2006 CANNES REPORT: #2

Read the 2006 CANNES REPORT: #1 here.

Even more casting and directing goodness is coming out of the Cannes Film Festival via Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, but there is also some alternate festival snacks coming by the way of JoBlo.com who is back at it in Cannes and offering up some video this time as JoBlo himself is stalking the sexier celebs upon arrival and providing some fun coverage on the way. The site already has up three reports and you can get them here, here and here.

For now, let’s get back to the regularly scheduled report.

JOHANSSON IS BRILLIANT
GARCIA TO TOPLINE MAJESTY MINOR
The first 2006 CANNES REPORT told us that Vincent Cassel would be playing a god in Jean-Jacques Annaud‘s upcoming feature, His Majesty Minor and now in our second report we learn that French actor Jose Garcia will be the star of the mythological tale.

The film already has an expected release of July 2007 and is based on an original idea by the helmer’s longtime collaborator, Gerard Brach, and is co-written by Annaud.

Shooting begins September 4 at the new City of Lights studio near Alicante, Spain.

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter

BRITTANY MURPHY IS THE RAMEN GIRL
DELPY TO DIRECT
LOGUE HAS HIS SECOND COMING
Donal Logue will be directing his second feature, The Second Coming, early next year in Greenville, South Carolina and he has attracted the talent of Bill Paxton for the pic.

The film was adapted from Walker Percy’s novel of the same name by Logue and Jeff Kitchen, is the story of a depressed, suicidal widower who falls in love with a young woman who’s escaped from a mental institution.

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter

WATTS MAKES EASTERN PROMISES
DEVLIN IS GHOSTING
Producer Dean Devlin is making some news as he steps away from the role of producer for his directorial debut with the effects-packed paranormal thriller Ghosting.

The pic centers on a crippled cop who works with a group of undercover investigators who temporarily paralyze hearts to move back and forth between the land of the living and the dead.

Shooting is expected to begin early next year from a Jessie Alexander script.

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter

Read the 2006 CANNES REPORT: #1 here.

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