Politics continues to outperform business at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, barely leaving the deal with March, but there have been many activist incitement on the red carpet and beyond.
The first weekend of Cannes, traditionally, the period when the bidding war began and announced the first major purchase was almost shocking. There's a big deal - Mubi's $20 million multi-border political deal, including North America, the United Kingdom, Latin America and others - Lynne Ramsay's Jennifer Lawrence Robert Robert Pattinson Death, my love. This is a major deal for finished films, but to date, the Cannes Film Festival lacks major pre-sales, despite the hot packaging on the market.
There is an increasing uncertainty in financing and distribution models, and an increasing uncertainty in financing and distribution models, which is already in the evidence of Sundance and Berlin, the buyer's cautious, cautious attitude and face the future of the film business itself.
Donald Trump plans to launch "Made in Foreign" films before the Cannes Festival, extinguished like a bomb on the already shaky basis of the independent industry. Only when the dust settles, how much damage can be assessed.
"The idea of tariffs is to scare people, especially financiers," said an experienced independent producer. "Financiers are already a bunch of clumsy people, and anything that gives them reason to doubt the viability of the domestic market, i.e. the value of pre-sales in the United States, is poison."
Most sales executives would not expect Trump's statement to have a negative impact on the deal - there are no tariffs yet, and it's unclear whether there will be a collection deal - but the news killed any positive atmosphere for sellers to sell Cannes. It's not that sales matters are sunny. in the country, Sundance Film Festival is the slowest deal in recent memory. Neon thriller TogetherNetflix may have promising awards Train Dream and A24 for Eva Victor Sorry, baby (Screen in Cannes too) is an outstanding performance of the otherwise frustrating market. In the months at Park City Fest, smaller assignments like Magnolia, Briarcliff, Greenwich and Mubi have scooped the best of a few festivals, leaving most people still in a difficult situation.
Berlin also started to slow - most of the deals reported during the EFM were smaller domestic pickups with the International Art House feature, Sony Pictures Classic with Rebecca Zlotowski's murder mystery in French language privacy Starring Jodie Foster (Cantes Premiere), Mubi The history of sound (Cannes match title), IFC movies and trembles jointly acquire Shawn Bourne's Shark and Serial Killer Thriller Dangerous animalsalso screened in Marché.
But a pre-buy war to buy started in Berlin, on rom-com directed by Lena Dunham Good sexto close within the next few weeks of the market, Natflix Portman won the victory, struck a global deal with CAA Media Financing and Film, which reportedly reportedly cost $55 million.
Maybe it was Marci. Several festival champions, still not sold out in the United States, have attracted interest and many people may end in the summer without signing the deal on Croisette. Sean Baker won here with Anora last year, won the Palme d'Or On to Awards Anears Glory and won the best win at the Oscars, and the interest on Shih-Ching Tsou has attracted people Left-handed girlco-written and edited by Baker, the anniversary was screened in Cannes Critics Week. The play follows a single mother and her two daughters, who returned to Taipei after a few years of living in the countryside, opening a stand in the buzzing night market. Le Pacte is handling sales.
urchindirector's debut babygirl and Triangle of sadness Star Harris Dickinson bowed in certain ways, and multiple buyers also circled. Frank Dillane plays a self-destructive addict in Dark Drama, which is sold worldwide. thrThe commentary said the film gave Dickinson a “convincing claim to the status of multi-braining”. The jury is still on the title Kristen Stewart claims. The Twilight Star's warm expectation will turn behind the camera, The age of waterIn a certain scrutiny, the mixed reviews and gentle responses of the premiere crowd succumbed. The film is based on Lidia Yuknavitch's acclaimed memoir of the same name in 2011, Stars Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Nick Cave's sons Earl Cave and Sonic Youth Bassist Kim Gordon.
Stewart admits she is eager to finish the Cannes film, so she may return to the editorial suite before the final cut. What is the key reaction of Stewart’s global fan base - many seem to like the movie, which means the title (WME independent company is dealing with North American sales, the Rice movie Dulucan International. It’s just a matter of when and how much.
In foreign languages, laxe's laxe syrup Heating is being made, selling clothing is available for multiple offers within the competition factory. On the fourth feature of the French-born Spanish director, his first work at the Cannes competition, a father and son join a group of revelers in the Moroccan desert. Hollywood ReporterThe comments call it "technical meditation about death and grief". Shooted entirely on Super 16mm syrup It may be too much of a work of art for a professional Studio brand, but it is hoped that independent buyers will step up their efforts.
Fatih Akin's Amrum is a competitive title that sold out the Cannes Film Festival, and Beta Cinema ended several international deals, including France, Spain, Japan and Brazil. Beta said it was negotiated with multiple domestic buyers in the last days of World War II, on the picturesque German island on the picturesque German island. Diane Kruger, his last collaboration with Akin In fading (2017), won the Best Actress Award for Cannes Actress, Amrum.
In addition to the business, the festival has also achieved high results from critics, and the competition lineup has thrown out multiple Palme d'Or contenders. On the middle road, Jazz A strong contender for the highest award The sound of fallingthe second article by German director Mascha Schilinski (Dark blue girl), depicting four generations of young women living in the same farmhouse in northeast Germany. In the Carnival thr The play is called "a distress to women and country conflicts, heralding the arrival of bold new talent." But the film has a slow and long pace - in 2 hours and 29 minutes, it kills yawning.
Ari Aster's Eddingtonit can be said that it is the most film with the Cannes Film Festival, with a scattered audience. Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Micheal Ward and Luke Grimes star in the drama, a May 2020 May 2020 May depicting the mayoral movement of the shared-sensory Joey Joe Cross, a mayoral movement in a small town in New Mexico. As campaigns intensify, pandemic-era fanatics have also sparked the flames of right-wing conspiracy, racial estimates and protests against police brutality along with news reports and social media posts. The film attracts carnival and pot in the same way. thr It must be in the pan camp. Our judgment is “a new west that confuses absurd inconsistency.”
However, critics never quite predict the films the Cannes jury will make. Over the course of a week, President Juliette Binoche's nine jury members might surprise us all.