Robert De Niro to Receive Honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes 2025

Renowned actor and two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro is set to be honored at the 78th Cannes Film Festival with the prestigious Honorary Palme d’Or. The award will be presented to him during the festival's grand opening ceremony on May 13, 2025. De Niro, a longstanding friend of the festival, was last seen on the Croisette in 2023 for the premiere of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. The day after the award ceremony, De Niro will participate in a special masterclass held on the stage of the Debussy

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Borbad, Dagi, and Jongli Dominate with Houseful Shows

Six films were released this Eid-ul-Fitr: Borbad, Dagi, Jongli, Jinn 3, Chokkor 302, and Antoratma. Among them, three have generated significant buzz in the first three days. Shakib Khan’s Borbad, directed by Mehedi Hasan Hridoy, premiered in up to 120 theaters, including both single screens and multiplexes. It opened with 34 shows at Star Cineplex on Eid day, increasing to 44 shows from the second day. Every show has been sold out, prompting an increase in screenings. At Jamuna Blockbuster, Borbad started with three shows but now runs nine. Bogura’s Madhuban

David Lynch to Be Honored at Film Fest Gent’s World Soundtrack Awards

The 2025 World Soundtrack Academy’s Film Music Composition Contest will pay tribute to the late David Lynch, with his 1980 classic The Elephant Man as this year’s centrepiece. Aspiring composers under 36 are invited to create a symphonic score for an excerpt from the film, with submissions open until May 12, 2025. The winner will receive the Award for Best Original Composition by a Young Composer at the World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony on October 15, part of the 52nd edition of Film Fest Gent, which runs from October 8-19. Starring John

Mickey 17: The same river twice

Bong Joon-ho’s shrill science-fiction satire carries our political present into the future and shoots wildly around in space and time, but unfortunately, overshoots too often. ‘Real human flesh is cheaper than a machine. It’s the axiomatic truth of our times.’ – Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon Almost six years have passed since his huge success 'Parasite' (2019), which won more than 250 film and festival awards, transcended all genres and criticised pretty much everything about our modern world, and the expectations for Bong Joon-ho’s new film are naturally correspondingly high. As

Tom Cruise Returns to Cannes with Mission: Impossible Finale

Tom Cruise is set to make a high-octane return to the Croisette as Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14. The much-anticipated eighth installment of the legendary spy franchise will screen out of competition, with Cruise and director/co-writer Christopher McQuarrie in attendance. This marks Cruise’s third Cannes appearance, following his 1992 debut for Far and Away and his celebrated return in 2022 with Top Gun: Maverick, where he was honored with a surprise Palme d'Or and led a widely ' ...

Oscars 2028: Stunt Design Finally Gets Its Spotlight

In a long-overdue move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that a new category—Achievement in Stunt Design—will be introduced at the 100th Oscars ceremony in 2028, honoring stunt work in films released in 2027. For decades, stunt performers and designers have played a vital role in cinema, from the daredevil antics of Buster Keaton to Tom Cruise’s gravity-defying Mission: Impossible stunts. Yet the Oscars remained silent on recognizing their contributions—until now. Academy CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang celebrated the historic inclusion, calling stunt work “an integral ' ...

Cannes 2025 Unveils Dazzling Film Line-Up

The Cannes Film Festival has officially revealed its much-awaited 2025 line-up, hot on the heels of an impressive 2024 edition that firmly re-established Cannes as a central awards-season launchpad. After a triumphant previous year—where Anora claimed the Palme d’Or and later took home five Oscars including Best Picture—the 78th edition of Cannes is poised to shape the cinematic narrative of the coming months. Other 2024 highlights, such as The Substance, Emilia Pérez, The Apprentice, and The Seed of the Sacred Fig, also went on to earn global accolades, reinforcing the festival’s ' ...