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Seeing is believing

A few TV and movie news today.

Ain’t It Cool News posted a few poster pics for upcoming movie/sequels from the Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas, including a preview poster for the various Avenger movies:

There are also a bunch of other posters:


Check out the other ones over here.

AICN also tells us as well that Park Chan Wook’s Thirst (from Oldboy fame, and now Cannes fame) will be released in the U.S. by Focus Features on July 31st!
Go check that movie out.

Regarding TV news, it’s more like casting news.
Not that much people care now, but Heroes has added The Nanny/Californication‘s Madeline Zima as a college roommate for the show’s fourth season.
College?
Our little Claire is growing up so fast!

Also, Equilibrium/Sphere/Law Abiding Citizen‘s Kurt Wimmer has been tapped as the writer for the Total Recall remake.
I’m eager to see what we’ll have.

And last but (as usual) not least, Jean-Pierre Jeunet has been announced as the Deauville jury head. The full program for this year’s festival will be unveiled July 21.

New Beginnings

Important Things with Demetri Martin has been renewed for a second season.
A shame I missed him in Cannes (he was there to promote Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock).

Conan O’Brien’s first Tonight Show debuted strongly (ratings-wise).
I especially loved the cold open for the show.

Javier Barden meanwhile is joining Michael Douglas and Shia LaBoeuf for Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps which should premiere around Feb. 2010.

Also, as some of you may know, Universal and Illumination Entertainment are moving on a Where’s Waldo? live-action family movie.
Yup, really.

In and Out of Cannes

Long time no post!
Cannes took all my time, sorry about that peeps.

Anyway, lots of news while I was gone, not the least of which were the Upfronts.

Although the various picks weren’t that surprising (save for a few), the various schedules on the other hand are mind-boggling.
I’ll talk more about that another day (and the trailers for the new show).

In the meantime, since I just exited Cannes, let’s see this year’s winners:

Palme d’Or
The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke

Grand Prix
A Prophet by Jacques Audiard

Best Director
Brillante Mendoza for Kinatay

Jury prize
Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold and Thirst by Park Chan-wook

Best Actor
Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress
Charlotte Gainsbourg for Antichrist

Best Screenplay
Mei Feng for Spring Fever

Clearly Isabelle “Dominatrix” Huppert ruled the jury when she decided to give Haneke (her director in La Pianiste) the Palme d’Or.
Again, very happy for Christoph Waltz, he totally deserved the prize.
Happy too for Gainsbourg, although I would have preferred Vincere‘s Giovanna Mezzogiorno.

Unfortunately I don’t have time right now, but I shall also talk more about my Cannes experience and the movies I saw (including Parnassus, Agora, and of course Inglourious Basterds) another day.