Rejoice, Hedonists: A Spring Breakers Sequel Is Headed Your Way
Breakout your pink ski mask — French film distribution company Wild Bunch has just announced that they will attempt to secure funding for a Spring Breakers sequel called Spring Breakers: The Second Coming at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Looks like spring break really does go on forever and ever.
Cannes Jewel Heist Might Be the Second-Largest Ever in France
A good, old-fashioned jewel heist has been successfully carried off in the South of France. According to several media outlets, an armed man stole about $53 million in jewels from the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, the very spot where, the BBC notes wryly, Albert Hitchcock filmed To Catch a Thief.
Artsy Male Directors At Cannes Say Sexist Shit Too. Who'da Thunk?
These might the kind of sound bites you'd think would come from, say, the premiere of a Michael Bay movie, but — nope! Roman Polanski and Francois Ozon, two iconic male directors, with scores of nuanced, sensitive and artistic films behind them (although, obviously, not without a patchy sexual history on Polanski's…
Watch Julianne Moore Talk About Her 'Toe-mageddon'
Julianne Moore looked radiant as per usual at the Cannes Film Festival Opening Ceremony last night in her lilac Dior gown, but everybody was being an asshole and secretly zooming in on her toes, which were hilariously trying to escape from her shoes. Maybe it's something about feet, but Moore's toes, Amanda Bynes'…
Jessica Chastain Rocks Liz Taylor's Giant Gem
The Bulgari sapphire-and-diamond “sautoir” (with a 65-carat center stone!) used to belong to Liz; Richard Burton bought it for her when she turned 40. Hot damn.
Lars von Trier's Nympho Movie Just Knocked Itself Down a Notch
If you're watching a Lars von Trier film, you know you're in for some genitalia. The eccentric Danish director (he's afraid of flying and insists on driving from Denmark to France for the Cannes Film Festival, from which he is now banned for his 2011 Nazi gaffe) isn't just comfortable with displaying penises and…
Ryan Gosling Is Completely Endearing in Latest Showbiz Anecdote
Ryan Gosling’s smirking, sun-dappled face will appear twice over the course of the Cannes Film Festival: in the erotically violent Nicolas Winding Refn film Only God Forgives, and then briefly in a documentary about the ruthless business behind movie-making, Seduced & Abandoned, where he shares a few charming stories…

