Billy Porter (Pose) and Luke Evans (Nine Perfect Strangers) have signed on to star in the drama Our Son, from director Bill Oliver (Jonathan).
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Caitlin Quinlan Premiering as a Special Screening at Cannes was a documentary co-directed by Houda Benyamina, Anne Cissé and subject Melanie Diam’s, the former French rapper and music sensation who stepped away from public life in the early 2010s after converting to Islam. “Salam,” meaning “peace” in Arabic, follows Diam’s new life as a philanthropist and mother, far from the chaos and fame of her past career.Her new religious path in life was met with vast shock and criticism from the French media at the time, and pushed Diam’s further toward the realization that she needed to abandon her music for good.Benyamina was reluctant to share the direction of the film at first because of a need to “have my own projects and my own voice,” she says. “But when Melanie asked me to direct her movie by myself, I told her no.
It’s her story and she needs to re-appropriate her own story. It was very important for me to help her because I feel a sense of solidarity toward her as an artist and what they did to her in France was very violent. So to give her my tools to help her re-appropriate her story in her own voice was a political act for me.”The film takes a firm stance in favoring the present over the past.
No footage of Diam’s performance career appears in the film and the only insights into her troubled history with depression and mental health issues come via personal testimony. “The past doesn’t exist,” says Benyamina. “Today is the present and Melanie wants to live in the present moment.
Billy Porter (Pose) and Luke Evans (Nine Perfect Strangers) have signed on to star in the drama Our Son, from director Bill Oliver (Jonathan).
Anne Hathaway blew everyone away with her red carpet style at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival this year and now her stylist is speaking out about how they planned those looks.
Bella Hadid and Marc Kalman are enjoying a little getaway with friends!
Bella Hadid keeps giving us stellar looks on the red carpet at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Bella Hadid wore an outfit reminiscent of vintage Parisian cabaret on the French Riviera. With resort town Cannes providing a glamourous backdrop, the American supermodel looked more than ready to do the can-can while attending the Chopard Loves Cinema dinner.
Anne Hathaway is being crowned the haute couture queen of the Cannes Film Festival. And fans of the brunette bombshell are digitally reveling over the early-2000s diva’s fashionable resurgence. “Can we all take a moment to appreciate Anne Hathaway looking like a goddess in Cannes,” tweeted an admirer of the Oscar winner, alongside a snapshot of her in a sequin, floral-print two-piece ensemble by Schiaparelli. “I love this Anne Hathaway renaissance we’re going through,” chimed another. Making her debut at the annual silver screen soirée over the weekend, Hathaway, 39, repeatedly turned heads in high-fashion finery for the premiere of her feature flick “Armageddon Time,” starring Anthony Hopkins, 84, and Jeremy Strong, 43. And immediately after touching down in France on Wednesday, the blockbuster beauty transformed the Nice Côte d’Azur Airport into a virtual runway, sashaying through in a chic, loose-fitting pantsuit. From there, Hathaway ditched her trendy traveling togs to don a white strapless Armani Privé gown, reminiscent of her “Princess Diaries” glamor, on the film festival’s star-studded red carpet Thursday. The flawless fashion plate continued to outdo herself throughout the duration of the weekend, rocking a blue mini dress by Gucci Friday, stunning in a coffee-colored Louis Vuitton number Saturday and beaming in a hot pink piece by Valentino Sunday. And the luxe looks sent Hathaway enthusiasts into a full-on Twitter tizzy. “Anne Hathaway at the cannes film festival.
EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks has acquired North American rights to Monsieur Spade, a one-hour drama starring Clive Owen from The Queen’s Gambit co-creator Scott Frank and City On A Hill showrunner Tom Fontana. Black Bear Television also has joined as the series’ studio and will deficit finance.
In part deux today of the Cannes Film Festival symposium on cinema, three female filmmakers were represented in You Were Never Really Here‘s Lynne Ramsay and Grand Central‘s Rebecca Zlotowski and French actress/director/scribe Agnes Jaoui, unlike yesterday when it was all men. The festival on social media took a licking for being tone deaf in the wake of yesterday’s panel.
Jamie Foxx was all smiles this weekend when he was spotted cuddling with a mystery woman under the French sunshine. The 54-year-old actor and singer lounged by the coastside with someone who could be his newest girlfriend while on vacation in the south of France.The couple snuggled together on a daybed aboard a luxury yacht in the French Riviera before hopping on a jet ski in the water. The woman wore a bright red two-piece with black shorts over the bottom.
Jamie Foxx took a break from a busy schedule to fit in a vacation right in the resort town of Cannes where many of his Hollywood peers are taking the region’s international film festival on the French Riviera. The 54-year-old actor was spotted by photographers catching waves and sun rays with a mystery woman aboard a luxury yacht and on a speeding Jet Ski as she wrapped herself around his waist for safety. Another image saw the two get close while on the vessel.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley shared a candid glimpse of her life as a mother-of-two as she took to Instagram on Monday.MORE: Inside story on Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's £243,000 engagement ringThe 35-year-old British model delighted fans with a serene-looking mirror selfie that showed her breastfeeding her baby daughter - Isabella James - who she shares with fiancé Jason Statham.WATCH: Rosie launched her beauty brand in 2021 Perched on the end of a hotel bed, Rosie looked every inch the doting mother as she sat cradling her three-month-old daughter.She teamed her white bathrobe with simple, silver jewellery and fresh, dewy skin.MORE: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's nursery for son Jack revealed - and it's so unexpectedREAD: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham's son stars in incredibly rare photoThe former Victoria's Secret model captioned the post with a white dove emoji and fans were quick to heap praise on the "English Rose" of the modeling world with endless upbeat comments.One added: "So beautiful. Isabella's grown so much! Xx."Another added: "You are such a beautiful woman and mother."TV presenter and mum-of-two, Cat Deeley, rushed to the comments section, writing: "Gorgeous!" followed by several heart emojis.
Fashion-savvy parents! Tan France and Gigi Hadid bonded over their stylish careers and parenthood while filming Netflix’s Next In Fashion together.
CANNES, France -- When the Cannes Film Festival audience stood to applaud James Gray's richly observed autobiographical drama “Armageddon Time," about the director's own 1980s childhood in Queens, Gray's voice quivered as he addressed the crowd.“It’s my story, in a way,” said Gray. “And you guys shared it with me.”“It took every last bit of control not to burst out into tears," Gray said, still recovering the next day in Cannes. “It’s been a really strange journey making the film and my father died two months ago of COVID.
Anne Hathaway steps out in a colorful outfit while out and about during the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, earlier this week.
Anne Hathaway as she attended the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of her new 1980s period drama, Armageddon Time. On Thursday, the 39-year-old actress made her red carpet debut at the iconic film fest in Cannes, France. The Devil Wears Prada star turned heads in a two-piece sequin Armani Privé gown.