CAFE SOCIETY, PERSONAL SHOPPER with Kristen Stewart to Open at Cannes 2016

NEW Still of Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg in Cafe Society

UPDATE: Check out the official press release schedule for Personal Shopper, from MK2's newsletter.

March 29, 2016: Personal Shopper has been locked in competition at Cannes too!!

According to a source close to @ARTEfr (co-prod) Personal Shopper is now LOCKED in competition. #Cannes2016 #Assayas #KristenStewart

— Cédric Succivalli (@OnTheCroisette) March 31, 2016

#Cannes2016 PERSONAL SHOPPER by OLIVIER ASSAYAS #Competition

— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) April 14, 2016

The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 11 to May 22. Stay tuned for the upcoming schedule, which will be coming in the next few weeks. 'Personal Shopper' is planned to be screening during the first weekend of the festival. The Running Time is 1:50. French distributor Les Films du Losange has a webpage of its own to share news.

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ORIGINAL: Finally, after a few days of speculation, The Film Stage reported that Woody Allen's Cafe Society, starring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg, is opening at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival! 

Led by Kristen Stewart (who we expect to also show up with Olivier Assayas‘ Personal Shopper) and Jesse Eisenberg, the announcement also comes with an official logline (following last week’s details from cinematographer Vittorio Storaro) and the first still, seen above. Check out the press release below in full and return for our review.

The 69th Festival International du Film de Cannes will launch with a screening of Woody Allen’s new film, Café Society, on Wednesday 11 May in the Palais des Festivals’s Grand Théâtre Lumière as an Official Selection Out of Competition title. It’s a record-breaking coup for the New York director who has already opened the Festival twice, in 2002 with Hollywood Ending, and again in 2011 with Midnight in Paris.

The film tells the story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

Café Society features two rising stars from Hollywood’s up-and-coming generation, Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg alongside a stellar cast of acclaimed actors including Blake Lively, Parker Posey and Steve Carell. Stewart climbed the Red Carpet Steps at Cannes in 2012 for On the Road by Walter Salles and then in 2014 for Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, which earned her a César. Jesse Eisenberg starred in Louder than Bombs by Joachim Trier, In Competition last year.
Woody Allen also joined forces with Vittorio Storaro for the film. The eminent director of photography was a member of the Feature Film jury in 1991 and is a three-time Oscar winner for Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola in 1980, Reds by Warren Beatty in 1982, and The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1988.

From Manhattan in 1979 to Irrational Man in 2015, this will be the fourteenth Out of Competition selection at Cannes for the American director, screenwriter, actor, writer and comedian. Woody Allen was born in New York on 1 December 1935 into a Jewish family of Russian-Austrian descent. A prolific film-maker for the past forty years, directing virtually a film a year since the 1970s, he is also a jazz clarinettist. His career in film began in 1965 with What’s New Pussycat? which he both wrote and acted in. Then came his directorial debut – What’s Up Tiger Lily? – in 1966. He soon began to star in his own films, going on to win four Oscars (for Annie Hall in 1978, Hannah and Her Sisters in 1987 and Midnight in Paris in 2012). He has been nominated twenty times for the famous award, which he has never turned up to collect. Manhattan, Match Point, Take the Money and Run, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Purple Rose of Cairo and Deconstructing Harry number among his other successes.

Café Society was produced by Letty Aronson (Gravier Productions), Stephen Tenenbaum and Edward Walson, as a co-production with Helen Robin (Perdido Productions). Executive producers were Ronald L. Chez, Adam B. Stern and Marc I. Stern. The film was sold by FilmNation Entertainment and distributed on French territory by Mars Films.

In France, its release in cinemas is scheduled to coincide with the official opening of the Festival de Cannes on Wednesday 11 May, 2016.

The opening ceremony, hosted by Laurent Lafitte, will be broadcast by Canal +.

The 69th Festival International du Film de Cannes will take place between 11 and 22 May, 2016. The Competition Jury will be presided over by George Miller, and the Official Selection titles are due to be announced on 14 April.

I hope to hear more updates on Personal Shopper as well, but I'm so happy about Cafe Society, and more Jesse&Kristen!! 

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PARAHOY!: SECOND VOYAGE: NEW Photos from Photographer Maria De Vera

Here are new photos of Paramore at the 2016 Parahoy: Second Voyage Cruise show, taken by Maria De Vera.

Ping Pong Finals



Belly Flop Contest



Q & A



See more of Maria's amazing photos HERE!! 

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QUEEN OF THE DESERT: NEW Clip of Nicole Kidman and Robert Pattinson

Click the screenshot below to see a new clip of Queen of the Desert starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Pattinson. 

Synopsis:

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

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HIGH LIFE: Director Claire Denis Talks Script with Robert Pattinson

Indiewire did an interview with High Life director Claire Denis, and she mentioned how her film started with the inspiration of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, leading to Robert Pattinson:

"I had a screenplay which was naturally in English, because the story takes place in space and, I don’t know why, but for me, people speak English — or Russian or Chinese — but definitely not French in space. While I was writing the script, I had a face in mind: actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. No one has ever made me feel such a sense of humanity in them. It was something tangible. I felt I could almost touch it," she said. "And then he died, of a massive overdose of various drugs. He was found at home alone with a syringe in his arm." 

The loss of Hoffman was "terribly painful" for Denis, but the project managed to capture the attention of Pattinson, and her worries were not about his talent, but whether or not he'd want to make her kind of movie. But he's on board, and the director is eager to capture his allure.

"When I saw 'Twilight,' I liked it immediately because he has heartrending charisma. It’s strange, though, because it would be difficult to imagine anyone more unlike Philip Seymour Hoffman physically, but Robert is very enigmatic, with a powerful presence. He gives off an aura that immediately makes you want to film him," she said.

For his role, Denis says Pattinson will be playing "a man a long way from earth. One by one, his companions die, and he survives, perhaps because he has a taciturn, monastic side to him that protects him. He will have to make decisions that affect others, not just himself. He’s rather like a knight of the Round Table projected into a world of science fiction. I imagine him to be secretly hemmed in, so that even when he’s in a group, he appears to be alone, and this reserve or diffidence gives him an ability, which others don’t have, to withstand fear and pain." 

Can't wait until High Life begins production in May!! :)

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EQUALS: NEW Stills of Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult + First Still of Guy Pearce

See some new stills from Drake Doremus' Equals, starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart. Also, we finally get the first still of co-star Guy Pearce as Jonas. 

UPDATE: More NEW Stills

 

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Photos by: Taiwanese distributor CatchPlay | kristenstewart.com.br | HoultBR 

Original Story: March 27, 2016

Synopsis:

EQUALS takes place in a utopian society where violence and crime have been virtually eradicated—via the genetic elimination of human emotion. People like Nia (Kristen Stewart) and Silas (Nicholas Hoult) live calm, uneventful, drone-like lives. The two work alongside each other in a large office, creating informational publications and exchanging the occasional pleasantry. Life is simple, until a rumor starts to circulate: a disease has broken out; one that causes people to manifest emotions. If discovered by the powers that be, the infected are sent away, never to return. Silas suspects he carries the disease, and when this is confirmed, he becomes an outcast. But he is drawn back to Nia, who is also infected but has managed to hide the symptoms far better than he. Upon discovering they are similarly stricken, they need to decide whether to stay and hide or run for freedom. 

This future is, at first glance, a beautiful one: high windows, greenery, light-infused work spaces, food and shelter for all. But the viewer starts to feel unease at the spectacle of empty-eyed people moving through yet another day. 

EQUALS poses the question: could we scientifically suppress the strongest human emotion, or is love so strong it could truly conquer all? –Toronto International Film Festival

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