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Charli XCX Starrer ‘100 Nights of Hero' to Close Venice Critics' Week
Venice Critics' Week, the sidebar section of the Venice Film Festival, unveiled its lineup Monday, revealing the opening and closing films as well as the seven-title competition. The section runs Aug. 27-Sept. 6. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'In the End, Everything Will Be Okay' With 'Money Heist' Star Esther Acebo Boarded by Citizen Skull (Exclusive) Netflix Greenlights K-Pop Drama 'Variety' Starring Son Ye-jin and Jo Yu-ri Ellen DeGeneres Says She and Wife Portia de Rossi Moved to the U.K. Because of President Trump Stereo Girls, a 1990s-set drama from Caroline Deruas Peano about the relationship of two 17-year-old girls, will open Venice Critics' Week, screening out of competition. Julia Jackman's 100 Nights of Hero, a 'feminist fairy tale' starring Emma Corrin, Charli XCX, Maika Monroe, Nicholas Galitzine, Richard E. Grant, Amir El-Masry and Felicity Jones, will close the sidebar. The 2025 competition lineup also includes Giulio Bertelli's Agon, a drama centered around female athletes competing in fictional Olympics; Straight Circle, a dark comedy centered on two soldiers in an isolated barracks, and the feature debut of music video director Oscar Hudson; and Ish from Imran Perretta, which explores the lasting impact of a traumatic incident, on two 12-year-old boys, of a police stop and search. The Venice main competition lineup will be announced Tuesday. Two-time Oscar-winning director Alexander Payne (The Holdovers, Sideways, Nebraska) will head up its jury as president. He will be joined by Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof, French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé (At War), Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero (Vermiglio), Palme d'Or winning Romanian director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and Chinese actress Zhao Tao (Ash Is the Purest White) Check out the full Venice Critics' Week program below. Venice Critics' Week Competition Agon, Giulio Bertelli (Italy, U.S., France)Cotton Queen, Suzannah Mirghani (Germany, France, Palestine, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia)Gorgonà, Evi Kalogiropoulou (Greece, France)Ish, Imran Perretta (U.K.)Roqia, Yanis Koussim (Algeria, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia)Straight Circle, Oscar Hudson (U.K.)Waking Hours, Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini (Italy)Out of CompetitionOpening Film: Stereo Girls, Caroline Deruas Peano (France, Canada)Closing Film: 100 Nights of Hero, Julia Jackman (U.K.) Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Greatest Needle Drops in Film History The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best Solve the daily Crossword
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Jude Law as Putin among highlights in Venice Film Festival line-up
Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Emma Stone are among the stars set to attend this year's Venice Film Festival. A total of 21 films will compete for the top prize, the Golden Lion, as announced by festival director Alberto Barbera on Tuesday. The competition line-up includes acclaimed directors Jim Jarmusch, Guillermo del Toro and Yorgos Lanthimos. The festival will run from August 27 to September 6. Jude Law as Putin and other competition highlights One standout is the new thriller by Olivier Assayas, which centres on the rise of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "The Wizard of the Kremlin" will be shown in competition. Jude Law plays Putin, with Alicia Vikander and Paul Dano also starring. The story is told from the perspective of a fictional adviser. Noah Baumbach will present his comedy "Jay Kelly," which marks another collaboration with his wife, "Barbie" director Greta Gerwig. The cast includes Clooney, Adam Sandler and Laura Dern. Jarmusch's new film "Father Mother Sister Brother" features Cate Blanchett, Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling and Vicky Krieps. Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in martial arts drama Emma Stone has once again teamed up with Venice regular Lanthimos, whose "Poor Things" premiered at the festival in 2023. Alongside Jesse Plemons and Alicia Silverstone, Stone stars in "Bugonia," a new sci-fi story screening in competition. Actor and director Benny Safdie will premiere "The Smashing Machine" in Venice, a biopic about mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr, starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. Directors Park Chan-wook and François Ozon are also in the running for the Golden Lion with their latest films. Julia Roberts stars in #MeToo drama The festival will open with "La Grazia," the latest film from Paolo Sorrentino, which is also in competition — unlike the new work by his fellow Italian director Luca Guadagnino. Guadagnino's new thriller "After the Hunt" focuses on the issue of sexual harassment and stars Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield. Roberts plays a college professor caught in the middle of a #MeToo scandal. Solve the daily Crossword
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Venice Film Festival lineup features Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Emma Stone and Dwayne Johnson
Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Emma Stone, Dwayne Johnson, Adam Sandler and Idris Elba are just some of the celebrities headlining films at this year's Venice International Film Festival. Organizers on Tuesday unveiled the starry lineup for its 82nd edition, which kicks off a busy fall film festival season in August. Two years after launching 'Poor Things' at Venice, Yorgos Lanthimos and Stone are returning with 'Bugonia,' an English language remake of the South Korean sci-fi comedy 'Save the Green Planet!' that is among the 21 films playing in the main competition. Clooney will also be back as star of Noah Baumbach's 'Jay Kelly,' in which he plays a famous actor on a trip through Europe with his longtime manager (Sandler). Some of the other high-profile titles competing for the Golden Lion include: Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein,' with Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the monster; Chloé Zhao's 'Hamnet,' a work of historical fiction about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his wife (Jessie Buckley) after the death of their son; and Benny Safdie's sports drama 'The Smashing Machine,' starring Johnson as MMA fighter Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as his wife. Also in competition are Kathryn Bigelow's 'A House of Dynamite,' a political thriller about an imminent missile strike on the U.S., starring Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson, and Jim Jarmusch's anthology film 'Father Mother Sister Brother,' with Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver. Many master filmmakers are also in the section: Park Chan-wook will debut 'No Other Choice'; László Nemes has his most personal film yet in 'Orphan'; and François Ozon takes on an Albert Camus adaptation with 'L'étranger.' One of the titles bound to make waves is Kaouther Ben Hania's 'The Voice of Hind Rajab," about the young girl who was killed along with six other relatives when they were trapped in their car under Israeli fire in northern Gaza. Luca Guadagnino's 'After the Hunt,' a psychological thriller for the #MeToo era about a complaint of sexual violence at an American university, is debuting out of competition — a joint decision between the filmmaker and Amazon MGM. It will mark Roberts' first time at the festival. She co-stars in the film with Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri. Julian Schnabel's 'In the Hand of Dante,' based on the cult novel, with Isaac, Gal Gadot, Al Pacino and Martin Scorsese, is also showing out of competition, as is Gus Van Sant's 'Dead Man's Wire,' with Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo and an appearance by Pacino. The festival held on the Lido, a barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, will open with Paolo Sorrentino's 'La Grazia,' starring Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti, on Aug. 27 and run through Sept. 6. Alexander Payne is presiding over the main competition jury, which also includes actor Fernanda Torres and directors Cristian Mungiu, Mohammad Rasoulof and Maura Delpero. Venice has established itself as a solid launching pad for Oscar hopefuls, with a handful of best picture winners, including 'The Shape of Water,' 'Spotlight,' 'Nomadland' and 'Birdman,' and many more nominees to its name. Last year's edition had several eventual Oscar winning films in the lineup, including Brady Corbet's 'The Brutalist,' which won three including best actor for Adrien Brody, Walter Salles' best international feature winner 'I'm Still Here,' and the animated short 'In the Shadow of the Cypress.' Corbet co-wrote another competition entry with his partner Mona Fastvold, who directed, 'The Testament of Ann Lee' with Amanda Seyfried. Like 'The Brutalist,' it was also shot on 70 mm, but is quite a bit shorter. Venice will be just the first stop for several films, including 'Hamnet,' 'Frankenstein' and 'The Smashing Machine,' which will all go on to play at the Toronto Film Festival shortly after. The festival has programmed 15 documentaries out of competition including Golden Lion winner Laura Poitras, and Mark Obenhaus's, 'Cover-Up,' about investigative journalist Seymour Hersh; Sofia Coppola's documentary 'Marc by Sofia' about her longtime friendship with fashion designer Marc Jacobs; Werner Herzog's doc 'Ghost Elephants,' described as being as exciting as a thriller; and 'Kim Novak's Vertigo." Both Novak and Herzog are being honored with lifetime achievement awards during the festival.
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25-05-2025
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Hot Cannes Titles, Summer Movies, and Hollywood's Tariff Threat — This Week's ‘Screen Talk' Podcast
As your 'Screen Talk' co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio pack for Cannes, we preview the hot titles for sale, the studio marketing launches, the possible Competition prize contenders, and the movies that have already released trailers. We speculate about the potential brought by President Trump's latest proposal of a 100 percent tariff on movies filmed overseas. And we preview the summer lineup. In new news, the already sprawling Cannes Film Festival has just welcomed a few new additions: Bi Gan's 'Resurrection' finally joins the competition after much speculation and anticipation, as well as Eugene Jarecki's delayed Julian Assange documentary 'The Six Billion Dollar Man,' which was pulled from Sundance due to developments in the story. More from IndieWire 'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life' Review: This Delightful, If Slight, French Trifle Riffs on Classic Romance John C. Reilly Brings the Wild American West to Italy as Buffalo Bill in Cannes Premiere 'Heads or Tails?' - Watch Exclusive Clip Among the competition titles without North American berths are Lynne Ramsay's 'Die, My Love,' starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson; Richard Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague,' with Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, about the 1960 shooting of Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless'; 'It Was Just An Accident,' from exiled Iranian director Jafar Panahi; and 'The Young Mother's Home,' from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. In Un Certain Regard are two actor-turned-directors looking for homes: Kristen Stewart ('The Chronology Of Water') and Harris Dickinson ('Urchin'). But these are small arthouse titles. The packages for sale in the market will drive some business. Susanna White's movie version of Suzie Miller's one-woman show 'Prima Facie,' which starred Jodie Comer on Broadway, features 'Wicked' Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo; David O. Russell directs Robert De Niro and Jenna Ortega in 'Shutout,' about a pool hustler. Rookie director Maria Martinez Bayona's sci-fi entry 'The End Of It' stars Rebecca Hall, Gael García Bernal, Noomi Rapace, and Beanie Feldstein. Marc Forster's 'Anxious People' stars Angelina Jolie as a banker taken hostage with strangers during an open house. Werner Herzog's 'Bucking Fastard' tells the true story of inseparable twin sisters Joan and Jean Holbrooke (real-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara), who become obsessed with their next-door neighbor. Many market titles never get made, but we hope to see this one, which shot this year. The official Competition isn't screaming Academy fare. The likeliest titles to win prizes and head for Oscars include Joachim Trier's 'Sentimental Value' (Neon; Norway could submit, depending on its English-to-Norwegian ratio) and 'The History of Sound' (MUBI could be back in the conversation). Cannes prizes are up to the jury, led by Juliette Binoche, with actors Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, directors Hong Sang Soo, Dieudo Hamadi, Payal Kapadia, and Carlos Reygadas, and French-Moroccan diplomat/journalist Leïla Slimani. Juries tend to agree on what's emotionally moving most of the time, which is why the Dardennes have won twice. The biggest Cannes marketing launch is Paramount's eighth 'Mission Impossible' film, 'The Final Reckoning,' which plays out of competition at the festival May 14 with Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie on hand, followed by releases around the world May 23. Opening on May 30 is 'The Phoenician Scheme' (Focus Features), which looks like trademark Wes Anderson, with rigidly formal production design and a sprawling cast led by Benicio del Toro. A24 and Apple are positioning Spike Lee's out-of-competition Akira Kurosawa reimagining 'Highest 2 Lowest,' which opens August 22, as an early fall contender. Starring his frequent collaborator Denzel Washington, who plays a music titan challenged by a ransom note, the movie looks commercial. (Recent audience polls put Washington at the top of the stars who pull moviegoers into theaters.) Opening the same date is Ethan Coen's detective comedy 'Honey Don't!' (Focus) his second solo effort, starring a returning Margaret Qualley, plus Chris Evans, and Aubrey Plaza, which looks like stylish fun. A24 is also showing at Cannes its Sundance breakout 'Sorry, Baby,' a summer release. This is a must-see quality drama in Directors' Fortnight that marks the discovery of new auteur Eva Victor. This could earn a screenplay nomination at Oscar time. New trailers are out for Ari Aster's Competition title 'Eddington,' which puts us in the realm of a COVID-era movie of doom-scrolling and social uproar. Shih-Ching Tsou's Critics' Week premiere 'Left-Handed Girl' debuted its first teaser. Tsou is a longtime producing and writing partner of Sean Baker, who produces and co-writes this story of a mother who returns to Taipei with her two daughters after several years of living in the countryside to open a night market stand. The summer brings potential pleasures, many of which will inevitably fall flat. Ryan is looking forward to two A24 releases: Celine Song's 'Materialists' (A24), a New York love triangle starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal, and horror entry 'Bring Her Back.' Darren Aronofsky's 'Caught Stealing' (Sony), given its August 29 release date, is likely to break at Venice early or skip festivals. And 'The Roses' (Netflix), Tony McNamara's rewrite of the original 'The War of the Roses' with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, looks promising, starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch as warring about-to-be-divorcees. Anne has seen the May 23 release 'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,' a delightful romantic comedy from French screenwriter-turned-director Laura Piani, which Sony Pictures Classics picked up out of Toronto. Also on a small scale is 'Familiar Touch' (Music Box), starring theater actress Kathleen Chalfont as an elegant sophisticate coping with dementia. From the studios, Warners is hanging on a successful launch for James Gunn's reboot of 'Superman.' Anne liked the Cinemacon footage of the icy Fortress of Solitude (Ryan didn't), and Superman himself David Corenswet looks promising. We both want to see '28 Years Later' (Sony) with Ralph Fiennes under the direction of Danny Boyle and a script by Alex Garland, and Jerry Bruckheimer and Joseph Kosinski's Brad Pitt starrer 'F1' (AppleTV+ and Warners).As for President Trump's movie tariff announcement, this one may qualify as noise that won't amount to much. But his special envoy, Jon Voight, did prepare a report after consulting with guild leaders, who all came back with statements about productive action on the tax incentives front, as opposed to tariffs, which don't mean much when it comes to movies, which have many participants all over the world. California Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing not only for state tax break bills in progress but a national federal incentive. The point is to bring production back to California before the entertainment industry shrinks into nothingness. The White House has already started walking back Trump's comments. There's the question of whether or not he's even legally able to do this. And to wind up, Anne wants to rap horror producer Jason Blum's knuckles for even suggesting that movie patrons use their phones in a movie theater. It's sending the wrong message. The whole point of being in a theater is to leave your outside distractions behind and immerse yourself in the big screen experience. He's teamed with Meta on a chatbot called Movie Mate that encourages people to tap on their phones during movies. Blum staged a one-night experiment on a re-run of the original 'M3GAN.'Best of IndieWire Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 65 Films the Director Wants You to See The 19 Best Thrillers Streaming on Netflix in May, from 'Fair Play' to 'Emily the Criminal' Martin Scorsese's Favorite Movies: 86 Films the Director Wants You to See
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25-05-2025
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Cannes 2025 Films Sold So Far: Oliver Laxe's ‘Sirât' Acquired by Neon
The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and while the Marché Du Film is as booming as ever with exciting packages of future films, there are plenty of titles playing in competition or in the Cannes sidebars that could make a big splash at the box office or the awards season race for the right buyer. Last year's 'The Substance' was acquired by MUBI before it landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination and made $77.3 million worldwide. Here are the 13 films we predicted ahead of the festival could find homes quickly. We'll update the below list with all the acquisitions as they come in. More from IndieWire These Cannes 2025 Prize Winners Will Inspire Oscar Campaigns Cowboys vs. Accountants: The Real World of International Production Financing | Future of Filmmaking Summit at Cannes Section: CompetitionDistributor: NeonDirector: Oliver LaxeBuzz: Neon's buying spree continues in the distributor's quest to again win the Palme d'Or. This one though has some serious 'Mad Max' vibes, a film set amid explosive electronic music at a rave as a father ventures into the Moroccan desert to search for his missing daughter. The film stars Sergi López, Bruno Núñez, Stefania Gadda, and Jade Oukid and was even produced by Pedro Almodóvar. Neon picked up North American rights and is again hoping to release the film later this year. Just no spoilers please! Section: CompetitionDistributor: NeonDirector: Jafar PanahiBuzz: The Iranian auteur Panahi returned to Cannes for the first time since 2003 for this deeply personal film that was inspired and ideated during his second stint in an Iranian prison. Starring Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, and Vahid Mobasser, the film follows a group of dissidents debating whether to kill their former torturer. The film will be released in North America later this year. IndieWire's review called it a 'blistering moral thriller,' and with some of the best reviews of the festival so far, it now looks like a frontrunner for the Palme d'Or. This is also Neon's second time partnering with Panahi after previously releasing his film 'The Year of the Everlasting Storm,' which premiered in Cannes Special Screenings in 2021. Section: CompetitionDistributor: MUBIDirector: Mascha SchilinskiBuzz: Deemed literally the 'buzziest sales title' of Cannes by IndieWire's Ryan Lattanzio and Anne Thompson, 'Sound of Falling' landed at Mubi after a competitive bidding war. Mascha Schilinski's century-spanning coming of age film centers on four generations of women within the same family, all living in a small German farming town across decades. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other, leading to the question: Can memories be inherited, repeated, and ultimately, relived? IndieWire critic David Ehrlich likened Schilinski to being the next Sofia Coppola. It's clear that Mubi has a gem on its hands. Section: CompetitionDistributor: NeonDirector: Kleber Mendonça FilhoBuzz: If you're handicapping the Palme D'Or race, keep an eye on 'The Secret Agent,' because Neon and Tom Quinn clearly like it's odds if they're jumping to acquire it and keep their streak alive. The distributor picked up North American rights and is planning a theatrical release later in 2025. Star Wagner Moura has earned some early buzz for Best Actor at Cannes, and the film earned strong reviews for the Brazilian auteur behind 'Bacarau.' The film also stars Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leon, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho, and Hermila Guedes and follows a technology expert on the run who arrives in Recife, Brazil in 1977 during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son, only to realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks. Section: CompetitionDistributor: MUBIDirector: Lynne RamsayBuzz: The first major sale of Cannes is one of the starriest, with Lynne Ramsay's intense drama about postpartum depression and motherhood starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson going to MUBI in a deal for $24 million, IndieWire can confirm. The film is also expected to get a healthy theatrical window and wide release, and MUBI acquired the North American rights in addition to Latin America, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, BeNeLux, Turkey, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Our review wrote that Lawrence gives the type of performance that is made for the Cannes Best Actress prize in her 'feral' depiction of a woman in rural America engulfed by love and madness. Section: CompetitionDistributor: NeonDirector: Julia DucournauBuzz: It was a hot market title at last year's Cannes, and a year later the latest from the Palme D'Or winner of 'Titane' is back in the main competition. The film follows a 13-year-old girl whose world comes crashing down when she arrives home with a tattoo on her arm. Section: Special ScreeningsDistributor: Apple TV+Director: Andrew DominikBuzz: For his first film since the Marilyn Monroe biopic 'Blonde,' Dominik profiles the U2 frontman as he films the stage production of Bono's one-man show. Section: Director's FortnightDistributor: IFC FilmsDirector: Sean ByrneBuzz: A serial killer movie and a shark movie from the director of 'The Devil's Candy?' What's not to like? Section: CompetitionDistributor: A24Director: Ari AsterBuzz: Destined to be as polarizing as any of his features, Aster's pandemic-set fourth feature is a contemporary Western with a stellar cast that includes Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and Austin Butler. Section: Un Certain RegardDistributor: TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures ClassicsDirector: Scarlett JohanssonBuzz: June Squibb stars in this indie drama that is also Johansson's directorial debut about a nonagenarian who after 70 years returns to New York city and befriends a student. Section: Out of CompetitionDistributor: Apple TV+ and A24Director: Spike LeeBuzz: Spike Lee's reunion with Denzel Washington for a modern day reimagining of Akira Kurosawa's 'High and Low' looks like one of Lee's most commercial films in years, so it's fitting it will get a theatrical release before landing on streaming. Section: CompetitionDistributor: MUBIDirector: Oliver HermanusBuzz: Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor star in this romance set in 1917 amid the world of early 20th Century folk music. Section: MidnightDistributor: Focus FeaturesDirector: Ethan CoenBuzz: Ethan Coen's second solo effort again pairs him with his partner and writer Tricia Cooke, as well as star Margaret Qualley, who plays a small-town private eye investigating a church led by a dubious preacher played by Chris Evans. Section: Special ScreeningsDistributor: Sony Pictures ClassicsDirector: Sylvian ChometBuzz: 'The Triplets of Belleville' director brings his eclectic animated style to this biopic of the life of one of France's great artists, Marcel Pagnol. Section: CompetitionDistributor: MUBIDirector: Kelly ReichardtBuzz: Josh O'Connor, Alana Haim, John Magaro, Gaby Hoffmann, Eli Gelb, Hope Davis, and Bill Camp star in this heist film from the 'First Cow' director set in 1970 Massachusetts. Section: Director's FortnightDistributor: MetrographDirector: Christian PetzoldBuzz: Petzold's follow-up to the Berlinale prize winner 'Afire' is his fourth collaboration with actress Paula Beer about a woman taken in by a family after she survives a seemingly devastating car crash. Section: Out of CompetitionDistributor: Paramount PicturesDirector: Christopher McQuarrieBuzz: The eighth (and maybe final?) Mission: Impossible film sees Tom Cruise dangling from a biplane and going underwater to defeat an all-powerful AI. Section: Un Certain RegardDistributor: MUBIDirector: Akinola Davies Jr. Buzz: Davies Jr. is making his feature directorial debut after breaking out with the Sundance-winning short 'Lizard.' The film is a semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian metropolis Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. Section: Cannes ClassicsDistributor: HBO Documentary FilmsDirector: Mariska HargitayBuzz: The 'Law & Order: SVU' star made her directorial debut with this documentary about the life of her mother Jayne Mansfield, the Playboy Playmate and '60s sex symbol who was killed in a car accident in 1967 when Hargitay was only 3 years old. The film will be released via HBO on June 20. Section: Cannes PremiereDistributor: NeonDirector: Raoul PeckBuzz: Peck returns to Cannes one year after 'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' premiered there with his documentary about the life of '1984' author George Orwell. Section: CompetitionDistributor: Focus FeaturesDirector: Wes AndersonBuzz: Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera star alongside newcomer Mia Threapleton (Kate Winslet's daughter), who holds her own as a nun in this zany period comedy about one of the richest men in Europe. Section: Un Certain RegardDistributor: A24Director: Harry LightonBuzz: Based on the book 'Box Hill' by Adam Mars-Jones, the film starring Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling follows an unassuming man swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. Section: CompetitionDistributor: NeonDirector: Joachim TrierBuzz: The Norwegian director's sixth film pairs him with 'The Worst Person in the World' star Renata Reinsve in this family drama about the reconciliatory power of art. Section: Cannes PremiereDistributor: NeonDirector: Michael Angelo CovinoBuzz: The team behind 'The Climb' return to Cannes with another comedy about a man who turns to his friends for advice amid a divorce, only to discover their secret is an open marriage. Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona star alongside Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin. Additional reporting by Samantha Bergeson. 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