Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck) and Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara), an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration. Set against the backdrop of 1970's Texas Hill Country, director David Lowery paints a poetic picture, evoking the mythology of ...

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Talent agency WME has paired up with its private-equity backer Silver Lake Management on a bid to acquire Hulu. While a report from Bloomberg on Friday didn't specify exactly what role WME would pl...

As Sofia Coppola's 'Bling Ring' starts getting buzz at Cannes and elsewhere, real-life protagonist Alexis Neiers ponders her former chaotic life.

Want to see more of that unused 1989 Batman poster? Would Saoirse Ronan like to appear in The Avengers 2? What’s going on with Nick Fury on the set of Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Did you see a digital Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 3? Are superhero movies good date movies? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits. Daybees.com posted a bunch of unused movie posters, including this one from Batman. Thanks to CBM. Saoirse Ronan spoke to The Mary Sue (via SHH) about the rumor...show text

CANNES, France — Jerry Lewis is premiering his new film — his first in 18 years — in Cannes on Thursday night, as the Daniel Noah-directed “Max Rose” plays for festgoers. But the octogenarian was creating a little in-person drama at the festival Thursday afternoon, when he let loose at a press conference with a barrage of hammy material that didn’t always land.

With more online movie sites than ever, it might seem like women have more chances to get into film criticism. But a study released Friday by San Diego State professor Martha Lauzen finds that amon...

An era has ended at Fox with Friday's news that Mike Darnell is stepping down after 18 years as a top programming exec at the network. Darnell confirmed he would step down from his post as prexy of...

In Alex Gibney's documentary 'We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,' the website founder Julian Assange is profiled, as is Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who provided Assange with a cache of documents.

The Lunch is a podcast about film and, yes, food, where host James Rocchi is joined by a creator or critic in film over lunch; the podcast records after.

Warner Bros. 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" has reached the $100 million mark at the U.S. box office after 14 days of release.

It’s more or less impossible to reboot a massively popular franchise for the big screen without drawing the ire of a few fans, but one major criticsm plaguing Star Trek Into Darkness in recent days has nothing to do with J.J. Abrams‘ Klingon redesign or use of parallel timelines. Midway through the film, there’s a brief scene in which the character Carol Marcus (Alice Eve) strips down to her underwear for no apparent reason. Some fans called filmmakers out for being sexist, and so far writer Damon...show text

Yahoo is officially in the running for Hulu. Less than a week after snapping up Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the online giant filed a bid Friday morning to acquire the streaming service, according to s...

After a few title changes and long wait for James Gray fans (his last feature "Two Lovers" came out five years ago), the helmer's first period project "The Immigrant" finally premiered today in Cannes with many clamoring to know if it would deliver the requisite goods to come out of the festival as a surefire Oscar contender for distributor Harvey Weinstein. While some I spoke to didn't respond to the film's deliberate pacing (I did), the majority all agreed on one thing: Marion Cotillard is sensational ...

Steven Soderbergh's highly anticipated Liberace biopic "Behind The Candelabra" is adapted from a book by Scott Thorson with Alex Thorleifson, newly re-published by Tantor Media with a new afterword written by Thorson. Indiewire has the complete first chapter.

Fox and Marvel are both gearing up on new movies, and the character of Quicksilver is set to appear in both X-Men: Days Of Future Past and The Avengers 2, but in very different forms, and its causing some tension between the studios.

CANNES –Gallic actor-director Guillaume Gallienne’s comic confessional “Me Myself and Mum” topped the 45th Directors’ Fortnight, scooping both its Art Cinema Award and the Society of Dramatic Autho...

Today’s Amazon’s Gold Box Deal of the Day is The West Wing – The Complete Series Collection for only $79.99, 73% off the $299.98 MSRP. The discount price will disappear at midnight — so act fast! The show is highly acclaimed, winning 26 Emmys, including 4 for Outstanding Drama Series. This complete seven-season DVD set includes all 154 episodes on 45 discs. Also Included: Pilot Script with Foreword from Series Creator Aaron Sorkin. Hours of Special Features include over 20 Commentaries, over 20 Behind-the-Scenes...show text

After trying and failing to get The Man From U.N.C.L.E. off the ground with Steven Soderbergh, the Warner Bros. project seemed to get a new lease on life when Guy Ritchie signed on and then got Tom Cruise and Armie Hammer to star. But once again, the long-gestating picture has hit a speed bump. Cruise has now dropped out of the role of Napoleon Solo, months after he began circling. At least Hammer remains attached for now. Hit the jump to get the details on Cruise’s exit. According to Deadline, Cruise...show text

Filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke. Photo: Irene Cho Listen now: Several stories make up A Touch of Sin, the latest film from Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke. With Sin, one of the more acclaimed films of this year's Cannes Film Festival, the director is tackling an issue that has become a hot topic at this year's festival. "I hope to use this film to help me think about violence and also let everyone re-think about it," Jia Zhang-ke said yesterday, sitting outside the Grand Hotel here in Cannes for a conversation...show text

Warner Bros. and Guy Ritchie are on the hunt again for the lead in "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." as Tom Cruise has fallen off the project. SEE ALSO: Tom Cruise Signs On for "Mission: Impossible 5" Crui...

The octogenarian comedian still doesn't think women are funny -- then made matters worse by saying his favorite female comics were Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds

The fact that Alejandro Jodorowsky -- coming off the double whammy of 1970s cult favorite mind benders "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain" -- even got near bringing Frank Hebert's "Dune" to the big screen perhaps speaks to the wackiness of the 1970s movie world. That it actually got as far as it did, hiring an insane set of collaborators, an equally ambitious cast and actually reaching the stage where sets were going to be built, its even more miraculous. But alas, it fell apart and has become one ...

I know no one who has emerged unscathed from The Act of Killing. The film might be one of the strangest ever made, as it forces men to confront their actions by recreating them in movie form. But these aren’t just any men — they’re guys like Anwar Congo who, as death squad leaders during the “Thirtieth of September Movement,” staged a coup d’etat in Indonesia in 1965, and then committed genocide through an anti-Communist purge. Estimates of the death toll vary widely, from 80,000 to one million....show text

To promote their ambitious new videogame “Destiny,” Activision and Bungie (which created “Halo”), have produced a live action commercial, directed by Jon Favreau, that prominently features Giancarlo Esposito. SEE ALSO: Bungie Hopes to Repeat ‘Halo’ Success With ‘Destiny’ The 60-second spot, produced by ad shop 72andSunny, with visual effects handled by Digital Domain, revolves around... Read more »

Our annual tour of the Cannes film festival's underbelly: the marché Catherine Shoard Elliot Smith        

Cannes Film Festival: J.C. Chandor's 'All Is Lost' features one character, played by Robert Redford, who speaks little in struggle to survive on a damaged sailboat.