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Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood to Open Cannes
No official press release has been issued yet, but all arrows (and insiders) are pointing to Ridley Scott's Robin Hood as the Cannes Film Festival opener. Ridley Scott presented his 1977 film The Duellists for which he won the Jury Prize for Best First Feature at the festival, and only returned for an Out of Competition slot for Thelma and Louise (1991), so this would be an attention-getting, timely premiere opening for Universal Pictures who release the film worldwide two days later on the 14th.
Trailer for Im Sang-soo’s The Housemaid
I'll be terribly disappointed if Im Sang-soo's pristine looking remake of Kim Ki-young's classic doesn't find its way to Cannes. The chances that Sang-soo's version of The Housemaid doesn't make it on the Croisette are extremely low - Jeon Do-yeon won for Best Actress at the festival for Secret Sunshine, Sang-soo has been an invited guest on several occasions, and the film is receiving its domestic release in the same month and by the looks of this trailer, it's got Midnight screening stamped all over it.
At the Movies Cancelled: Who Should Reopen the Balcony?
I think it was in 1988 when I first started getting into Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert who took great pleasure in ripping into films and each another. If tonight's announcement tells us anything, it's that, when everyone is chummy, and agreeing to agree or disagree, it makes for boring television and what I imagine was a ratings falloff for several post-Ebert years now.
Weinsteins Position The King’s Speech for Oscar Season, Tillman Story before Football Season
After playing extremely well in France in late November, Radu Mihaileanu's The Concert becomes the first release of the year for the Weinsteins. The pause, wait, filling of the coffers means that their first release doesn't come until the 16th of July. The target market for this film is much like the demo that gravitated towards Mihaileanu's Live & Become (Va, vis et deviens) - easy to please seniors.
Blue Valentine Lands Fatal December 31st Release Date
It's still way too early place any importance to a film's release date nine months from now, but if you go by this tidbit of news, Derek Cianfrance's impressive debut Blue Valentine will receive the potentially fatal December 31st release date - a day that has plagued other Weinstein titles in the past decade if you look at the post-December 25th/26th releases of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Matador, Factory Girl and Miss Potter.
