More and more ‘Hancock‘ trailers and clips are hitting the net. The French have the first ‘Transporter 3‘ trailer. ‘Mirrors‘ is starting to scare. And the enjoyable ‘The Wackness‘ got its first full trailer.

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Did Angelina Jolie and Jack Black hide all the money in their bellies? What is happening? No big sales at the Sundance Film Festival. Nothing at the Tribeca Film Festival either. And now Cannes isn’t even able to sell the pictures? Sony Classics’ Michael Barker blames the films. “I’m trying to find a year when we left without buying a film. If we ever did it was a long time ago. There are no gems in the market,” Barker said.

Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Synecdoche, New York’ is still available too. As is Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che,’ which screened yesterday (Wednesday) evening. Most North American distributers don’t want to shell out $10 million for the Spanish feature. They think it’s difficult to market, also because it’s four hours of film split into two movies.

Nobody wants to take risks at the moment. “I think there have been some really beautiful films, but none of them are particularly suited to us. It’s really, really hard in such a cluttered marketplace,” one acquisitor noted.

With a couple of days left, it will be interesting to see which pictures still manage to sell.

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.