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ICE CUBE: Yeah We Cannes
While Amour, the Palme d’Or-winning drama at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, makes all the headlines (Sony Pictures Classics set a late-December limited release date so that the Michael Haneke-directed film is game for awards season). Several locals who spent their time in the French cinema capitol did OK for themselves during the fest.
ICE CUBE: Yeah We Cannes
While Amour, the Palme d’Or-winning drama at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, makes all the headlines (Sony Pictures Classics set a late-December limited release date so that the Michael Haneke-directed film is game for awards season). Several locals who spent their time in the French cinema capitol did OK for themselves during the fest.
Southwest Philly’s Lee Daniels brought his new directorial effort of Pete Dexter’s novel The Paperboy to the big show complete with an infamous Nicole Kidman/Zac Efron peeing scene intact. Then there was Old City’s Breaking Glass Pictures (Mike Repsch, VP of international sales; Rich Wolff, CEO; Richard Ross, co-president; Susan Helfrich, COO) who hit up every party and red carpet bash at the CFF like Diddy’s party on his yacht the Icon, Daniels’ red carpet walk and such. Breaking Glass had a booth at le Marche, held dinners in their beach side office/apartment and made deals to acquire for distribution the likes of the BBC film Shifty (starring Centurion’s Riz Ahmed), Jose Campusano’s dark Vil Romance, a documentary highlighting starlets of slasher horror Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era, and Simon Chung’s new film Speechless, which is having its world premiere at the upcoming San Diego FilmOut Fest. Breaking Glass also sold off for distribution After the Wizard, a modern continuation of Frank L. Baum’s classic book, for Eastern Europe and Africa as well as Nate & Margaret (a 21st century gay Harold & Maude) starring Roseanne’s Natalie West, The Wise Kids’ Tyler Ross, and Gaby Hoffmann from 200 Cigarettes.
Ooh la la and thanks to Susan Helfrich for the photos.
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