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Kevin Costner mortgages property to finance film

Kevin Costner premiered his film Horizon: An American Saga at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night, admitting that it's "so hard" to finance his films.

Movie • 20 May 24

On the red carpet, Emma Stone wore a custom Louis Vuitton sequin gown

Emma Stone and Element Pictures reunite at Cannes

Emma Stone walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday night for the world premiere of Kinds of Kindness, her new film with Poor Things and The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos and the Dublin-based Element Pictures.

Movies • 17 May 24

Francis Ford Coppola - Megalopolis is a $120-million project he self-funded by selling part of his California wine estate and that has been gestating for some 40 years

Coppola's epic Megalopolis finally arrives at Cannes

Another masterpiece emerging from chaos, or just a chaotic mess? One of Hollywood's most mythologised directors, Francis Ford Coppola, returns on Thursday evening to the Cannes Film Festival with the almost impossibly hyped Megalopolis.

Movies • 16 May 24

(L-R) George Miller, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Chris Hemsworth on the red carpet at Cannes

New Mad Max adventure premieres at Cannes

Marvel royalty Chris Hemsworth walked the Cannes Film Festival's red carpet alongside star-of-the-show Anya Taylor-Joy for the first time on Wednesday night to mark the world premiere of director George Miller's much-anticipated Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

Movies • 16 May 24

The stars shine brightly on Cannes red carpet

The premiere of George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has arrived at the Cannes Film Festival, with Anya Taylor-Joy looking every inch the leading lady on the red carpet.

Features • 15 May 24

Furiosa starring Anya Taylor-Joy will have its world premiere at Cannes on Wednesday

Cannes gets rolling with strong day for women on screen

The Cannes Film Festival got rolling on Wednesday with a strong day for female representation, including the new Mad Max, a Meryl Streep masterclass and the leading figure of France's #MeToo movement.

Movie • 15 May 24

Mohammad Rasoulof announced on Monday he had escaped clandestinely from Iran, just days after it emerged he had been sentenced to eight years in prison for "collusion against national security"

Iranian director in exile issues rallying call

Film director Mohammad Rasoulof, who has secretly fled Iran for an undisclosed location in Europe, has urged the world film community to provide "strong support" to his colleagues.

Movies • 14 May 24

The Cannes Film Festival kicks off today and runs until 25 May. Five Irish films will premiere at the festival this year

Media Minister hails Irish films at Cannes

Minister for Media Catherine Martin has congratulated the creative teams behind the five Irish films that are premiering at this year's Cannes Film Festival, saying the Irish screen industry is "going from strength to strength".

Movies • 14 May 24

Meryl Streep was guest of honour at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, which runs until 25 May

Streep honoured at opening of Cannes Film Festival

Meryl Streep was guest of honour at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, unfolding this year against the background of a director's daring escape from Iran and mounting #MeToo pressure on the French industry.

Movies • 15 May 24

The Cannes Film Festival - The event on the French Côte d'Azur is considered the most prestigious for the world's film industry, attracting some 40,000 people each year

No Cannes do. Festival workers call for strike

Workers at the Cannes Film Festival have called for a strike over pay and conditions, just a week before the event is due to start.

Movies • 06 May 24

The project to restore the epic 1927 film began in 2008 when two film researchers discovered different versions of the film in Abel Gance's archives at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris

Epic Napoléon reaches Cannes after 16-year restoration

After a colossal 16-year restoration effort, Abel Gance's seven-hour silent classic Napoléon will finally return to the big screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May, organisers have said.

Movies • 18 Apr 24

They will be rolling out the red carpet again for Irish talent at Cannes

Big year for Irish film talent at Cannes

There is strong Irish interest at this year's Cannes Film Festival with new films from the Dublin-based Element Pictures and Tailored Films, actor Barry Keoghan, and director Lorcan Finnegan among the line-up.

Movies • 11 Apr 24

George Lucas to be given honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival

George Lucas to get special Cannes Film Festival award

George Lucas is set to be given an honorary Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Movies • 09 Apr 24

Kevin Costner's western epic to make debut at Cannes

The first instalment of Kevin Costner's western epic - Horizon, An American Saga - will have its world premiere at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

Movie • 09 Apr 24

Léa Seydoux stars in this year's Cannes opener, Second Act

Cannes Film Festival reveals 2024 opener

The French comedy Second Act, starring Léa Seydoux, will open the Cannes Film Festival on 14 May, the organisers have announced.

Movies • 03 Apr 24

Greta Gerwig:"I love films. I love making them, I love going to them, I love talking about them."

Barbie director to head 77th Cannes Film Festival jury

Barbie director Greta Gerwig will preside over the Cannes Film Festival jury at its 77th edition in May.

Cannes Film Festival • 14 Dec 23

Anatomy of a Fall opens in cinemas on Friday 10 November

Irish cinemas to screen Oscar-tipped legal thriller

Following its Palme d'Or win at Cannes, and with its Oscars momentum building, the French courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall will open in Irish cinemas next month.

Movies • 26 Oct 23

Saeed Roustayi, pictured at the International Biarritz Film Festival in France in June

Cannes denounces jail sentence for Iranian director

Organisers of the Cannes Film Festival have denounced "a serious violation of free speech" after the Iranian director Saeed Roustayi was sentenced to prison for showing a film at the competition.

Movies • 16 Aug 23

Ever since the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT took the world by storm six months ago, spurring an AI race among tech giants, the technology has shaken up the film industry

AI ready for its close-up at Cannes Film Festival

At an AI talk on a Cannes beach, a presenter's voice is cloned and used to say a random phrase in three languages, while another's face is replaced live on screen as they speak.

Movies • 24 May 23

Scarlett Johansson at the premiere of Asteroid City at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night

Stars out for Asteroid City premiere at Cannes

Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson were among the stars attending the premiere of Wes Anderson's latest film, Asteroid City, at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night.

Movies • 24 May 23

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director James Mangold and star Harrison Ford at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night

Indiana Jones director made 'best version' of Spielberg

It is no easy feat taking over an iconic saga like Indiana Jones, but new director James Mangold has said that he wanted to deliver the "best version" of what his childhood hero Steven Spielberg had done with the four previous films.

Movies • 19 May 23

Harrison Ford and his wife and fellow actor Calista Flockhart at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night

Harrison Ford receives honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes

Harrison Ford said he was "deeply moved and humbled" as he received an honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Movie • 19 May 23

Killers of the Flower Moon is due in Irish cinemas on Friday 20 October

Scorsese unveils Killers of the Flower Moon trailer

The first trailer for Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon has been released ahead of the crime-thriller's world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday and arrival in cinemas in October.

Movies • 18 May 23

Steve McQueen - The director of the Oscar-winning Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam - a city where he now lives - without a single shot of archival footage

Epic WWII documentary from Steve McQueen divides Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival has hosted a four-and-a-half-hour screening of Steve McQueen's new documentary on Amsterdam during World War II, which critics either adored or suffered through.

Movies • 20 May 23

Johnny Depp at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday - "I don't feel boycotted by Hollywood because I don't think about Hollywood"

Johnny Depp has 'no further need' for Hollywood

Johnny Depp has said that he has "no further need" for Hollywood.

Movies • 18 May 23