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Johnny Depp knows this is a pivotal moment in his career, and a real chance to get back his A-list Hollywood status … so, that’s exactly why he’s focusing on the important stuff to get his mind right. Sources connected to the actor tell us his recent stop at the Cannes Film Festival — where

Todd Haynes returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night with his latest, May December, playing in competition. The complex melodrama starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore scored an eight-minute standing ovation inside the Grand Theatre Lumière. The screening started late after an almost 40-minute delay due to the late start of the movie

Fueled by the strong performance of John Wick: Chapter 4, Lionsgate’s John Wick franchise has crossed the $1B mark at the worldwide box office. The Keanu Reeves-led series’ total take to date now stands at $1,011,319,297 global. Of the quartet, Chapter 4 is the highest-grossing, with $425.3M and counting. Next up is 2019’s John Wick:

Senegalese and French director Ramata-Toulaye Sy is only the second Black woman to make it into Competition in Cannes. Her debut feature, Banel & Adama, which had its debut Saturday, follows in the footsteps of Mati Diop’s 2019 Atlantics. Sy draws on her roots in the Fulani, or Peul, culture of the Futa region in

New York Jets star Sauce Gardner will never forget Jessica Alba now … ’cause just a couple weeks after he didn’t know who she was during a Knicks game meetup — he scored some custom cleats with her face all over them!!! Sauce got the feet heat this week from artist Mike Jordan … who

As Sanctuary, Zachary Wigon’s twisted tale of a dominatrix and her wealthy client, opens in NY and LA, David Lancaster of producer Rumble Films recalls a speedy 18-day shoot on a custom-made set in Brownsville, Brooklyn in late summer of 2021. It was Covid, so not the easiest time for indie financing. It world premiered

There will be no late night laughs in Moscow, comrade. Or anywhere else in Russia, for that matter. The Russian government has permanently banned talk show hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Seth Meyers from entering the country. The three were part of a list of 500 Americans on a list released Friday by the

Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t do anything half-assed, and that includes dropping outta Hollywood … because the highly acclaimed actor couldn’t look more relaxed than he does on the streets of NYC. In an extremely rare sighting, the reclusive actor was out Friday with his wife Rebecca Miller … holding hands as they strolled around Manhattan’s West

Production on Aziz Ansari’s feature helming debut Good Fortune has been suspended amid the writers strike, Deadline has confirmed. WGA pickets forced a shutdown of the Keanu Reeves–Seth Rogen pic Thursday night. The movie was shooting on location in L.A.’s Koreatown, but plans are for principal photography to resume in the future are unknown at

Universal’s Fast X, in what was an early start for previews for the franchise at 2 p.m., sparked to $7.5 million in Thursday numbers. Forecasts see the Louis Leterrier-directed tenthquel at a $60 million-plus stateside frame this weekend, with a greater amount of gas abroad at $235 million. How last night stacks up: the previous

Play video content Harrison Ford was supposed to be the center of attention at Cannes today, but it’s the folks in charge of festival logistics that are getting side-eye after giving his wife, Calista Flockhart, a seat BEHIND the actor at his big premiere. The veteran actor and his actress wife arrived hand-in-hand Thursday to

Vanity Fair held its annual Cannes Film Festival party this year with the Red Sea International Film Festival, together hosting the Women’s Stories Gala After Party on Thursday at the famed Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d’Antibes. The glamorous event was attended by Maiwenn, Gaspar Noé, Katie Holmes, Storm Reid, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, The

EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Christian Gudegast’s action thriller sequel, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera which stars Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. reprising their respective roles of “Big Nick” and “Donnie”. A wide theatrical release is planned for Q4 of 2024. Gudegast also wrote the screenplay for the production which

EXCLUSIVE: Kellan Lutz (Twilight), Neal McDonough (Minority Report), and Mila Harris (No Exit) have signed on to star in The December Cross, with Archstone Entertainment securing world sales rights and Joshua Harris and Jon Gosier of FilmHedge financing. Todd Turner (Good Neighbor) wrote and will direct the film. Turner will also serve as producer through

Alec Baldwin is officially wrapped on “Rust” … following the production screeching to a halt with the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — and the actor’s sending off the project with a clean shave. Baldwin showed off his back-to-normal look late Monday night, writing, “God, it felt good to shave off that beard…” You’ll recall,

Universal’s Fast X has started its engines overseas, opening notably in China and Korea on Wednesday and clocking $18.4M from just those two markets.  The Louis Leterrier-directed franchise instalment got off to a strong start in China, taking an estimated $17.4M today, including $2.7M from midnight shows. It’s dominating the market with 84% of the

Montana is now the first U.S. state to completely ban TikTok. Today, Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a measure prohibiting downloads in the state of the popular app. Violators face a fine of $10,000 per day for each time an entity offers the ability to download or access the TikTok platform. The penalties do not

Play video content Instagram / @salmahayek Salma Hayek gave her millions of Instagram fans more than eyeful Tuesday, accidentally exposing her breasts as she danced her butt off. The actress posted a video to IG, showing her partying with her peeps inside a room after scoring 24 million followers on the social media platform. As

EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed Bertie, the highly sought-after writer-director otherwise known as Katie Ellwood, who has been behind such titles as Hawkeye and Troop Zero, and has a top-notch dance card looking ahead. Known for tonally specific work which is darkly comic, full of humanity and frequently action-packed, Bertie recently teamed with frequent

While it might seem that Fast X has run out of gas in the states, it’s totally turbo boasted overseas as the tenth installment in the Universal franchise is eyeing a an offshore start of $235M to 60M+ domestic. That will get Fast X to $295M worldwide, making it the third highest global start for

There’s no love lost between Johnny Depp and his international fans, who swarmed the actor with praise before the premiere of his first movie since the Amber Heard trial. Depp was on hand for the Cannes Film Festival Tuesday for the premiere of “Jeanne du Barry.” JD plays King Louis XV  in the flick, directed

Hirokazu Kore-Eda is back in Cannes Competition after winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters in 2018 and last year presenting Korean-language Broker, which won best actor for Song Kang-ho. His new title, Monster, reteams him with Shoplifters actress Sakura Ando and is the last film to be scored by Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who Ryuichi

Tony nominations seem to have given a box office boost to at least some of Broadway’s shows, with Some Like It Hot, Kimberly Akimbo, Parade and Leopoldstadt reporting noticeable bumps for the week ending May 14. The biggest improvement, though, was for a musical that scored zero nominations: Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ grossed $678,147 in its

The Cannes Film Festival has kicked off its 76th edition Tuesday with the opening ceremony followed by the world premiere of Jeanne Du Barry, starring and directed by Maïwenn and featuring the return of Johnny Depp to the big screen. The premiere was attended by Maïwenn, Depp and co-stars Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Richard, Pascal Greggory,

Play video content TMZ.com Hollywood writers striking for fair pay and protections against artificial intelligence are getting some air support … in the form of a funny banner flying over the major studios. The banner reads … “Pay the writers, you AI-Holes” … and on Monday, a small plane towed it above Amazon, CBS, FOX,

Warner Bros. will open Beetlejuice 2 on Sept. 6, 2024. The pic is expected to go before the cameras in London tomorrow. Tim Burton reteams with Michael Keaton in this sequel to the cult 1988 movie which made $75M and further propelled the latter’s star power before working with the filmmaker again in the title

Taipei-based sales agency Distribution Workshop has picked up international sales rights to $50M action adventure A Legend, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Stanley Tong.  A sequel to Chan and Tong’s 2005 collaboration The Myth, the film also stars Zhang Yixing (Kung Fu Yoga) and Coulee Nazha (Police Story 2013), and is currently in production

Anne Heche was laid to rest over the weekend on Mother’s Day, in a special yet emotional ceremony for those who loved her most … TMZ  has learned. A rep for Anne tells TMZ … Heche was given her final resting place Sunday afternoon at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery – Cathedral Mausoleum, a location reserved

EXCLUSIVE: Elle Fanning (The Great) is set to star alongside Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro in A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic that two-time Oscar nominee James Mangold is directing for Searchlight Pictures. The film heading into production in New York this summer watches as a young Dylan (Chalamet) shakes up the music world

Refresh for latest…: After crossing the $300M mark globally through Monday last week, Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has thrust to another milestone. The James Gunn-directed threequel handily crossed the half a billion mark in the sophomore frame and now sits at an estimated $528.8M global through Sunday. Of that, $213.2M is from