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Film U2’s Bono On Cannes Film ‘Stories Of Surrender’, Irish Fathers & Sons, Family Tragedy & A Need To Be Heard
Bono laid bare his transformation from Dublin lad Paul Hewson into a global rock star and human rights crusader in his memoir ‘Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.’ Now, premiering at Cannes, comes the Andrew Dominik-directed documentary ‘Bono: Stories of Surrender.’ In an exclusive conversation with Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr., he discusses why he felt this was the right vehicle for telling his story. Mostly, though, it’s a discussion about Irish families, and fathers and their sons.
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Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival Rebrands As BRAVO – Brazilian Audiovisual Organization
At a press conference here in Cannes, the organizers behind the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival announced they are rebranding and will henceforth be known as the Brazilian Audiovisual Organization (BRAVO).
As part of the rebrand, BRAVO also welcomes two new executive directors, Juliana Sakae, a…
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Top Arab & Turkish Talent Agents Strike Partnership For Stars Including Tuba Büyüküstün & Kaan Urgancıoğlu
EXCLUSIVE: Cairo-based film company MAD Solutions has struck a deal with prominent Turkish agency People Talent Management to manage all commercial representation in the Arab World for several of its clients.
The partnership includes top Turkish stars such as Tuba Büyüküstün, Kaan Urgancıoğlu and…
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Cannes Film Festival 2025: Read All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin serving as the opening-night pic.
This year’s lineup includes major Hollywood premieres including Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme starring Benicio del Toro and Michael Cera, Richard…
‘The Plague’ Review: Joel Edgerton And Cast Of Young Newcomers Turn Summer Boys Camp Into A Psychological Nightmare – Cannes Film Festival
The Plague, a World Premiere today in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, may be fiction but it brought back vivid, not-so-pleasant memories of my days in elementary school and at the Catalina Island Boys Camp where every 12 year old in my cabin nicknamed the kid we labeled a…
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Breaking Baz @ Cannes: Floating With Women In Cinema At The Hotel du Cap & Breaking Into The Mubi/Match Factory Soiree
Catherine Deneuve and Imogen Poots, having feasted on tomato ravioli with basil and coulis of green zebra tomatoes — and get this, infused with lemon thyme! — were leaving the Women in Cinema dinner at Eden Roc at the fabled Hotel du Cap as I pulled up in an Uber.
Wait! That was only the starter. The…
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‘Watson’ Screening At Monte Carlo TV Festival
CBS’s Morris Chestnut sleuth series Watson will get its French premiere at the Monte Carlo Television Festival on Friday, June 13, at the Grimaldo Forum Monaco. The “medical series with an investigative spine” is set six months after the death of the…
Ali Fazal, Tillotama Shome Lead Cast In Sumit Purhoit’s Himalayas-Set Horror Thriller ‘Beyond’
EXCLUSIVE: Ali Fazal and Tillotama Shome will star in Beyond, a horror-thriller set in the Himalayas from writer-director Sumit Purhoit. Chippy Babu and Abhishek Sharma's Mumbai-based TrainTripper Films is producing alongside Mario Stefan's fieber.film out of Munich.
Set in a ghostly Himalayan town…
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View All What We're Watching‘The President’s Cake’ Review: First-Time Iraqi Director Hasan Hadi Delivers One Of The Fest’s Genuine Gems – Cannes Film Festival
Perhaps the most surprising thing about today’s world premiere of The President’s Cake in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival is that it isn’t in the main Competition at the Grand Lumiere. It is head and shoulders above some of those films I have seen there, but no matter how you…
‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Coursing To $4.6M In U.S. Previews – Box Office
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros’ box office bonanza continues this weekend as New Line’s horror reboot Final Destination: Bloodlines is stabbing around $4.6M in Thursday night previews according to sources. That figure is just $100K shy of the studio’s Sinners‘ previews that pic turning into a $48M opening. The…
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Oui Production Invests In Momo Film Co’s ‘Black Sun’ Directed By Nelson Yeo — Cannes Market
EXCLUSIVE: Oui Production has unveiled its investment in dystopian horror film Black Sun (previously known as The Drought), directed by Singaporean filmmaker Nelson Yeo (Dreaming & Dying).
For his debut feature Dreaming & Dying, Yeo won Locarno’s Golden Leopard prize for the “Filmmakers of the…
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View All Disruptors + Cannes Film Festival 2025Netflix’s Ben Kelly Exiting Unscripted Series Role In The UK After Six Years
EXCLUSIVE: Ben Kelly is exiting his Director of Unscripted Series role at Netflix UK & Ireland after six years at the streamer.
Kelly has been one of Netflix UK’s key commissioning leaders, building out its unscripted slate alongside Daisy Lilley with shows such as Too Hot to Handle and Love is…
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Charlotte Kirk Joins Thriller Series ‘Write To Kill’
EXCLUSIVE: Charlotte Kirk (Duchess) has signed on to star in series Write To Kill from author and producer David P. Perlmutter.
The series follows an aspiring author, cursed with writer’s block and ridden with debt, who is offered a huge amount of money to commit a heinous crime.
The official…
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