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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.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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