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Despite only being in theaters for the past two weeks and having Away We Go rake in just under a million at the BO, Focus Features is thinking long term with Sam Mendes (well at least till 2011) and are hoping to get the filmmaker to take on a pair of period piece projects. Mendes and Neal Street Prods have according to Variety, signed a two-year first-look deal that could see Mendes direct.

Charlotte Gainsbourg reached news depths in her ultra risky role (complete nudity and some hand gestures) in the must talked about film on the Croisette this year (Antichrist). The jury mostly comprised of female actresses obviously saw something that was striking in the perf. Thanking her father last - she mentioned that "she hopes (her father) would have been happy to have been shocked."

A mix of genre specific fair and a couple of indie titles that automatically caught my attention, The Weinstein Company aren't flashing any cards in the festival comp portion, but they have a cool slate of market offerings in post production with noteworthy titles such as All Good Things from Andrew Jarecki, Youth in Revolt from Miguel Arteta and a 3D Piranha movie from horror helmer Alaxandre Aja.

The Safdie brothers who closed the same sidebar last year with a short film and The Pleasure of Being Robbed have combined their efforts to bring another project in Go Get Some Rosemary, which oddly sounds like something my mother might have said when I was a young lad. The pair to watch out for in the section are Colossal Youth's director Pedro Costa who returns to Cannes with his docu on Jeanne Balibar called Ne change rien. Three year's back he got beat up by critics. Woman Is the Future of Man's Hong Sang-soo (who I originally balked at including in my predictions for the Main Comp) is finally going to showcase his latest work (Like You Know it All) in the 41st edition of the section

With Geoffrey Gilmore in the portrait (his work will only be felt next year), Tribeca is making another great decision in shedding some of that baby fat. At eight years of age, the cuts make the festival leaner, less desperate for films and "more precise" in its programming. Scaling back to a sound number of 86, today's batch of 38 fill up the World Narrative and Documentary Comp selections and Discovery sections. Today's announcements demonstrates that relationships with filmmakers continue to flourish (I noticed a couple of names from the previous years).