The Cannes Film Festival jury will have a roster of mostly mercilessly gloomy
films from which to select this year's Palme d'Or winner this weekend. Film
buyers looked at them at screenings during the past week and passed. "With the
dollar riding so low, a number of film companies going out of business, and the
fact that the films haven't been all that terrific here, it really impacted
film sales," Eamonn Bowles, head of distribution at Magnolia Pictures, told
USA Today. But Daily Variety commented that the obits over the
film market at Cannes "may have been premature," noting that many of the buyers
were non-American. Nevertheless, some of the most high-profile U.S. films
screened at the festival have found no takers, including Steven Soderbergh's
Che, James Gray's Two Lovers, Barry Levinson's What Just
Happened? and Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York.
23/05/2008
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