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Triangle of SadnessCOMPETITIONPalme d’Or: Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund) (Read our review)Grand Prix ex aequo: Close (Lukas Dhont)Grand Prix ex aequo: Stars at Noon (Claire Denis) (Read our review)Jury Prize ex aequo: The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen)Jury Prize ex aequo: Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski) (Read our review)75th Anniversary Prize: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Tori and Lokita) (Read our review)Best Director: Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave) (Read our review)Best Actor: Song Kang-ho (Broker)Best Actress: Zahra Amir-Ebrahimi (Holy Spider)Best Screenplay: Tarik Saleh (Boy From Heaven)The Worst OnesUN Certain REGARDGrand Prize: The Worst Ones (Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret)Ensemble Prize: Jury Prize: Joyland (Saim Sadiq)Jury Special Mention: Best Director: Alexandru Belc (Metronome)Best Performance: Vicky Krieps (Corsage) and Adam Bessa (Harka) (Read our review)Screenplay: Mediterranean Fever (Maha Haj)Coup de Coeur Award: Rodeo (Lola Quivoron)The MountainDIRECTORS' FORTNIGHTEuropa...

In the second big prize announcement by a Directors’ Fortnight partner, “The Mountain” (“La Montagne”), from emerging French auteur Thomas Salvador, has won the Sacd Prize, awarded by France’s Writers’ Guild for the best French-language movie in the section.

The second feature of the French actor-director after 2017’s promising “Vincent,” selected for San Sebastian’s prestige New Directors section, ”The Mountain” is sold internationally by Le Pacte which will also handle distribution in France.

From a screenplay written by Salvador and Naila Guiguet, which was selected for Critics’ Weeks’ Next Steps 2020, “The Mountain” turns on Pierre, 40, played by Salvador, who makes a sales pitch for his company’s robotic arm in Chamonix, the capital of the French Alps.

When his colleagues return to Paris, he stays on, pitching a tent just below the Aiguille du Midi cable car station, a spectacular pinnacle at 12,600 feet, in the lap of Mont Blanc.

Francesca Archibugi’s ’The Hummingbird’ stars Nanni Moretti, Berenice Bejo and Pierfrancesco Favino.

Italy’s Fandango Sales has signed a raft of deals on Francesca Archibugi’s upcoming film The Hummingbird and Paolo Taviani’s Leonora Addio, plus made six additions to its Marché line-up.

The Hummingbird has sold to Spain (Karma Films), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Benelux (Cineart), Bulgaria (Cinelibri) and Former Yugoslavia (McF Megacom). The film stars Nanni Moretti, Berenice Bejo and Pierfrancesco Favino and was produced by Fandango with Les Films des Tournelles, Orange Studio and Rai Cinema.

Berlinale competition title Leonora Addio has been sold to Portugal (Leopardo...

Tommy Dewey says technology has changed romance — and not always for the better. “I think you can sustain a relationship at a certain volume, so to speak, for a long time just by texting,” the costar of Hulu’s romantic comedy “Casual” told reporters Saturday at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter Press Tour in Pasadena. “You can be like, ‘Hey, love to see you soon,’ for like two years,” Dewey, formerly of “The Mindy Project” and CW’s “The Mountain,” added. “And it’s still quasi-romantic. Whereas prior to texting, you had to pick up the phone and have a real human.

Thanks to VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for December 2016, including "Ollie", "The Mountain Between Us", "Altered Carbon" and a whole lot more:   

Beautiful Voice

Feature

Local Production Company: Beautiful Voice Pictures Inc.

Director: Chuck Russell

Exec. Producer(s): John Curtis

Producer: Alexandra Julson

Nov 02/16 - Dec 01/16

Ollie

Feature

Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.

Director: Shane Black

Exec. Producer(s): John Davis, Bill Bannerman

Oct 17/16 - Feb 08/17

Parallel

Feature

Local Production Company: Para Productions BC Inc.

Director: Isaac Ezban

Exec. Producer(s): John Zaozirny, Aaron Gilbert, Garrick Dion

Producer: Aaron Gilbert

Nov 10/16 - Dec 05/16

The Mountain Between Us

Feature

Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.

Director: Hany Abu Assad

Producer: Becki Trujillo

Dec 01/16 - Feb 17/17

Altered Carbon ~ Season 1

TV Series

Local Production Company: Altered Carbon Productions I Inc.

Director: Miguel Sapochnik, Nicholas Hurran

Exec. Producer(s): Laeta Kalogridis, Steve Blackman,...

Thanks to VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for October 2016, including "Arrow", "Ollie", "The Deep" and a whole lot more: 

Everything Everything

Feature

Local Production Company: Everything Productions Canada Ltd.

Director: Stella Meghie

Producer: Elyssa Dutton

Sep 06/16 - Oct 07/16

Ollie

Feature

Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.

Director: Shane Black

Exec. Producer(s): Bill Bannerman

Producer: John Davis

Oct 17/16 - Feb 08/17

The Mountain Between Us

Feature

Local Production Company: Tcf Vancouver Productions Ltd.

Pm: Penny Gibbs

PC: Michele Picard

Dec 01/16 - Feb 17/17

Tully

Feature

Local Production Company: Tully Productions BC Inc.

Director: Jason Reitman

Exec. Producer(s): Jason Cloth, Ron McLeod, Aaron Gilbert

Producer: Aaron Gilbert, Helen Estabrook

Sep 21/16 - Nov 02/16

William

Feature

Local Production Company: William Productions Inc

Director: Tim Disney

Exec. Producer(s): Bill Haney

Producer: Jonathan DeBois

Sep 28/16 - Oct 30/16

Let The Right One In

TV Pilot

Local Production Company: Ltp Productions Inc.

Pop culture comes to life in St. Louis this weeekend! It’s the Wizard World Comic Con April 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at America’s Center downtown (701 Convention Plaza – St. Louis, Mo 63101), and boy oh boy, do they have an amazing line-up of guests!

Wizard World Comic Con events bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels, cosplay, comics, television, sci-fi, toys, video gaming, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more. St. Louis show hours are Friday, April 1st, 3-8 p.m.; Saturday, April 2nd, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Sunday, April 3rd, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Wizard World Comic Con St. Louis is also the place for cosplay, with fans young and old showing off their best costumes throughout the event. Fans dressed as every imaginable character – and some never before dreamed – will roam the convention floor...

Do Over

Showcase Inventory

Created by Kenny Schwartz and Rick Wiener

Produced by 3 Hounds Productions, Littlefield Company, Mhs Productions, Paramount Networks Television Productions

Aired on The WB for 1 season (15 episodes, 4 Unaired) from September 19, 2002 – December 5, 2002

Cast

Penn Badgley as Joel Larsen

Angela Goethals as Cheryl Larsen

Josh Wise as Pat Brody

Natasha Melnick as Isabelle Meyers

Michael Milhoan as Bill Larsen

Gigi Rice as Karen Larsen

Show Premise

After enduring a jolt to the head from defibrillator paddles, a depressed paper salesman named Joel Larsen is sent back 20 years into his fifteen-year-old body, where he is given a second chance at life to do everything he never allowed himself to do the first time around, including helping out his drug addict sister from going down a bad road and saving his parents’ marriage. Joel quickly adjusts to his new status as a teen, now with knowledge of the future, and lives...

Senator Entertainment

Amber Heard, to put it simply, is one of the sexiest women alive. Born in Austin, Texas in 1986, the beautiful actress and model embarked on her career in 2004, with roles in television shows Jack & Bobby and The Mountain, as well as movie Friday Night Lights.

Now 28, she has recently been in the news after marrying Johnny Depp. The couple – between whom there is a 23 year age gap – met on the set of The Rum Diary in 2010, but didn’t start dating until 2012 (both of them were in different relationships when they first met) and tied the knot on 4th February of this year. Heard is actually bisexual and had a long term relationship with a woman (photographer Tasya van Ree) prior to her relationship with Depp.

Since her first acting roles, her career has gone from strength to strength and she has appeared in such high-profile movies as Never Back Down,...

Spring has arrived -- flowers and music in full bloom. Some of it only hints at what might be as summer approaches. Until then, here are few things I'm carting around in my wheelbarrow. Dig it.

"Spiderlegs" Danny Malone: Balloons (Dm)

Happy accident as I had no prior knowledge of Mr. Malone prior to listening to his new album, but no worries. Here's a wonderful folk-rock tune from this Austin-based singer/songwriter's second long-player. He recorded this set of confessional musings in a haunted 15th century castle in Denmark, each song in a different room. He calls his music "sexy, dirty, sad songs about the human condition." This remains my favorite track; and the video below is pretty bloody "sexy" too. 

Alicia Keys at Prudential Center April 8, 2013, Newark, NJ

I'd never seen her live, and I don't why, but I'm damn happy I finally did. She is a major talent,...

Mindy Kaling's got a new boyfriend -- well, on her Fox show "The Mindy Project" anyway. TV Line reports that "Step Up Revolution" actor Tommy Dewey is joining Kaling's series as a love interest for her character.

Dewey plays Josh Daniels, a successful lawyer who goes after what he wants -- in this case, Mindy. Wonder how he'll fit into the mold of Mindy's rom-com fantasies.

Dewey's past TV credits include guest roles on "Melissa & Joey," "CSI: Miami" and "Better with You" and stints on the short-lived "Roommates" and "The Mountain."

"The Mindy Project" premieres Sept. 25 at 9:30 p.m. on Fox.

Mindy Kaling has cast her first beau on The Mindy Project and, no surprise, he’s easy on the eyes.

Step Up Revolution actor Tommy Dewey, whose TV credits include stints on ABC Family’s short-lived Roommates and The WB’s blink-and-you-missed-it soap The Mountain, is joining Kaling’s new Fox comedy as a love interest for her Ob/Gyn character.

Video | Fall Preview: Watch Full Trailers For The Mindy Project, The Following and 3 Other Fox Shows

His character, Josh Daniels, is a successful lawyer who isn’t afraid to go after things he likes when he sees them — in this case,...

Remember that short-lived WB series The Mountain? Remember Easy A and even the (please end now) series Gossip Girl that maybe a small amount of you are still watching? Well, say goodbye to what was Penn Badgley. His hair is officially taking over his face. Where's the clean cut Penn gone? Has he left with what was the Blake Lively days? 

No one can deny that Penn is seemingly unrecognizable at this point. It's one thing to grow in some facial hair but would it be that difficult to own a razor? Maybe the girlfriend Zoe Kravitz enjoys the look but the rest of us just want our Dan Humphries back. (Yes, we will reference back to Gossip Girl if that means he will make a return.)

From Coachella to walking the streets of New York City, there's been too many photographs of Penn's new look taken already. But turn...

Academy Award nominee Barbara Hershey has landed a mother of a role on ABC’s Once Upon a Time, as the very woman who brought the Evil Queen into this world — or, to be more precise, into the fairytale world, TVLine has learned.

Hershey, who is also an Emmy and Golden Globe winner for her role in the 1990 TV-movie A Killing in a Small Town, will first appear as the queen’s mum, Cora, later this season, with the option of also having a short arc in Season 2 (if/when the fantastical drama conjures up a renewal this spring).

Did...

AMC’s been on roll with its original series for the past few years, and they intend to keep it going with railroad drama Hell on Wheels. The first teaser trailer for the new series was posted this week.

Hell on Wheels takes its name from the traveling work camps that helped expand railroads westward after the Civil War. Anti-hero and former Confederate Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount) travels to such a camp under the guise of looking for work; in actuality, he’s searching for his wife’s killers.

Mount has been around the block a few times without landing a breakout role. He played Ada Steele on the short-lived Law & Order spinoff Conviction, as well as leads on the equally curtailed The Mountain and Line of Fire. One-off characters on Smallville, Lost and Click to continue reading AMC’s Western ‘Hell On Wheels’ Sneak Peek Trailer...

Think you had first day of school jitters?

Imagine for a moment you went to school with the likes of Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwtick. Now imagine you had been reading about their lives everyday, on the cover of every magazine, for the better part of four years. Then and only then might you get a smidgen of an idea as to what it was like to be actress Kaylee DeFer, who recently had the arguably terrifying task of stepping onto the New York based set of Gossip Girl for the first time playing Charlie Rhodes, Serena’s slightly less glamorous cousin who has been holed up with her anti-establishment mother in Florida for the better part of the past 18 years.

Thankfully for DeFer, the twenty-something year old actress who comedy fans might recognize from the short-lived Fox laugher The War At Home, she had a...

With Gossip Girl on hiatus until April 18, speculation is already running rampant on which recently-absent characters will return to stir things up the Upper East Side.

Here's what TV Line's Michael Ausiello has to say about ...

Jenny: Surprise surprise, we'll have to wait and see. Executive producer Joshua Safran didn't go into more detail than that. Taylor Momsen is currently touring to support her new album, though she's scheduled to make a pit stop in NYC this week ...

Georgina: As we told you yesterday, via Michelle Trachtenberg, “Georgina is coming back later this season,” Safran reports. “We love Michelle. We love Georgina."

"We love coming up with new [schemes] for Georgina. If you’re a fan of [her previous stints], then this one will be very satisfying.” Look for a one-episode visit.

The Prince: Blair’s royal crush Louis will figure into the equation big time when the show returns. How? Here's what the...

Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Just want to say hi? You can send any/all of the above to askausiello@tvline.com

Question: Is How I Met Your Mother going to show us the “Mother’s” face in the season finale? Or are they going to make that the cliffhanger? —Matt

Ausiello: No idea. I bet if we knew what the title of the episode was we could extract a clue or two from it. This Just In: I can exclusively reveal that the title of How I Met Your Mother‘s sixth season finale is…...

Yesterday we wrote that Wonder Woman was ready to go to pilot, the series put together by David E. Kelley, now might have a director for the pilot episode and that guy is McG. The director from the Charlie’s Angels films and Terminator Salvation is not new to TV pilots, having directed the Chuck and Fastlane pilots. He has also produced series like The O.C., The Mountain, Supernatural, Sorority Fever, Human Target and Nikita.

The news comes from TV Line whose sources say that “McG has emerged as the odds-on favorite to direct the pilot for NBC’s much-hyped Wonder Woman remake.”

I think he is a great choice, as he directs pilots very well, but also due to his history with action, female centered superhero stories. I think he is a great choice for the studio. It also helps that McG’s production company is based at Warner Bros.

Kaylee Defer is joining Gossip Girl as a recurring character, Deadline reports.

Her character will be introduced later this season. Defer was a regular on the Fox comedy The War at Home and the WB drama The Mountain. She's also been on How I Met Your Mother, Bones, CSI: Miami and Ghost Whisperer, among other shows.

Details are sparse as to who she'll play on Gossip Girl. Any theories?...

Mandy Patinkin has been cast on Showtime's hour-long drama pilot "Homeland" as Saul, "a veteran CIA Division Chief," who is the boss and mentor of Claire Danes' character Carrie. This is Patinkin's first television appearance since starring on "Criminal Minds." He won an Emmy for his performance on "Chicago Hope." "Homeland" centers on an "American soldier taken prisoner during the invasion or Iraq in 2003. Left for dead, the soldier miraculously returns to the U.S. after years in captivity."

AMC announced they have green-lighted "Hell On Wheels," a series that focuses on a Confederate soldier on a quest to avenge his wife's death after the Civil War. His journey takes him west where he works on building the first transcontinental railroad. Anson Mount stars as the confederate soldier Cullen Bohannan. The network's senior vice president of original programming Joel Stillerman says, "We are thrilled to bring "Hell on Wheels" to series.

Exclusive: Kaylee Defer is joining the CW series Gossip Girl as a recurring. Her character which, like most things Gossip Girl, is shrouded in secrecy, will be introduced later this season. Defer, who was a regular on the Fox comedy The War at Home and the WB drama The Mountain, is repped by Innovative and Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Entertainment.

Amber Heard has spent the last few years solidifying her career in Hollywood and these days her name is often at the top of every casting director's list. The actress is wanted for her eye-catching looks, professionalism, and her keen acting abilities that have drawn much attention as of late. The native Texan has scored some stellar roles in the past few years; she played Seth Rogen's girlfriend in Pineapple Express, shared the silver screen with Sean Faris in Never Back Down, and has a slew of Hollywood blockbusters waiting to be released. ScreenStar spoke with the actress about her onset chainsaw mishap, working with Penn Badgley, and the excitement surrounding The Stepfather. The stunning Amber Heard has had a very busy year; she had a cameo in the runaway hit Zombieland, wrapped playing Johnny Depp's love interest in The Rum Diary, and this weekend she stars alongside Gossip Girl stud Penn Badgley.

Penn Badgley aka Dan Humphrey of Gossip Girl fame is ditching his bow-tie and caviar for an intense role in the remake of the thriller The Stepfather. A buff and perfectly tanned Badgley stars in the intense thriller set to hit theaters October 16, 2009. Grabbing rave reviews for his intense performance in the drama role makes this movie a must see. Badgley began as a soap actor on The Young and the Restless for one year before moving on to guest appearing roles on What I Like About You, The Twilight Zone, and The Mountain before becoming one of the leads in Gossip Girl. Fans immediately fell in love with Badgley whose warm smile and charismatic personality brightens up any room. PopStar spoke with Penn all about his new film The Stepfather, his multiple Twitter accounts, and clued fans on what to expect from his upcoming thriller. Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley...

He played the love interest of Amanda Bynes in What I Like About You, Michael Dowling in The Mountain with Gossip Girl stud Penn Badgley, and currently Tommy is starring in ABC Family's new comedy Roommates. The avid helicopter skier has had guest spots on Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case, and this March he will be playing a serial killer on Criminal Minds. Starring Tommy Dewey, Tyler Francavilla, Dorian Brown, Tamera Mowry, and David Weidoff, Roommates is set to premiere March 23rd on ABC Family. Roommates follow the lives of post-collegiate adults trying to balance life, friends, and new relationships! Life is good for the Princeton educated actor who landed a part in ABC Family's next big comedy. Tommy Dewey plays James, a young adult working in the investment world that opened his brownstone in Brooklyn to some interesting new roommates. PopStar spoke with the actor about his new show,...

Although Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" did not make the shortlist of 15 films under consideration for the best documentary Oscar, it is among the nominees for the DGA's doc award, announced Friday.

"Waltz" will compete with Gonzalo Arijon's "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains," in which survivors of a 1972 Andes plane crash tell their story; Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco's "The Judge and the General," a look back at the investigation into the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; Peter Gilbert & Stevie James' "At the Death House Door," an examination of the wrongful conviction of a Texas man executed for murder; and James Marsh's "Man on Wire," a study of tight-rope walker Philippe Petit.

All the nominees are first-time DGA nominees, with the exception of Gilbert (who won the DGA's doc award in 1998 for "Vietnam: Long Time Coming" and was...

A visit from Dr. Phil and the highly anticipated premiere of CSI: NY sent CBS to the top of the Nielsen charts Wednesday, while ABC notched its best drama series premiere in nine years with the 8 p.m. bow of J.J. Abrams' Lost. NBC's Law & Order held up well against the CSI: NY launch, but the same could not be said of NBC's Hawaii, which was beaten in the adults 18-49 demo in the 8 p.m. hour not only by the heavily promoted Lost but also by the WB Network's fourth-season opener of Smallville. ABC's fortunes fell sharply at 9 p.m., however, with a weak turnout for the two-hour premiere of The Bachelor. The WB also saw its numbers take a dive at 9 p.m. with the debut of drama The Mountain. With all the high-powered premieres, UPN saw a lackluster turnout for the return of America's Next Top Model and 9 p.m. premiere of Veronica Mars.

Peter Johnson has been tapped as president of television at Wonderland Sound and Vision, McG and Stephanie Savage's production banner based at Warner Bros. Television. Johnson will assume executive duties on all of Wonderland's current projects and will be responsible for developing the company's future slate. Johnson established a relationship with Wonderland through his previous post as senior vp drama development at Fox Broadcasting Co., the network home to Wonderland's The O.C. Johnson said his first priority will be to ensure the support and success of Wonderland's current projects -- including The O.C., which is heading into its second season on Fox, and the upcoming The Mountain, which premieres Sept. 22 on the WB Network -- as well as the upcoming Fox series Athens from O.C. creator Josh Schwartz that's scheduled to premiere in January. Johnson said he'll also look to set up new projects that "represent and evolve the brand of" Wonderland.

Maria Grasso has been promoted to senior vp drama development at the WB Network. Grasso, who was vp drama development, has been instrumental in developing such WB series as Everwood, One Tree Hill and Summerland as well as the upcoming drama series Jack & Bobby, which premieres Sept. 12, and The Mountain, which bows Sept. 22. She also is a programming executive on Everwood, Jack & Bobby and One Tree Hill. "I've known and admired Maria for over a decade now, and I'm tremendously impressed with how much she brings to the network as both a top development executive and someone talented enough to shepherd her series development through their first few seasons on the air," said David Janollari, president of entertainment at the network.

The WB has officially moved its new drama The Mountain from Thursday 8 p.m. to Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. Meanwhile, the new comedies Blue Collar TV and Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, originally scheduled for the post-Smallville Wednesday slot, will now air in the 8-9 p.m. Thursday time period. The move was rumored ever since Fox announced the shift of its teen soap The O.C. from its Wednesday 9 p.m. berth to Thursdays at 8 p.m.