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Bob Berney Back in the Game with ‘Bright Star’
preemptive Set to have its world premiere this coming Friday (I'll be at the 8:30 a.m. press screening), Bright Star becomes the first title in the Bill Pohlad and Bob Berney's the soon to be named distribution venture. Does this mean that Terrence Malick's next has already found a home as well?
Cannes 2009: Set in Stone
T minus one and counting...I've narrowed it down to a "must see" 33 with about 7 spots open picking between films that I have little or not much interest in. I'll spend the later portion of tonite contemplating what those holes in the sched might accomodate, but the best part of picking up the badge early this morning, is grabbing a slick copy of the official guide listing all the films playing at the festival (Director's Fortnight edition will probably be waiting for me in my mailbox tomorrow) and I'll then I can worry about the coverage and not what to cover.
Cannes 2009 Producer’s Patch: Wild Bunch
France-based Wild Bunch are the masters of their domain – we can forget about the horrible way Che fell victim to a bad market by remembering the success story of The Wrestler. They come to Cannes as usual with a ton of items in competition and a slate of films that gives buyers way too many options.
Cannes Croisette: And Soon the Darkness
I don't know much about Marcos Efron's feature length directorial debut, a quick visit on you know where gives me a synopsis that consists of "when two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized." Amber Heard was shooting this (Studiocanal) picture when she signed up for bruce Robinson's The Rum Diary. Yustman was most recently seen in The Unborn and Cloverfield.
Cannes Croisette: Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island
DiCaprio sees red and I think Paramount Pictures is seeing green. Well located at the end of the pier in front of the Carlton rests this great billboard. This is based on the novel "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane and adapted by Laeta Kalogridis...
