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According to IonCinema, which reaffirms what we first learned from a casting call this past summer, Sciamma has started shooting her next film in Paris, this one titled “Petite Maman.” Based on the description in the notice, Sciamma’s film may involve two young girls, potentially twins, named Nelly and Marion, both aged 7-10-years-old. This could be, and sounds like, another coming-of-age story in the same vein as her pre-Portrait films, such as “Girlhood” “Water Lillies” and “Tomboy....

Maybe it’s because its closer links to Europe make the nation’s filmmakers more comfortable with the whole gambling topic. After all, there are dozens of Canada mobile casino sites out there and Canadians are estimated to spend $30 billion each year gambling online at real money casinos. We will leave that for the psychologists to figure out, and here, we’ll take a look at three examples of great Canadian casino movies....

In another piece, we also confirmed that Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” and Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave” have been already accepted as competition titles. Ok, so, what else? That’s a question I’ve been getting these last few weeks, and my honest answer is that I just don’t know. It’s already something to have three Cannes certainties at such an early stage of the year, and all we can do is speculate, spitball etc ....

I’ve received a few messages about starting another early predictions list for Cannes 2023. It is too early to do that, but with Venice having announced their lineup, why not? Let’s take a brief crack at it. I’ve been seeing some big name directors, Cannes regulars, starting to shoot new works these last few weeks and months, with what I would assume is the intent of premiering them at Cannes....

What I do know is that Ostlund, Park and Kore-eda are definitely confirmed for competition. Other than that, we have films that are 90% possibilities, some much less so. I’m being told there is one Italian film and one American film definitely locked in for competition. The person I spoke to doesn’t want to say more. The Italian one could either be Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All” or Pietro Marcello’s “L’Envoi....

According to a new statement released by Cannes 2020 organizers (via Deadline), the ban on public events in France until mid-July has made the postponement of the film festival “no longer an option.” The statement added that they are beginning to “explore all contingencies” for how to continue to have Cannes in a way that would satisfy and “support the year of cinema.” What could possibly be done to save Cannes 2020 this year?...

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“Well, I do think Kechiche spent way too long shooting that sex scene [in “Blue is the Warmest Color”]. He shot it over two weeks, whereas I would have done it in a day,” Breillait said. “You can’t put actresses in that position for 15 days. I’ve always shot such scenes very quickly, because being in an exposed situation like that for 15 days can make an actress feel like a prostitute....

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It was announced yesterday that “The Red Sky” will be coming in the “Spring of 2023.” That means an obvious bow at the Berlin Film Festival. Something tells me the Berlinale will have a more-that-decent lineup come early next year with new films from Petzold, Ozon, Sachs, Garrel, Techine and maybe Schanelec. A new synopsis has also arrived: Petzold is the acclaimed director behind “Phoenix,” “Transit” and “Barbara.” I don’t think he’s ever done Cannes before, at least not to my knowledge....

As was anticipated, the COVID-19 pandemic tied Warner Bros’. hands too tightly as they have gone ahead and delayed Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” yet again. Except, this time, there is no new release date. By all accounts, “Tenet” is delayed indefinitely. The WB confirmed [via Variety] that Nolan’s new film, which was originally set for release on July 17 before getting delayed to July 31 and then August 12, is now completely off the grid for 2020, with a new date coming “imminently,” according to the studio....

Fincher is a world-class filmmaker and has had a hot streak of films between 1995 and 2014 (“Seven,” “The Game,” “Fight Club,” “Panic Room,” “Zodiac,” “The Social Network,” “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “Gone Girl.”) The only time I felt disappointed by a film of his during that time span was 2008’s ”The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Just a few months after the release of “Mank,” it was announced that Fincher was again teaming up with Netflix for a movie....

He’s right and that’s why eroticism has become a lost art at the movies, a medium where we would be able incredible, none-too-graphic, erotica. But while plenty of films like to show gratuitous sex, they’re not always very good. That numbness he mentions is to blame. There hasn’t been a lot of masterful eroticism released in the 21st century: Jane Campion’s “In the Cut,” Francois Ozon’s “Swimming Pool,” Abdellatif Kechiche’s “Blue is the Warmest Color,” Ang Lee’s “Lust Caution,” Adrian Lyne’s “Unfaithful,” David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” and my personal favorite, Alfonso Cuaron’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien....

“The Simpsons” and Disney+ have an important partnership. There are no doubt plenty of folks out there who decided to subscribe to Disney+ just to have access to every single episode of “The Simpsons.” However, now comes the news that the streaming channel has decided not to include the famous Michael Jackson episode “Stark Raving Dad” in their otherwise complete 30-season selection. This comes after, earlier this year, “The Simpsons” co-creator James L....

According to the Variety report, the Nazi subject matter at the heart of “Jojo Rabbit” is worrying Disney execs. Variety’s report reads: “The scathing takedown of Nazism may, however, prove a little too edgy for Disney brass accustomed to producing movies suitable for parents and kids. Searchlight has started to screen the film for its new parent company. Halfway through one recent viewing one executive grew audibly uncomfortable, worrying aloud that the material would alienate Disney fans....

Cronenberg may have been hinting at retirement these last six years, but the legendary 78-year-old director is not done with cinema. He’s teaming up with an incredible cast that includes Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Welket Bungué, Don McKellar, Lihi Kornowski, Tanaya Beatty, Nadia Litz, and Yorgos Karamichos. Although this new movie borrows the same name as Cronenberg’s 1970 feature it will have a different plot altogether....

Coppola to Fleming: “I plan this year to begin my longstanding ambition to make a major work utilizing all I have learned during my long career, beginning at age 16 doing theater, and that will be an epic on a grand scale, which I’ve entitled Megalopolis. It is unusual. It will be a production on a grand scale with a large cast. It makes use of all of my years of trying films in different styles and types culminating in what I think is my own voice and aspiration....

Guillermo del Toro decided to single out the film on Twitter as “the greatest underrated movie ever made.” The film was released on Christmas day 2002, and paired cinematic giants Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio. The reviews were mostly positive, and the box office huge ($352 million worldwide), but why does nobody talk about it anymore? Del Toro has argued for a reassessment, highlighting Spielberg’s “nimble camera-actor staging” and how the camerawork is “perfectly engineered,” going on to add “Spielberg is the modern master of the 1-3 minute single shot,” with which I wholeheartedly agree....

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The working title is “Emilia Perez”. The main character is inspired by one chapter of french author Boris Razon’s novel “Écoute” (“listen”) and concerns a drug kingpin who disappeared, after changing identity, by undergoing a male-to-female surgical transition. Audiard co-wrote the movie with his usual writing partner Thomas Bidegain. They will partner with French composer-arranger Clément Ducol for the score and famous French singer Camille, who wrote all the songs (with the help of a Mexican translator) and performed them for the music demo....