داريو أرجنتو يكشف ثلاثية تشويق في كان
كشف المخرج الإيطالي داريو أرجنتو عن ثلاثية تشويق جديدة في جناح الفانتازيا بسوق الأفلام في كان. كما تم تكريمه بجائزة «مفاتيح الجناح» تقديراً لإسهاماته البارزة في سينما الجيالّو والرعب.
كشف المخرج الإيطالي داريو أرجنتو عن ثلاثية تشويق جديدة في جناح الفانتازيا بسوق الأفلام في كان. كما تم تكريمه بجائزة «مفاتيح الجناح» تقديراً لإسهاماته البارزة في سينما الجيالّو والرعب.
“Congo Boy” opens with a big setpiece set in a dance club: The camera follows two young men as they walk around searching for someone, the audience immediately thrown into a vibrant milieu of throbbing music and writhing bodies. Before they can settle in, some soldiers enter the club and start firing away, scaring patrons […]
The live-action French remake of Tsukasa Hojo’s “Cat’s Eyes” manga captured 46% of France’s 15-to-24 audience on TF1 – a figure its distributor described as “totally unexpected” – before selling into more than 50 territories and landing on Hulu in the U.S. Rodolphe Buet, chief distribution officer of StudioTF1, a wholly owned subsidiary of TF1 […]
The Palm Dog, Cannes’ beloved, unofficial awards show celebrating the best canine performances across the official selection and various sidebars, has crowned its winner for 2026. For many attendees, the standard of films in this year’s Cannes hasn’t quite matched previous editions, and this was also reflected in the number of prestige four-legged roles seen […]
A year after founding Women in Film India, Guneet Monga Kapoor – whose “The Elephant Whisperers” took the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film at the 2023 Oscars – was at Cannes with four scholarship recipients in tow and a producing slate that signals a deliberate move into genre cinema, women-led franchises and, eventually, […]
Saudi-owned production powerhouse MBC Studios – which is the studio arm of MBC Group, the largest and leading media company in the Middle East – has announced its new lineup of Saudi film and TV projects toplined by high-end horror film (“Travellers’ Hell”) which is slated for theatrical release in the MENA region this year. The […]
Pedigreed Argentine helmer Milagros Mumenthaler, a Golden Leopardo winner in Locarno for her debut “Back to Stay,” and Rodrigo Teixeira of RT Pictures, producer of James Gray’s “Palme d’Or entry “Paper Tigers,” will take centre stage at the third ECAM Forum co-production market, due to run June 9-11 at Madrid Matadero. The complete retrospective dedicated […]
Ken Loach and Rebecca O’Brien’s Sixteen Films has boarded “Forgotten Spaceman,” a documentary short written, directed and edited by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Elham Ehsas, with Jack Thomas-O’Brien serving as executive producer, ahead of the film’s festival debut later this year. The film centers on Abdul Ahad Momand, who traveled to the Mir space station in 1988 […]
تسلط المقابلة الضوء على حضور هوما قريشي في مهرجان كان وتوجهها نحو إنتاج أعمال أكثر جرأة وتمثيلاً، من بينها فيلم «Toxic» عن قاتل يستخدم لغة الإشارة. كما تؤكد رفضها للأدوار النمطية التي تختزل النساء ذوات البشرة السمراء في الفقر والمعاناة.
Christina Hendricks and Naomie Harris are set to lead “Reputation,” a new celebrity-focused legal drama for BBC. The six-part series, from Banijay U.K. company The Forge, sees Harris (“Skyfall”) play Lena, a top lawyer who is hired to represent international pop star Davina Knight (“Mad Men” star Hendricks) in the celebrity case of the decade. […]
Penélope Cruz disclosed at the Cannes press conference for “The Black Ball” (La Bola Negra) on Friday that she was warned of a potential brain aneurysm during the production of the film, and completed her scenes after receiving medical clearance the next day. The revelation came a day after the Los Javis competition title earned […]
The Fantastic Organization, a new France-registered nonprofit – dedicated to the promotion, development, and global recognition of fantastic cinema – has made its debut at the Fantastic Pavilion at Cannes. It will be led by filmmaker Xavier Gens, named president and known for “Frontière(s),” “Hitman,” and “Cold Skin.” Other founding members include Alexandre O. Philippe, […]