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Specialty Box Office: ‘Win Win’ Situation For Two Fox Searchlight Comedies
Despite an unusually slow weekend for all U.S. indie releases not from Fox Searchlight, imports like Potiche from director Francois Ozon saw great success. The film starring Gerard Depardieu (and a Catherine Deneuve who hit the late night talk show circuit) made a promising $12,143 average in 7 locations. Distributor Music Box Films will likely continue to bank on Depardieu/Deneuve’s star power as it slowly expands into other markets around the country.
Cannes 2010 Predictions (Sidebars): Dolan, Reichardt, Larrain, Kerrigan
What do Juan Antonio Bayona, Bernardo Bertolucci, Guillermo del Toro, Ken Loach, Jacques Audiard, François Ozon and Wong Kar-Wai have in common? They all got their starts at the far-end of the Croisette in the smallest of the sections called Critic's Week. The section specializes in mostly first time, and sometimes sophomore films from new talent.
R.I.P: Yasmine Belmadi (1976-2009)
French auteur cinema is in mourning today. A bright star who began his career in the 1997 film Les Corps ouverts for Sébastien Lifshitz and would later re-team with him on Wild Side (2004), Yasmine Belmadi also worked with François Ozon on Les Amants criminels (1999), Gilles Marchand's Who Killed Bambi? (2003), Au petit matin for Xavier Gens and most recently was in Cannes last May for Critic's Week presentation of Adieu Gary from Nassim Amaouche.
BOF: Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen
In the course of more than five decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of the world's most respected film events - a place where filmmakers and artists such as Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Roman Polanski, Alexander Kluge and Werner Herzog, and more recently Ulrike Ottinger, Romuald Karmakar, Pipilotti Rist, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and François Ozon have presented their first films.
