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Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. rights to The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg (Crash, Crimes Of The Future) and are planning a spring 2025 theatrical release.  The film world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it screened In Competition. It played the…

Title: The ShroudsSection: CompetitionDirector: David CronenbergLogline: Karsh (Vincent Cassel), a businessman and grieving widower, creates a device to connect with the dead, using a high-tech burial shroud. This tool — installed at his own state-of-the-art cemetery — allows him and his clients to watch…

When it comes to whether AI is friend or foe, particularly in regards to its place in the film industry, David Cronenberg is both intrigued and terrified. “What do we do? I have no idea,” the Canadian horror sci-fi maestro said Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival, the day after the world premiere of his…

When his wife died, Karsh tells the blind date he has asked to lunch, he had an overwhelming urge to jump into the coffin with her rather than see her sent away alone. Instead, he contrived a way to straddle the worlds of the living and the dead, setting up a luxury cemetery where the dead are wrapped in…

On Sunday at Cannes, Diane Kruger put her star power behind a worthy cause, attending the ‘Transcending Borders’ gala at the Campari Lounge hosted by Breaking Through the Lens—an organization that works to support female filmmakers. “I know first hand how incredibly difficult it is as a woman in this…

Strange but true: after 15 years as an international movie star, propelled to fame in 2004 by Wolfgang Petersen's historical epic Troy, German-born Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award in Cannes for her first-ever performance in her native language. Fatih Akin's provocative 2017 drama In the Fade, in…

EXCLUSIVE: Daredevil: Born Again actress Sandrine Holt has joined David Cronenberg’s next movie, The Shrouds opposite Guy Pearce, Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger. The project, which Deadline first reported, starts production on May 8 in Toronto and stars Cassel as Karsh, an innovative businessman…

French fashion house Saint Laurent is moving into the world of cinema with an official production banner headed by house creative director Anthony Vaccarello. The film offshoot will be known as Saint Laurent Productions and will launch its first two projects at Cannes: Pedro Almodóvar's latest short…

EXCLUSIVE: Filming is to begin on May 8 in Toronto on David Cronenberg’s next movie, The Shrouds, which will star Vincent Cassel (La Haine), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), and Guy Pearce (Memento). Kruger has replaced Léa Seydoux on the project (as first noted by blog World Of Reel). Cassel…

David Cronenberg described his next film, The Shrouds, as a personal and partly autobiographical project, during a press conference at the San Sebastian film festival Wednesday. Cronenberg teased the project while speaking to the press at the festival, where he is set to receive a prestigious Donostia Award. "The new…

The San Sebastian Film Festival will fete Canadian director and screenwriter David Cronenberg with its prestigious Donostia Award at the 70th edition, running 16-24 September. The filmmaker will receive the career achievement prize on September 21 at a ceremony in the festival's main Victoria Eugenia Theatre, followed…

When his team came by the Deadline Studio at Cannes, even the director of much-anticipated Competition entry Crimes of the Future struggled to find words to describe the surreal story of an artist named Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), who willfully grows mutant organs in his body so that his surgeon partner Caprice…