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CommentSexy Beast
Sarah Cooper hangs out with the sons of acting royalty on the set of Christopher Granier Deferre’s directorial debut.
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CommentLet the fun begin...
Dear readers, we’re re-launching a new and improved Diary Blog here at ScreenDaily.
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CommentWhere will the Cannes winner come from?
Almost half way through the Competition screening schedule and things are finally hotting up.
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CommentA Princely Mall Date
I have to admit I was a bit wary of attending a glitzy film premiere…in a mall. Stars and gowns don’t mix with a browse around Claire’s Accesssories in my book. But Disney’s May 9 launch of Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time turned out to be quite impressive. ...
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Betting on the Palme
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has placed 3/1 odds on Ken Loach’s last minute competition entry Route Irish to scoop the Palme D’Or.
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Overheard at Cannes...
Just a few telling comments overheard at Cannes events this week…“Fireworks. The recession must be over.”Industry veteran at the Marche opening party “But I have meetings tomorrow.”Woman at Abu Dhabi party who realized her henna tattoo wasn’t going to wash off. “Where’s Doha?”Asked of me four times at Doha party, ...
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CommentThe not-so-merry Robin Hood
Despite giant waves battering the beaches last week, volcanic dust clouds this week and the non-appearance of Ridley Scott, director of opening night film Robin Hood (he is recovering from knee surgery), the 63rd Cannes film festival last night officially got underway.Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood has received mixed reviews with ...
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CommentPartying Stones style?
It could have been up there with the most spectacular Cannes parties ever — but alas, there will not be any festival visitors engaging in drunken revelry at the famed Villa Nellcote in Villefranche-sur-Mer.That’s the famed mansion where The Rolling Stones holed up as tax exiles in 1972, where they ...
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Horrors of the Gulf
Somehow one just doesn’t associate horror genre films with movies from the United Arab Emirates.
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Besson Gets BIFFF'd
The seemingly perfect sense of patience and good nature of the fiercely loyal fantasy fans attending the world premiere of Luc Besson’s new film The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec was tested to the limit at its sell out screening.
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CommentDesert roses
Business as usual in Dubai, with the region’s film-makers showing off their finest wares