The Fondation Liban Cinema is paying tribute to late great Lebanese helmer Maroun Baghdadi with a boxed set of the entire body of work by the auteur, who worked with Francis Ford Coppola and is considered the pioneer of new Lebanese cinema. Baghdadi, known for pics that vividly portrayed Lebanon’s civil war, such as “Little... Read more »

In a press conference Tuesday, he proclaimed: "Oklahoma needs to get everything that it needs, right away."

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Anne Heche’s TV roles have hewn toward the whimsical, and “Save Me” – a half-hour premiering with back-to-back episodes on NBC – is no exception. Echoing the movie “Hello Again” (which makes sense, since at times Heche seems to be channeling Shelley Long of post-“Cheers” vintage), Heche plays a suburban woman who has a spiritual... Read more »

Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theater has found a summer tenant, with dance revue “Forever Tango” returning to the Main Stem for a ten-week run prior to the fall opening of new musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.” “Tango” will feature guest star vocalists in limited engagements as part of its New York run, starting... Read more »

Universal has acquired distribution rights to Latin America and Spain on the Studiocanal-sold “Shaun the Sheep,” adding two more major deals to the Aardman production’s already impressive major territory count at Cannes. On the Croisette, “Shaun” has racked up sales to Japan (Tohokushinsha), CIS (Volga), Scandinavia (Svensk), Switzerland (Impuls), and Poland (Monolith). Studiocanal is distributing... Read more »

“In the span of an hour they had gotten into the house through the roof and gone through all of our rooms," says CIT Group managing director Kevin Khanna, whose villa was robbed Monday.

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"Today," "Good Morning America" and "CBS This Morning" lead with coverage of the aftermath of the deadly storm that ripped through the town of Moore, killing at least 51 and injuring more than 200.

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Spanish director Carlos Saura, the major figure of the Nuevo Cine Espanol, is set to direct “Argentina,” a documentary about tango. Nathanael Karmitz’s MK2, which is scoring heavily this week at the Cannes Festival with “A Touch of Sin,” has acquired international sales rights. Shooting from this fall, “Argentina” continues Saura’s lyrical exploration of the... Read more »

Thanks to the allure of such Hollywood stars as Brad Pitt, who is the channel’s May star of the month, MBC2 has the fourth-biggest Facebook following in the MENA region, the first when it comes to media and TV.

The Back Lot Music album from composer Nathan Whitehead hits stores June 4.

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“The Long Ships,” based on the novel by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson, follows the life of 10th-century Norseman Red Orm.

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Chellomedia accounts for only a small portion of the annual revenue recorded by the international cable giant.

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Jia Zhang-ke’s bloody festival title has now sold in 10 territories, including France, the U.K. and Greece.

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IM Global and Switzerland’s Impuls Pictures have partnered on a new output deal, the companies announced Tuesday from Cannes. Deal adds to IM Global’s existing network of output partners, which include Universum in Germany, Top Film in Russia and Eastern Europe, Sun Distribution in Latin America, and eOne in the U.K., Canada and Spain. IM... Read more »

Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai, Elias Koteas and Olivia Williams star as Red Planet explorers under siege from a virulent bacterial strain in Ruairi Robinson's Directors Fortnight premiere.

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The magical atmosphere of Fellini’s "Roma" and "La Dolce Vita" pervades Paolo Sorrentino's update on cynicism, premiering in competition.

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Michael Douglas and Matt Damon shine in Steven Soderbergh's fabulous Liberace biopic, which is playing in competition at the festival ahead of its May 26 debut on HBO.

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Set to unspool Stateside on HBO, "Behind the Candelabra" is the most bigscreen-worthy film Steven Soderbergh has made since "Che."

Atom Egoyan is directing the crime drama, which also stars Colin Firth.

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Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. rights to Asghar Farhadi’s “The Past,” which preems Friday at Cannes. SPC and Farhadi have collaborated successfully before. SPC released Farhadi’s Iranian film “A Separation,” which won the Academy Award for best foreign language film in 2012. “The Past” stars “The Artist’s” Berenice Bejo, Ali Mosaffa and Tahar Rahim.... Read more »