Deadline.com

International Insider: Cannes Closer; Is Stunt Industry Broken?; Mediawan’s Moment

It’s almost a wrap, folks! The Cannes Film Festival is drawing to a close for another year. Jesse Whittock with you again to run through the second week headlines from the Croisette and further afield ...
Variety

MMM Film Sales Picks Up Cannes ACID Closer ‘The Black Snake,’ ARP to Distribute in France: A ‘Powerful Story of Tradition, Displacement and Identity’ (EXCLUSIVE)

MMM Film Sales has picked up Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux’s “Black Snake” ahead of its premiere at Cannes’ ACID. ARP has taken distribution rights in France. ACID’s closing film, shot in the Colombian ...
Variety

Anthony Chen Warns Social Media Is ‘Hurting Our Humanity’ as Singapore Trilogy Closer Opens Far East Film Fest

Chen said he has never installed TikTok, sets his phone to airplane mode during screenings, and compels himself to attend the cinema twice a week – disciplines he described as a deliberate ...
Backstage

'Closer' Scene Recreation Student Film Directors Workshop

Casting a 3-5 minute scene, performed in front of a live audience, then filmed and edited from the movie, "Closer" (2004). Rehearses Feb. 23 and possibly March 1 (between noon-10 p.m.; times are ...