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EXCLUSIVE: Sébastien Laudenbach’s Viva Carmen, an animated retelling of Georges Bizet’s famous opera Carmen, debuts in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this week and Deadline reveal a first clip. In Seville in 1945, a pulsating town of sailors and small-time crooks, teenage Salvador, assistant to the gifted knife grinder Antonio, encounters a captivating young gypsy woman, Carmen. […]

VMI Worldwide is bringing 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up, the documentary feature on the punk band NOFX, to the Cannes Market.  Directed by James Buddy Day and produced by Fat Mike, 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up is described as “an unfiltered, high-energy chronicle of legendary punk band NOFX, capturing four decades of chaos, controversy, and […]

The 79th Cannes Film Festival gets underway today with plenty of talking points in both the festival and market. Check out our talking points and notes to date below. Market Movers There’s no shortage of volume, that’s for sure. Among the bigger-budget items are a handful of intriguing packages. First up is Park-Chan Wook’s starry […]

Egyptian director Mohamed Diab, who made a splash at Cannes in 2016 with Islamic fundamentalism-themed thriller “Clash” and more recently helmed Marvel’s “Moon Knight” miniseries, is set for a wide Middle East release of his historical epic “Asad,” toplining Arab megastar Mohamed Ramadan and British-Lebanese star Razane Jammal. Ramadan, an actor and singer – who […]