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Just call us the kings of wishful thinking. Is there a three-times-a-charm for Richard Gere and Julia Roberts following the 1990s Garry Marshall rom-coms Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride? Gere tells the Deadline Studio at Cannes that “She just called — which is amazing.” Sike. “Garry…

Paul Schrader hit Cannes this weekend with Competition title Oh, Canada, reuniting him with American Gigolo star Richard Gere in the role of a terminally ill documentarian who reveals secrets as his life nears its end. Lead producer David Gonzales says the fact that the film was ready for a Cannes…

Paul Schrader revealed first details about his next feature project entitled Non Compos Mentis during a press conference Saturday for his Cannes Competition title Oh, Canada. "I've written a noir, as a kind of a sexual obsession, called Non Compos Mentis about the stupid things men do for love," he…

Hard to believe it has been 44 years since Paul Schrader and star Richard Gere last worked together on 1980’s seminal American Gigolo, a film that became not just a keystone in Gere’s celebrated career but also one for one Schrader’s as one of his earliest…

Uma Thurman has been to Cannes more times than she can remember, either to pledge support for the glamorous annual charity event amfAR or with films as diverse as the genteel Merchant-Ivory period film The Golden Bowl (2000) and Quentin Tarantino's ultraviolent Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), in which she…

Paris-based distributor ARP Selection has acquired French rights for Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Oscar nominee Schrader (Taxi Driver, First Reformed) wrote and directed the film, which reunites him with Richard Gere some 40…

The Official Selection for the 77th Cannes Film Festival was revealed Thursday, with 19 movies in Competition (see full lists below). Familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include Ali Abbasi, who brings The Apprentice, a feature pic about the early life of Donald Trump. Andrea…

Michael Imperioli (The White Lotus) is confirmed for a role in Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader’s new film Oh, Canada, Deadline has learned. The actor joins an ensemble that includes Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi and Kristine Froseth. Related Stories …

EXCLUSIVE: Kristine Froseth (The Buccaneers) has been set to star alongside Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi in Oh, Canada, the newest feature written and directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader (First Reformed). Based on the 2021 novel Foregone by the late Russell Banks, the film tells the…

UPDATE Robert De Niro's PR person Stan Rosenfield said the actor’s just-completed Uber commercial “has nothing to do with his his Taxi Driver character whatsoever. This rumor is based on a fictitious report from the UK several days ago.” PREVIOUS: Writer-director Paul Schrader has reacted to a report…

Christopher Nolan is getting a big endorsement for Oppenheimer from Paul Schrader who is praising his latest film. In a post on Facebook, the Taxi Driver screenwriter and American Gigolo director shared a photo alongside Nolan giving high marks to the movie about the atomic…

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