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Will Cannes Rebound After Hollywood Strikes Overshadowed Last Year’s Market?
Hollywood strikes overshadowed last year's Cannes Film Festival. Can films from Paul Schrader, Ali Abbasi and Francis Ford Coppola spark bidding wars?
“It’s a period of confusion,” admits Glenn Kendrick Ackermann, a sales agent who is at Cannes looking for buyers for the Peter Facinelli-Charlotte Radford supernatural drama “Can You Hear Me?” “Theatrical admissions are down, and people aren’t going back to cinemas in droves. Paul Schrader secured one of the biggest young stars in the world right now — Jacob Elordi — alongside veteran Richard Gere in this adaptation of Russell Banks’ novel “Foregone.” Sounds like prestige awards season material for the right buyer. Celebrated auteur Kirill Serebrennikov’s offers a timely English-language adaptation of Emmanuel Carrère’s fictionalized biography of radical Russian poet and political dissident Eduard Limonov, played by Ben Whishaw.
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