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Cannes Deals: Sundance Selects Nabs 'Young & Beautiful' and 'Blue Is the Warmest Color,' Lionsgate Takes 'Blood Ties,' Starring Cotillard and Owen

Festivals

Lionsgate has snapped up US rights to Guillaume Canet's "Blood Ties," starring actress and Canet's wife Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis, Matthias Schoenaerts and James Caan. It is co-written by Canet and director James Gray (who has "The Immigrant," also starring Cotillard, in competition at the fest) and centers on one family's legacy of crime in the 1970s. Watch the trailer below.

By Anne Thompson and Beth Hanna
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May 22, 2013 5:27 PM
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WATCH: New 'Man of Steel' Trailer; How Nolan, Goyer and Snyder Reinvented the Big Blue Boy Scout

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Who knew, when Brandon Routh took on the alien Kal-El in Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns," that fans would split so divisively? The 2006 movie, which paid homage to the Richard Donner "Superman" movies without completely updating the franchise the way Christopher Nolan did with "Batman Begins," grossed $391 million worldwide off strong reviews for a genre sequel. But it cost more than $232 million. Warners felt it could have performed better with more action and a powerful villain--and no Superman kid. So Singer was taken off the franchise.

By Anne Thompson and Beth Hanna
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May 22, 2013 3:43 PM
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'Before Midnight' Interview with Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)

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Well, you've been reading about "Before Midnight," the third film in Richard Linklater's trilogy about Celine and Jesse's ongoing romance, since Sundance, and now you finally get to see one of the most delightful and insightful movies of the year. The movie opens Friday. The trio, who could earn a second Oscar nomination for original screenplay, describe their unusual process in our interview below.

By Anne Thompson
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May 22, 2013 2:22 PM
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Cannes Market: Weinstein Co. Lands Jeunet's 3D 'Young and Prodigious Spivet,' Olivier Assayas to Helm First US Film

Festivals

More news is coming in from the ever-busy Cannes Market. The Weinstein Company has snapped up the latest Jean-Pierre Jeunet film, 3D epic "The Young and Prodigious Spivet" (watch the trailer below), while French director Olivier Assayas is set to helm his first US shoot, true-crime drama "Hubris."

By Beth Hanna
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May 22, 2013 1:57 PM
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Critics’ Choice Television Award Nominations Led by HBO with 21, Surprising Omissions

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Nominations are in for the third annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards, which will be held the evening of Monday, June 10, 2013 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) nominates and votes for the awards. For the first time the show, hosted by "Parks and Recreation" star Retta, will be webcast live on UStream.

By Anne Thompson
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May 22, 2013 1:15 PM
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Now and Then: Obituary for 'The Big C,' Starring Luminous Laura Linney

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Cathy Jamison was a brave bitch. Through four seasons of Showtime's "The Big C," which ended its run Monday, she suffered the indignities of metastatic melanoma, chemotherapy, brain tumors, hospice, and bad insurance, yet remained steadfast in her belief that "surviving" and "living" do not necessarily amount to the same thing. She will be missed.

By Matt Brennan
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May 22, 2013 12:18 PM
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'Only God Forgives': Gosling No-Show at Cannes, Press Conference, Review Roundup

Festivals

"Only God Forgives" was unveiled Wednesday morning to the most divisive response at the Cannes festival thus far, and even with the smattering of boos and walkouts we’d hazard a guess that Nicolas Winding Refn couldn’t be more delighted by the reception. As empty, soulless, frenziedly art-directed viewing experiences go, "Only God Forgives" is one of the better examples. At the press conference following the screening, the Danish filmmaker expounded on his ultra-violent, hyper-stylized follow-up to "Drive," which features dismemberments, torture, eye gouging, Kristin Scott Thomas as a trashy, bestial, peroxide-wigged mother who calls her son’s female companion a “cum dumpster” and Gosling as a vaguely sketched mean machine operating in a seedy Thai underworld who makes the "Driver" look like a motormouth.

By Matt Mueller
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May 22, 2013 12:10 PM
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Trailers from Hell: Katt Shea on 'Poison Ivy,' Starring Drew Barrymore as a Teen Femme Fatale

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Femmes Fatales Week! continues at Trailers from Hell with director Katt Shea introducing her own erotic psycho-thriller "Poison Ivy," starring a teenage Drew Barrymore.

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May 22, 2013 12:07 PM
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Cannes Review Roundup: Robert Redford Keeps Things Afloat in Chandor's Dire Existential Adventure 'All Is Lost'

Reviews

Reviews are coming in from Cannes for J.C. Chandor's ("Margin Call") second feature, "All Is Lost," a virtually dialogue-free adventure starring Robert Redford as a man battling the ocean elements solo on his boat. Reactions are largely positive, praising Redford's "tour de force" performance and Chandor's existential direction, while dissenters wish Godspeed to the film's languid pace -- that "a shark attack might put poor Redford out of his misery." Roundup below.

By Beth Hanna
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May 22, 2013 11:52 AM
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Cannes Fest Diary: Le Weekend, from Compelling 'Jimmy P.' to Toback's Doc and 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

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It was a weird, wooly and wet weekend in Cannes. And it began with what has to be one of the stranger ideas ever put forward for a film: “Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian” from Arnaud Desplechin (the wonderful “A Christmas Tale”). Based on a book by French anthropologist/psychotherapist George Deveraux, it’s the more or less true story of a Native American WWII vet, played by Benicio del Toro, who winds up in a military hospital suffering from post-war injuries, real or imagined. When the staff decides the problems are not physical, but don’t have a grasp on the potential mental issues an Indian might face, they call in Deveraux, who is also an expert in Native American culture.