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Once again, French director Julia Ducournau takes us into the lower depths. Four years after winning the Palme d’Or with her extraordinary Titane – in which humans and cars fused with grinding, crunching erotic energy – she returns to the Cannes Film Festival competition with Alpha, a film just as likely as Titane to divide audiences between the dazzled and disgusted. Once again, Ducournau sets herself on a collision course with the human body, its hungers, wounds and weaknesses. A heroin addict writhes in agonies of withdrawal; a tattoo keeps gushing blood; most significantly, a virus is circulating that gradually…

Refresh for latest…: Coming in ahead of projections, New Line/Warner Bros’ Final Destination Bloodlines has arrived with a $102M global start this weekend. In a rare feat, that number is made up of an even split of $51M each from domestic and the international box office for the well-reviewed title.  Overseas, the Zach Lipovsky- and Adam B. Stein-directed installment is by far the best debut of the long-running franchise. It ranked No. 1 in 53 offshore markets this session, and in like-for-likes is tracking above Smile (+232%), Happy Death Day (+194%), Saw X (+173%), Final Destination 5 (+133%) and The…

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson took to the Cannes red carpet this evening for the world premiere of new film Die My Love, directed by Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here). The Competition movie is based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz and also stars LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte. Set in rural America, the film is a portrait of a married woman’s mental disintegration as post-natal depression consumes and obliterates her. Pattinson plays her husband, and Stanfield her lover.  In Deadline’s review, Damon Wise was impressed by Ramsay’s “mesmerizing film,” describing it as a “brutal but…

Danny and Michael Philippou‘s sophomore feature is another grief-driven horror that doubles down on the darkness with help from Sally Hawkins and a talented young ensemble. In Bring Her Back, Billy Barratt and Sora Wong play Andy and Piper, two siblings who are sent to live with a seemingly warm foster mother, Laura (Hawkins), after coming home from school to discover their father’s dead body. Also mourning the death of her own daughter, Laura begins exhibiting disturbing behavior in her treatment of Andy and her other mute foster child Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips), of which the partially-sighted Piper is blissfully…

A compilation of all of Deadline’s movie reviews from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

While discussing actors he considers his peers on a podcast recently, Oscar-winner Sean Penn took the conversation in a somewhat unexpected direction. He didn’t mention fellow Oscar-winner Daniel Day Lewis, to whom many often compare him. He reached back to a very long ago co-star with whom he says he still has a very friendly relationship. “Tom Cruise…he is a guy who pursues excellence on a very high level,” Penn replied. Penn quickly addressed the apples-to-oranges questions some might raise about the differences between the kind of indie films he makes and the blockbusters that Cruise does. “Now, I understand…

Amélie Bonnin’s romantic dramedy Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) made history at the Cannes Film Festival this evening, becoming the first debut feature to ever open the event.  It also got a five-minute-plus ovation from the crowd. Leave One Day builds on Bonnin’s 2023 César-winning short film of the same name. The romantic musical revolves around rising chef Cécile (Juliette Armanet), who is about to fulfill a lifelong ambition of opening her own signature gourmet restaurant in Paris. Cécile is forced to put the project on hold when her father suffers a heart attack and she is called back to her small…

EXCLUSIVE: Upgrade is launching international sales in Cannes on comedy The Escort from Wedding Crashers and Shanghai Knights helmer David Dobkin, and starring in-demand stand-up comedian Matt Rife. Written by Justin Adler with revisions by David Dobkin, the Black List script is a character-driven feature that follows “a reckless, flirtatious flight attendant on the brink of losing everything, who is unexpectedly tasked with minding a neurotic 14-year-old on his solo flight to boarding school. When a hurricane diverts their flight and strands them in the wrong city, the two opposites embark on a disastrous road trip that forces them to confront their fears, flaws, and what it…

Here’s a wonderful Mother’s Day story as Warner Bros./Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie flies past $900M: The entire movie started with a mother’s love for her son, noticing his passion for the create-your-own-world game. Around 2011, former Miramax and Lorne Michaels Entertainment executive Jill Messick was in between producing gigs (she was an EP on Baby Mama, Mean Girls, Hot Rod and the Oscar-winning Frida), and like many parents with millennial young children, recognized her 11-year old son Jackson’s obsession with the pixelated brick-building universe. Jill Messick REX/Shutturstock Seeing Jackson’s affinity for the game, Messick was promptly moved to cold-call Stockholm,…

More than six years into the journey of bringing Candy Darling‘s life story to the big screen, Hari Nef has taken matters into her own hands. After Deadline reported in 2022 that the actress signed on to portray the LGBTQ pioneer and Andy Warhol superstar, Nef recently gave an update on the project, which she has penned after screenwriter Stephanie Kornick was originally attached in 2019. “I want to preface everything I say about the film by saying we have zero dollars and zero cents,” she told Vogue. “We are in the very early stages of fundraising and casting.” Nef…