundraiser next month for Joe Biden‘s campaign, headlined by the president and his predecessor, Barack Obama.

Kevin Costner has turned his Santa Barbara home into a fully-fledged post-production facility. In one room, editors are cutting the first leg of Horizon: An American Saga he’ll premiere in Cannes. In another, an editor is working on Part Two. In a third, there is an assemblage of a documentary on the making of the four-film series. Down the road is the 10 acres of property that Costner put on the table to make his dream Civil War project a reality. Here, he discusses this adventure in serialized storytelling, following a group of characters riding west, and the drama surrounding his pending exit from Yellowstone.