Cannes Wrap-Up

Your Film Festival Round-Up Here's this week's wrap-up from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival: [Cannes Filmmakers Go Mega in a Muted Festival]( There’s a trend at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Many of the directors who’ve showcased their movies in the competition lineup have gone big, gone wild and, to borrow a prefix from Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” gone mega. Read Steve Pond's festival analysis [here](. [Donald Trump Pic ‘The Apprentice’ Stirs Up Controversy]( Controversy swept into Cannes on the back of a new Donald Trump biopic (but is the movie any good?). Plus: David Cronenberg returns and there are acquisitions aplenty. Read the full breakdown [here](. [‘Horizon: An American Saga’ Review: Kevin Costner Unveils a Sprawling, Old-Fashioned Western]( The first of a projected four movies is a corny, rousing epic for people who say they don’t make ’em like that anymore Read the full film review [here](. [David Cronenberg Says AI Is ‘Ferocious and Terrifying’ but ‘Also Incredibly Useful’]( The use of AI in cinema should be respected, “The Shrouds” filmmaker David Cronenberg said at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, but it doesn’t have to be feared. “It’s like nuclear fission,” he explained. “It’s ferocious and terrifying, but it’s also incredibly useful. What do we do? I have no idea.” Read the full article [here]([.]( [Women Recoil in Cannes as Harvey Weinstein Still Looms, While a Sexist System Persists]( CANNES — How should one react to the unwelcome news that Harvey Weinstein has been [calling friends]( at the Cannes Film Festival, pulling strings and phoning in favors to get friends into parties and onto yachts? TheWrap broke this story on[Sunday](, the same day that Kering’s Women in Motion, in partnership with the festival, bestowed a number of awards on leading women in film, including Universal’s Chief Content Officer Donna Langley, at its gala dinner. The dinner took place at a medieval castle on a cliff overlooking the harbor, with dramatic lights and good intentions and gowns and jewels and lots of media. But it is very hard to feel like progress is being made for women when the spectre of Weinstein, a convicted rapist, hangs in this place where for decades he preyed on women. For the record, Weinstein has denied that he made calls to help friends go to parties. Nonetheless, TheWrap spoke to two individuals who confirmed he had done so, and two others who said that Weinstein has reached out to former colleagues in Europe to discuss plans to eventually restart his career. Continue reading the full story [here](. [Willem Dafoe Explains What Brought Him Back to Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone in ‘Kinds of Kindness’]( Fresh off his paternal twist on a Frankenstein-esque mad scientist in awards darling “Poor Things,” Dafoe reunites with the arthouse auteur alongside Emma Stone for this new three-part film, which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Watch TheWrap's exclusive interview [here](! That's A Wrap! 2034 Armacost Ave. | Los Angeles, CA 90025 [Unsubscribe](