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Cannes: Fake Gunshots Interrupt Canal Plus Live Broadcast – Video

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday May 17, 2013 @ 1:10pm PDTTags: Canal Plus, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Christoph Waltz

Canal Plus‘ nightly news program Le Grand Journal, which broadcasts live across from the Martinez Hotel here in Cannes, was interrupted tonight when gunshots were heard in the crowd. Jury members Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil were being interviewed on the set when the incident occurred. The audience and talent on stage quickly evacuated. Grand Journal host Michel Denisot came back on air shortly after to say that Cannes police had taken the perpetrator into custody and that he had shot two blanks into the air as well as having a fake grenade in his possession. According to Le Figaro, the departmental head of public security for the Alpes-Maritimes region said the man was carrying an alarm pistol. There were no injuries. Here’s a video of the interruption:

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Hammond On Cannes: Opening Night ‘Gatsby’ Party Wet But Elaborate

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday May 15, 2013 @ 7:28pm PDTTags: Baz Luhrmann, Brian Grazer, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Christoph Waltz, Jeff Robinov, Leonardo Di Caprio, Moulin Rouge, Steven Spielberg, Sue Kroll, The Great Gatsby, Tobey McGuire
Pete Hammond

Baz Luhrmann followed up his biggest opening day in America with his biggest opening day in France as The Great Gatsby took in $78K in partial-day results that still were bigger than his Moulin Rouge and Australia. … Read More »

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Hammond On Cannes: Jury Takes Center Stage As Oscar Rivals Steven Spielberg And Ang Lee ”Worship” Each Other

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday May 15, 2013 @ 8:49am PDTTags: 66th Cannes Film Festival, Ang Lee, Cannes Wrap-Up, Christoph Waltz, Jury, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Nicole Kidman, Steven Spielberg, The Great Gatsby
Pete Hammond

Once rivals for Oscar in February and now fellow jurors in Cannes, Ang Lee called Steven Spielberg his “hero” as Spielberg praised Lee’s Life Of Pi, which won Best Director over Lincoln. This mutual lovefest took place as the jury for the 66th Cannes Film Festival was introduced to the world’s press this afternoon. Spielberg, who said he hasn’t served on any festival jury since 1974 (the beginning of his feature film career) is President and has been asked many times but said the timing was finally right. “I’ve been so consistently at work, especially in the spring months directing, that every time I’ve been approached to be on the jury I’ve been working so I suddenly found myself with an open year, and so that’s why this all came together this year. I am honored I was invited,” he said. Spielberg has been to Cannes many times before with films like E.T. and most recently, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.

Asked about being on the Cannes panel with Spielberg after defeating him for the Oscar almost three months ago Lee said, “Steven and I are good friends. I worship him. I don’t know how he looks at me, but I worship him. I don’t think any result would change how I feel about him or even myself. He’s my hero.” Spielberg responding seemed at a loss for words. “I don’t know how to answer that, except to say Ang and I have been friends for a long time and we’ve never ever been competitors, we’ve always been colleagues and that will just contiinue. And certainly I worship Life Of Pi and therefore I worship Ang Lee as well.” Read More »

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Cannes: Christoph Waltz Joins Robert De Niro & Jason Clarke In ‘The Candy Store’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday May 14, 2013 @ 2:53pm PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Christoph Waltz, Jason Clarke, Robert De Niro, The Candy Store

Los Angeles (May 14, 2013) – Two-time Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds) is joining two-time Academy Award®-winner Robert De Niro (the upcoming Last Vegas, Silver Linings Playbook, Raging Bull, The Godfather: Part II), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty, the upcoming Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) and Omar Sy (The Intouchables, the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past) in Good Universe’s and Lionsgate’s THE CANDY STORE, a character-driven action thriller by Academy Award®-winning writer and director Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana).

Lionsgate will distribute in North America. Good Universe is handling international sales and presenting the film as part of their slate in Cannes.

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Tim Burton To Direct ‘Big Eyes’; The Weinstein Company Putting Finishing Brush Strokes On Deal For Painting Saga

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 2, 2013 @ 4:49pm PDTTags: Amy Adams, Big Deals Film, Big Eyes, Christoph Waltz, The Weinstein Company, Tim Burton
Mike Fleming

Tim BurtonEXCLUSIVE: Tim Burton will direct Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams in Big Eyes, the film that Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski scripted. At the same time, The Weinstein Company is closing a deal to fund and … Read More »

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‘SNL’ Ratings Down With Christoph Waltz

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday February 17, 2013 @ 10:08am PSTTags: Christoph Waltz, Saturday Night Live
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Academy Award nominee Christoph Waltz got some extra exposure during the Oscar voting period with a hosting gig on NBC’s Saturday Night Live last night. But the Django Unchained star’s debut on the latenight sketch show … Read More »

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Christoph Waltz To Host ‘SNL’ A Week Before Oscars

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 11:56am PSTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, NBC, Saturday Night Live

The Django Unchained actor is already in the thick of the Supporting Actor Oscar race after taking the Golden Globe earlier this month for his role as bounty hunter King Schultz in the Quentin Tarantino pic. Now Christoph … Read More »

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Christoph Waltz Joins Michael Douglas In Mike Newell’s Historical Drama ‘Reykjavik’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday October 15, 2012 @ 5:57am PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Michael Douglas

Christoph Waltz will play former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Mike Newell’s upcoming film about the 1986 meeting between Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan that signaled the end of the Cold War. Michael Douglas is playing Reagan. Headline Pictures, Scott … Read More »

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UPDATE: Toronto: Terry Gilliam Confirms Christoph Waltz For ‘Zero Theorem’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 14, 2012 @ 4:22pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Christoph Waltz, Terry Gilliam, The Zero Theorem, Voltage Pictures
Mike Fleming

UPDATE, 4:22 PM: TOLDJA! Look what Terry Gilliam posted on his Facebook wall this afternoon:

Announcement! I’m heading of to Bucharest to start work on my new film, The Zero Theorem. It stars everybody’s favorite Nazi, the great Christoph Waltz. Very original script about a man waiting for a telephone call that will give meaning to his life. Some other things happen as well. It’s profound and funny in more or less equal measures. We’re going to have fun. I’ll keep you posted as the cast expands.

PREVIOUS, MONDAY, 12:34 PM: EXCLUSIVE: Christoph Waltz has been set to star in The Zero Theorem, the next film to be directed by Terry Gilliam. Waltz will play Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst who works on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the purpose of existence—or the lack thereof—once and for all.

It will be the next film for Waltz, who, after winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Inglourious Basterds, has been shooting Tarantino’s follow up, Django Unchained.
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FIRST PHOTOS: DiCaprio, Waltz & Foxx In ‘Django Unchained’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 26, 2012 @ 10:43am PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio

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Here’s a first look at still photos from Quentin Tarantino‘s slave drama Django Unchained, which the Weinstein Co is releasing on Christmas Day. Above, Leonardo DiCaprio plays evil plantation owner Calvin Candie. … Read More »

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Kerry Washington Lands ‘Django Unchained’ Lead

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 8:29am PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Film Castings, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry Washington has won the role of Broomhilda in Django Unchained. Director Quentin Tarantino made his choice and The Weinstein Company began exclusive negotiations with her CAA reps last night. She’ll play the long-suffering slave wife of Django (Jamie … Read More »

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Quentin Tarantino Setting Don Johnson For ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 3:38pm PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, David Carradine, Django Unchained, Don Johnson, Jamie Foxx, John Travolta, Kurt Russell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson
Mike Fleming

Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino has offered the role of wealthy plantation owner Spencer Bennett to Don Johnson, and they are negotiating for Johnson to join a cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and … Read More »

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Toronto: Sony Pictures Landing ‘Hysteria’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 1:10pm PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Felicity Jones, Hugh Dancy, Hysteria, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Jonathan Pryce, Kate Winslet, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Barker, Roman Polanski, Rupert Everett, Sony Pictures Classics, Tanya Wexler, Tom Bernard, Yasmina Reza
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that Sony Pictures Classics is near a deal to distribute Hysteria, the Tanya Wexler-directed romantic comedy based on the surprising truth of how Mortimer Granville came up with the world’s first electro-mechanical vibrator as an advance in … Read More »

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Kevin Costner Exits Mandingo Trainer Role In Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 4:11pm PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Costner, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Sergio Leone
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Costner has dropped out of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, an exit I’m told is due to a combination of scheduling and personal reasons. Costner had agreed to play the supporting role of Ace Woody in the Sergio … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 19, 2011 @ 5:49pm PDTTags: Carnage, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Roman Polanski
Mike Fleming

The Roman Polanski-directed Carnage is up with a new trailer. The drama, an adaptation of the hit Broadway play God of Carnage, stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz. The film opens the New York Film Festival and, obviously, Polanski won’t be there to take the … Read More »

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Kevin Costner Joining Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 18, 2011 @ 12:04pm PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Costner, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Quentin Tarantino never has trouble putting together good casts for his films, but his Sergio Leone-style Spaghetti Western Django Unchained is turning out to be quite something. Kevin Costner is in negotiations to join a cast that is headed … Read More »

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Leonardo DiCaprio In Early Talks For Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 7, 2011 @ 8:03pm PDTTags: Chris Tucker, Christoph Waltz, Clint Eastwood, Django Unchained, Harvey Weinstein, Idris Elba, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pilar Savone, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Sergio Leone, Stacey Sher, Will Smith
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Talks are about to get underway for Leonardo DiCaprio to play the role of villainous ranch owner Calvin Candie in Django Unchained, the Sergio Leone-style spaghetti Western that Quentin Tarantino wrote and will direct as his next film. DiCaprio … Read More »

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Christoph Waltz As ‘American Idol’ Judge?

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday April 22, 2011 @ 12:44pm PDTTags: American Idol, Christoph Waltz, Jimmy Kimmel Live

I had no idea Oscar winner Christoph Waltz could do comedy so well. This Jimmy Kimmel Live! video goes on too long, but it’s funny.

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Sony Classics Gets Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 14, 2011 @ 9:11am PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, ICM, Jeff Berg, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Michael Barker, Roman Polanski, Sony Pictures Classics, Tom Bernard, Yasmina Reza
Mike Fleming

Deadline told you last week that Sony Pictures Classics was wrapping up distribution on Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the Broadway hit God of Carnage. They’ve just announced the deal for the movie, with the abbreviated title Carnage:

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