It is no big surprise that updates are coming like crazy out of the Cannes Film Festival and Variety has been posting articles to no end detailing each of them and I am here with the summary.
First off Emmett/Furla Films will finance and produce the Al Pacino thriller 88 Minutes directed by James Foley focused on a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI receives a death threat that says he has only 88 minutes to live. To save his life, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, which include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover and a serial killer on death row.
Next we have Claire Danes joining Joan Allen, Kathy Bates and Maggie Smith for the comedy Pushers Needed about a group of harried, working-class housewives who win a trip to Lourdes to embark on an adventure that will change their lives — leaving their husbands behind to care for their kids.
First Look Media has picked up international rights to the Toni Kotite directed dark comedy Kevin Approaches which stars Guy Pearce, Laura Linney, Robert Carlyle, Minnie Driver and Christopher Walken. The film is set in the New York art world and is being shopped around the Cannes Festival.
Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t but Focus Features has just picked up North American distribution rights to EuropaCorp’s Danny the Dog starring Morgan Freeman and Jet Li. The title will change for it’s North American release, which is currently scheduled for early 2005.
Another EuropaCorp title making news is the sequel to the 2002 Jason Statham starrer The Transporter, with The Transporter 2 starring Statham once again along with Amber Valletta. The film has been picked up for most territories by Fox and Cory Yuen and Louis Leterrier will direct.
Oh yeah EuropaCorp has another interesting title coming soon, Color Me Kubrick to be helmed by Brian Cook, Stanley Kubrick’s assistant director.
The dark comedy is based on the true story of a London con man who posed as the late Stanley Kubrick in order to dine out and travel for free and will star John Malkovich.
Stay tuned as there is sure to be more to come out of Cannes.
