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Television wins new respect from movie elite at Cannes festival

May 24, 2013 11:02
By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) - Actors and directors gathered for the world's leading movie showcase in Cannes this week said television was increasingly luring top talent and should no longer be seen as artistically inferior to the big screen. TV series like "The Wire," "Homeland", "Mad Men," "The Sopranos" and "Game of Thrones", which have won critical and commercial success, were cited for breaking down the division between movies and TV, giving audiences innovative viewing.

At the movies, violence is the new sex

Agence France-PresseMay 23, 2013 23:01
Sex may be a turn-off for Hollywood audiences but violence is all over the big screen, as filmmakers seek to capture the youth market, industry figures at the Cannes film festival said on Friday. With online porn readily available, sex scenes are no longer prized by producers who look to action sequences or special effects to fill the gap. "The Paperboy" in which Nicole Kidman played a woman sexually attracted to Death Row prisoners and the sex surrogate film "The Sessions" with Helen Hunt are examples of recent films with sex that flopped at the box office.

'Before Midnight' review: Joy and pain, long after happily ever after

May 23, 2013 22:15
By Alonso Duralde LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - As a rule, we like our love stories to end with a big kiss between the boy and the girl (or other combinations thereof) who have overcome obstacles and issues before setting off together on a life of perfect, eternal romance, unsullied by imperfection or boredom or change or unhappiness.

Steven Soderbergh is looking to direct Clive Owen in Cinemax series

May 23, 2013 21:32
By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - So much for taking it easy after directing "Behind the Candelabra" for HBO. Stephen Soderbergh is in talks to team up with Clive Owen on a 10-episode period medical drama for Cinemax, an HBO spokeswoman told TheWrap.

How an extreme movie makeover saved 'Fast & Furious' from going direct to DVD

May 23, 2013 20:02
By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Fast & Furious 6" has become a road race to riches without a finish line in sight. Roaring into theaters Friday, the movie is expected to generate $80 million or more over the Memorial Day weekend - astounding numbers for a franchise that is more than a decade old, and isn't "Star Wars" or "Indiana Jones."

Zach Braff taught crowdfunding to Woody Allen - and he liked it

May 23, 2013 20:01
By Greg Gilman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Reaction to Zach Braff's use of Kickstarter to fund his next indie film has been mixed, to say the least. But according to the "Scrubs" star, Woody Allen is "riveted" by it. During an interview on SiriusXM talk show "Unmasked," Braff said that the Oscar-winning "Annie Hall" director had no idea what crowdfunding was before meeting with him to discuss a project.

Graphic gay sex stirs controversy at Cannes

Agence France-PresseMay 23, 2013 19:32
Explicit gay sex has hit the big screen at the Cannes film festival in movies targeting mainstream audiences that stir controversy and spare the viewer nothing. Critics described the non-simulated sex in "Blue is the Warmest Colour", which has its premiere Thursday, as "show-stopping" and "the most explosively graphic lesbian sex in recent memory". Numerous sex scenes in the homoerotic "Stranger at the Lake" have been termed "hardcore".

Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

Agence France-PresseMay 23, 2013 14:31
Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age. After a raft of films at this year's festival gorging on wealth and splendour such "The Great Gatsby" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring", "Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern in what director Alexander Payne called a film for the modern "depression era".

Leonardo DiCaprio to team up with Dennis Lehane again for crime film

Agence France-PresseMay 23, 2013 14:30
Dennis Lehane, a best-selling American novelist, will be scripting "Travis McGee," a big movie project Leonardo DiCaprio has been dying to mount since 2010, announces Variety. Lehane, author of the screenplays for "Mystic River," "Gone Baby Gone" and "Shutter Island," will adapt John D. Macdonald's detective novel "The Deep Blue Good-by" for the screen.

Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

Agence France-PresseMay 23, 2013 14:30
Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age. After a raft of films at this year's festival gorging on wealth and splendour such "The Great Gatsby" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring", "Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern in what director Alexander Payne called a film for the modern "depression era".
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