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Now a Cannes veteran, French filmmaker Christophe Honoré has returned to the Competition with the world premiere of Marcello Mio, his French-Italian comedy that stars longtime collaborator Chiara Mastroianni — who, in the film, adopts the persona and appearance of her late father, Marcello Mastroianni. The movie received applause that lasted a touch over eight minutes during its unveiling this evening.

Ahead of its May 23 series premiere, Netflix has handed an early Season 2 renewal to Shane Gillis‘ scripted comedy series Tires.

EXCLUSIVE: The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers alum Maxwell Simkins and newcomer Barrett Margolis are set as series regulars opposite Tim Allen and Kat Dennings in ABC multi-camera comedy pilot Shifting Gears (working title) from 20th Television.

Killers of the Flower Moon exec producer Niels Juul has been developing a drama series about Adidas founder Adi Dassler and now he has some help.

The Associated Press said that Israeli authorities seized camera and broadcasting equipment and shut down a live shot, contending that the wire service was in violation of a new law restricting Al Jazeera.

EXCLUSIVE: Don Stark is returning to Netflix‘s That ’90s Show for Season 2 in a heavy recurring role reprising the character Bob Pinciotti, an OG That ’70s Show character who appeared in one episode of the sequel series last season.

Talk about an identity crisis!

Freevee has canceled its freshman comedy series Primo from Shea Serrano and Mike Schur.

EXCLUSIVE: David Bryan, the first man to join Bon Jovi alongside its eponymous frontman, is getting into the podcast business.

CNN was hoping to get a little perspective about Sean Diddy Combs and the newly released video of him attacking a former girlfriend in 2016. Instead, they got a lesson on what happens when bookers don’t fully vet a potential guest.

EXCLUSIVE: After a 12-year run, Rory Aitken, co-founder of London- and Los Angeles-based management and production company 42, is exiting the firm, which will undergo a restructure.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is exploring more nightmarish roommates.

EXCLUSIVE: Ozark‘s Felix Solia has signed on to star opposite Jacob Moran, Madeleine McGraw and Violet McGraw in The Necklace, a horror film from director Juan Pablo Arias Munoz that heads into production in Atlanta in late May.

When it comes to whether AI is friend or foe, particularly in regards to its place in the film industry, David Cronenberg is both intrigued and terrified. “What do we do? I have no idea,” the Canadian horror sci-fi maestro said Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival, the day after the world premiere of his new film The Shrouds.

EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based management and production company 75East has signed Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel, whose narrative feature debut To A Land Unknown is playing in Directors’ Fortnight this year.

Fremantle has appointed Matt Katrosar as its new senior vice president of global ad sales and strategy.

EXCLUSIVE: Paolo Sorrentino‘s anticipated new movie Parthenope has sold around the world for Pathé here in Cannes where the film is playing in Competition.

EXCLUSIVE: Derry Girls and Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan, who last year also played one of the Barbies in Greta Gerwig’s box office smash Barbie, has booked the starring role in feature drama-thriller Love And War about a woman who must travel to Syria to find her abducted daughter.

EXCLUSIVE: Wscripted has unveiled the projects and talents selected for its fourth Cannes Screenplay List supporting scripts by women and non-binary writers.

Prince Harry will not be able to expand his phone hacking lawsuit against News Group Newspapers to include Rupert Murdoch and Piers Morgan, the UK’s High Court has ruled.

CNN anchor Sara Sidner told viewers today that she will undergo a double mastectomy on Wednesday and will be away for the next few weeks as she recovers.

EXCLUSIVE: Michaela Coel is no longer developing a series with links to her smash BBC/HBO hit I May Destroy You.

EXCLUSIVE: Neon has prebought North American rights to Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, the latest project from the Norwegian director that stars Renate Reinsve. 

“Throwing money” at the “workforce crisis” in UK film and TV will “exacerbate the problem” rather than solving it, according to the former boss of Amazon in Europe.

EXCLUSIVE: Altered Innocence has picked up all North American rights to Iranian filmmaker Kaveh Daneshmand’s first feature film Endless Summer Syndrome which debuted last year at Tallinn Black Nights before playing Raindance, Goa IFF, and Fantaspoa. 

A+E Media Group is teaming with The Tinder Swindler producer Raw on a thriller series about a “Dadfluencer.”

EXCLUSIVE: ITN Distribution has picked up the holiday rom-com Christmas Overtime starring Meghan Carrasquillo, Adam Brudnicki, and Jadon Cal for North America. 

The Apprentice filmmaker Ali Abbasi was asked today at the pic’s Cannes press conference about Donald Trump‘s legal threats against the movie following its world premiere here at the fest.

After a week of small and impromptu demonstrations, Cannes Film Festival workers are set to hold talks this afternoon with festival management, the CNC, and France’s other major entertainment unions about how to resolve their ongoing dispute over pay and worker benefits.

EXCLUSIVE: The Peppa Pig podcast, the first fruits of a deal between Hasbro and Audible, has unveiled name and release date.