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22-05-2025
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Carla Simón's ‘Romería' Gets 11-Minute Ovation In Cannes Debut
Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón made her debut in the Cannes Film Festival competition on Wednesday afternoon, world premiering her latest work, Romería, to an 11-minute ovation. Simón, directing from her own screenplay, here tells the story of Marina (Llúcia Garcia), an 18-year-old who was orphaned at a young age, and must travel to Spain's Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met. She navigates a sea of new aunts, uncles and cousins, uncertain whether she will be embraced or face resistance. More from Deadline 'Romería' Review: Carla Simón Takes The Scenic Route For A Highly Personal Journey Of Self-Discovery – Cannes Film Festival Spanish Filmmaker Carla Simon Returns With Cannes Competition Title 'Romeria' — First Look Clip Sales Agency First Slate International Debuts With Genre Features Including 'Surviving Silence' & 'Those Who Call' - Cannes Market The experience stirs long-buried emotions as Marina pieces together the fragmented and often contradictory memories of the parents she barely remembers. This is Simón's third feature after Summer 1993 (2017) and Alcarràs (2022). The latter won the Golden Bear in Berlin and was selected as Spain's entry for the Best International Feature Film Oscar. Those films were shot in the middle of the Catalonian countryside. With Romería, she embraces her Galician roots, mixing professional and non-professional actors. Simón has said Romería is 'a film about the importance of family memory: and about how to shape your identity. When you can't shape your identity through others, you can invent it through creation. Cinema is there for that: creating images that don't exist.' Ad Vitam has French distribution and mk2 is handling international sales. Best of Deadline 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? Everything We Know About The 'Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping' Movie So Far Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds
Yahoo
20-05-2025
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Marie Kreutzer's ‘Gentle Monster‘ Wins €20,000 ArteKino Prize at Cannes Market's Investors Circle + Full List of Projects
Marie Kreutzer's upcoming feature Gentle Monster has clinched the 2025 ArteKino International Prize at the Cannes Market's third Investors Circle event, with the prize money going to the producers Alexander Glehr and Johanna Scherz for development of the project. Kreutzer's latest film after Corsage with Vicky Krieps, Gentle Monster will take the spectator on the unsettling journey of an internationally renowned pianist who moves her family from Munich to the countryside and uncovers life-shattering truths about her partner. More from Deadline Wes Anderson Teases Next Project With Richard Ayoade & Roman Coppola - Cannes Marie Kreutzer's Upcoming Film 'Gentle Monster' Wins €20,000 ArteKino Prize at Cannes Market's Investors Circle + Full List of Projects 'The Phoenician Scheme' Director Wes Anderson Questions Trump Tariffs: "Does That Mean You Can Hold Up The Movie In Customs?" It was one of 10 projects pitched at the third Investors Circle event on May 18, aimed at connecting elevated arthouse projects with investors. The festival has also unveiled details of the projects, which were under wraps until the event was over, which include new films by Belgium's Lukas Dhont, whose second film Close shared Cannes Grand Prix; Hungarian festival regular Kornél Mundruczó, who won the Un Certain Regard Prize for White God, as well as Austrian Cannes regular Jessica Hausner. (scroll down for full list). 'I'm surprised in the most positive way,' said director Marie Kreutzer about her win. 'Filmmaking is a really big mountain, and what happens before the premiere – to get a film made – is a very long climb. So we really need people who want to support cinema and have love for cinema – that's why meeting investors is extremely important. I had great conversations with these investors so far. The script has sparked their interest, and they're eager to learn more about the project.' Celine Dornier, VP Financing & Acquisitions at Logical Pictures Group and one of the selected investors invited to attend the event, also praised the event. 'The Investors Circle is a rare and valuable event,' she said. 'It's truly designed with investors in mind, which makes all the difference. The selection of projects is consistently high-level, with prestigious and diverse filmmakers that match what I'm looking for.' Full-list of projects: Coward (working title)Directed by Lukas Dhont (Belgium)Produced by Michiel Dhont at The Reunion DisorderDirected by Giacomo Abbruzzese (Italy)Produced by Marco Alessi, Giulia Achilli at Dugong Films Gentle MonsterDirected by Marie Kreutzer (Austria)Produced by Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz at Film AG Produktions GmbH KamoDirected by Kornél Mundruczó (Hungary)Produced by Mike Goodridge at Good Chaos, Ilya Stewart at Hype Studios and Balthazar de Ganay MotherloveDirected by Eliza Hittman (US)Produced by Paul Mezey, Andrew Goldman at Present Company On Land and SeaDirected by Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland)Produced by Katrin Pors at Snowglobe and Anton Máni Svansson at STILL VIVID Poeta ChilenoDirected by Sebastián Lelio (Chile)Produced by Rocío Jadue, Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín at Fabula Quo Vadis, Aida – The missing partDirected by Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)Produced by Damir Ibrahimović at Deblokada The PumaDirected by Marcela Said (France/Chile)Produced by Carole Scotta, Barbara Letellier, Eliott Khayat at Haut et Court ToxicDirected by Jessica Hausner (Austria)Produced by Johannes Schubert at Schubert and Philippe Bober at Coproduction Office Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? Everything We Know About Ari Aster's 'Eddington' So Far
Yahoo
20-05-2025
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Breaking Baz @ Cannes: Nicole Kidman, 'The Barefoot Queen Of Cannes', Wanted To Party On The Beach But Had To Fly Home For Her Kids' Exams
One can only marvel at Nicole Kidman's astuteness. The actress and producer wanted to know where I was scooting off to after the Kering/Festival de Cannes Women in Motion dinner Sunday night. When I started to tell her about the afterparty for Akinola Davies Jr's My Father's Shadow, her eyes lit up. 'That's one of the hits of the festival, right? First-time director, shot in Nigeria, right?' More from Deadline Nicole Kidman Talks Viral 'Babygirl' TikToks & Gives Mascha Schilinski's 'Sound Of Falling' A Shoutout During Cannes Talk Breaking Baz @ Cannes: Floating With Women In Cinema At The Hotel du Cap & Breaking Into The Mubi/Match Factory Soiree Marie Kreutzer's 'Gentle Monster' Wins €20,000 ArteKino Prize at Cannes Market's Investors Circle + Full List of Projects Kidman then proceeded to quiz me about the movie and the filmmaker siblings Akinola and Wale Davies, who penned the script together. She would've loved the party on the beach thrown jointly for My Father's Shadow and Harry Lighton's biker romance Pillion. During his presentation to Kidman, Cannes fest chief Thierry Frémaux hailed her as the 'Barefoot Queen of Cannes' because of her propensity to whip off her heels whenever possible. 'Yeah, but you're not allowed to do that now,' she observed to me later. 'But I'm OK with the 'Barefoot Queen of Cannes' label because I'm a rebel — always have been and always will be,' she declared. She'd have been more than welcome to go dancing barefoot with Akinola and his gang. Alas, it wasn't to be. After posing with fellow Women in Motion honoree Marianna Brennand — garlanded for her film Manas, about acts of incest in a remote part of the Amazon basin in Brazil — Kidman told me that she had to get back to 'my daughters' Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret in Nashville to help with their exams. RELATED: Then it's on to Practical Magic 2 with director Susanne Bier starring Sandra Bullock and Kidman, and produced by them and Denise Di Novi. 'We continue on,' she explained, some 27 years after the original story of cursed witches was released. Kidman noted the significance of having 'a woman' direct the sequel after Griffin Dunne shot the 1998 pic. She has 'some things circulating, but I haven't decided yet' what to follow Practical Magic 2 with. Returning to the stage is something that's on her to-do list. 'My kids are growing up, so it gives me a freer hand. They're much more willing to travel. … It's very hard to do theater when you have kids in school. They're 14 and turning 17,' noting that Sunday Rose will be headed to college the year after next. The Oscar-winning artist last trod the boards 10 years ago, portraying DNA pioneer scientist Rosalind Franklin in Anna Ziegler's play Photograph 51, directed by Michael Grandage. Natalie Portman will portray Franklin in a screen version of Photograph 51 directed by Tom Hooper. Over the coming weeks and months, Kidman said that she'll catch up with many of the films screened in Cannes citing the aforementioned My Father's Shadow; Lynne Ramsay's electrifying Die My Love, starring an unbelievably sublime Jennifer Lawrence opposite Robert Pattinson; Mascha Schilinski's Sound of Falling; and, of course, she's eager to see Urchin, directed by her Babygirl co-star Harris Dickinson. 'There's been no time to see it,' she lamented. 'I sent Harris a text about it.' Kidman's acceptance speech was spot-on about not just wanting to work with women directors but also women writers, cinematographers and other heads of department. It was instructive to listen but also to watch the likes of Dakota Johnson, Julia Garner, Julianne Moore, Salma Hayek and Charli XCX nodding in agreement. I also liked François-Henri Pinault remarking that 'equality is not just a woman issue — it's a human one.' Indeed, equality in all issues, whether they be gender, race and sexuality, is a human one. I'd argue that the best party in Cannes on Sunday night — and way, way into Monday morning — was the one Mubi organized for My Father's Shadow and Pillion, both of which were produced by Element Pictures, BBCFilm and the BFI. Mubi has North America, the UK, Ireland and Turkey on My Father's Shadow. A24 has interests in Pillion. RELATED: In My Father's Shadow, the always excellent Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù plays the father of two schoolage boys. He travels to Lagos with his two sons on June 12, 1993, the day of the infamous Nigerian general elections. The screenplay by the Davies brothers focuses on the father's relationship with his sons, but their story is underpinned by corrupt forces trying to oust the father figure meant to lead the West African nation. The powerful sweep of the film has had many in tears. However, there were only tears of joy at the party. The music had a full-on Afro beat, and by the time I arrived after midnight, the dance floor has packed solid. Normally people tend to slip away when the bar closes, but revelers were still dancing at 3 a.m., high on good vibes. Actor Wendell Pierce observed the raucous dancing from the safety of the beach. He told me that he recently completed a full-length film version of the Jack Ryan series he stars in with John Krasinski. They shot the Amazon movie in London, Dubai, New York and Washington D.C. Pierce will be working on the third season of Elsbeth. Per chance, the actor was hanging out with Melvin Taylor II, who also works on Elsbeth. Taylor's in Cannes for Baldy the Film, a short he wrote and executive produced. Next April, Pierce will take the title role in Othello, which Simon Godwin will direct for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. 'There's a chance we might take it to London,' said Pierce. Pillion star Harry Melling had departed by the time I arrived after midnight, the party having kicked off at 9 p.m. Sunday. But Alexander Skarsgård, Melling's co-star, was in full party mode, though I didn't actually see him shakin' it on the dance floor like Dìrísù, who would have done his Nigerian ancestors proud. Dìrísù, and Akinola too, propelled their bodies high and low, the West African way. The trendy Cannes crowd who pack out the private parties up in the hills above the Croisette would have had fun shimmying to a West African beat. Quentin Tarantino on Richard Linklater's Cannes legend Quentin Tarantino wasn't able to chat with me following the ecstatic world premiere screening in the Palais of Richard Linklater's movie Nouvelle Vague, about the making of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. Tarantino saw it twice in one day. Tarantino very kindly posted me a note about Nouvelle Vague which read: 'It made me weep because it reminded me how much I loved Godard's early films as a young man in my twenties. But more importantly it gave me back the joy that I felt in his early work that maturity and Godard's boorish hateful personality had robbed me off. But make no mistake, that 'Joy' is not Godard's … it's Linklater's.' Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
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17-05-2025
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Meet The Space Program, the Producing Collective Behind Buzzy Cannes Film ‘The Plague': ‘For Indie Movies, It's Not One Size Fits All'
The Space Program, a New York-based team of indie producers, describes itself as a collective. The way things work is that the three-person team collaborates on all projects — with one person taking lead and the others assuming supporting roles, depending on the film. 'We have been able to become a safety net for each other and for the films and the filmmakers,' explained Gus Deardoff, who runs the company along with Lizzie Shapiro and Lexi Tannenholtz. 'It means there's always someone available, which helps because filmmakers really need instantaneous contact with their producers at all times, and sometimes you get spread very thin. This way, we have several lines of defense.' More from Variety Indonesia's Angga Dwimas Sasongko Unveils Action Epic 'Queen of Malacca' at Cannes Market (EXCLUSIVE) Cannes Competition: Chie Hayakawa's 'Renoir' Explores Childhood Grief Within Japan's Bubble Era 'The Chronology of Water' Review: Kristen Stewart's Directorial Debut Is a Stirring Drama of Abuse and Salvation, Told With Poetic Passion The company, which has worked on the feature debuts of Boots Riley ('Sorry to Bother You') and Emma Seligman ('Shiva Baby'), takes a particular interest in first-time filmmakers. 'We love working with people that we want to be able to grow with,' said Tannenholtz. 'We pick directors who we know are going to be making a lot of movies over the course of their careers.' One such filmmaker is Charlie Polinger, whose first film, 'The Plague,' will premiere in Un Certain Regard at Cannes this year. It tells the story of a group of preadolescent boys who bully and torment each other at a water polo camp. 'It's a violent sport,' said Shapiro. 'The above-water game, you need to follow the rules, but the below- water game, you can scratch and kick and pull at each other. Charlie thought that was a perfect metaphor for the way boys can behave.' The eerie film, which The Space Program team liken to the work of Todd Field, but required a global search to find the right setting and the necessary incentives. 'I budgeted that movie in New York, New Jersey, Vancouver, Toronto, Ireland, Budapest, Sophia, Bulgaria and Bucharest,' said Shapiro. 'We were on the hunt for a big pool.' They ultimately landed in Romania. Early buzz on the film is strong and Polinger has already lined up a new project, A24's 'The Masque of the Red Death' with Sydney Sweeney tapped for the lead role. As for The Space Program, they have a busy dance card. Up next is 'Pure,' the latest film from writer and director Catherine Schetina ('The Bear'), which will star Zoey Deutch. It's about a young woman who begins to rot from the inside out as her life threatens to unravel at her sister's wedding. It's just the kind of quirky, unique, out-of-the-box story that The Space Program was formed to support. 'Maybe we are not the people who do your 'Star Wars' with you, but after you've made your 'Star Wars' and you'd like to make a more personal movie again, we are the people that you really want to collaborate with,' said Deardoff. Part of that means that The Space Program will keep rolling the money it makes on different productions into the next one, hustling to keep projects moving forward in a business where films frequently fall apart at the last minute. 'Every movie is different, and every movie needs something different,' said Tannenholtz. 'And what success means for each movie is different across the board. So we have to approach everything with an individualized strategy. For indie movies, it's not one size fits all.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz Oscars Predictions 2026: 'Sinners' Becomes Early Contender Ahead of Cannes Film Festival
Express Tribune
15-05-2025
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Aimee Lou Wood joins Angelina Jolie in film adaptation of Fredrik Backman's novel 'Anxious People'
Aimee Lou Wood has joined the cast of Anxious People, a new feature directed by Marc Forster, where she will star opposite Angelina Jolie. The film, adapted from the novel by Fredrik Backman, is currently being presented to buyers at the Cannes Market by Black Bear for international rights and WME Independent for domestic distribution. Wood, known for her performances in Sex Education and The White Lotus season three, will play Grace, a would-be bank robber who inadvertently holds a group of strangers hostage during an open house the day before Christmas Eve. Jolie stars as Zara, an investment banker reluctantly present at the scene. The plot unfolds through unexpected revelations and a blend of comedy and drama as the group confronts hidden truths. The screenplay has been written by David Magee, whose credits include A Man Called Otto, Life of Pi, and Finding Neverland. The film reunites several creatives from A Man Called Otto, including producers Fredrik Wikström Nicastro and Renée Wolfe, who are working with Forster under their banner 2DUX2 alongside Hope Studios. Black Bear's broader lineup at Cannes includes Shutout from David O. Russell, starring Robert De Niro and Jenna Ortega.
