Indonesian Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim Launches $13 Million Annual Film Grant, Reveals BiFan, Udine Agreements (EXCLUSIVE)

In Hollywood, success usually begets sequels; if a movie wins Oscars and brings in big bucks at the box office, it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that a sequel will be coming soon.

Police have launched an urgent search for a missing Scots dad who disappeared earlier today.

Nick Cannon is opening up about how he balances his time as a father to 12 children. While  host divvies up his time between all of his kids, Cannon revealed that there's one child in particular he sees the most.«My beautiful daughter Onyx, that's probably the child that I spend the most time with, really,» Cannon, who shares Onyx, 8 months, with LaNisha Cole, said during a recent appearance on the.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent A bold departure from France’s cinema tradition of social realism, Thomas Cailley’s widely ambitious sophomore outing “The Animal Kingdom” is equally a creature-filled dystopia, an emotionally charged father-and-son drama and a coming-of-age tale. The character-driven film world premiered to warm reviews at the Cannes Film Festival where it bowed the Un Certain Regard section. “The Animal Kingdom” is represented in international market by Studiocanal and was produced by Pierre Guyard at Nord Ouest Films, and co-produced by Artemis. “The Animal Kingdom” takes place in an undetermined future in France which has been swept by a genetic disease causing people to transform into creatures that are being hunted down and killed or institutionalized by authorities. Kircher, the breakout star of Christophe Honoré’s “Winter Boy,” plays 16-year-old Emile whose mother was institutionalized after showing first signs of a genetic mutation. He lives with his father Francois (Romain Duris) who is struggling to overcome grief.

Catherine Bray Afghan director Sahra Mani‘s well-received “A Thousand Girls Like Me” documented the quest for justice of a young incest victim, and now, Mani has returned with a similarly hard-hitting documentary, “Bread and Roses”, premiering in the official selection of Cannes as a special screening. Produced by Jennifer Lawrence, this film tackles an urgent and timely topic through a committed on-the-ground perspective, capturing the experience of three people, Zahra, Taranom and Sharifa, whose lives as they knew them were effectively ended when the Taliban seized control of Kabul in 2021. The film benefits from introducing a voice-of-god narrator or viewer stand-in to guide the audience through an arm’s-length survey of the situation. This is scrappy, up-close and personal filmmaking — which is not to say that anything here is hard to follow or purposefully obscure. It’s more that Mani trusts both her audience and subjects to engage with the actuality of what is happening without the need for intrusive formatting.

filming “Good Burger 2” in Rhode Island on Saturday to surprise local cops with a delivery of coffee and donuts.Thompson, 45, and Newport Mayor Xaykham Khamsyvoravong stopped by the Newport Police Department with the morning snacks and posed for pictures with the officers.Cops thanked the Emmys host and the politician on Facebook.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Tudor, or not Tudor. That is the question in “Firebrand,” a revisionist royal portrait of Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr (played here by Alicia Vikander), that features all the pageantry you’d expect from a lavish costume drama, while showing the ahistorical audacity to call “Time’s Up” on the gluttonous king (Jude Law). Never mind that Henry VIII died — of very different causes than the movie depicts — all of 476 years ago. When it comes to art, there’s no statute of limitations on taking toxic masculinity to task, which can be both encouraging (since history has excused no shortage of monsters) and frustrating. There’s a big difference between exposing the truth and rewriting what came before to suit a contemporary political agenda, the way this movie does. Liberally adapted from Elizabeth Fremantle’s fast-and-loose historical fiction “The Queen’s Gambit,” director Karim Aïnouz’s tony British production needn’t try hard to demonstrate that Henry was a notoriously bad husband.

Matt Hancock was determined to enter the famed I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! jungle – and nothing like a potentially broken rib was going to stop him. It’s been claimed that the ex-Health Secretary had a rib injury prior to entering the camp, having completed filming for Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins (which has yet to air) before wading his way through creepy crawlies in the jungle.

Beatles' legend Sir Paul McCartney is the wealthiest British music star, with a fortune of £950million, placing him ahead of the King and many successful business tycoons. The 80-year-old, who is still raking in millions from his performances, and his wife Nancy Shevell, who is from a haulage dynasty, were amongst the richest people in the country. Sir Elton John, 76, who is set to play his final live performance next month at Glastonbury Festival, was also amongst the country's wealthiest with a estimated worth o £450 million. A number of younger British popstars, including the likes of Adele, Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles, are also raking in the big bucks, being placed on The Sunday Times Rich List as some of the wealthiest Britons under the age of 35. All the performers are self-made with the majority making their money from their music, sold-out world tours, and other business ventures, such as podcasts, documentaries and lucrative brand deals. Sir Paul McCartney - £950mSir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell have a fortune of £950million.

James 'Arg' Argent most recently took his singing talents to a charity boxing event in London's Covent Garden on Saturday evening. The event drew in a celebrity guest list including actor Ed Westwick, who looked very impressed with Arg's singing ability as he sat in the audience. The Gossip Girl star, 35, was spotted filming the former TOWIE star as he sang a rendition of Frank Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon.

Fast and Furious actor Vin Diesel has shared his support for the Hollywood writers' strike. The 55-year-old actor was seen alongside his Fast-X co-stars at a fundraiser at Universal Studios Hollywood for the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project.

Harrison Ford is reacting to the de-aging featured in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures wraps up its 10-day major retrospective of filmmaker Lourdes Portillo’s work later today, with a screening of her 2001 documentary Missing Young Woman (Señorita Extraviada). 

, host asked the to name a man in Hollywood who “tried to pick you up once who you turned down.” Fonda, who appeared on the show to promote her new film quickly recalled an experience with Clément, who directed her in the 1964 thriller Joy House. “He wanted to go to bed with me because he said the character had to have an orgasm in the movie and he needed to see what my orgasms were like,” Fonda explained while seated next to her Book Club costars Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen.“Are you kidding me?” Cohen responded in shock.Fonda replied, “He said it in French and I pretended I didn’t understand.” According to , Jane Fonda was just 27 years old at the time of Joy House's production, while René Clément was a 51-year-old filmmaker with multiple Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA awards to his name. Of course, Fonda would later go on to win multiple prestigious awards of her own, including two Academy Awards for best actress for Klute in 1971 and Coming Home in 1978.

French director Justine Triet returns to Competition with a cerebral smash that might finally bring the Best Actress award that its star, Sandra Hüller, was cruelly denied in 2016 when Maren Ade’s festival hit Toni Erdmann lost out in every category. That film wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and the formidably forensic Anatomy of a Fall might not be either, but Hüller’s screen magnetism cannot be denied. Between this and her role as “Queen of Auschwitz” in Jonathan Glazer’s equally brilliant Zone of Interest, Hüller has Cannes in the palm of her hand. Whether she will also get a Palme in her hand is up to the jury.

EXCLUSIVE: The rain in Cannes managed to stop for a few hours on Saturday when Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park International hosted an exclusive event for buyers on the Croisette for its upcoming project Night Boat to Tangier, with Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, director James Marsh and producers Andrew Eaton and Conor McCaughan all in attendance for the intimate event.

What could have been? Before her stint as the Bachelorette, Gabby Windey tried to pursue another member of Bachelor Nation.

Emiliano De Pablos In a highly anticipated animation event at this year’s Cannes Festival, Emmy-winning Spanish director Rodrigo Blaas attends on Sunday the screening of his short film “Sith,” part of Disney+’s “Star Wars: Visions” Season 2 anthology. The first big-screen exhibition of “Sith” — released worldwide May 4 on Disney+ — followed by a meet and greet with Blaas marks one highlight of the Animation Day Revelations New Animated Shorts From Spain, organized by ICEX Spain’s Trade & Investment. The Spanish animation event at Cannes will also showcase Alberto Mielgo’s celebrated 2022 Oscar-winning short film “The Windshield Wiper.”

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Depending on where you come down on the question of its main character’s guilt or innocence, Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” could be seen as a kind of “Gone Girl” in reverse: A frustrated writer dies of suspicious causes, leaving behind clues that implicate his wife (Sandra Hüller). If the man’s death was a suicide — and the bilingual (half-English) movie strongly points in that direction — then there’s a terrible cruelty to what follows, as his grieving wife is hauled into court and tried for his murder. Their 11-year-old son is obsessed with trying to make sense of what happened, whereas it’s the death of the marriage, not the husband, that preoccupies Triet. Can any couple’s relationship withstand the kind of scrutiny this one is subjected to, as old fights and infidelities are dragged into the open?

Michelle Yeoh finally became an Oscar-winning actor just two months ago for “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” Yeoh says Asian performers were ignored for far too long, but she is hopeful for the future. Speaking during the Kering Women in Motion talks at Cannes, Yeoh reflected on the first time she came to the prestigious festival with “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” more than 20 years ago. Yeoh says “it’s quite obvious” that Hollywood was not ready to recognize Asian actors at that time. The Ang Lee film was a box office success, making more than $200 million worldwide and garnering 10 Oscar nominations, including best picture, best director and screenplay. But none of the actors were nominated.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Spain’s Revelations showcase has focused on shorts, not features, unveiling the huge breadth of animation talent and techniques in Spain. Some shorts directors are already stars, such as Alberto Mielgo with the Oscar-winner “The Windshield Wiper.” Diego Porral, director of “Leopoldo From the Bar,” served as animation lead on “Love, Death + Robots” episode “Kill Team Kill.” Standouts among new projects in Revelations included “Latente,” a Next Lab Generation winner from Carlos Zaragoza and Aurora Jiménez, and Martín Romero’s “To Bird or Not to Bird,” from Uniko and Abano Producións, which is a 2D short made largely in black and white featuring an angst-ridden clock cuckoo and other birds beset by environmental destruction.