Here is a 36-page guide I wrote for Raindance on how to best navigate the Cannes Film Festival and Marché du Film. Download your free copy below: Every spring, around this time, my inbox develops a ...

In ten days, I’ll be on the Croisette for the Marché du Film, the business end of the Cannes Film Festival. To prepare, I have gone through the conference schedules for this year (as well as 2024 and ...

Predicting who will be the next James Bond has become one of the great communal conversations. Whether that’s via prediction markets, professional bookmakers, newspaper headlines, or just down the pub ...

Andrew Sarris, in his 1963 essay “The Auteur Theory and the Perils of Pauline” reflected on the emerging idea of a film auteur like this: After a given number of films, a pattern is established, and ...

If you ask most people about Darren Aronofsky's drug-fuelled mad 2000 classic movie Requiem for a Dream, they will say the same thing: Wow, such a great movie. I’m never watching it again. So much so ...

At CinemaCon last week, five of the most-hyped announcements from the major studios were headlined by actors aged 58 or older. Top Gun 3 with Tom Cruise at 63 Highlander with Russell Crowe at 62 and ...

Colour is one of the quickest ways a poster can tell you what kind of film it’s selling. Before you’ve read the title or registered the actors, your brain has already clocked the palette and filed it ...

Yesterday, Donald Trump announced a plan to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films. He claimed that international tax incentives were draining American productions from US soil and accused ...