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Blue Valentine: Love Story to Unfold in the Croisette’s Un Certain Regard Section
Whenever a film that performs well at Sundance and then skips out on Berlin, SXSW and the select indie films fest in the following months, it's because there is a distinct chance at a premiere at the behemoth film festival in May. As I specified here, I was thinking Blue Valentine would follow in the same footsteps as Lee Daniels' Precious, and indeed, Derek Cianfrance's Park City triumph will be part of the Un Certain Regard section -- a major showcase/platform for the film to pretty much sell out in whatever remaining territories that have been lazy in picking up this film.
This Must be the Place for Frances McDormand
After doing a double take when it was announced she'd be joining Transformers part trois, Frances McDormand is back into more familiar genre items as she has just joined a project that has been "dormant" since it was announced at last year's Cannes film festival. McDormand will be joining Sean Penn (he hasn't bailed on this one yet) in Paolo Sorrentino's English language directorial debut.
Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte: The Must See Docu at this Year’s Cannes?
Among the films that I'm expecting to see selected for a place on the Croisette this year is what can be called an "ethnographic" docu-fiction account. Reading up on the filmmaker's approach, you'd think that the film was helmed by a mainland Chinese filmmaker or a Latin American director, but Italian born Frammartino simply located himself in his own familiar surroundings, more specifically the place that foreigners would know as the "toe" portion of the boot shaped Italy.
Versatile Jackman Spreads Himself into ‘Butter’
He can do drama, super-heroes, broadway, rom coms and now Black List scripts too. The very busy Hugh Jackman is the latest, and probably the last announcement in what has been a busy two weeks of casting for the Jim Field Smith directed, Jason Micallef penned, Weinstein comedy which will begin lensing later this month.
SPC Chants We Want Sex…Equality, Grabs Cole’s Made in Dagenham
Sony Pictures Classics have pre-emptively picked up the rights to Made in Dagenham, Nigel Cole's foray into the women's movement in the heyday of 1968 - a Norma Rae or North Country type project. Formerly going by the more poignant, catchier title of We Want Sex, the project is destined for multiple film festival appearances and a release in the Fall, but most likely SPC will wait until Cannes buying is completed before attaching a date to the progressive, fact-based story.
