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artin Scorsese, Jennifer Lawrence, Justin Timberlake, Tim Burton, Jackie Chan, Fan Bingbing, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Pele all will be in Cannes this year — but not just to stroll the red carpet at the Palais. They’re here to promote projects at the script stage — except for Lawrence — that are being shopped at the Marche du Film. The unprecedented star wattage for market titles indicates a whole new level of ambition in selling titles to foreign distributors and underscores the increasing difficulty of breaking through the noise. In previous years, there have been one-off events, but

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year ago, when the Natalie Portman Western Jane Got a Gun first was coming together at Cannes, no one could have predicted that one of last year’s hottest scripts would unravel so spectacularly. The number of stars bolting have left all sides reeling — and that’s on top of the departure of director Lynne Ramsay. Jane finally has corralled its second leading man, Ewan McGregor, after losing Michael Fassbender, Jude Law and Bradley Cooper. The film is weeks from wrapping production in New Mexico. But the danger isn’t over as Exclusive Media reintroduces the movie, with a dramatically different cast, to foreign buyers. While most buyers have stuck with the project on a wait-and-see

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never on this scale. “Increasingly in the international and independent works, we have to set up projects as events,” says IM Global’s Stuart Ford, who is shopping Scorsese’s next film Silence to buyers. Today, Scorsese will meet with a large crowd of acquisitions executives during a Q&A with Ford asking the questions. Starring Andrew Garfield and Ken Watanabe, the movie is a longtime passion project for the director and is set in 17th century Japan. Later tonight, Timberlake will rock one of the beachside party CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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Christian Bale and Natalie Portman in Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, now in postproduction. Glen Basner’s FilmNation will be showing footage of the film — whose tightly guarded plot is said to be about celebrity and excess — for the first time to international buyers who invested in Malick’s latest endeavor.

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ollywood and Cannes on Tuesday were buzzing about Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she underwent a preventative double mastectomy after doctors found her to have a high risk of breast cancer. “I hope that other women can benefit from my experience,” she wrote in a New York Times op-ed. The news that the 37-year-old

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ANANT SINGH Talk about worlds colliding: Singh, the producer considered the Harvey Weinstein of South Africa, just sold rights to Kite to The Weinstein Co.

JULIANNE MOORE Awkward: Moore was attached to Imagine with Al Pacino, which is being shopped in Cannes, but her role recently went to Annette Bening.

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venues at a bash he’ll co-host with Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited, Laurence Mark and Timothy Scott Bogart in support of the Neil Bogart biopic announced on the eve of Cannes. Timberlake will play the legendary record executive, with RCA Records partnering on the project, now at script stage. The party will be the second act for the performer, who will also be on hand to press the flesh with buyers at an exclusive, invitation-only brunch. Timberlake also is in Cannes for the world premiere of the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, which is playing in competition at the festival. But the splashiest event of all is likely to be Lionsgate’s Saturday night party for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,

one of the most coveted tickets in town. Freshly crowned Oscarwinner Jennifer Lawrence is sure to attract crowds in and outside of the party. All of the Hunger Games films were sold independently internationally and Saturday’s soiree is a nod to those who have supported the franchise. Sellers say it’s important to instill confidence in buyers by keeping them involved throughout the process. Ron Howard has met with foreign distributors throughout the financing and making of Exclusive Media’s Formula One drama Rush, including showing the film during the European Film Market in February. Harvey Weinstein will host a buyers’ brunch with Burton, in town to push Big Eyes. Pele, the world’s most famous soccer player, is in Cannes to boost the profile of the Imagine Entertainment-backed eponymous biopic that International Film Trust is selling.

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S A M U E L L . JAC K S O N POTUS with the most-us! The prolific actor again grabs early film market headlines: He’s set to star in new actioner Big Game as the president of the United States.

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Zygi Kamasa Lionsgate U.K. CEO “We’re looking for three distinct types of movies broadly speaking. The first kind is British movies. Then we are looking for non-British projects which fall into two kinds: We look to buy smaller character- and director-led movies that are nicely packaged. We are also looking to buy what we call the bigger movies, the ones like The Hunger Games or Ender’s Game, which have a strong recognizable cast.

basis, some have opted out — notably, Sony Picture Worldwide Acquisitions, which nabbed a multiterritory deal in Berlin for Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Back in February, Exclusive Media president of sales Alex Walton was signing deals left and right with foreign distributors clamoring to get a piece of Jane because of its script and dazzling cast. But days after Berlin wrapped, Fassbender, whose deal hadn’t been finalized, exited. By the end of March, on the eve of the first day of shooting in New Mexico, Ramsay walked off after a three-day standoff with producer Scott Steindorff over final cut. Law — who’d taken over Fassbender’s role — also high-tailed it, since he had come aboard to work with Ramsay, who was quickly replaced by director Gavin O’Connor. When Cooper signed on, Walton and the producers breathed a sigh of relief since he is one of only a handful of actors viewed as an international box office star. But then suddenly Cooper was out because

Production Delays Have Buyers Grousing By Scott Roxborough

Buyers heading into this year’s Cannes market are griping that production delays on several big titles are making it harder to commit to new films being shopped around. Films such as Robert Rodriguez’s hotly anticipated sequels Machete Kills and Sin City 2 were originally pre-sold as 2012 releases but are still in post. Ron Howard’s

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underwent three months of procedures drew a heartfelt response from Cannes festival director Thierry Fremaux. “When I go up the steps to open the 66th Cannes Film Festival, I will be thinking in particular about Angelina Jolie,” he tells THR. Adds Graham King, producer of In the Land of Blood Jolie and Honey and The Tourist: “Angelina’s bravery consistently shines through in every aspect of her life — not only in her career choices but in her personal life. I am so proud she has courageously shared her story.” Meanwhile, Fruitvale Station’s Octavia Spencer tweeted: “Huge prayers for Angelina Jolie and her family as she convalesces and bravo for raising awareness.”

of a scheduling conflict (he’s still shooting David O. Russell’s American Hustle, which was interrupted by the Boston Marathon bombing). Finally, McGregor replaced Cooper to play the villain, a role previously belonging to Joel Edgerton, part of the original cast, who now is playing Portman’s love interest. The budget of the film is $15 million, and the producers — including Portman — had hoped to take a loan against foreign pre-sales to cover some of the budget. But banks often won’t release funds after key castmembers exit a production since international distributors can opt out of their contracts. Those foreign distributors who stuck by Jane Got a Gun say they are biding their time until they see a cut of the film. “It still has Portman, and there is no pressure on me as a buyer to do anything until it gets done and they have something to show,” one says. During Cannes, Walton, who remains high on the film, will show footage to pump up foreign distributors, as well as sell rights in the remaining available markets. And, in a final twist, Exclusive’s Cannes office is down the street from the festival headquarters, where Ramsay is now a jury member.

racing movie Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth, sold out worldwide at AFM in 2011, but reshoots pushed its release from 2012 to the fall of this year. Two of the hottest titles at the last Cannes market, Kenny Ortega’s Dirty Dancing remake and Adam Hashemi’s comedy actioner Agent: Century 21 featuring Cameron Diaz, both have yet to begin shooting. “There are a lot of great films at the market this year, from all over, but we have to hold back a bit,” says Alexander van Duelmen of A Company, which pre-bought


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Machete Kills and Sin City 2 for Russia. “We can only really plan for movies for 2015.” Alex Watson, president of sales at Exclusive Media, which is selling Agent: Century 21 worldwide, admits that production delays “are frustrating on all sides” and says sellers have to move quickly to manage the situation when a project gets pushed back. “These movies are really tentpoles for our buyers and they have to be able to plan their spending, their cash flow,” Watson says. “So if there is a delay, you have to communicate that immediately.”

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Sneak Peek: Kidman as Grace Kelly By Scott Roxborough

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race of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, wasn’t finished in time for Cannes, but images of Kidman as Hollywood starlet-turned-princess Grace Kelly whet the appetite for Olivier Dahan’s historical drama. The shots suggest Dahan is not taking a lookalike approach for the film, something Kidman, speaking to THR in fall 2012 when Grace still was shooting, confirmed. “I’m not trying to re-create Grace, just capture her essence. Like [Dahan’s Edith Piaf drama] La Vie en Rose, this is more of an art movie than a strict biopic.” The Weinstein Co. will bow Grace of Monaco in an awards-season qualifying run stateside Dec. 27.

Kelly was one of the first celebs to embrace the head scarf wrapped over cat eyes look. “I had a lot of fun with the fashions of the times in this movie,” Kidman told THR.

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Kidman wears a re-creation of one of Kelly’s iconic tiaras: this one with cabochon rubies and diamonds. It also converted into brooches.

The real Kelly met Prince Rainier III of Monaco after she attended the Cannes film festival.

Abigail Breslin to Star in the Thriller ‘Peste’ By Gregg Kilday

Abigail Breslin is set to star in Peste — a thriller about a contagious virus sweeping through a small town — which Octane, IM Global’s genre label, is financing and shopping at Cannes. The film, to be directed by Mark Ponderai (House at the End of the Street) and produced by Sheryll

Clark (Cloverfield), is scheduled to begin production in September, IM Global’s CEO Stuart Ford announced. Peste is based on Barbara Marshall’s screenplay, which appeared on the Black List, the Blood List and the Hit List in 2012. Breslin, 17, a supporting actress Oscar nominee for 2006’s Little Miss Sunshine, will play a teenager confronting a virus that turns friends and neighbors into vicious monsters. Quarantined with her family, she believes they are out

of harm’s way until the contagion infiltrates their home. Breslin is repped by ICM and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler & Feldman. She next will be seen in Summit/Oddlot’s Ender’s Game and The Weinstein Co.’s August: Osage County. Says Ford: “Abigail is one of the outstanding talents of her generation. Her recent standout performances in genre hits like Zombieland, The Call and the forthcoming Ender’s Game make her a perfect fit for Peste.”


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Al Pacino will play the eccentric A.J. Manglehorn in David Gordon Green’s latest.

Sony Grabs Timberlake’s Spinning Gold By Pamela McClintock

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On the eve of the Cannes Film Market, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has struck a multiterritory deal for Foresight Unlimited’s Neil Bogart biopic Spinning Gold, headlining Justin Timberlake as the infamous record executive who was closely aligned with the rise of disco. The initial pact is for Latin America, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, including Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Sony Worldwide is expected to acquire rights for additional major territories in the coming days. Mark Damon’s Foresight is financing and producing Spinning (Damon knew Bogart, who died at the age of 39 in

Pacino Boards Gordon Green’s Manglehorn

Woo’s Crossing to Become Two-Parter

Al Pacino will star in David Gordon Green’s drama Manglehorn, which Worldview Entertainment will finance and produce. Pacino will play the title character, A. J. Manglehorn, an eccentric man coming to terms with a past crime that cost him the love of his life, in the screenplay by Paul Logan, based on an original story by Green and Logan. Christopher Woodrow, Worldview CEO, and the company’s COO, Molly Conners, will produce alongside Lisa Muskat and Green. London-based WestEnd Films is handling international sales and will introduce the film to buyers in Cannes, while CAA, which arranged the financing, is repping domestic rights.

John Woo will expand his latest project, the historical epic The Crossing, into two parts, according to the films’ financier Beijing Galloping Horse. Beijing Galloping Horse’s head of international sales, Ronan Wong, says Woo will start shooting the films next month. Budgeted at $30 million, The Crossing is produced by the Beijing-based company and Lion Rock Productions — owned by Woo and his producer partner Terence Chang — as well as China Film Group and Zhejiang Huace Film & TV. Starring Zhang Ziyi and Song Hye-kyo, the project launched in Cannes in 2008 as 1949 and subsequently was given the tentative title of The Pacific. The film is said to be

about a real-life steamer ship that sank in 1949 while on its way from Shanghai to Kaohsiung, bringing more than 900 passengers down with it. Digital Domain, the VFX house which Beijing Galloping Horse acquired alongside India’s Reliance Mediaworks last year, will handle the film’s special effects.

Fortissimo Takes Sales Rights to Hartley’s Rifle The third and final chapter of Hal Hartley’s tragicomic trilogy (begun with Henry Fool in 1998), Ned Rifle will star Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters), Parker Posey, Thomas Jay Ryan and Liam Aiken. Shooting is expected to begin in the fall, with a wrap date in early 2014. The deal was handled by Fortissimo’s


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managing director, Nelleke Driessen, and Bruce Weiss, who Driessen produced Hartley’s early picture, Trust, and who will co-produce Ned Rifle along with Hartley and Myers. Matthew Myers

Hong Kong’s Donnie Yen Unveils Special Identity First-look footage of Hong Kong action-star Donnie Yen’s martialarts thriller Special Identity will make its market debut at Cannes this week, according to the film’s sales rep Easternlight. Directed by Clarence Fok, the film features Yen as a policeman increasingly alienated and imperiled when he goes undercover with a criminal gang whose paranoid leader begins purging his clan of possible moles. Yen also directed the film’s action and served as joint executive producer of the film alongside Peter Pau, the Oscar-winning cinematographer of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Russian Animators Team for Sheep and Wolves Two of Russia’s most successful animation producers are teaming up to make a new $7 million animated film. Wizart Animation, the Voronezh-based studio behind The Snow Queen — which is still rolling out internationally and has grossed $12.4 million in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltics and other territories — is joining St. Petersburg’s STV to produce Sheep and Wolves, a 3D cartoon caper involving a young wolf who wakes up one day to find he has turned into a sheep. Both films will also be produced in 2D versions.

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1982). Today, Timberlake and Foresight will co-host a brunch for foreign buyers to plug the film, followed later in the evening by a music-laced party. Timothy Scott Bogart, Neil Bogart’s son, wrote the script and is producing alongside Laurence Mark, Gary A. Randall, Timberlake and Damon. The film is set to start shooting early next year, although a director hasn’t yet been announced. RCA Records also will partner on the project and will release the movie’s soundtrack. CAA is representing domestic rights. Spinning is described as a rags-to-riches story chronicling the life of a poor kid from Brooklyn who went on to define the pop-music culture of his time. In his day, Bogart, was credited with discovering and launching the careers of superstars like Curtis Mayfield, KISS, Parliament, Donna Summer and The Village People. The deal was negotiated by Foresight president Tamara Birkemoe and Jenna Sanz-Agero on behalf of Foresight, and Michael Helfand, executive vp of business affairs, Joe Matukewicz, senior vp of acquisitions, and Jon Freedberg, Matukewicz vp of business development, on behalf of SPWA.

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“Admirably handled, with wicked moments of humor balancing out a truly dramatic finale”. (THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

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Calin Peter Netzer

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Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Ilinca Goia, Florin Zamfirescu, Vlad Ivanov

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„OH BOY inescapably brings to mind vintage Woody Allen.“ (THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

Saturday | May 18th | 6:00 p.m. Palais I

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Jan Ole Gerster

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Tom Schilling (THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX), Friederieke Kempter, Marc Hosemann, Katharina Schüttler, Justus von Dohnányi (DOWNFALL), Michael Gwisdek (GOOD BYE LENIN!)

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Starring Academy Award-nominee Liv Ullmann and Juliane Köhler (NOWHERE IN AFRICA).

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Georg Maas

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Juliane Köhler (NOWHERE IN AFRICA), Liv Ullmann, Ken Duken (INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS), Rainer Bock (THE WHITE RIBBON)

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“A real masterpiece” (filmstarts .de) “A smart, moving and very entertaining comedy that celebrates life” (DIE ZEIT)

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Marc Rothemund (SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS)

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Lisa Tomaschewsky, Karoline Teska, David Rott, Maike Bollow, Peter Prager, Alice Dwyer

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Based on Enid Blyton‘s beloved book series, 100mio. times sold worldwide.

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Mike Marzuk

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Valeria Eisenbart, Quirin Oettl, Justus Schlingensiepen, Neele Marie Nickel, Kristo Ferkic, Peter Lohmeyer, Oliver Korittke, Heio von Stetten

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THE PHYSICIAN Based on Noah Gordon’s best-selling novel sold over 21 million times worldwide. DIRECTOR

Philipp Stoelzl (NORTH FACE, YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE)

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Tom Payne (HBO’s LUCK), Sir Ben Kingsley (HUGO), Stellan Skarsgård (MAMMA MIA), Olivier Martinez (UNFAITHFUL, S.W.A.T), Emma Rigby FIRST OFFICIAL TRAILER

THE DEVIL’S VIOLINIST A mystery biopic about Paganini’s life full of dramatic love, art and excess. DIRECTOR

Bernard Rose (IMMORTAL BELOVED, MR. NICE, BOXING DAY)

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David Garrett, Jared Harris (SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS), Joely Richardson (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) NEW PROMO

LE GRAND CAHIER Based on Agota Kristof’s famous novel. DIRECTOR

János Szász (WOYZECK)

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Piroska Molnár, László Gyémánt, András Gyémánt, Ulrich Thomsen (THE CELEBRATION), Ulrich Matthes (DOWNFALL), Orsolya Tóth (WOMEN WITHOUT MEN) FIRST PROMO

THE TASTE OF APPLE SEEDS Based on the major bestselling novel sold to 25 countries including France, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands and Spain. DIRECTOR

Vivian Naefe

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Hannah Herzsprung (FOUR MINUTES), Paula Beer (THE POLL DIARIES), Meret Becker (MUNICH), Marie Bäumer (THE COUNTERFEITERS), Florian Stetter

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QUALITY TIME (WT) From the producers of VINCENT WANTS TO SEA and CHERRY BLOSSOMS - HANAMI. DIRECTOR

Holger Haase

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Florian David Fitz (VINCENT WANTS TO SEA), Henry Hübchen (GO FOR ZUCKER), Leslie Malton, Marius Haas, Thekla Reuten (THE AMERICAN) FIRST PROMO

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From Blow-out to Takeout: A Cannes Survival Guide

Everything a high-maintenance Hollywood-type needs for the marathon fest but doesn’t know how to ask for en francais

Dry Cleaning Pressing Moliere will pick up and has same-day service available. Prices range from €6 ($8) for a shirt to €20 ($26) for a gown, plus 30 percent for same-day service. Otherwise, the item will be ready by noon the next day. 8 rue Moliere, 04.93.99.08.68 Florist For an elegant thank-you for a helpful publicist, a single orchid from Black Card Fleuriste will run you about €30 ($40); bouquets start around €40 ($52), with a €5 ($7) delivery fee to hotels. 10 rue Jean de Riouffe, 04.93.39.27.22 Tailoring Line (pronounced Lee-na, the savvy seamstress’ name) Couture will arrange pickup and delivery and can handle next-morning or latenight emergencies. It’s open every day,

but prices are higher on Sundays and vary depending on scope of alteration. 17 boulevard de la Croisette, 04.93.68.93.77 Tech Support Fnac, an electronics chain throughout France owned by Kering (its CEO is Francois-Henri Pinault — that’s Mr. Salma Hayek to you), can help with Mac or PC emergencies. While you await your device’s diagnosis, hang out in the store’s cafe, which will have an exhibit on Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln throughout the festival and Cesarwinning composer Eric Serra in-house May 22. Open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.- 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. 83 rue d’Antibes, 08.25.02.00.20 Takeout You can get sushi or pizza delivered by motorbike, but anything better can be hard to come by. For a late-night Big Mac jones, call Couby’s Cafe. Open until midnight, it will pack up American-style burgers (and fries) for takeout. 3 boulevard de Lorraine, 04.93.30.03.37 American Coffee While Starbucks has invaded Paris and even opened in nearby Nice, Cannes remains free of Seattle’s siren. For a homey caffeine fix, either head to the American Pavilion or try the American-inspired

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Coffee & Cookies, which offers Frappuccino-style blended coffee drinks, smoothies, muffins and “not-toobad-for-France” bagels. Drinks starting at Starbucks prices, about €4 ($5). 2 square Merimee, 04.92.28.06.63 Yoga Need a chakra boost before your 9:30 sales meet or a Zen detox to restore your will to live? The Vinyasa Yoga Studio offers a full program of classes from power morning sessions to meditation relaxation designed to eliminate jet lag. One-hour private lessons are available at the studio between 3 and 5 p.m. daily for €80 ($105), or an instructor will come to your hotel room for €100 ($130) an hour. Call Cathy at least 24 hours in advance to arrange private sessions. Open Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m. 14 rue Buttura, 04.93.38.68.74 Gifts Looking for the perfect cadeaux to take home? Famed macaron maker and longtime goody-bag favorite during fashion week — even models love the colorful bite-sized cookies — Laduree opened an outpost in Cannes in the fall. Boxes start at €20 ($26), and you can pick your favorite flavors from the daily options. 79 rue d’Antibes, 04.93.38.05.06

Doctor Revel in the old-fashioned house call, still de rigueur across France: A GP comes to your door within an hour. Prices depend on diagnosis, but be prepared to pay about €75 ($98). Your medecin will give you a receipt to submit to your U.S.-based insurance. Cannes has a special area number: SOS Medecins Cannes Grasse et Region, 08.25.00.50.04 Quick Getaway It’s a snap to escape from the players and the wannabes, the Blackberrys, the deals, the 15-minute meetings and all the hustle and flow. Just hop a ferry for the 20-minute ride to St. Honorat Island (€14 round-trip; the first boat leaves at 8 a.m., the last one back is 6 p.m.) and experience the spiritual bliss the Cistercian monks have enjoyed here since AD 410. Pre-book for a weeklong post-festival retreat at the monastery itself or just go to spend a day decompressing — as long as your idea of decompressing doesn’t include nudism (forbidden) or loud noises (discouraged). St. Honorat is just under a mile long and a quarter mile wide so it’s easy to get around on foot. — RHONDA RICHFORD AND SCOTT ROXBOROUGH

Fresh off the Oscar-nominated Lincoln, Steven Spielberg returns to Cannes as the president of the competition jury, joined by this esteemed octet in anointing this year’s Palme d’Or winner

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Daniel Auteuil: The Grand Acteur With Gerard Depardieu now officially a Russian citizen, the position of 63-year-old Auteuil as the French industry’s go-to actor of a certain age (he’s sometimes called the Gallic Robert De Niro) is uncontested.

Nicole Kidman: The Star It looks like 2013 will be a busy year for Kidman, 45, with Oscar-bait performances playing Grace Kelly in Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco and alongside Colin Firth in WWII drama The Railway Man.

Vidya Balan: The Bollywood Heroine After acclaimed turns in features such as The Dirty Picture — she gained 26 pounds to play ’80s erotic actress Silk Smitha — Balan, 35, secured her position as a power player with her marriage in December to top Indian producer Siddharth Roy Kapur.

Lynne Ramsay: The Elusive Indie Queen Scottish filmmaker Ramsay’s 2011 competition title, We Need to Talk About Kevin, made several best-of lists. But Ramsay, 43, quit planned follow-up Jane Got a Gun on the eve of principal photography.

Ang Lee: The Golden Boy Taiwanese-American Lee, 58, with a directing Oscar under his belt for Life of Pi not to mention a $600 million-plus global gross, also is a poster boy for “grown-up” 3D — the format for this year’s opener, The Great Gatsby. Naomi Kawase: The Art-House Auteur Japanese director Kawase, 43, a 2007 Grand Prix winner for The Mourning Forest, brings art house cred. Her films are near-documentary examinations of uncomfortable subjects such as aging and death.

Cristian Mungiu: The Conscience An uncompromising filmmaker who favors realism with a social message, Mungiu, 45, launched Romania’s much-lauded new wave with his Palme d’Or-winning debut, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, in 2007. Christoph Waltz: The Returning Hero Since winning best actor in Cannes for Inglourious Basterds in 2009, for which he went on to win the first of his two Oscars, Waltz, 56, has smartly chosen roles that have kept him on the A-list with critics and fans. — S.R.


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RAMBLING REPORTER By Gary Baum & Merle Ginsberg Julie Pacino — daughter of Al — will take over hip club Le Baron to fete her shingle Poverty Row’s The First, a biopic about pioneering Hollywood star Mary Pickford. … On May 19, director Lee Daniels, currently in postproduction on The Butler, will return to the American Pavilion to host Queer Night for a second year. The philanthropically minded will head to the Creative Coalition’s dinner for Julian Lennon at Plage Vegaluna, or to the Art of Elysium event at the Chateau de la Napoule celebrating supporter Ahna O’Reilly, an actress whose Fruitvale Station and As I Lay Dying both are at the fest. (Her ex, Dying director James Franco, will co-host.) … Over the course of the festival, Britain’s Pinewood Studios will make repeated use of its 120-foot yacht, the promisingly named Wild Thyme, while blingy local dance club Gotha has booked the likes of Snoop Dogg to perform and Paris Hilton to DJ. … Although film premiere afterparties continue unchecked until the very end of Cannes, the last few days offer notable reprieves for good causes, including Prince Albert II’s Nights in Monaco gala May 22, as well as the traditional carousing denouement: amFAR’s Cinema Against AIDS event, at the Hotel du CapEden-Roc, where Shirley Bassey, Ellie Goulding and Duran Duran each will take the stage.

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If you’re at the Carlton, and you’ve snagged a table at Restaurant de la Plage, you’d better be sipping from a glass of rosé. Without, I’d submit, the table would seem rather naked, and the picture-postcard moment incomplete. Rosé wine is the lens through which one views the south of France, the ideal accompaniment to everything from an aperitif or an alfresco lunch to a moment of oceanside reverie from the terrace. Much of the pink wine for the region is grown and made southwest of Cannes, in appellations like the Cotes de Provence, Coteaux Varois, Palette and, most famously, Bandol. The best-known Provencal wine properties to Americans, Domaines Ott and Domaine Tempier, have been imported for decades, and Tempier has been a California icon of Mediterranean life for the better part of 50 years. As for Domaines Ott (several estates under a single “umbrella” winery), its distinctively shaped bottle and pale salmon hue is a summer afternoon fixture in ice buckets from Bel Air to Cap d’Antibes. If you want to impress at your business lunch on the Croisette, you can’t go wrong with either the Bandol or the Domaines Ott. Pricing can be wildly divergent: The same bottle that goes for 11 euros at the local Monoprix can be three times that at a typical Cannes restaurant. Both of these wines, like many of the rosés of Provence, tend to be paler than many of their French counterparts (such as in the more crimson Tavel

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rosés in the nearby Cotes du Rhône). Don’t let their peachskin pallor fool you. Most Provencal rosés contain a healthy proportion of mourvedre, a sturdy red variety that yields an equally stalwart pink wine, contributing its share of minerality and grip to the wine’s structure even as it lures you with its delicate red berry scent and succulent flavors. In addition to Domaines Ott and Tempier, there are a handful of Provencal rosés you can pick up in local wine shops: Seek out Saint André de Figuière, Domaine de Triennes, Chateau d’Esclans or Chateau Routas. Make sure they’re young (2011 or 2012 vintage) and ice cold. Because of their structure, Provencal rosés are quite versatile, too, pairing well with dishes from grilled fish and seafood to roast chicken. — PATRICK COMISKEY


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▲ Ross arrived in floral style at the 1973 festival.

A Concierge Spills Secrets Stephane Fanciulli, the Carlton’s concierge, is marking his 40th year at the hotel, which itself celebrates its centennial this year. THR checked in with him on the most elaborate — and outrageous — high-profile guest requests that he’s made come true. How far have you gone to fulfill a star’s demand? There was one who wanted to see a specific [athletic] race. Unfortunately, it wasn’t shown on a channel available here, so we helped him buy the television rights so he could watch them at the Carlton. What about during the festival itself? I remember we had to organize a party at a villa here for a star. The guest wanted to organize a dinner in a place just behind the hotel. As a guest, they asked us to provide all the staff and they wanted to have them dressed up as people from the 18th century. OK, enough with the anonymous dish. What about some juice on a name? I do remember when Diana Ross was at Cannes for the festival, I think in the 1970s, and she was also giving a concert. She asked to have all the walls and all the floors covered with pink carnations. So we brought in a florist. When she came back from the concert she was so surprised: Everything was covered in hundreds of flowers. And she also had asked me to find a Lincoln — a pink Lincoln. That was a very unusual car to find. We didn’t have one in Cannes, so I made an inquiry and we eventually found it in Geneva. They brought it here. We had to bring it all the way. — RHONDA RICHFORD

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In Roberto Cavalli

In Atelier Versace

In Vionnet at the 2010 premiere of Never Let Me Go.

In Lanvin at a 2013 Gatsby screening.

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amine, waif, boho, girly but not too — many words have been used to describe Carey Mulligan’s style since the actress burst onto the international film fashion scene with her Oscar-nominated turn in 2009’s An Education. But as the 27-year-old star’s hair color has morphed (to platinum), so has her style: During the latest round of Great Gatsby press, she’s been stripped of almost all makeup and even of color. There’s been a proliferation of sharp architectural looks, probably courtesy of her new stylist as of March — Ryan Hastings, who works with Rooney Mara and Robert Pattinson — and a newish rocker husband, Marcus Mumford. The safety-pinned Balenciaga she wore to the punkthemed Met Ball and the Lanvin spring 2013 tux she donned for a Gatsby screening were the height of minimalism. Mulligan’s previous stylists, the British Tina Lakonen and L.A.–based Samantha McMillen, regularly put her in unusual Pradas (like the lit-from-within metallic one she wore to the 2012 Met Ball) and wild avant-garde Vionnets. As her career ascends, Mulligan has hung up the scene-stealing fashionista looks, and a sleeker, modestlooking child-woman has emerged. What would Daisy Buchanan think? FRANCE VS. U.S:

Where Is It Cheaper? Fash Track conducted a survey of what certain eveningworthy items for your packed party schedule cost at home — and en France. The exchange rate of American bucks to euros is about 1 to 1.3, but one thing to remember: When you spend more than $250 in France, you get the 19 percent VAT tax credited back to your credit card, as long as you’re willing to go through the extensive paperwork required.

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Aside from Cannes juror Diane Kruger and Rust and Bone actress Marion Cotillard, the hottest style star to emerge out of Cannes 2011 and 2012 was no ingenue: It was 75-year-old Jane Fonda, who has attended Cannes for more than a dozen years as a L’Oreal ambassador. THR spoke with her stylist, Tanya Gill, who works with Hilary Swank and Olivia Munn and also is the producer of TLC’s Something Borrowed, about how she puts together her Cannes looks. “In 2011, I approached Pucci designer Peter Dundas about making a dress for Jane,” says Gill. “She looks better now than when she was 21 years old. And of course, it doesn’t hurt that she’s in love!” (Fonda has been dating music producer Richard Perry for more than three years.) At Cannes 2012, Roberto Cavalli sent Gill one-of-akind dresses for the star, who looked more va-va-voom than the 20-yearold models on the Cannes carpet. What will this year’s fest bring out in Fonda, who’s only in Cannes for the first few days, then jets back to New York to shoot This Is Where I Leave You? “We’ve had some things made,” says Gill. “You’ll be surprised. Everyone will.” Rinko Kikuchi

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retirement. Cinephiles have been bracing for Steven Soderbergh’s exit from filmmaking ever since he began talking in 2009 about retiring from creating movies. The 50-year-old director, who won the Palme d’Or with his first film, 1989’s sex, lies, and videotape, is taking an indefinite break from the big screen. (He instead will be focusing on episodic TV.) But he’s not ruling out more movies in the future. Before heading to Cannes, Soderbergh spoke with The Hollywood Reporter at his soon-to-be-vacated office in New York’s Flatiron district about the studios’ uninspired marketing campaigns, how he discovered a way into his new movie about master showman Liberace and how that film plays into the debate about marriage equality. So, are you really retiring? I’m sort of taking time off and just trying to determine whether I can come at movies from a different direction. That’s something I think I can’t really explore while undertaking another movie. I think I can explore that philosophically and contextually while making some television. I think I need to take an extended sabbatical from movies while I think about that. What kind of television will you tackle? I’ve got a couple things that I’m circling that I probably will land soon. The good news is that there are a lot of options, a lot of channels, a lot of outlets, a lot of models. This is a really good time to go make some interesting TV. The issue for me is going to be my completionist streak. I would want to do all of a first season. How did Behind the Candelabra come about? Did Michael Douglas break into a Liberace impression while filming Traffic? Well, that’s the first time I discussed the idea with him, and he did do a little impression, which I thought was excellent. I’d done some research on [Liberace] but wasn’t really happy with my ideas for how to do it. It took me six or seven years before a writer friend in New York, said, “Oh you don’t know about the book?” And I said, “Which book?” And he said this guy [Scott Thorson] wrote a book that I’d never heard of. So I got a copy of that. And then I found my way in. We were essentially following Scott. That sort of solved my problem of how to do Lee’s [Liberace’s nickname] life, which was basically using Scott as the Trojan horse to get into the problem about Lee. It gave me a definitive time period, and it gave me a structure because of the arc of the relationship. That was in 2007. Jerry [Weintraub] got the book. We hired Richard

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Retiring? Well, not exactly, as he talks Behind the Candelabra, and how some might be shocked to see ‘Jason Bourne on top of Gordon Gekko’ By Tatiana Siegel [LaGravenese, to write the screenplay]. It was developed originally at Warners, but they didn’t want to do it. At that point you took it to HBO? It was just happenstance that Jerry was finishing that documentary about himself, and he got into a conversation with HBO about this. They said, “This looks like a deal that’s gonna go. We’ll get back to you in a day.” They fully financed it. $22.8 million.

How did Matt Damon get involved? He was in Spain doing his cameo in Che, and I gave him the book. I can only imagine what was going through his mind five years later before we started shooting. But Matt doesn’t have anything to protect. That’s not how he makes his decisions. He makes his decisions based on whether he’s engaged by the piece or not. If it turns out to be something that’s really gonna push him as a performer, even better. And Michael, he was just fearless. They both are. The movie just doesn’t work if they don’t both literally join hands and jump off the cliff. It’s intimate stuff, even if it was a guy and a girl. But for a lot of people it’ll be hard to see Jason Bourne on top of Gordon Gekko. Do you see the film as making a statement about marriage equality? There’s certainly an undertow to the movie that comes from the knowledge that they could be married today, like Elton John.

How much contact did you have with Scott Thorson? Jerry talked to him. Just a couple conversations to deal with sorting the rights out. When you’re telling a true story, there’s certain cases You recently talked about what is wrong with the in which you really want people involved and film industry at the San Francisco Film Festival. certain cases where you feel like, “I don’t know I felt that I earned the right to weigh in that that’s going to help.” We had the book. on a process that I think can be improved I did talk to some people that worked with because as a filmmaker, from the minute Lee, and that was helpful, mostly to ask them that you propose an idea until after the film their impressions of Scott to see if they lined has come out, all anyone does to you is ask up to the impression that he gave of himself you, “Can it be better than this? What are you in the book or not. But in the same way that doing? What if you did this? What if you did I didn’t want Matt [Damon meeting with the that?” Also, every studio movie poster looks real] Mark Whitacre of The the same. If you look at the Informant!, I didn’t want him campaigns in the ’70s that VITAL STATS being pulled by who Scott were really striking, they Nationality American Thorson is now, 30 years later. were done by ad agencies, Born Jan. 14, 1963 Festival Entry Behind the Candelabra, I wanted him to be able to feel they weren’t done by the in competition, May 21 free to interpret it as he could. studios. If I ran a studio right Selected Filmography sex, lies, and videotape (1989), now, instead of spending Out of Sight (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), Traffic (2000), Ocean’s Eleven What was it about $30 million on P&A, I’d take (2001), Che (2008), Contagion (2001), Magic Mike (2012) Liberace that intrigued you? $10 million and go to the best Notable awards Palme d’Or, Cannes, For the life of me I don’t ad agency on the planet and sex, lies, and videotape (1989); Spirit Award, best director, sex, lies know why I was standsay you’ve got $10 million. Do and videotape (1990); Academy Award, best director, Traffic (2001) ing on the set of Traffic in something provocative. Do Cincinnati, Ohio, and I something distinctive. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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looked over at Michael and asked him if he would ever consider playing Liberace. I really don’t know where this came from. I’m old enough to have seen him on TV at my parents’ place, and found him very entertaining. I was kind of intrigued by the incredible technical skill being masked by this flamboyant persona. Underneath this performer who was all about entertaining his audience and giving them a good time was actually a concert-level skilled keyboardist. It’s kind of like if LeBron James decided to play for the Harlem Globetrotters. There really wasn’t anybody like him. And there are a lot of people now that owe him a real debt because of how he presented himself. This guy invented bling. He loved performing.

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SPECIAL FEATURE

The format still is going strong (after all, even Hansel and Gretel did well), but shifting demographics and shrinking percentages suggest the honeymoon might be over TOP 3D TITLES SO FAR IN 2013

Iron 258 Man 3 DOMESTIC 1297 $284.9M (30%) 2536 FOREIGN 9004 $664.1M (70%) 22411 TOTAL 35792 45545

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The Croods

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$230M (47.2%)

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2012 3D boxoffice revenue $503.8M

Percentage of total box office 28.7%



Number of 3D screens 1,564

Percentage of digital screens 44.2%





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WHY I MOVED TO CHINA

An American expat discusses his experience setting up his own effects shop in Beijing seven years ago

Korona World

by Christopher Bremble

Billed as Japan’s first “full-body, fullimmersive” movie theater, Korona World features 4DX technology, developed by CJ Group in South Korea, which adds moving seats, squirting water and a system capable of emitting “1,000 unique scents” to the 3D experience. Iron Man 3 was the first movie screened in the cinema, which plans to screen 12 titles a year using the new format.

I first arrived in China in August 2002. We landed at midnight in Haikou, on Hainan Island, to oppressive heat and humidity. The boom-and-bust cycle of the past years had created a landscape of unfinished buildings. It felt — to this boy from Bucks County, Pa. — like a war zone. Then my interpreter broke the spell by asking, “Do you know Brad Pitt?” The following morning, I woke in my hotel and opened the blinds to see a building across the street being torn down by 150 workers with sledgehammers. They were knocking down all seven floors at the same time. The energy and chaos reminded me of the indie film business. I thought to myself, “You could make movies here.” When I first came to China, there were a small number of filmmakers — mostly from Hong Kong — but there wasn’t a huge theatergoing audience. Now, when I go past a theater, there is always a line. It doesn’t matter what’s on; the cinemas are always full. What’s shocking is, this theater boom hasn’t even reached the second- and third-tier cities — they are

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2012 3D boxoffice revenue $1.76B


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still building in the first tier. And half the population isn’t urbanized yet. The growth potential is astounding. But at the same time, I am seeing signs of a bubble in the Chinese film industry. We used to have maybe 100 Chinese films made a year; now it’s more like 700, mostly low-budget comedies. It’s hard to get talent. Margins are razor-thin. The Chinese have even started to make movies in Thailand to save money — see last year’s huge hit Lost in Thailand. But it wasn’t the promise of China’s billion-plus “consumers” that brought me here or keeps me in China; it was the passion and hope of a younger generation that wants to be relevant, yearns to be successful and, more than anything, has a hunger to participate in creating media for the world. Christopher Bremble is CEO of Base FX, Asia’s leading visual effects studio. Base has won two Emmys (for The Pacific and Boardwalk Empire) and has more than 20 U.S. theatrical film credits including G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Super 8 and Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol. In 2012, the studio signed a strategic alliance agreement with Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic.

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For those who prefer 3D thrills in a more civilized setting, there’s Germany’s most luxurious 3D cinema, part of a growing trend toward high-end movie watching in Europe. Astor Film Lounge aims to make every film feel like

a red-carpet premiere: Guests are greeted with champagne cocktails, and a three-course meal is brought directly to them in their plush, go-all-the-way-back leather seats.

comfort. Producer Jon Landau was noticeably impressed with the venue when he visited for a special screening of Titanic 3D in 2012.

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Britain’s Secret Cinema organizes immersive urban events around screenings. In 2012, it transformed a vast abandoned warehouse into a spacecraft for a 3D screening of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Radiohead created a soundtrack specifically for the event. Organizers have since added a dining element to the Secret Cinema experience, designing restaurants based around a film’s setting and characters. After becoming wildly successful in the U.K., Secret Cinema is set to arrive in New York by year’s end.

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Located in the Ambience shopping mall in upscale south Delhi, this state-of-the-art 3D cinema is a cut above anything else on the subcontinent. It starts with the marbled lobby, the walls of which are adorned with signed portraits of directors ranging from Martin Scorsese to the late Bollywood legend Yash Chopra. Patrons are greeted with a welcome fruit juice and a warm face towel to freshen up. Other perks include a complimentary blanket and an extra cushion for

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India’s PVR cinema (left) offers fruit juice and warm towels; London’s Secret Cinema turned a screening venue into a spaceship for Prometheus.


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JAPAN’S AGING MOVIEGOER PROBLEM

A quarter of its population is over 65 and it slid to second place after China in foreign box office, but the industry is battling back by courting seniors with discounts and movies about ‘death instead of sex’ BY GAVIN J. BLAIR Illustration by KYLE HILTON

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APAN IS ALREADY THE MOST AGED

society that mankind has ever seen — and it’s getting older. Almost a quarter of its 127 million citizens are over 65, a percentage that is set to nearly double in the coming decades. With a birthrate of only 1.39 children per woman — one of the world’s lowest — no significant immigration, and an average life expectancy of nearly 84 years, the graying trend looks unstoppable. (Germany and Italy have the oldest citizenry on earth, and though China is far down the list, its demographics will skew older than Japan’s in the next 20 years, thanks to the one-child-per-couple policy begun in 1979.) How Japan’s entertainment industry copes with this seismic shift should provide lessons and solutions for other countries to learn from. At first glance, the demographic statistics do not make happy reading for many Japanese business sectors besides elder care and pharmaceuticals. And yet all is not doom and gloom. Japan’s seniors famously are THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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healthy and active and have a huge pool of savings. The Government Pension Investment Fund, the largest in the world, alone has assets of $1.12 trillion (¥111 trillion), making it larger than the economies of Canada or Spain. Total household assets weigh in at a whopping $16 trillion (¥1,547 trillion), with much of it in the hands of the older population that saved hard during Japan’s boom years. That generation grew up during the golden years of Japanese cinema, when moviegoing was an integral leisure activity. And the industry already is registering some success in tempting them back to theaters. “The generation that is now around retirement age is made up of people who went to the movies five times or more a year when they were young but were often too busy working to go while in their 30s and 40s. They now have the time and money to go and see films,” says Kazuya Hamana, president of TBS Pictures, the movie production unit of Japan’s TBS TV. Since 2009, three film industry groups — the movie producers association, the distributors of foreign films and theater owners — have been running an “Eigakan ni Ikou” (Let’s Go to the Movies) campaign, offering a $10 (¥1,000) price for couples aged 50 and over, on top of the regular discounts for those 60 and over. Standard adult admission price in Japan is $18 (¥1,800). “Discounted screenings of remastered classic foreign films at 10 a.m. on weekday mornings have been a big success in getting that generation back into cinemas,” says Hamana. “Another way that theaters are appealing to the senior market is through digital screenings of live concerts, opera as well as traditional Japanese entertainment such as Kabuki. Though this is really at the trial-and-error stage now.” Meanwhile, Hollywood faces a double challenge in appealing to younger movie audiences: There are fewer of them, and they have become distinctly more parochial in their taste in recent years. The number of children in Japan has been falling for more than 30 years, with under 15s now making up a record low of less than 13 percent of the overall population, which has begun to shrink. Mirroring a decline in sales for foreign music and interest in the world beyond Japan’s shores in general,

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CAN JAPAN’S MOST EXPENSIVE CG FILM EVER WORK ABROAD?

The animated Space Pirate Captain Harlock has plans to conquer the world by Gavin J. Blair With an ambitious 3D CG motioncapture reimagining of Leiji Matsumoto’s seminal manga and anime series Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Toei Animation is aiming to break the genre out of its fanboy base and onto the global stage. Directed by Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed) from a screenplay by Harutoshi Fukui (Gundam) and with CGI from Sega-Sammy subsidiary Marza, the $30 million Harlock is the costliest project in Toei’s history, 10 times pricier than an average Japanese anime feature. “With the population in Japan beginning to shrink, the entertainment industry has no choice but to aim at the global market,” says Toei’s Joseph Chou. “And with the budget on this project, we have no choice but to take it overseas.” “The film was built to be in stereoscopic 3D from the beginning, and

that’s expensive, though there will be a 2D version released, too,” explains executive producer Yoshi Ikezawa. Futuristic Captain Harlock first appeared in a manga story by Leiji Matsumoto in 1953, and became the star of his own manga stories a quarter century later. Soon after came a TV anime series and a 1982 animated feature, Arcadia of My Youth. Iconic in Japan, Harlock is celebrated in Europe, particularly France, which honored Matsumoto with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres award in October for the buccaneer’s influence on French popular culture. But no manga or anime adaptation has been a hit globally. Harlock producer Chou, who has worked with many Japanese properties in Hollywood, says the cultural gap has been close to unbridgeable. Nonetheless, Korea-born Chou, who worked

imported films accounted for only 34.3 percent of 2012 box-office takings, the lowest proportion since 1965. “The moviegoing rate in Japan averages to about 1.2 a year, but actually older people go to see Hollywood films more. Younger people are even less interested in imported movies,” says Yosuke Horiuchi of Toho-Towa, the Toho subsidiary that has been distributing foreign fare in Japan for more than 80 years. Horiuchi notes that youth-oriented titles such as The Hunger Games or Twilight failed to replicate their global success in Japan, while Les Miserables, with its appeal to older audiences, did disproportionately well. The demand for heartwarming dramas is up, says Gaga head of acquisitions Satomi Odake, citing Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet as a film that resonates with oldsters. Since its Japanese release April 19, it has performed strongly on weekdays, a sign it’s doing well with retirees. “Foreign comedies and horror aren’t selling anymore, and the young people those genres should be popular with don’t seem to watch them at theaters anymore,” says Odake. The only significant comedy import success recently was Ted, which appealed to the particularly Japanese love of all things cute. The domestic industry, having captured a growing share of Japan’s $2 billion (¥200 billion) annual box office in recent years, hasn’t yet been forced to fully face the changing demographics of the market. “A lot of Japanese films are based on existing properties, particularly manga, and most of those are going to be watched almost exclusively by young people,” says Osamu Kubota, producer of The Floating Castle (Nobu no Shiro). Manga is the wildly popular Japanese comicbook genre that has a broad appeal to young people.

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on Warner Bros. The Matrix spinoff animation project The Animatrix, aims to continue trying to cross that chasm with Ikezawa and Toei. It hasn’t been easy. “The motion capture and face capture used in the production represents a merger of anime and live action,” says Chou. “It’s something of a new genre, and we inevitably faced some resistance because of that.” Chou and Ikezawa plan to use Harlock to create a business model with distinctly Japanese-flavored animation features that can thrive in the global marketplace. The Japanese government has begun to put significant money

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Kubota says Japan’s film sector would be wise to make movies with adult themes and subject matter. “Some people assume that films have to be about serious topics or human dramas to do well with older audiences, but that’s not true. Of course, they can’t be childish, but that generation also enjoys entertainment movies,” he adds. According to TBS’ Hamana, the industry is thinking about how to produce more films for older audiences, but “inevitably, short-term box-office results are still the focus from a business perspective.” Released in mid-April, The Great Passage (Fune o Amu), a Japanese production, has managed to succeed across a wide age range at the box office through the combination of a young cast and director but with a decidedly adultoriented storyline about a dictionary compiler. While elder audiences might want to get nostalgic about their youth through films, they don’t want to watch productions that obviously have targeted “old people,” according to Yuko Shiomaki, producer and head of Pictures Dept. The change in Japan’s “show business ecosystem” (as Shiomaki puts it) already is visible, with more older, married actors onscreen along with shifting themes, according to Fuji TV’s Taka Hayakawa, producer on the Japan in a Day project with Ridley Scott. Producers are now open to dealing with topics such as “death instead of sex, resilience instead of strength and diversity instead of simplicity,” suggests Hayakawa. Adds Toho-Towa’s Horiuchi: “There’s going to be a tendency to rely more on good old bankable Hollywood stars such as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp. But they’re not getting any younger either.”

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Another manga adaptation, this one a comedy about an ancient Roman transported to a Japanese hot spring bath. 3 Bayside Shakedown 4 — The Final $59.7M Billed as the last in the hugely successful series of cop caper big-screen spinoffs from Fuji TV’s drama. 4 Mission: Impossible —

Ghost Protocol $53.8M

The lone imported movie in the top five, with the only Hollywood star who is still a major draw in Japan. 5 Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo $53M

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behind its calls for an increase in “soft power” cultural exports to replace formerly dominant, now-struggling manufacturing industries. Harlock has secured financial support to woo bigname voice actors to help the production in overseas markets. Japanese A-lister Shun Oguri will voice Harlock, and notable English voice talents are in negotations with Toei. Harlock will target the U.S. market, possibly launching at ComicCon, though no release date is set. The posters boast a quote from James Cameron, who’s seen footage. “We want to make this work in America and Asia, but on our terms.”

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PONY CANYON 201 Midsummer 's Equation ＜真夏の方程式＞ a.k.a MIDSUMMER FORMULA Directed by Hiroshi Nishitani

Footage Screening: Thu, May 16, 5:30pm /Sat, May 18, 5:30pm

Cast :

Masaharu Fukuyama ("SUSPECT X", "Amalfi"), Yuriko Yoshitaka

Release date :

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Official Website :

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A “Galileo” series turn to be another feature film to follow a great success of "SUSPECT X”(2008). A good looking highly intelligent physics professor solves a perfect crime!

The After-Dinner Mysteries ＜謎解きはディナーのあとで＞ a.k.a A CLUE IS AFTER DINNER

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Directed by Masato Hijikata　 Cast :

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Official Website :

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A millionaire lady police officer has lack of clue of suspect while her butler serves a perfect dinner and reasoning saying "where on the earth are your eyes, madam?"

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Directed by Koki Mitani ("Suite Dreams", "Magic Hour", "A Ghost of a Chance") Koji Yakusho, Yo Oizumi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Koichi Sato, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tadanobu Asano, Susumu Terashima, Denden, Kenichi Matsuyama

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Yusuke Iseya, Kyoka Suzuki, Miki Nakatani, Ayame Goriki, Minosuke Bandou, Kenji Anan Shinpei Ichikawa, Shota Sometani, Eisuke Sasai, Keiko Toda, Zen Kajiwara, Catherine Seto Yoshimasa Kondo, Kazuyuki Asano, Kankuro Nakamura, Yuki Amami, Toshiyuki Nishida

Release date :

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After big boss Nobunaga was killed at Honnoji, all clans gathered to find who will be the next to lead the Sengoku(the age of civil wars) without blood fighting.

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Director Takashi Miike (”Thirteen Assassins“, “Hara-Kiri”, “Shield of Straw”) Cast :

Toma Ikuta

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2014

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Story moves every 5 minutes in unpredictable undercover comedy?! An outageous, handsome, horny but righteous police officer under-covers Yakuza society!!

THERMAE ROMAE II* ＜テルマエ・ロマエパートII＞

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Directed by Hideki Takeuchi　 Cast :

Hiroshi Abe, Aya Ueto

Release date :

Spring 2014

Official Website :

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A sequel of 75 million dollars big hit comedy. A roman spa architect transform in time to today's Japanese natural hot springs resort.

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2013 Spring Lineup KIDS POLICE ＜コドモ警察＞ Directed by Yuichi Fukuda

Screening: Thu, May 16, 10am / Sat, May 18, 10am

Cast :

Fuku Suzuki, Ryo Katsuji, Yo Marius(Sexy Zone)

Release date :

March 20, 2013

Official Website :

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Running Time:

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A finest Special Investigation Detective team poisoned by Red Venus crime group, which make 8 veteran agents looks all kids.

Maruyama, the Middle Schooler　＜中学生円山＞ Directed by Kankuro Kudo

Screening: Fri, May 17, 10am / Sun, May 19, 10am

Cast :

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi ("BEAUTIFUL WORLD"), Takuma Hiraoka

Release date :

May 18, 2013

Official Website :

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Running Time:

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Staying 14 forever is better than being a brain-dead adult! A forever fantasy of mid teen boys, totally visualized by wiz writer/director Kankuro Kudo at suburb apartment district in nowhere Japan.

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Orpheus' Lyre ＜桜、ふたたびの加奈子＞ Directed by Minoru Kurimura

Screening: Fri, May 17, 12:30 / Sun, May 19, 12:30

Cast :

Ryoko Hirosue ("Villon's Wife", "Departure"), Goro Inagaki

Release date :

April 6, 2013

Official Website :

http://sakura-kanako.jp/

Running Time:

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After losing her young daughter, Yoko (Ryoko Hirosue) believes there must be her daughter's reincarnation nearby.

Do You Know What My Name Is? Documentary

Screening: Fri, May 17, 3pm / Sun, May 19, 3pm

Directed by Naomi Kazama, Shigeru Ota Official Website :

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“For a year now, asking this question has been my daily task. The people that I ask though, are those who have three times the life experience that I do.” Without medicines nor surgery, Kumon drill program countracts Alzheimer’s desease. ☆American Documentary Film Festival / Audience Favorite Award ☆Cleveland International Film Festival

The God Of Ramen ＜ラーメンより大切なもの＞ Documentary Directed by Takashi Innami Cast :

Shosuke Tanihara (Narration)

Release date :

June 8, 2013

Official Website :

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Running Time :

90 minutes

Screening: Thu, May 16, 12:30 / Sat, May 18, 12:30

Legendary Kazuo Yamagishi is known as "The God of Ramen" in Higashi Ikebukuro, Tokyo. For more than 45 years, there was always two-hour wait line to partake his Ramen noodle, but he says "There is more important thing than just Ramen."

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