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Cannes: Ryan Gosling Shares Charming Hollywood Stories in Alec Baldwin's Movie-Making Documentary

You can never have enough Ryan Gosling in your life, as we all well know. So it is our delight to report that this year's Cannes Film Festival features a double dose of the Gos. Next week we'll get to see everyone's favorite stopper of fights and saver of women in peril get the living shit beaten out of him when he debuts the extremely dark, extremely violent Only God Forgives, his second movie with Nicolas Winding Refn, who won the best director prize for Drive last time he was at Cannes two years ago. The Gos, we hear, is deep into filming his directorial debut, How To Catch a Monster, and may not make it to Cannes in the flesh this year. So until we know more, there is his very funny, can't-miss appearance as himself in the James Toback and Alec Baldwin documentary about the cutthroat, demoralizing business side of movie-making, Seduced & Abandoned, which will air on HBO this summer.

"I loved movies so much, sometimes, I'd shove them down the front of my pants. I liked the way they feel." »

Cannes: A Hunger Games Spectacle Amid the Downpour

You could tell Lionsgate was going to throw some money at its Capitol-themed party for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire at Cannes from the invitation alone. It came in an inch-thick satin-lined white paperboard box with the Capitol seal embossed on the front. Inside was a silver pin in the shape of a rose and a gold-lettered request for the pleasure of your company from "President Snow." Fail to affix the pin to your lapel, or bring the invitation, which was marked with a stamp only visible in black light, and it was off to the Arena for you! Or they'd just turn you away, and at Cannes, not getting into one of the night's hottest party might be the worse fate.

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James Franco Painted a Tribute to His This Is the End Bros

Man of many talents James Franco has created a very special piece of advertising for his forthcoming Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogendirected  "apocalyptic comedy" This Is the End. Photographer Clare Thigpen sent Gawker some shots of Franco (and a couple assistants) painting a mural of co-stars Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and himself on a wall near Bedford Avenue and Grand Street in Williamsburg on Saturday. According to Gawker, the piece is supposed to be "a tribute to all his good friends, and all the fun they had while making their new film." In contrast to the spirit of the project, Franco looks a pretty bored (or at least more interested in his phone) in the pictures, probably because promoting a movie is way less fun than making one. Either way, we expect that it will be thoroughly defaced by the end of the weekend, as Williamsburg is populated almost entirely by people who resent James Franco.

Anchorman 2 Teaser Trailer: You Haven't Changed a Bit

The style of the teaser trailer for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is identical to last year's bootleg version, but the dialogue is different (though the message is the same.) It doesn't offer any information about the sequel's plot — or glimpses of exciting new cast members like Kristin Wiig and  Harrison Ford — but it does give the main characters a chance to remind us why exactly we liked them so much back in 2004. KVWN sportscaster Champ Kind (David Koechner) has liquor breath and wants to be your friend; reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) is feeling confident about his new snake venom cologne; weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carrell) wishes everyone a happy Easter; and the anchorman himself, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), still wants us to stay classy. We're still doing our best.

Cannes: Justin Timberlake and Adam Driver Recorded a Song Together, You Guys

There's a lot to say about Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie, the low-key folk music drama Inside Llewyn Davis, which screened for the first time just hours ago in Cannes. But would you like to know the most delightful element right away? You would? Good, because as you've probably gleaned from this headline, there is an early scene where the downtrodden Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) goes in for a studio session to add backup vocals to a song written by Jim (Justin Timberlake) — a square and steady singer who has no idea that Llewyn has knocked up his girl (Carey Mulligan) — and there, sitting in the studio next to Timberlake, is Adam Driver from Girls. In a cowboy hat. And then Timberlake and Driver sing a full-length song together. Is this holy, utterly unexpected musical union between Justin Timberlake and Adam Driver the most created-in-a-lab-for-Vulture moment of the year? It obviously is.

How does it go? »

10 Pop Culture Questions Answered by Vulture This Week

Every week, Vulture faces the big, important questions in entertainment and comes to some creative conclusions. This week, we gave you the lowdown on upfronts, a farewell to The Office, and as much as we can to feed your Arrested Development appetite. You may have read some of these stories below, but you certainly didn’t read them all. We forgive you.

The Office ended and Arrested Development is coming back ... how do you celebrate each? »

  • Posted 5/17/13 at 6:15 PM

Someone Brought a Starter Pistol to Cannes

More strange stories from Cannes: Someone — "a crazy guy," according to police — brought a starter pistol to a French TV broadcast and fired off two blanks during the taping. Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil were among the people being interviewed; you can watch them get rushed off the program below. The man in question was arrested, and the show continued. Since there were no actual bullets in the pistol, everyone is fine.

The Best of Streaming: What Should You Watch on Netflix, Hulu, and Other Sites

It’s wild and wooly out there in the world of streaming video. As movies and TV shows become increasingly accessible through a variety of services, it has also become increasingly difficult to keep track of what is available where, what is expiring when, and what is actually worth watching. So every Friday, Vulture will have a list of recommendations of movies and TV shows that are new to Netflix (as well as Hulu, Amazon, On Demand, and other streaming sites), those that are expiring, and those that you should watch just because.

A sad, moving sports doc, a smart slasher pic, and a Star Trek wormhole »

Could Harvey Weinstein Make History With Three Black Best Actor Oscar Candidates?

Last summer at Cannes, Harvey Weinstein held a special press conference to show off forthcoming film footage from The Master, Silver Linings Playbook, and Django Unchained — three major works from A-list auteurs. The Weinstein Company slate isn't stacked in quite the same way this year, but Weinstein held another event earlier today at the Hotel Majestic, at which he ran down the company's entire slate, padding some of the first looks — including a five-minute reel for Nicole Kidman's Grace Kelly biopic — with lots of trailers that we've already seen from films like August: Osage County and The Butler. Still, you couldn't help but notice that Weinstein's upcoming slate was packed with prestige films starring black actors, including Forest Whitaker, Michael B. Jordan, and Idris Elba. Always a canny awards-season presence, could Weinstein push all three men into a history-making Best Actor category?

We haven't had more than one black nominee for Best Actor since 2006. »

Cannes: Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, and a Very Wet Red Carpet

"This weather, what the fuck?" That was Rooney Mara's jovial and very appropriate greeting to Harvey Weinstein at Thursday night’s annual IFP- and Calvin Klein–sponsored celebration of Women in Film, usually one of the most reliably fun nights at the Cannes Film Festival. The combination of body-fat-deficient actresses in slinky, sleeveless Calvin Klein dresses plus a monsoonlike storm driving rain directly onto the ocean-side red carpet made for a stunningly miserable affair (that is, until everyone got inside the heated tent and got a lot of Champagne into their bellies). Goosebumps covered honoree Carey Mulligan in a tight strapless black dress as she rehashed Gatsby yet again, this time for the foreign press corps, and talked about which women in film she wants to work with: Marion Cotillard and Nicole Kidman (who followed her down the red carpet; let's hope the two struck a deal inside).

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  • Posted 5/17/13 at 4:15 PM
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Sarah Polley Is (Mostly) Ready to Come Clean

Sarah Polley frowns. We're seated opposite each other in the conference room of a Beverly Hills boutique hotel, and I've just asked what I thought was an innocuous question about her new documentary, Stories We Tell. "I'm hesitant to talk to you about that specific thing," she replies to the query in question. "It's such a spoiler." That's the sort of answer you might expect to get from an actor guarding superhero movie secrets, but not from Polley, a 34-year-old actress-cum-director who's made an indie documentary about the skeletons in her family closet.

But Stories We Tell is no ordinary documentary, and that's by design. »

Movie Review: In Erased, Aaron Eckhart Does Liam Neeson

Aaron Eckhart (who’s already had one action hit this year with Olympus Has Fallen) is apparently out to claim Liam Neeson’s mantle: Just like in the Taken films and Unknown, he’s playing an ex-black-ops guy who has to protect/save/find his family in this Europudding action thriller. The title, Erased, even sounds like a Liam Neeson film. (It was originally called The Expatriate, which was presumably nixed because Americans won’t know what the hell an expatriate is.) Five years from now, it’ll be an inevitable source of confusion: “Wait, what was that Liam Neeson movie? Abducted? Disappeared? Vanished? Erased?” “No, dummy, Erased starred that other guy…what’s his name?”

Actually, for its first half, Erased is pretty solid. But then... »

How Critics Handled Star Trek Into Darkness’s Bad-Guy Secret

(SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!) After the first Star Trek reboot opened big in 2009, J.J. Abrams mused about having Khan be the villain in a sequel. And then he spent the next four years refuting the idea, swatting down any evidence that suggested it. Right up until today's premiere, he's been maintaining that Benedict Cumberbatch's villain is named John Harrison. (SERIOUSLY, THIS IS YOUR LAST SPOILER ALERT. SAVE YOURSELF!) Now the movie is open, and critics weighing in have had to decide just how much detail they are going to go into when describing Cumberbatch's bad guy. These reviewers split into three camps: complete avoidance, waffling hints, and flat-out shouting it to the space rafters.

Who was in the "There's a twist, but shhhhhhhh" camp? »

Edelstein: Frances Ha Is Sour, with Glimpses of Sublimity

After a series of hate letters to humankind, Noah Baumbach has fashioned an ode to his girlfriend Greta Gerwig’s galumphing adorableness (they co-wrote the script). Frances Ha is black-and-white and has a French New Wave gloss, along with a soundtrack that quotes Georges Delerue’s theme from King of Hearts. (It cranks up when Baumbach needs enchantment.) Gerwig plays a childishly enthusiastic would-be dancer walloped by grown-up life in our most heartless metropolis, New York. Sophie (Mickey Sumner), the best friend she cherishes (hugs, holds hands with, tells “the story of us” to), pulls away. She loses the gig that would pay her rent. The camera holds on her open face as she takes each blow. She blinks to signal disbelief, curls her mouth, and bites down on her lower lip. But she galumphs on.

Frances Ha has the trappings and suits of love, but it’s full of sour tones. »

Cannes: Let’s Solve the Case of The Bling Ring’s Missing Nicole Richie Tweet

When we first heard the reports that Sofia Coppola would open her new movie The Bling Ring with a quote from Nicole Richie's Twitter account ... well, had anything ever seemed so perfect? And yet, when the movie premiered yesterday at Cannes, no such tweet was to be found! What gives? Last night at the movie's Nikki Beach after-party, we cornered Coppola to solve the mystery. "The quote from her was 'Life is crazy and unpredictable … my bangs are going to the left today,'" laughed Coppola. "I started looking at Twitter a lot while I was working on this movie, and I thought it was funny." Still, she doesn't mourn its absence from the screen: "I always just had it on the first page of the script, just to kind of introduce it, you know? But I wasn't planning on putting it in the movie." Well, at least she'll always have Paris.

Iron Man 3 Passes the Billion-Dollar Mark

And another Marvel blockbuster hits ten figures: Iron Man 3 has now passed the $1 billion benchmark worldwide, and it also just broke $300 million domestically. Everyone loves Guy Pearce in a nice cropped pant. (Also: superheroes.)

Listen to Britney Spears’s New Song From The Smurfs 2

The Smurfs sequel, smartly named The Smurfs 2, may star (the voices of) Katy Perry and Neil Patrick Harris, but it also will include a new, PG-rated track from Britney Spears. Recently departed from the set of The X Factor, Brit's got the likes of will.i.am on her side, and is reportedly back in the studio. Movie's out July 31 and "Ooh La La" is undeniably reminiscent of "I Wanna Go," with a little Ke$ha influence thrown in there. She raps! Well, actually, she speaks: "Turn it up till the speakers pop." Go ahead, do it.

Baz Luhrmann Thought About Adding More Pammy to The Great Gatsby

If you've seen The Great Gatsby, you know that Daisy's daughter Pammy appears onscreen only once, at the very end of the movie. Should we have seen more of her throughout? "Right up to the last minute, we were experimenting with doing more with the child," director Baz Luhrmann told Vulture at the premiere earlier this month. "We even did a scene where the child was there." Carey Mulligan, who plays Daisy, said there were "endless" discussions about how much to point out that Daisy was "adult Daisy: mother of one." Luhrmann ultimately decided to keep overt reminders to a minimum. "Carey does an amazing job of maintaining empathy for the character of Daisy. I think you go, 'She's got a family. She's got a child.' You sort of understand it. She may think she should have gone with Gatsby, but you realize she's constrained by her social reality."

Cannes: Paris Hilton Cried While Watching The Bling Ring

Sofia Coppola landed one unlikely cameo for her fact-based crime caper The Bling Ring, which premiered yesterday at Cannes: Paris Hilton, whose mansion was repeatedly burglarized by the titular teenage thieves nearly five years ago. The heiress appears for a quick moment in a nightclub scene, but more significantly, she lent Coppola her actual house to film in for two weeks so that the director could re-create the burglaries onscreen. "I was really emotional watching it," Hilton confessed to me last night at the movie's hot-ticket Nikki Beach after-party. "During some parts of it, I literally had tears in my eyes and I wanted to cry. I knew what happened with the burglaries, but I had never actually seen it — so watching it happen, I was like, 'Oh my God, this really happened to me. These kids were really in my house and did this to me.' It's so violating. It just made me really angry and upset, and when I see these kids, I want to, like, slap them."

There was one upside to watching the movie, though. »

Spike Lee Attached to Nineties Gold-Mining Movie

It looks like Spike Lee will follow up his Oldboy remake with Gold, a film that was originally set to be directed by Michael Mann. "Based on a true story about the 1993 Bre-X Mineral Corporation mining scandal, Gold is set in the nineties and follows a rough-around-the-edges prospector who stumbles onto one of the largest gold mines in the world in the Indonesian jungle," reports TheWrap. Casting hasn't begun yet, but production may start this fall.