It's been a busy couple of days. An average day is a breakfast meeting, some screenings, often at similar times and 15 min apart and you have to do 45 min in one film and then head out to the other. Still many of the films you know if they are sellable in the first 45 min - but it's a shame when you have to leave a good one. And then you're off to more meetings at sales agents offices or in cafés...
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It's been a busy couple of days. An average day is a breakfast meeting, some screenings, often at similar times and 15 min apart and you have to do 45 min in one film and then head out to the other. Still many of the films you know if they are sellable in the first 45 min - but it's a shame when you have to leave a good one. And then you're off to more meetings at sales agents offices or in cafés...
I'm here to watch some films for distributor clients but also as an Executive Producer to assist a couple of producers find funding and distribution for their projects. The producer might pitch the creative and the casting but I often get into the mechanics of the $ we are looking for to help pay for the film. Will update you on how this is going in a couple of days.
At the photocall for Turkish film Winter Sleep, actor Demet Akbag, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and actors Haluk Bilginer and Melisa Sozen (left to right) hold signs reading "Soma" to pay their respects to the 284 Turkish miners who died following an explosion. Photograph: Bertrand Langlois/AFP/Getty Images
Word on the street is that Winter Sleep a competition film from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is very good. It may be very art house but it's clearly a strong contender this year for the Palme D'Or.
I saw Ron Perlman walking down the street yesterday. Also Sylvester Stallone is in town to promote The Expendables 3 and they were going to shut down the Croisette and roll some tanks through. Apparently that didn't happen - there are limits to even Stallone's power - but they got some army jeeps instead to draw a crowd as they drove the main strip.