Comedy ‘Babes’ Opens In Limited Release Stateside With Neon On The Move In Cannes – Specialty Preview

Kelly Rowland on the Cannes red carpet last week has been caught up in another spat with Dominican actor Massiel Taveras.Last week, the former Destiny’s Child star was attending the premiere of the film Marcello Mio, a French-Italian comedy written and directed by Christopher Honoré.Footage from the event revealed that Rowland got involved in a heated exchange with the female usher, who appeared to be guiding her into the venue before the singer raised a finger and seemingly engaged in a verbal dispute.Rowland later addressed the incident with the Associated Press on the red carpet of Cannes’ amfAR gala event. “The woman knows what happened.

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A searing historical drama set in mid-19th century Bologna, and a TIFF award winning coming-of-age story open in limited release. The fascination with female conductors continues in doc Maestra. Netflix starts a small run with Richard Linklater comedy Hit Man. A24’s I Saw TV Glow is steady on under 400 screens. Evil Does Not Exist from Sideshow/Janus Films pops up to 138 runs.

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Kelly Rowland appeared to get into a tussle with a security guard on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival last night (May 21).The former Destiny’s Child star was attending the premiere of the film Marcello Mio, a French-Italian comedy written and directed by Christopher Honoré.After posing for photographs, the 43-year-old scaled the steps into the main theatre, where she seemed to get into a heated exchange with a female security officer.Photographs show the guard holding Rowland’s arm to guide her into the venue, but Rowland raises a finger and appears to get into a verbal dispute with her.Someone familiar with the situation told the Daily Mail that “the people who are assigned to helping stars walk the red carpet were being aggressive and Kelly was trying to ignore it.”“By the time she got to the last woman she had had it because she scolded Kelly and told her to move when she was trying to wave to fans and help the paparazzi get their shot,” they added.“She doesn’t care if she comes across like a diva if she knows that she is advocating for herself,” the source continued. “She isn’t fake and wanted to set a clear boundary.”It follows another incident in February when Rowland walked out of an episode of NBC’s Today show that she had been scheduled to co-host.

Don’t mess with Kelly Rowland!

CANNES – The “Anora” in Sean Baker’s latest creation is actually the birth name of Ani (Mikey Madison), a private dancer who works in a pretty nice strip club in New York City. Sure, the hours ain’t ideal, and there’s that long subway ride back to the rundown duplex she shares with her sister in Brighton Beach, but she’s not complaining.

Diane Kruger is looking stunning on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival red carpet!

seven children at the premiere of his new Western movie, “Horizon: An American Saga” at the Cannes Film Festival. Costner, 69, was joined at the event Sunday by his daughters Annie, 40, Lily, 37, and Grace, 13, and his sons Cayden, 17, and Hayes, 15.His sons Joe, 36, and Liam, 26, were missing from the family reunion.Costner shares his three oldest kids with his first wife, Cindy Silva, whom he was married to from 1978 to 1994.

CANNES: You are no doubt familiar with the work of Renate Reinsve. The Norwegian actress earned accolades for her performance in Joachim Trier’s stellar “The Worst Person in the World,” and if you happened to attend the 2024 Sundance Film Festival this past January, you may have seen her in Aaron Schimberg’s lauded “A Different Man.” Reinsive has already proven her prowess as an actress, but there is a scene in her latest endeavor, “Armand,” which, and excuse the justified hyperbole, is simply startling.

Jessica Biel is opening up about her marriage with Justin Timberlake. The 42-year-old Hollywood star is sharing a glimpse of her family life with the 43-year-old singer. The celebrity couple, who tied the knot in 2012, share two sons, 9-year-old Silas, and 3-year-old Phineas.Justin Timberlake says ‘no disrespect’ before singing ‘Cry Me a River’ amid Britney Spears backlashJessica Biel wants more people to eat in the showerJessica Biel’s Met Gala prep included bathing in 20 pounds of Epsom saltDuring the latest episode of ‘The View,’ the actress talked about her marriage with the singer, revealing that her relationship is still “a work in progress” as they both have extremely busy schedules.

Before making Joachim Trier’s 2021 hit The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve was about to jack it all in. Three years later — after A Different Man, with Sebastian Stan, Another Life, with Gael García Bernal, and Handling the Undead, a chiller from Let the Right One In writer John Ajvide Lindqvist — she now finds herself not just back in Cannes but doing double duty at the Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca film festivals (“It’s a running joke that I have two movies everywhere”). Reinsve takes the lead in the Swedish drama Armand, directed by Ingmar Bergman’s grandson Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel.

Many questions abound as Francis Ford Coppola‘s self-budgeted epic “Megalopolis” heads into its Cannes debut. Will the film be received more generously than its LA industry screening in March? Will Coppola find a distributor for it on the Croisette? And will “Megalopolis” survive controversy and be a smash success at the festival much like Coppola’s 1979 masterwork “Apocalypse Now“? READ MORE: ‘Megalopolis’ Teaser: One Man Wants To Create A Utopia In Francis Ford Coppola’s Passion Project IMAX is banking on “Megalopolis” no matter what happens after its premiere.

As Deadline first told you first, Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis was always destined for an Imax release. Heck, the first screening was shown at Universal Citywalk Imax theater. So, there’s no news in the fact that the $120M dystopian future epic is getting a global Imax release.

Anya Taylor-Joy, Heidi Klum, and Helena Christensen were among the stars who arrived at the Opening Ceremony and the screening of “Le Deuxieme Acte” at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 14, 2024.This year’s jury members, including Greta Gerwig, Eva Green, and Lily Gladstone, are tasked with deciding the winners of the various awards.The Opening Ceremony was highlighted by the presentation of the Honorary Palme d’Or to Meryl Streep, awarded in recognition of her illustrious career and contributions to film.The 2024 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 14 to May 25, 2024.

Ed Harris (Appaloosa, Pollock) will direct his own adaptation of Kim Zupan’s 2014 novel The Ploughmen with Owen Teague, Nick Nolte, and Bill Murray signed on to star. 

With a #MeToo expose looking less to rattle the 77th Cannes Film Festival, all agita now seems to lie in whether Cannes Film Festival workers strike or not. Festival Boss Thierry Frémaux in a presser this AM provided an update saying “there are negotiations and we have talked directly with them,” meaning the roughly 200 members of the Collectif des précaires des festivals de cinéma, while adding that the talks going on with the group “aren’t with the festival.”

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