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With a #MeToo expose looking less to rattle the 77th Cannes Film Festival, all agita now seems to lie in whether Cannes Film Festival workers strike or not. Festival Boss Thierry Frémaux in a presser this AM provided an update saying “there are negotiations and we have talked directly with them,” meaning…

EXCLUSIVE: After a feverish courtship of Francis Coppola between the organizers of the Cannes, Venice and Toronto film festivals, Megalopolis has been locked into a gala premiere slot on the Palais on Friday evening May 17, I’m told. The film will premiere in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival…

Thierry Frémaux is best known internationally as the long-time head of France's Cannes Film Festival, which is organized out of its offices in Paris's trendy Marais neighborhood. The double-hatted cinema expert is perhaps more in his element in his home city of Lyon, where he is the director of the…

Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg made a moving presentation of her documentary Jane By Charlotte, capturing her complex relationship with her late mother Jane Birkin, ahead of a screening at the Lumière Film Festival on Saturday. The documentary is playing as part of a tribute to iconic UK-French actress…

Wim Wenders and Thierry Frémaux signalled their support on Saturday for the Hollywood actors strike as the industrial action hits its 100th day. "I understand the actors who all want to profit a little more… rather than there being just a dozen big names who have high salaries… while all the others…

UPDATED with statement from festival: Cannes delegate general Thierry Fremaux was caught up in an altercation with a local police officer in Cannes in the early hours of Thursday after riding his electric bicycle on the pavement in front of the Carlton hotel. Video making the rounds on social…

Cannes Film Festival Thierry Frémaux has responded to French actress Adèle Haenel’s suggestion that Cannes is part of a French eco-system that turns a blind eye to sexual violence. The actress made the comments in an open letter in weekly TV magazine Télérama last week, in which she announced she…

Cannes Delegate General Thierry Fremaux said U.S. professionals were welcome to speak out about the writers’ strike within the framework of the 76th edition, running from May 16 to 27. “We’re not very informed about that because we were preparing the festival,” he said during his traditional…

Tim Burton trod in the footsteps of 19th Century French cinema pioneers Auguste and Louis Lumière on Saturday as he directed his own version of their 1895 film La Sortie De L’Usine on the site of their former factory in Lyon. The filmmaker was in Lyon as guest of honor of the Lumière Festival, the…

Eddie Redmayne To Be Honored With Zurich's Golden Eye British actor Eddie Redmayne will be feted with the Zurich Film Festival's Golden Eye Award for his career achievements at its upcoming edition running from September 22 to October 2. The actor will receive the honor ahead of the European premiere of Tobias…

France has overhauled the composition of its Oscar selection committee for the second time in three years. Under the move, the heads of the Cannes Film Festival, export agency Unifrance and the César Academy will no longer have an automatic place on the committee. The changes were announced in the French government's…

Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux took part in a ‘meet the press’ session with journalists in Cannes yesterday afternoon. The long-time chief was asked multiple questions about the festival’s stance towards Russia and about Deadline’s censorship story from yesterday. Given that the festival has a ban on…