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Julia Ducournau’s ‘Titane’ Won the 2021 Palme d’Or at This Year’s Cannes!
Outside of 2019’s Parasite, which I don’t consider a horror film, I’m not sure the genre has ever won as big as it just did at this year’s Festival International du Film de Cannes.
It was announced over the weekend that Titane, director Julia Ducournau‘s hotly-anticipated follow-up to Raw, won the coveted Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival!
NEON is behind Titane and also celebrated their release of Parasite, which would eventually win Oscars for “Best Picture”, “Best Director”, “Best Original Screenplay” and “Best International Feature”. Does this mean Titane could also be in line to win an Academy Award?!
The first Titane reviews wildly exclaim that Ducournau shocks with “controversial”, “gory”, and “ballsy” body horror, likening it to David Cronenberg’s Crash and Takashi Miike’s Gozu.
According to the festival, the plot follows a series of unexplained crimes where a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years.
Watch for release news as it comes in.
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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