Buyers and sellers in the film world will be pitching their latest titles in various meet and greet formats --the Cannes Market offers a bazillion different movie options. Some screenings are hush hush discreet, some are premieres from faltering divisions who could no longer keep the inventory and some are testing the market to find foreign buyers to pump more money back into the producer's pockets. If I were attending the market I'd be checking up on world preems of Marian Crisan's Morgen, Laurence Charpentier's Gigola and several of the promo reels, but those that should attract the most attention should be the following ten examples.
I think the Best Supporting categories are the toughest nuts to crack, often a fine performance counts as a rare sympathy vote for a film that isn't nominated in any other category. This year's real wild card are the actresses involved in Woody Allen's latest which employs a trio of supporting ladies in Freida Pinto, Anna Friel and Lucy Punch - but at this point its anyone's guess on how pivotal they become to the assigned male characters.
Collider.com have uncovered some of the riches of the American Film Market and among the first images we have are some first looks at some highly anticipated 2010 titles. The first shot we have is of Clooney in sniper mode in The American.
Mixing romantic comedy and horror is no easy task, but Must Love Death does so with relative ease, making for a twisted, genre-bending thrill-ride of a date movie.
Unlike Margaret (the film is caught in post-production hell), Nailed should never see the day of light because it is, as Playlist describes it “missing key scenes and has been basically abandoned by the principle post-production players.”