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Pierre Salvadori opens the 79th Cannes Film Festival this evening with Roaring Twenties Paris art world-set romantic tragicomedy The Electric Kiss starring Pio Marmaï, Anaïs Demoustier, Vimala Pons and Gilles Lellouche. Taking time out of the mixing room to talk to Deadline just days before the premiere, the French director admits to feeling a mixture of […]

Even with a “Bloodsport” remake now in the works almost 40 years after the classic that made his name, Jean-Claude Van Damme isn’t done beating the living crap out of people just yet. The martial arts star and action veteran is set to topline WWII action epic “Raid Pacific, with Steven Luke attached to direct. […]

Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut “The Deb” — billed as an “outrageous” and “fish-out-of-water” musical comedy — has landed U.S. distribution with Sunrise Films. The deal, which follows the film’s theatrical release in its home territory of Australia, was announced by Protagonist Pictures, which is now relaunching the film in Cannes via its boutique label Protagonist Picks. With […]

Lil Rel Howery (“Get Out”), Angela Sarafyan (“Westworld”) and Manny Montana (“Good Girls”) are set to appear in indie horror film “The Things We Hide,” co-directed and produced by Amir Noorani and Eric Bergemann. Italy’s Minerva Pictures has boarded the chiller and will launch world sales at the Cannes Market. Atit Shah’s Create Entertainment (“Monsoon,” […]