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*Samuel L. Jackson is boarding RKO Pictures’ “Barely Lethal,” which marks the third Jackson project that is being shopped at the Cannes Film Festival. The action-comedy is described as a playful, high-velocity romp in which a 16-year-old international assassin (Hailee Steinfeld) yearning for “normal” adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high [...]
*The Weinstein Company has acquired worldwide rights, excluding the U.S., South Africa and India, to the live-action remake of Yasuomi Umetsu’s Japanese anime movie “Kite,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, which has just completed shooting in South Africa, stars Samuel L. Jackson, India Eisley and Australia’s Callan McAuliffe and was directed by Ralph [...]
*Focus Features International has picked up worldwide sales on director Julien Temple’s Untitled Marvin Gaye project, starring Jesse L. Martin as the late singer. Focus will present the title to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival next month, according to The Hollywood Reporter. With a screenplay by Matthew Broughton, the project will also star Golden [...]
*The 2013 Cannes Film Festival announced that it will wrap on May 26 with Jérôme Salle’s noir thriller “Zulu,” based on the award-winning novel by French author Caryl Férey. Shot on location in South Africa, Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom star as Cape Town cops on opposite sides of the apartheid divide who end up [...]
*Macy Gray makes her first big screen appearance since 2010’s “For Colored Girls” in the forthcoming Lee Daniels’ film “The Paperboy.” The movie follows reporter Ward James (Matthew McConaughey) and his younger brother Jack James (Zac Efron) as they travel to the deep south to investigate events that may have sent the wrong man to [...]
*Dwayne Johnson will be back on the big screen next fall as the character Roadblock in “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” which has the group of special operatives fighting their nemesis Cobra while this time dealing with threats from within the government that threaten their existence. [Scroll down to watch the trailers.] [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] [...]
*Kanye West’s experimental short film, “Cruel Summer,” had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, with girlfriend Kim Kardashian, Jay-Z, Big Sean, Pusha T and the film’s star Kid Cudi. Co-directed by West and shot in Qatar, the 30-minute piece was projected on seven screens inside of a white-tented pyramid, to allow viewers [...]
*Sean “P. Diddy” Combs threw the biggest party of the Cannes Film Festival so far on Tuesday night, inviting a host of celebrities to his harbor-side yacht for an evening of champagne, music, and dancing. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were the evening’s biggest names, casually climbing aboard the vessels and enjoying cocktails at the [...]
*As “Red Tails” prepares for its May 22nd release on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download, we caught up with one of its stars to look back at the film’s impact since its Jan. 20th release in theaters. “The theater release was amazing, with people turning out in record numbers and showings that were sold out all [...]
*“Cruel Summer,” an “immersive seven-screen experience” created by Kanye West and his ideas firm DONDA, is scheduled to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next week. The rapper announced today that he’ll present the short film, “inspired by the G.O.O.D. Music album Cruel Summer,” on Wednesday out of competition at the annual French event. The [...]
*Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival this week, actor Peter Fonda, star of the classic 1969 road movie “Easy Rider,” called President Barack Obama a “traitor” over claims he attempted to gag reporting of the disastrous BP oil spill in May 2010. Fonda is in Cannes for the premiere of his new movie “The Big [...]
*The Jackson family patriarch has a new hobby. Papa Joe was has been in Cannes this week promoting his new “Jackson” fragrance line for both men and women, complete with a cologne called, “Tribute,” and perfume called, “Legend.” The cologne is described as “heavily musky” and the perfume is a “floral harmony” combined with a [...]
*Last night in Cannes, Naomi Campbell threw her Fashion for Relief runway show, with the likes of Rosario Dawson and Karolina Kurkova strutting the catwalk to raise money for victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami. Unfortunately, not everyone could handle their heels, including new fashion star Lindsey Wixson, who fell not once, not twice…but [...]
*Kanye West played more than an hour-long set Saturday night at a Red Granite Pictures party in Cannes attended by such stars as Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper. Clad in a white suit, West kicked off the performance with a “What up France?” shoutout that was met with cheers, whistles and general hysteria. Then Jamie [...]
*As previously reported, Naomi Campbell’s charity has chosen the high-wattage Cannes Film Festival to stage her latest fashion show in aid of the Japanese Red Cross’ earthquake and tsunami relief fund. The show will be held today at a historic market not far from the headquarters of the French Riviera movie showcase, which is in [...]
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