May 6th, 2008 at 8:00 am
The market has been slow for the winter and all hopes are now set for Cannes next week. With the market in a slump, the Cannes Film Festival still managed to grow by 8%. The festival is ready to accomodate 9,000 film business men and women from over 90 countries.
Sundance and Tribeca Film Festival didn’t manage to fuel the market earlier this year. Many picture left without a distribution deal, as did Robert De Niro’s ‘What Just Happened?.’ The picture is now closing the Cannes Film Festival, but there’s not much hype left for the movie.
With a 40% growth since 2003, Cannes can’t care too much however. They’ve now added three extra screening rooms to host an impressive 1,600 screenings. I hope you’re not the one going to see movies at Cannes. Because else you might want to start making a selection.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
‘Changeling,’ the new thriller by Clint Eastwood, is one of the three Hollywood titles standing out on the list of competitors for a Palme d’Or award. Then there is the Charlie Kaufman movie we mentioned earlier, called ‘Synecdoche, New York.’ And Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che,’ a $40 million biopic about Che Guevara.
Outside the competition is Woody Allen, with his spanish comedy ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona.’ And of course the one and only Steven Spielberg with ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,’ still a way too long title.
You can find the full list of movies in competition after the jump.
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April 18th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
While the US had a good presence at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, this year is turning out quite the opposite. Plagued by the writers’ strike, the only major Hollywood product in the competition seems to be Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut ‘Synecdoche, New York’.
Spielberg and his gang will be there to promote the new Indiana Jones and Jack Black will do some promotion for Kong Fu Panda. But both aren’t in the competition. And as mentioned earlier, the show’s closing film ‘What Just Happened?‘ isn’t expected to impress anyone either, although the word is it has been cut by 8 minutes now.
