With Spike Lee as its president, the return of the Cannes Competition looks to be one of the most unpredictable in years. He’s joined by an international group of filmmakers and actors, mostly women, whose work suggest a wide array of sensibilities in play: The other directors are Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner, Melanie Laurent, and Kleber Mendonca Filho; the performers are Mylene Farmer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tahar Rahim, and Song Kang-ho....

The festival has been buzzing with awards rumors since the lineup was announced, with attendees and armchair cinephiles trying to guess this year’s Palme d’Or winner. While predicting the behavior of a Cannes jury is often an exercise in futility, that hasn’t stopped anyone from trying. Competition is stiff this year, with legendary filmmakers competing against Cannes regulars and bold new voices for the festival’s top prizes. “Crimes of the Future,” David Cronenberg’s return to Cannes after an eight-year hiatus from filmmaking (and an even longer hiatus from his trademark body horror), was one of the buzziest titles on the lineup, and the film’s strong reviews suggest that the 79-year-old director will be tough to beat....

“Cate Blanchett is going to play Donald Trump’s sister which is the weirdest sentence I have ever said,” Gray said. “She’s only in it for three days, she’s doing me a favor. She has a really long speech to deliver, it’s a real scene-stealer. I’ve tried to recreate the real speech as best I could from memory.” “Armageddon Time” is an autobiographical drama inspired by Gray’s coming-of-age as a child while attending the Kew-Forest School in Queens, New York....

That’s what it seemed fated to become in 2012 when Lionsgate hired Charlie Kaufman to adapt the first installment of Patrick Ness’ trilogy and its Film Twitter-like premise into a potential franchise-starter. But the house that “Hunger Games” built appears not to have shared the books’ enthusiasm for messing with the YA formula, Kaufman left the project long before Doug Liman finally rolled cameras on it in 2017, and principal photography on the movie became the first step in the four-year process of sandblasting away everything that once made the source material so exciting....

Tyson’s career spanned seven decades starting in 1951. She gained widespread acclaim in 1972 when she played the role of Rebecca Morgan in the adaptation of “Sounder,” the story of Black sharecroppers, and a young boy’s relationship with his beloved dog. She would not only get an Oscar nomination for her performance, but a Golden Globe nod as well. She would later win two Emmys for playing the title role in 1974’s “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman....

Morrison, after inquiring about Wegner’s journey from the camera department to shorts to indie features — and professing her appreciation for the Wegner-shot Sundance breakout “Zola” — commented on how the choices off screen are often what can define a DPs’ career trajectory. “People often ask [what’s] the secret, and there really is no secret. I think so much of it is finding projects that you feel passionate [about], and choosing wisely and not getting sidetracked by the carrot [of] maybe a good paycheck, or your first studio film, if it doesn’t speak to you,” Morrison said....

Four years ago, Comcast outbid Fox to buy Sky for $39 billion. The deal is definitely not panning out. In the third quarter of 2022, Comcast recorded “noncash impairment charges related to goodwill and intangible assets” in the Sky segment. An impairment charge is a write-off, and goodwill basically means the loss of an asset’s value. In simple terms, Sky has proven to be not nearly as valuable as Comcast once assumed....

Here’s the official synopsis courtesy of Netflix: “‘Cowboy Bebop’ is an action-packed space Western about three bounty hunters, aka “cowboys,” all trying to outrun the past. As different as they are deadly, Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) form a scrappy, snarky crew ready to hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals — for the right price. But they can only kick and quip their way out of so many scuffles before their pasts finally catch up with them....

Stern’s documentary, entirely scored by Deacon, premiered at SXSW in 2019, before working its way around the festival circuit, including screenings at Hot Docs, Montclair, Bentonville, RiverRun, Sarasota, and many more. Earlier this month, “Well Groomed” hit streaming, through HBO. Per its official synopsis, it “explores the exuberant world of competitive dog grooming and follows the lives of dog owners who are challenging the definition of art. The film offers a rare look into the lives of dog owners who are dedicated to transforming their poodles into living sculptures....

“The answer to that is very simple,” Craig told Radio Times. “There should simply be better parts for women and actors of color. Why should a woman play James Bond when there should be a part just as good as James Bond, but for a woman?” “He’s a male character. He was written as a male and I think he’ll probably stay as a male,” Broccoli previously told The Guardian....

“I really think it’s going to be as good, if not better, than the first one,” Bautista told People magazine. “I’m always afraid to say that because I don’t want anybody to get offended saying that we’re going to be better, but I really do think this. I think the characters are just so much more colorful. I think people are really going to dig this.” Bautista continued, “The characters are just so great....

The Outstanding Narrator category is a relatively young one for the Emmys. It initially debuted back in 2016. Attenborough’s win is a bit of a shock considering the Emmys’ push towards diversity and inclusion, especially in a year where this very category saw four of five nominees being Black performers. However, the category, historically, has often been the domain of white Englishmen, going back to the year the category debuted; Jeremy Irons was the first Outstanding Narrator winner for his work on “Game of Lions....

The “Stranger Things” star and “Black Widow” MCU alum told The Independent that the concept of Marvel ruining cinema is laughable…truly. “I don’t see it as anything but entertaining, fun stuff,” Harbour said, after letting out a laugh per the interview. But that doesn’t mean that the film landscape doesn’t need a “broader scope” of creativity. “When I was growing up, ‘Goodfellas’ came out in the cinema, and it was like the ‘Captain America’ of its day,” Harbour explained....

“It’s with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and million of fans around the world, to announce that our client Dave Prowse MBE has passed away at the age of 85,” Prowse’s agents Bowington Management tweeted on Sunday. Other fans and cast members took to Twitter to pay tribute to Prowse, including Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill (“He was a kind man and much more than Darth Vader”) to “Star Wars” superfan Edgar Wright, who wrote, “As a kid Dave Prowse couldn’t be more famous to me; stalking along corridors as evil incarnate in the part of Darth Vader & stopping a whole generation of kiddies from being mown down in street as the Green Cross Code man....

Here’s a sentence I never expected to write: The most romantic movie of the year (so far) is a police procedural. Then again, I wasn’t aware that “Oldboy” director Park Chan-wook — whose operatic revenge melodramas have given way to a series of ravishingly baroque Hitchcockian love stories about the various “perversities” that might bind two wayward souls together — was making a detective thriller. In that case, the heart-stirring potential of the Korean auteur’s new detective saga would have been as obvious as the identity of its killer....

Deadline’s report on the shareholders’ meeting noted that Chapek said he doesn’t “really see Disney as characterizing itself as left-leaning or right-leaning.” One stockholder asked the CEO about “the Disney black list,” noting that both Carano and co-star Pedro Pascal had social media posts referencing Nazi Germany but only Carano was fired. As Deadline reports: “Chapek didn’t speak to the Carano incident directly but said Disney stands ‘for values that are universal: respect, decency, integrity and inclusion and we seek to have the content that we make reflective of the rich diversity of the world we live in....

That news might not resonate if you’re not among the estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide who follow cricket, but here’s why it’s important: On last month’s quarterly earnings call, executives said that 36 percent of the 137.7 million overall Disney+ subscribers were from Disney+ Hotstar, Disney’s Indian streaming service. Of the nearly 8 million subscribers that signed up for Disney+ in the last quarter, “a little over half” were from Disney+ Hotstar, “which benefited from the start of the new IPL season,” Disney CFO Christine McCarthy said on the May 11 call....

Also delayed is “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the sequel directed by Ryan Coogler, which was previously dated for July 8, 2022 but has now been moved to November 11, 2022, giving the film a posh fall movie season slot. “Thor: Love and Thunder,” previously set for May 6, 2022, will now take the spot from “Black Panther 2” on July 8. “The Marvels,” previously dated for November 11, 2022, has been moved to February 17, 2023....

“What really happened was Bill was just in a — you know, comedians can be a little dark sometimes, and he just came in in a bad mood,” Barrymore said. “And what you have to know is how much Lucy stood up for herself and that was the great thing that came out of an unfortunate circumstance. She literally said, ‘I do not accept that kind of behavior from you....

Helms spoke about how the “tornado of fame” that came with “The Hangover’s” success on a recent episode of the Conan O’Brien podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” calling it “a whole new level” of public scrutiny compared to his work on TV. “It was a tornado of fame and a lot of buffeting. It was very overwhelming” Helms said on the podcast. “I really was reeling a lot of the time, like in the aftermath of ‘The Hangover,’ I was getting scripts for all these different kinds of projects....