THE EMPIRE / L'EMPIRE (2024) - DVD & Blu-ray Release of French Sci-Fi Comedy

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Product Description: In a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, something finally happens: a special baby is born. A child so unique and peculiar that it unleashes a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil. In an attempt to restore their empires, two opposing forces from the depths of outer space, One and Zero, unleash an apocalyptic conflict on Earth. A slapstick intergalactic space opera from the singular mind of auteur Bruno Dumont (France, Li’l Quinquin), The Empire is a dramatic blockbuster spectacle and a comedic tour de force that pits good against evil, One against Zero in a fabulous tale of the forces that shape the world and humans into what they are.

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Cannes 2024 Winners: Sean Baker's ANORA Earns Palme d'Or

Sean Baker won the Palme d'Or for the dramedy "Anora", which tells the story of the beleaguered romance of a sex worker (Mikey Madison) with the son of a Russian oligarch (Mark Eydelshteyn). Baker is the first American filmmaker to take home the festival's top prize since Terrence Malick did so in 2011 with "The Tree of Life". Baker previously directed films like "The Florida Project" and "Red Rocket", both of which debuted at Cannes.

Camille Cottin ("Call My Agent") hosted the awards for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where Greta Gerwig presided over a jury comprised of Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona, Turkish actor-screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, American actor Lily Gladstone, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, Lebanese actor-director Nadine Labaki and French stars Eva Green and Omar Sy.

Payal Kapadia accepted the Grand Prix, the festival's second-highest award, for "All We Imagine as Light". This was the first Indian film selected for competition in 30 years. Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes won the directing award for "Grand Tour", while the best screenplay prize went to French director Coralie Fargeat for the horror film "The Substance" starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.

A special award was created by the jury for Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who attended the Cannes Film Festival at great personal risk, fleeing an eight-year prison sentence for making political drama "The Seed of the Sacred Fig".

The acting awards went to Jesse Plemons for "Kinds of Kindness" and the entire female ensemble cast of "Emilia Perez".

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A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023) - Trailers, Clips, Featurette, Images and Posters

"A Haunting in Venice" is the latest installment in Kenneth Branagh's Poirot films based on Agatha Christie's novels. The new installment is based on the 1969 novel "Hallowe'en Party", and it serves as a sequel to 2022's "Death on the Nile". The cast includes Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly, Riccardo Scamarcio and Michelle Yeoh. The film opened in theaters on September 15, 2023.

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DVD & Blu-ray: STILLWATER (2021) Starring Matt Damon

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Product Description: A dramatic thriller directed by Academy Award® winner Tom McCarthy and starring Matt Damon, Stillwater follows an American roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill Baker builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

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STILLWATER (2021) - Trailer, Clips, Featurette, Images and Poster

"Stillwater" is a crime drama directed by Tom McCarthy ("Spotlight") from a script he co-wrote with Marcus Hinchey, Thomas Bidegain and Noe Debre.

Matt Damon stars as Bill Baker, an unemployed oil rig worker from Oklahoma who travels to France to helps his estranged daughter (Abigail Breslin), who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit. Camille Cottin, Deanna Dunagan and Lilou Siauvaud co-star.

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on July 8, 2021 and opened in theaters on July 30, 2021.

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