An uptick in A-list fanfare on the Croisette is putting a smile on the faces of hardened international buyers as star-driven sales presentations return in force to Cannes.
Tuesday saw a packed session at Hotel Martinez for Filmnation’s sizzle reel of I Play Rocky, Paul Greengrass’s The Uprising with Andrew Garfield, and Florian Zeller’s thriller Bunker, led by Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.
Jason Statham jets into town for today’s Black Bear event at the Hotel du Cap for the action thriller of John Doe that reunites the UK action star with director David Ayer, with whom he has worked on The Beekeeper and A Working Man.
And if the plot about a highly trained man with a set of supreme skills elicits a sense of déjà-vu, nobody is complaining. “He’s the only reliable action star left in the independent film world,” one source noted.
John Friedberg’s Black Bear sales slate includes Doug Liman’s CIA action thriller Star One with Miles Teller and Eddie Redmayne.
AGC Studios and Monarch Media have an invite-only screening today of Lauren Miller Rogen’s comedy drama Babies, which Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick will attend.
The big question is whether the big distributors will bite. All eyes are on Danny Boyle’s Ink, a drama about the birth of The Sun newspaper starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, and Claire Foy, which Studiocanal is screening for US buyers.
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