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Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Marcel Barelli to Get Locarno Kids Award, Annecy Winner ‘Arco' to Screen at Fest
Swiss-born director and designer Marcel Barelli will receive the Locarno Kids Award at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival this summer. He will be awarded the honor, presented by la Mobiliare, on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 12. During the festival, Barelli will present the Swiss premiere of Mary Anning, chasseuse de fossiles, his new animated film dedicated to the British paleontologist and fossil pioneer 'who revolutionized the discipline in the early decades of the 19th century.' More from The Hollywood Reporter Keanu Reeves to Host, Exec Produce Docuseries on the Birth of the Cadillac Formula 1 Team in the U.S. CNN's Fred Pleitgen on Reporting From Iran and What the Media Narrative Doesn't Capture Bob Vylan Addresses Glastonbury Controversy: "We Are Not for the Death of Jews" The fest also unveiled the lineup for this year's Locarno Kids Screenings, the section dedicated to younger audiences. The program includes Arco, a French animated feature about unexpected friendship and the fate of a world impacted by climate change that won the best film award at this year's Annecy film festival and counts Natalie Portman among its producers. 'Barelli has established himself as one of the most promising and original voices in Swiss and international animation cinema,' Locarno organizers said. 'In short films, such as Gypaetus helveticus (2011), Vigia (2013) – winner of the Pardino d'Argento at the 66th Locarno Film Festival, Lucens (2015), and Habitat (2016), Barelli has developed a unique poetic style sensitive to themes of environmental sustainability, exploring the deep relationship between humans, animals, and nature. In 2022, he received the Swiss Film Award for best animated film with Dans la nature (2021).' Said Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival: 'Marcel Barelli represents an idea of resistance to the conformism of emotions, which becomes a light and dreamy trait to outline a world to rethink and rebuild, returning it to human beings of all ages. According to Barelli, cinema and animation are made of the same material as the most precious and generous dreams.' The 78th edition of the Locarno festival takes place Aug. 6-16. Here is the lineup for the Locarno Kids Screenings 2025: Arco by Ugo Bienvenu – Opening Film Swiss Premiere Fantastique by Marjolijn Prins World Premiere Grevlingene (The Badgers) by Paul M. Lundø – Closing Film World Premiere io non ti lascio solo by Fabrizio Cattani World Premiere L'Olívia i el terratrèmol invisible (Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake) by Irene Iborra Rizo International Premiere Skrzat. Nowy początek (Pixie. The New Beginning) by Krzysztof Komander International Premiere Tichá pošta (Secret Delivery) by Ján Sebechlebský International Premiere Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts
LeMonde
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- LeMonde
Annecy animation festival awards top prize to 'Arco' by Ugo Bienvenu
While many French animation studios and their teams are grappling with a crisis, the French animation industry received significant recognition during the closing ceremony of the 49 th Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Saturday, June 14. The Cristal for Best Feature Film was awarded to Arco, named after a young hero from the future who falls from the sky and is taken in by a girl his age, Iris (their names reference "arco iris," rainbow in Spanish). This debut animated feature confirms 38-year-old Ugo Bienvenu's talent for crafting humanist futuristic fiction, whether it emerges in comics, like System Preference, or on the big screen. Another French production honored was Planètes (Planets) by Momoko Seto, which won the Paul-Grimault Prize. Described during its Annecy screening as "an action movie with plants," the film follows four dandelion achenes on an epic migratory journey. In the short film category, the jury also awarded a Cristal to French director Pierre-Luc Granjon for Les Bottes de la nuit (The Night Boots), a film created using the pinscreen animation technique and intended for a young audience.
Miami Herald
29-05-2025
- General
- Miami Herald
Two Powerball players win $1 million in California. Where were lucky tickets sold?
Two Powerball players in California won $1.3 million each, just missing the $190 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The tickets matched five winning numbers but not the Powerball in the drawing Wednesday, May 28, the California Lottery said. California adjusts lottery prizes based on the number of tickets sold and number of winners. The lucky tickets were sold at an Arco gas station in Newman, about a 25-mile drive south of Modesto, and a Ralphs supermarket in Orange, about a 30-mile drive southeast from Los Angeles, the lottery said. A $1 million Powerball ticket also was sold in Washington. Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $207 million, with a cash value of about $91 million, for the next drawing Saturday, May 31, the national Powerball site said. The winning numbers were 23, 27, 32, 35 and 59, with a Powerball of 11, the lottery said. The Power Play multiplier was 2x. More than 385,000 other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $50,000, the lottery said. The Powerball jackpot was last won April 26, when a Kentucky player hit the $167 million grand prize, lottery officials said. What to know about Powerball To score a jackpot in the Powerball, a player must match all five white balls and the red Powerball. The odds of scoring the jackpot prize are 1 in 292,201,338. Tickets can be bought on the day of the drawing, but sales times and price vary by state. Drawings are broadcast Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:59 p.m. ET and can be streamed online. Powerball is played in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cannes Awards Predictions: Deadline's Critics Make Their Picks For This Year's Palme D'Or & Other Main Prizes
As the lights go up on the last of the 22 films in Competition this year, Deadline's critics reflect on the potential winners in what must be the strongest lineup in recent years… PETE HAMMOND More from Deadline Neon Taking Rights To Natalie Portman Cannes Animation 'Arco' 'Honey Don't!' Review: Margaret Qualley Stars As A Gutsy Private Eye In Ethan Coen's Messy Comic Noir - Cannes Film Festival 'Imago' Director Déni Oumar Pitsaev On Winning Two Prizes In Cannes: "I Didn't Expect It At All" I don't think I've seen a Cannes Film Festival with so many enthusiastic reviews from the press. Only a handful of films seemed to get totally negative notices and none of them across the board. I walked out on a couple, including Resurrection, the Chinese film. Life is just too short. I also didn't make it through Sebastian Lelio's The Wave, or the Italian women's prison flick Fuori despite liking Italians and its star Valeria Golino. I just wasn't feeling it. Otherwise, I have to say everything else I saw was above average but some of it overpraised in other quarters. Calm down! I mean, The Secret Agent was good, but not that good. It wasn't only in the Competition where gems could be found. Iraq's first film ever here, The President's Cake — the People's Choice winner over at Directors' Fortnight — was an early favorite of mine, as was Scarlett Johansson's directing debut — Eleanor the Great in Un Certain Regard — starring the incomparable June Squibb, a powerhouse at age 95. Also, in UCR I was impressed with Nigeria's first-ever Cannes entry My Father's Shadow. In Cannes Premiere I admired Faith Akin's Amrum, and also Splitsville, the hilarious follow-up to The Climb from Michael Angelo Covino. But here are my predictions for the big prizes in the main competition. Just keep in mind the fact that juries are almost impossible to predict and — endless standing ovations and critical praise aside — we don't really know which way the winds are blowing. You can check out the UCR winners here. Palme d'Or: (Joaquim Trier) The buzziest possibility. It just feels like a winner Grand Prize: (Jafar Panahi)The backstory of his two imprisonments in Iran aside, this movie was great. Jury Prize: (Kleber Mendonca Filho)I just figure the jury might react the way critics did — but not give it the top award. Director: Richard Linklater ()This is more wishful thinking because it was the best film I saw in Cannes. Screenplay: (Mascha Schilinski)The first film shown for Competition. Reviews were ecstatic, so it will probably get something. I wasn't overwhelmed. Actor: Sergi Lopez ()Great movie. This veteran actor is due — plus, what an emotional heartbreaking performance! Actress: Parinaz Izadyar ()Sorry, Jennifer Lawrence. You gave it your all, but this performance has Best Actress written all over it. DAMON WISE This has certainly been the strongest Cannes for many years, and it's tempting to think that some of the films singled out for a panning (Julia Ducorneau's Alpha for one) were in the firing line simply because the critics were struggling to find an out-and-out dud to unload on. Personally, I liked Alpha; it didn't always work, but its hallucinogenic quality has stayed with me. Likewise, I went against the flow with Ari Aster's Eddington — I like films that aim high, and this one, though it's definitely way too long, didn't fall as far as many claimed. Ditto Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love; that woman can do no wrong for me. Once again, this festival is always an astonishing showcase for acting, and 2025 was no exception. The big difference this year was that so many actors became directors for the 78th edition, all of 'em in Un Certain regard, this year's starriest section. Scarlett Johansson pulled off an accomplished indie with Eleanor the Great, but I preferred Harris Dickinson's superb character study Urchin, a great showcase for Frank Dillane as a homeless guy in London. I'm also thinking a lot about Kristen Stewart's brave debut Chronology of Water, which makes me think of her as a Beatnik born after her time. As Pete says, juries almost literally live on another planet, being sequestered from the likes of us and our soothsaying. But, for what it's worth, here are my guesses… Palme d'Or: (Joaquim Trier) Joachim Trier has never made a bad film, and now he's gone ahead and made a masterpiece that would make Henrik Ibsen's sideburns curl. It's brilliantly directed, written and acted; just thinking about it makes me cry! Grand Prize: (Oliver Luxe)The grand slam of the festival; everyone either loves this apocalyptic techno drama, or loves the beginning, or loves the ending. Jury Prize: Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)This is an amazing film, end of. I saw it twice and look forward to seeing it again. Director: Bi Gan ()It drove me mad, but there is so much brilliance on show here. Screenplay: (Sergei Loznitza)After Navad Lapid's incendiary Yes in Directors' Fortnight, this is the most political film in the festival, a Kafkaesque nightmare about Soviet life under Stalin that, somehow, we are all now living through. Actor: Guillaume Marbeck ()Everything about Richard Linklater's sparkling white wine of a dramedy deserves a prize, but Marbeck's performance as Jean-Luc Godard is the one that stands out most for me. Actress: Jennifer Lawrence ()Sorry, Parinaz Izadyar. Pete's right; you are terrific in Woman and Child, but Lawrence's performance here has got to be her best to date. And that's some high bar. 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Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Neon Taking North American Rights To Natalie Portman Cannes Animation ‘Arco'
EXCLUSIVE: Neon is closing up a North America deal for rights to Natalie Portman-voiced animation Arco, which recently launched at the Cannes Film Festival. French director Ugo Bienvenu's animated feature, which has been described as 'France's answer to Studio Ghibli', is about a boy who uses rainbows to travel through time and his adventures as he gets stuck in the wrong era. There's chatter the movie could feature in the awards race. More from Deadline 'Imago' Director Déni Oumar Pitsaev On Winning Two Prizes In Cannes: "I Didn't Expect It At All" Foul Play Suspected In Cannes Power Outage With Electricity Pylons Sabotaged Cannes Power Restored; Festival Closing Ceremony To Go Ahead As Planned In Wake Of Five-Hour Power Outage In South Of France Oscar winner Portman is also producing with Sophie Mas under their joint Paris and New York banner MountainA with Félix de Givry at Paris-based Remembers. The movie debuted as a special screening in Cannes. It's another win for Neon, which has been voracious once again at Cannes, also acquiring The Secret Agent, It Was Just An Accident and Sirat, in addition to Sentimental Value, which they already had. Taking its cue from the fantasy premise that rainbows are time machines, the movie revolves around 10 year old rainbow-child Arco, who lives in the distant future, 2932. His maiden journey in his multi-colored suit does not go to plan. He loses control and veers off course to land in a near future, 2075, where Iris, a girl the same age as Arco, witnesses his fall and then makes it her mission to get him home. Arco is the first feature for Bienvenu after short films Maman and L'entretien and comic books. His multi-awarded best seller System Preference has been translated in over 10 languages and was released by Penguin in the US, England, and Canada at the end of 2023. Bienvenu, who studied and now teaches at France's famed Gobelins animation school in Paris, has built his production team from talent he trained and nurtured there. Portman will be among the English-language voice cast. The French language voice cast will feature Alma Jodorowsky (Blue Is The Warmest Colour), Swann Arlaud (Anatomy of a Fall), Vincent Macaigne (C'est La Vie, Suspended Time) and Louis Garrel (Little Women, The Dreamers) and rapper Oxmo Puccino. Exec producers are Jamil Shamasdin, alongside Bill Way and Elliott Whitton for Fit Via Vi, and Douglas Choi and Martina Bassenger for Sons of Rigor. Arco marks the first feature animation for Portman and Mas' MountainA since its launch in 2020. The company made its festival debut at Cannes 2023 with Todd Haynes' May December. Goodfellas and CAA Media Finance are repping rights. Best of Deadline 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg Everything We Know About Amazon's 'Verity' Movie So Far Everything We Know About 'The Testaments,' Sequel Series To 'The Handmaid's Tale' So Far
