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As part of its sponsorship at this year’s American Pavilion at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (“HFPA”) announced one of its panels will feature all women in focusing on “Global Voices: Empowering Women Behind the Lens” on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at 1:00 PM (local time). “This year we assembled a dynamic panel featuring four women who are showing their work at Cannes for the first time.

While Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness went past the $800 million global benchmark, the good news for Hollywood was that Downtown Abbey: A New Era earned a solid $16 million and placed second. The weekend debut figures of Downtown Abbey 2, although not spectacular, were welcome signs that older moviegoers, especially women, are finally returning to the cineplexes.

It may have something to do with the all-of-a-sudden perfect summer weather in Europe: neither Germany nor Austria reported any big changes in their top ten last weekend. The only exception is a film that was released three weeks ago and managed to climb its way up to the last spot in Germany.

At the Cannes Film Festival going on now, the China Film Co-Production Corporation (CFCC) set up the China Film Pavilion at the Marché du Film and a China booth at the Palais des Festivals to establish “confidence in the development of the industry and restart international exchanges and cooperation in the field. ” There are no Chinese films being screened at the Festival aside from a handful of shorts.

In Top Gun: Maverick (2022), opening the 75th Cannes Film festival, Val Kilmer reprised the role of Iceman that he had played in Top Gun (1986) with Tom Cruise. Back in 1995, Kilmer took over the role of the Caped crusader in Batman Forever, directed by Joel Schumacher, replacing Michael Keaton who had played the DC Comics superhero in Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) directed by Tim Burton.

Its current Rotten Tomatoes score is 96%, some have dubbed it the most important step forward in film in decades, and it’s all anyone can talk about. Yet talking about Everything Everywhere All at Once is difficult as it’s nearly impossible to explain or sum up.

Tutte buona gente: Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Sergio Leone, James Woods, Danny Aiello. This distinguished group of talent was in Cannes with Once Upon A Time in America, which had its worldwide premiere in the Palais.

It is not often you hear a director admit that he expects spectators of his new film to vocally express their displeasure. “Is the film really going to be as bad as all that? ponders Michel Hazanavicius about the audience’s reaction to the first 30 minutes of his new film.

One of the hottest Hollywood couples - recently divorced Natalie Wood and rising star Warren Beatty - arrive in Cannes to promote Beatty's sultry drama All Fall Down. Directed by John Frankenheimer, Beatty starred as a handsome drifter who lives off the women he easily seduces.

Two years before making this appearance in Cannes for the first time, David Bowie had been his grand entrance in cinema, starring Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (he was Thomas Jerome Newton, the man who fell to Earth). Now, two years later, Bowie - and a team very easy on the eyes - was in Cannes to promote the David Hemmings-directed Just a Gigolo, the tale of a World War I hero who becomes a gigolo in Berlin, under the watching eye of a madam played by Marlene Dietrich.