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Cannes 2015: The official 68th Cannes lineup is here!

OUT-OF-COMPETITION

La Tete haute (Head Held High) | France

Mad Max: Fury Road | Australia | George Miller

An Irrational Man | USA | Woody Allen
Inside Out | USA | Pete Docter
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) | France

The Opening Night film was announced yesterday... Emmanuelle Bercot's "La Tete haute" will open the most prestigious film festival in the world on May 13!

La Tête haute © Luc Roux

La Tête haute tells the story of Malony, and his upbringing from six to eighteen years, as a children's judge and social worker try to save him. It was filmed in the Nord-Pas de Calais, Rhône-Alpes and Paris area regions, with the participation of Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel, Sara Forestier and Rod Paradot, who plays the main character.

The world première of La Tête haute will be shown in the Grand Théâtre Lumière in the Palais des Festivals, and will be released in French cinemas the same day, on Wednesday 13 May. The film has already been sold in multiple countries.

Emmanuelle Bercot is a film director, screenwriter and actress. She studied dance at Cours Florent before attending La Fémis film school. Her talent was discovered at the 1997 Festival de Cannes, where her short film, Les Vacances, received the Jury Prize. This was confirmed two years later with a second Cinéfondation Prize for La Puce, her final-year student film. In 2001, her first feature film, Clement (Clément), in which she plays the main character, made the Un Certain Regard Official Selection. Since then, she has directed several films, including On my Way (Elle s'en va) in 2014, in which Catherine Deneuve gave one of her best performances.
Emmanuelle Bercot also co-wrote the script for Maïwenn's Polis (Polisse), which earned her the main role in her latest film, Mon Roi.

La Tête haute was written by Emmanuelle Bercot and Marcia Romano, with Guillaume Schiffman as director of photography. It is produced by Les Films du Kiosque, and co-produced by France 2 Cinéma, Wild Bunch, Rhône-Alpes Cinema and Pictanovo with the participation of Nord-Pas de Calais Region. It is sold by Elle Driver and distributed in France by Wild Bunch.

The 68th edition of the Festival de Cannes will take place from 13 to 24 May 2015. The Jury of the Competition will be chaired by American directors Joel and Ethan Coen, the Un Certain Regard Jury by the Italian-American actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini, and the Cinéfondation and Short Film Jury by Mauritian Film Director Abderrahmane Sissako.

Earlier, George Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road" was also announced as one of the Official Selection Out-of-Competition films and will screen May 14!

After a gap of 30 years, the hero of the legendary saga returns, this time played by Tom Hardy after his first epoch-making appearance courtesy of Mel Gibson.

Mad Max: Fury Road transports us to a post-apocalyptic world in which gangs clash over scare petrol and water resources. Max Rockatansky, played by Tom Hardy, comes face to face with the Empress Furiosa (Charlize Theron), who is fleeing a gang in hot pursuit…

It also marks the long-awaited return of Georges Miller to the realm of action and science fiction films. The Australian writer launched the series in 1979 before filming Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985).

Produced by the Kennedy Miller Mitchell Company, Mad Max: Fury Road is distributed internationally by Warner Bros Pictures, and in certain regions by Village Roadshow Pictures.

The film will go on release worldwide following its Cannes preview, on 14th May.

Watch the trailer of Mad Max below.

See you at the festival!

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News: Watch the Japanese trailer of "Tomorrowland"!

Many film buffs are predicting that Brad Bird's return to directing will most likely have its world premiere outside of the United States -- at the Cannes Film Festival. The buzz for "Tomorrowland" has been building up steadily leading to its May 2015 bow in theaters. That it will become a blockbuster is not exactly the question but just how big it is going to be! Will it be the biggest Disney movie release of the year??? Perhaps!

Meanwhile, many fans are buzzing about the Japanese version of the film's trailer. Many are hailing this version for the George Clooney-starrer as the one definitive trailer for the sci-fi epic.

Watch it here so you can judge for yourself.

In Pictures: The Avengers assembled this weekend in Los Angeles!

Iron Man aka Robert Downey, Jr. spent the past weekend with his fellow Marvel superheroes in Los Angeles for the sequel's press day held at the sprawling Disney Studios in Burbank. The actor kept busy snapping pictures that he subsequently shared to his many Twitter followers.

"Avengers: The Age of Ultron" storms into theaters on April 23. You better be ready!

Below are some of the wacky photos RDJ shared in his Twitter account.

That's Mark Ruffalo and RDJ...

Two pic with Thor, Captain America and Iron Man -- you know other names, right?

RDJ, Cobie Smulders and Jeremy Renner

The Avengers!

RDJ welcoming new cast members Aaron Taylor and Elizabeth Olsen

My favorite group pic!

Iron Man and Ultron conferring...

That's Captain America and Iron Man admonishing you to watch Avengers 2!

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See you at the movies!

Cannes 2015: Isabella Rossellini to preside Un Certain Regard Jury!

The Italian-American actress and director Isabella Rossellini has kindly agreed to preside the Un Certain Regard Jury, the Official Selection of the Festival de Cannes made up of twenty films to be announced, along with the films In Competition, at the press conference on 16th April.

The daughter of Italian director Roberto Rossellini and Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, to whom this year’s Festival de Cannes is to pay tribute, Isabella began her cinematic career alongside her father as a dresser, before becoming acting for the Taviani Brothers – family friends who gave her a role in The Meadow (1979). Her career quickly took an international turn, with White Nights by Taylor Hackford (1985), Tough Guys Don’t Dance by Norman Mailer (1987), Les Yeux noirs (1987) by Nikita Mikhalkov, Blue Velvet (1986) and then Wild at Heart (1990) by David Lynch, for whom she played a number of mysterious and tortured female roles.

She went on to star in a wider variety of guises for both television and film in Italy and America but returned to arthouse cinema with Abel Ferrara’s The Funeral (1996), and Two Lovers by James Gray (2008), in which she played a role of remarkable intensity. In 2010 she appeared in The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Saverio Costanzo.

In 2008 following a request from Robert Redford, she threw herself into directing a miniseries devoted to the reproduction, seduction techniques and maternal behaviour of animals. Green Porno, Seduce me and Mammas – all produced by SundanceTV – revealed her irresistible comic talent and off-beat sense of humour.

Isabella Rossellini and Jean-Claude Carrière then made a scenic version entitled Animals Distracted Me, which toured the world to great acclaim.

At the Festival de Cannes, Isabella Rossellini will take part in the tribute to her mother by attending the screening of Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words‏, a documentary by Stig Björkman being shown as part of the Cannes Classics.

She will also launch her own ‘Ingrid Bergman Tribute’ to celebrate the centenary of her mother’s birth. The show, directed by Guido Torlonia and Ludovica Damiani, will be based on both her autobiography and her correspondence with Roberto Rossellini and will play on some at the world’s major theatres.

With the help of a soon-to-be-announced Jury made up of artists, journalists and festival directors, Isabella Rossellini will award the Un Certain Regard Prize and meet the winners on Saturday 23rd of May, on the eve of the closing ceremony.

The 2014 Un Certain Regard was awarded by President of the Jury Pablo Trapero to White God directed by Kornél Mundruczó.

Oscars® 2016: Calendar for next 3 years of Oscars® is here!

KEY DATES ANNOUNCED FOR 88TH OSCARS®

Oscar Sunday, February 28, 2016

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Academy and the ABC Television Network on Thursday announced the dates for the 88th, 89th and 90th Oscar® presentations. The Academy Awards® will air live on ABC on Oscar Sunday, February 28, 2016, February 26, 2017, and March 4, 2018, respectively.

Academy key dates for the 2015 Awards season are:

Saturday, November 14, 2015 | The Governors Awards
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 | Nominations voting opens 8 a.m. PT
Friday, January 8, 2016 | Nominations voting closes 5 p.m. PT
Thursday, January 14, 2016 | Oscar Nominations Announcement
Monday, February 8, 2016 | Oscar Nominees Luncheon
Friday, February 12, 2016 | Final voting opens 8 a.m. PT
Saturday, February 13, 2016 | Scientific and Technical Awards
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 | Final voting closes 5 p.m. PT
Oscar Sunday, February 28, 2016 | 88th Academy Awards begins 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT

The 88th Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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