Actors
Protests as Johnny Depp set to walk Cannes red carpet
Protests were building on social media and from French filmmakers on May 16 ahead of Johnny Depp's red carpet appearance for the opening of the Cannes Film Festival.
Depp is making his movie comeback at the French Riviera festival with his new film "Jeanne du Barry," in which he plays French King Louis XV.
Cannes Film Festival readies a blockbuster edition
The Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off today, is such a colossal extravaganza that taking measure of its ups and downs is notoriously difficult. It's a showcase of the world's best cinema. But by at least some metrics, Cannes, following a canceled 2020 festival, a much-diminished 2021 edition and a triumphant 2022 return, is finally all the way back.
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Depp makes comeback in scandal-hit period drama
Johnny Depp's comeback film is full of scandal both on-screen and off, as he tests out his French in the role of King Louis XV.
There were rumors Depp only had a few minutes of screen time in "Jeanne du Barry," which opens the Cannes Film Festival today and has a nationwide release in France.
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Kate Winslet wins at BAFTA TV Awards
Kate Winslet and Ben Whishaw were among the winners at the BAFTA Television Awards in London on May 14, with the Oscar-winning actress using her acceptance speech to call for action against harmful content on social media.
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Ordinary People | Athens | May 14
As part of its "Psi" program on the subject of psychiatry and how it's portrayed in film, the Trianon Cinema (trianon.gr) - in cooperation with the Hellenic Psychiatric Association - is screening Robert Redford's 1980 drama "Ordinary People." Starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton, and based on novel by Judith Guest, this was one of the first films signalin
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‘Yellowstone' to end in November, sequel starts in December
The popular television western "Yellowstone" with Kevin Costner will end this fall and be replaced almost immediately by a sequel. But like any good drama, there's some mystery involved.
The sequel, still untitled, will premiere December on the Paramount cable network, which also televises "Yellowstone," Paramount said on May 5.
‘Dracula’ Restored | Athens | May 6
The Premiere Nights Athens International Film Festival joins the movement to save the historic Ideal cinema (46 Panepistimiou) in downtown Athens with a screening of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula." The gothic thriller has been digitally restored - and approved by the legendary filmmaker - to mark the 30th anniversary since its original release, and stars Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Keanu Re
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‘It doesn’t matter who gave birth to whom, but in Montenegro, secrets go to the grave’
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A married couple of intellectuals from the capital of Montenegro had three daughters. The husband's brother had two children. But while their sister struggled for years to obtain the joy of parenthood, it didn't work. This couple visited all the clinics, and listened to all the advice, in vain.
Controversial film in Cannes line-up
A new French film was added to the Cannes Film Festival line-up on Monday despite reports of inappropriate behavior on set, including the use of a child in a sex scene.
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Charge to be dropped in Alec Baldwin movie set shooting
Prosecutors in New Mexico plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film " Rust," Baldwin's attorneys said on April 20.