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Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," a 1920s-set mystery thriller starring Angelina Jolie, will be part of the competition lineup at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. "Changeling," which Universal will release domestically in November, also stars John Malkovich, Amy Ryan and Colm Feore. Pic will be Eastwood's fifth to compete in Cannes, after "Pale Rider," "White Hunter, Black Heart," "Bird" and "Mystic River."
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Universal release of a Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment
presentation in association with Relativity Media of a Malpaso
production. Produced by Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Robert
Lorenz. Executive producers, Tim Moore, Jim Whitaker.
Directed by Clint Eastwood. Screenplay, J. Michael Straczynski.
Christine Collins - Angelina Jolie
Rev. Gustav Briegleb - John Malkovich
Capt. J.J. Jones - Jeffrey Donovan
Det. Lester Ybarra - Michael Kelly
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - A grim Brazilian drama about society's descent into anarchy launched the Cannes film festival on Wednesday, and politics dominated the opening news conference held by jury president Sean Penn.
"Blindness," starring Julianne Moore, marked a somber start to 12 days of movies, publicity stunts and late-night revelry in the Riviera town, which prides itself on embracing weighty cinema as well as rolling out the red carpet for Hollywood royalty. |
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The Festival de Cannes is the
most important film event in the world, with more than 4,000 journalists
among the 30,000 accreditees, representing the entire spectrum of the
motion-picture industry.
The Festival de Cannes reflects the dual nature of cinema at the
crossroads of art and industry, and favours both cinema revelations and
professional encounters. For if the Festival principally evokes the
surprise of the Selection and the expectation of the final awards, it
is equally the privileged rendezvous of all motion-picture industry
professionals who attend its Marché du Film.
The Festival, moreover, develops actions in support of cinematic
creation throughout the world. Twenty years after having created the
Caméra d'Or, the prize awarded to the best first film, all selections
combined, the Festival created in 1998 the Cinéfondation to accompany
young filmmakers along the various stages of their creative careers,
from their projects to the making of their films.
The role of the Festival de Cannes has thus grown rich over the course
of the years to the rhythm of the evolution of cinema itself: selecting
and promoting films and artists, welcoming professionals, implementing
new sets of dynamics in support of creation... in a word, serving the
cinema in all its dimensions.
