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Journalists Abandon Johnny Depp Junket in San Sebastian as Row Over Press Access Escalates
A group of journalists at the San Sebastian Film Festival abandoned a junket for the Johnny Depp film 'Modi' over access and timing issues
Understandably, Depp was the star attraction and the individual everyone wanted to speak to, but according to Italian freelancer writer Marco Consoli the group was offered a roundtable with the actor, plus his co-stars Riccardo Scamarcio and Antonia Desalt, with an allocation of just 15 minutes for each of two tables of six journalists. The other journalists involved were Kristina Kudelova, Gill Pringle, Dubravka Lakic, Ali Moosavi, José Paiva Capucho, James Mottram, Elaine Guerini, Yuko Takano, Gabriela Bravo, Andrey Plakhov, and Carlos Helì de Almeida. The junket situation in San Sebastian comes on the heels of a fallout at the Venice Film Festival, where a number of international journalists signed an open letter decrying to lack of access to major talent, warning that cinema journalism was “at risk of extinction” if studios and publicists continued to shut them out.
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