Monday, May 20, 2013

Cannes: where celebrity sells and celebrities sell

Jury member actress Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban arrive for the screening of the film "Inside Llewyn Davis" in competition during the 66th Cannes Film Festival By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) - Film stars come to Cannes to promote themselves and their projects - so where better to launch a wry documentary bemoaning the seeming dominance of celebrity pulling-power over content? With parties, pitching and paparazzi already in overdrive at the world's premier movie market, director James Toback on Sunday showed "Seduced and Abandoned", the story of how he and actor Alec Baldwin talked to directors, investors and studio heads at Cannes last year to seek funding for a film with no A-list star. ...








via Movies News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/cannes-where-celebrity-sells-celebrities-sell-213452820.html

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