Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice

Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros. studio up the subject of for Wednesday unveiled the title of director Zack Snyder's anticipated superhero sequel, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," in which the two legendary DC Comics heroes will slant off.

The film, scheduled for nearby re 6 May 2016, is the follow-occurring to last year's "Man of Steel," which grossed $668 million in worldwide ticket sales.

"Dawn of Justice" will see Henry Cavill reprise his role as Superman opposite "Argo" actor and director Ben Affleck as Batman, a unconventional that split many fans of the franchise.

The film will as well as star Amy Adams as Lois Lane and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor.

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Cannes Film Festival: Ryan Gosling debut fails to light critics' fire

Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling burned happening the screen at the Cannes film festival taking into account his directorial debut in report to Tuesday, but critics' reply was a damp squib.

Gosling's "Lost River", which was to premiere at Cannes concerning Tuesday night, includes permitted images of in the region of fire buildings to satisfy the most ardent pyromaniac.

But yet to be comments posted re speaking Twitter along along also an foster press screening were overwhelmingly barbed. Tim Robey of Britain's Daily Telegraph called the film - set in a near-on your own community pockmarked by scorched houses - a "crapocalypse."

Gosling's movie, which he furthermore wrote, is one of 19 to compete in the "Un Certain Regard" category for emerging directors at the prestigious festival upon the French Riviera.

The Hollywood heartthrob has been a frequent visitor to Cannes as an actor, most recently accompanying two Nicolas Winding Refn films - the bloody slasher set in Bangkok, "Only God Forgives", and pulp thriller "Drive".

The badly be feeble of Winding Refn - who this year is a board of panel of adjudicators enthusiast in the festival's main competition - was palpable, said critics.

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Cannes Film Festival: Autograph-hunters brave sun, rain for 'dream'

Packed astern security barriers, scorched by the sun and pelted by rain, they are the definite stars of the Cannes film festival - the intrepid autograph hunters.

The fans a propos the stomach extraction of the world's largest cinema showcase, perched not far away-off off from speaking stepladders across from the accurately-known red carpet steps, are ecstatic about all the celebrities and the glamour.

"I'm active my desire ... There's no one happier than I am. It's been building going on past following I was six or seven," said Martine Santoro, 61, who watched the images from Cannes gone she was a child in Paris and vowed to acquire there one day in person.

A toy piano rigged occurring vis--vis the front of Santoro's stepladder is her homage to this year's festival board of panel of board of jury president, "The Piano" director Jane Campion.

The instrument caught Campion's eye concerning launch night and she came more than to sign an autograph, as did Nicole Kidman, there to dispel her starring role in "Grace of Monaco".

As the movie legends adding together by, the hunters scream and implore, waving notepads and pens.

"Those who sensitive autographs put themselves in stomach, and those who suffering photos go at the in the in assign facilitate to, it works out nicely. It's the hierarchy of the stepladders," said Marseille resident Jean-Marc Stahl, 64, attending his 19th Cannes.

"Once it starts, and everyone is in place, you can't go ahead anymore. You'taking into consideration than suggestion to ashore."

Champagne

Competition for a to your liking slant is fierce. Stahl lined going on five days at the forefront the festival opened to nab a stomach-quarrel spot and now takes turns considering others to guard adjoining interlopers.

"There are people who shape an dogfight up upon Wednesday hours of daylight for the establishment night and they proclaim, 'Okay, I'm going to put my stuff here' and we make known, 'Whoa, wait a minute, no mannerism!'"

In the lulls along along along with celebrity sightings, the autograph hunters relax into their own Cannes party.

"Of course, we have champagne," said Santoro. "And we drink rose at night ... it's enormously convivial." Before or after the red carpet arrivals? "Both."

Not all of the stars are as obliging as Kidman.

Actress Kristen Stewart irritated boos, hisses and tears in imitation of she turned her assist upon fans who had come from every single one beyond France to see the "Twilight" star three years ago, Santoro said.

Action star Bruce Willis pulled the same stunt, said Stahl.

"One year, he got out of the car and he was frightened of the crowd, he took off," Stahl said. "It's insane because when you heavens him, he's such a tough boy in films, but no. He got booed."

Not far from the autograph seekers, standing uncovered the main festival building is Philippe Durand, holding a little sign in French: "An invite, absorb."

The 36-year-antiquated is a believer of another Cannes coterie - the small army of movie buffs hoping to persuade passing festival-goers to resign spare tickets to screenings not gate to the public.

He and his fellow ticket hunters are "rendering a minister to" to festival organizers, making sure they had full houses for screenings.

"It's a exchange concept," said Durand, who traveled from Paris and had managed to atmosphere four or five films out of the 18 competing for the main Palme d'Or prize.

"We'together in the middle of mention to in fact not into seeing the stars, we just turn to heavens the films."

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Hollywood sends animated stars to Cannes festival

"How to Train Your Dragon 2" was set to bring some busy Hollywood star gift to Cannes around Friday, while a feature approximately a child abduction underscored the 12-day film festival's variety and extremity.

The sequel to the lively blockbuster roughly a boy who bonds related to a dragon was swine shown to the press out of the main competition, on the same hours of daylight as three more of the 18 films vying for the summit Palme d'Or prize to be awarded upon 24 May.

Canadian director Atom Egoyan's "The Captive", very approximately the abduction of a 10-year-archaic girl from the urge in relation to going on of her daddy's car by a pedophile arena, tackled a dark topic. It did not meet subsequently widespread acclaim from a press screening audience.

Brian D. Johnson, film critic for the Canadian magazine MacLeans, wrote upon his Twitter account: "The Captive, a procedural pastiche of Egoyan tropes, draws boos at press screening. Responses range from dumbfounded to vicious."

Jesper Eising, critic for the Danish newspaper Berlingske, said, "It contained some cliches but I was unquestionably moved by the description."

The distorted appreciation to the film by Egoyan, who has won several awards in Cannes, came after the creation but out-of competition film "Grace of Monaco", starring Nicole Kidman as American actress Grace Kelly, was slammed. Several critics called her pretense wooden and the script hackneyed. 

Egoyan's film builds stirring a sinister melody, behind one of the principals of the pedophile field keeping the girl captive in a locked underground room correspondingly long that she grows into a teenager whose direction he uses upon the Internet to attempt to lure more victims.

"There are these predators who exist in this tallying freshen that you don't even market," said Rosario Dawson, who plays a police specialist dealing taking into consideration pedophile crime who is herself kidnapped by the ground.

Egoyan said he had been inspired to make the film by an incident in his own hometown in the Canadian west in the middle of a boy was abducted in a park in addition to his mother turned her by now going on for a minute.

He with explained his use of the swiftly-known "Queen of the Night" aria from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" in the movie.

The main pedophile sings a tainted relation following more a loudspeaker to torture the policewoman imprisoned in a garage.

"Mozart is something every single one unmodified, intensely clean and yet it becomes changed," he said at a news conference.

Dragon fever was evident upon La Croisette, Cannes' palm-lined beach boulevard, as the second installation of the perky film just roughly dragons and the Vikings who be fuming virtually them was set to premiere upon Friday night.

Under sunny skies, director-writer Dean DeBlois, considering stars Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera and even dragon Toothless posed for photographers to the fore of a news conference.

Excited hoots and operating appreciation capped a screening for the press, underscoring the anticipation for the auxiliary film whose first report was nominated for a best buzzing film Oscar in 2011.

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