Innholdsfortegnelse for May 10, 2017 i The Hollywood Reporter

The cable crisis is enduring its most harrowing year to date, as a record 500,000 pay TV subscribers cut the proverbial cord in the first three months of 2017. News of the acceleration coincided with Hulu launching live TV streaming and a humbled ESPN laying off on-air talent, prompting industry analysts SNL Kagan to recalibrate projected 2017 losses. But experts don’t anticipate an immediate response from providers. That’s because Comcast, which accounts for more than a fifth of the entire market, added 32,000 new subscriptions in Q1, providing a glimmer of hope. “If we see Comcast have the same sort of struggles, there will be a more pronounced reaction,” says Ian Olgeirson, research director at S&P Global Market Intelligence. “Only then will you see more emphasis on the skinny bundle…

Big Deal New novelist Bill Clinton may soon be branching into movies as well. The former president and his collaborator, bestselling author James Patterson, already are eyeing a film adaptation of their novel The President Is Missing, out June 2018. Big film buffs, the pair have retained CAA’s Richard Lovett to handle the rights and plan to meet with potential filmmakers, likely in California, in late May. Clinton and Patterson also are planning to tour together to promote the book, which in a unique arrangement will be published jointly by their respective longtime publishers, Alfred A. Knopf and Little, Brown and Co. Plot details are scarce, but a May 8 statement announcing the book promised “insider details that only a president can know.” Added the 42nd POTUS, “Drawing on what…

W hat does Hollywood female empowerment look like? One variation: a black-tie affair at Chateau Marmont’s Penthouse 64, with glam decor courtesy of A-list florist Jeff Leatham. On May 3, Christine Chiu, wife of Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Gabriel Chiu, brought to a select group of insiders — including Aaron Sorkin’s ex-wife Julia Sorkin and Brooke Burke — a program intended to delight and enlighten. The night delivered shocks and thrills, from seminars that discussed how successful women may enjoy degrading sex to a performance by burlesque artist Dita Von Teese. Guest Sarah Magness, a producer of Precious, describes the evening: At 7:15, I enter Penthouse 64, turned out to look like a mini NYC gala, with the outdoor table filled with thousands of red roses. “Ring for Sex” bells stand…

Party Crawler Hollywood’s Top Lawyers Honored “This is like running for high school president,” speaker Casey Wasserman (4) joked about spearheading L.A.’s effort to host the 2024 Olympic Games while speaking to a group of showbiz’s top attorneys at The Hollywood Reporter’s 11th annual Power Lawyers event, sponsored by City National Bank and Ermenegildo Zegna — but he likes the city’s odds anyway. “If the mayor calls and asks you to do something for nothing, hang up the phone,” he quipped. The CEO of the eponymous L.A.-based sports agency, Wasserman, who keynoted the Spago breakfast, was interviewed by THR editorial director Matthew Belloni. Belloni also asked the attorneys in the room — all on THR’s 2017 Power Lawyers list of the top industry attorneys, including Nina Shaw (7), Joseph Mannis…

Studio Chiefs Toast Sherry Lansing Five years ago, over lunch at the Polo Lounge, Sherry Lansing (8) told THR’s Stephen Galloway (8) her life story, and he couldn’t contain his excitement. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, I want to write that story.’ In a moment of weakness, she said yes,” Galloway recalled on the 34th floor of the ICM Partners building during a cocktail reception to fete his Crown Archetype book, Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker. Guests including ICM co-hosts Chris Silbermann (8) and Toni Howard (7), THR editor Matthew Belloni (8) and studio chiefs Ron Meyer, Stacey Snider, Tom Rothman, Michael Burns and Dana Walden (9) looked equally pleased to help Lansing toast the tome. Some were asked whether they might write a…

RÉSUMÉ CURRENT TITLE VP, Beijing Weying Technology PREVIOUS JOB Head of marketing, Google China; China business director, 20th Century Fox BIG HIT Importing Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith to China for Fox. With $9.1 million, it was the No. 2 import of 2005, trailing only Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Nonexistent just five years ago, China’s emergent mobile-ticketing platforms have been embraced by the country’s digitally driven youth, drastically remaking the way movies are marketed and consumed in the world’s secondlargest entertainment market. Luke Xiang, 45, is the vp and international face of Weying, whose Wepiao ticketing service ranks among China’s top three — along with Maoyan and Alibaba’s Tao Piao Piao — accounting for an estimated 20 percent to 35 percent of all movie,…

As Santa Barbara County continues to struggle with drought (downgraded from “severe” to “moderate” thanks to recent rains), a water war is breaking out in star-packed Montecito. The fight centers on the proliferation of private wells over the past few years in the 9-square-mile hillside neighborhood, where permits have been issued for residences owned by Friends creator David Crane and producer Dick Wolf. But it’s the area’s largest landowner, Oprah Winfrey, who is causing the most controversy. Last year she spent $28.85 million for Seamair Farm, a 23-acre estate that borders Winfrey’s main residence, a 42-acre spread she named the Promised Land, which she acquired in 2001 for about $50 million. Images of the Promised Land show luscious landscaping with an array of rose gardens, towering trees and an expansive…

NIGHT Formal A rapidly changing career trajectory is bringing Canadian-born producer Frank Murray, 40, to the Cannes Film Festival for the first time. With his association with Christine Vachon’s Killer Films, he just wrapped Paul Schrader’s First Reformed and oversaw production of Cannes entry Wonderstruck, a period drama directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams that will be screened in the main competition. Murray also is heading to the fest to meet with potential partners, including Londonbased The Ink Factory, which produced AMC’s The Night Manager. But amid the industry veterans and jostle of celebrities vying for attention off of the fabled French Riviera, no newcomer would want to miss the subtle style cues that are as important as any business proposition. “Fashion-wise, I go over…

At a quick glance, it’s hard to spot the common thread between Jessica Chastain and Isabelle Huppert. “Other than we both have red hair,” says Huppert with a laugh. The two actresses, the former hailing from the Bay Area and the latter from Paris’ 16th arrondissement, first met in Paris six years ago following Chastain’s Cannes debut in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. They went on to appear together as mother and daughter in the Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby trilogy, with the installment Them making its world premiere at the Palais in 2014. With Cannes celebrating its 70th anniversary, between the two, they’ve attended nearly half the fests (Huppert has more than 30 Palais appearances to her credit). This year, both will be on hand — Chastain, 40, as…

The 1953 photos of Kirk Douglas and Brigitte Bardot frolicking on the beach — semi-spontaneous, semi-staged — captured the combination of American masculinity and European sexiness that defined post-World War II cinema and were seen around the world. Despite his obvious affection for Bardot, Douglas, then 36, was falling in love with Anne Buydens, then 34, who had just joined Cannes as the head of protocol. In this excerpt from their new joint memoir, Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood, the pair, who married in 1954, recall meeting in Paris in early 1953 and their time together at Cannes that year. ANNE My friend Anatole Litvak, the director of Act of Love, convinced me to meet with Kirk, who was anxious to hire a…

BASED ON A TRUE STORY Roman Polanski’s latest stars Eva Green (who should be a great match for the director) as well as Polanski’s wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Vincent Perez in a story of an author and an obsessive fan. THE BEGUILED I’m intensely curious as to what Sofia Coppola will do to presumably adjust the focus of this rooster-ina- henhouse story from the male perspective in the 1971 original with Clint Eastwood. HAPPY END Director Michael Haneke (Amour) almost always delivers in a major way, and there’s no missing a film with a cast led by Isabelle Huppert and Jean-Louis Trintignant. LOVELESS Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan (2014) is one of the great films to have debuted at Cannes this decade, so this family drama from the maverick Russian director is…

1 THE EXPENDABLES 2, 2012 (Global box office: $315 million) Simon West took over the directing reins as the gang of elder mercenaries set out to avenge the death of one of their own, and the cast grows ever bigger as Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris and new kid on the block Liam Hemsworth join in the fun. 2 THE EXPENDABLES, 2010 (Global box office: $274.5 million) Sylvester Stallone directed this Lionsgate release about elite mercenaries, played by aging action stars including Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren. 3 THE EXPENDABLES 3, 2014 (Global box office: $214.7 million) Retirement isn’t in the cards for the senior hombres, who face off against Mel Gibson, playing the Expendables co-founder who has gone to the dark side and become an…

Labor Next Up: Actors What SAG-AFTRA can learn from the writers deal p. 26 Digital NewFronts News 5 questions from the annual ad scrum p. 28 Jordan Levin The TV veteran and NFL Network exec leaves to run AwesomenessTV as it pushes into more premium original content. John Skipper The ESPN chief is forced to lay off about 200 staffers as revenue at Disney’s networks unit misses analyst targets amid declining subscribers. Bette Midler The Hello, Dolly! star scores one of the revival’s 10 Tony nominations, making her the favorite to win 53 years after she debuted on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof. Bob Pittman The iHeartMedia CEO may not be able to save the radio-station operator from bankruptcy as revenue drops and a $20 billion debt burden looms…

• Wage increases: SAGAFTRA might get the same 3 percent annual increases as the DGA and WGA, but in reality that could mean 2.5 percent or even 2 percent a year because part of the increase could be diverted to the guild’s pension fund, which needs to be replenished. • Residuals enhancements: Like basic wage increases, residuals are considered “pattern items.” The actors probably will get the same improvement in SVOD payments as the DGA and WGA did before it. • Holds and exclusivity: Negotiators are expected to seek more flexibility in contracts that tie up actors for short-run series. • Pension plan: The union is expected to seek one or more 0.5 percent diversions from the basic wage increases in order to bolster the sagging pension fund. • Per…

What do Mindy Kaling and Kim Kardashian have in common? Both are likely to benefit if President Trump’s recent tax proposal passes. Tax experts say the slashed 15 percent business rate the administration wants to introduce also would apply to “pass-through” entities such as S corporations, which distribute a salary to employee-owners (while counting the rest of revenue as profit). Under current law, personal and business income are taxed roughly the same. But if Trump succeeds, there will be a big difference — and a likely push by individuals to establish mini-corporations to bring their taxes down. Many in Hollywood already have such protection in the form of “loan-out” companies that contract out such services as acting and directing to studios. Among them: Kaling International (Kaling), Kimsaprincess Inc. (Kardashian) and…

The One Memory of Flora Banks (PHILOMEL, MAY 2) BY Emily Barr AGENCY Curtis Brown This Memento-meets-John Green story about a teenage girl whose recovery from amnesia might hinge on the one thing she remembers — a boy’s kiss — already is the best-selling YA debut of the year in the U.K. and on many summer beach read lists. Warcross (G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS, SEPTEMBER) BY Marie Lu AGENCY UTA The best-selling YA author behind the Legend and Young Elite series (both of which have been picked up for film adaptations) centers her latest duology on a female hacker who hunts other hackers in the world’s most popular virtual reality video game.…

Flight Plans In 10 years, LAX is going to be a worldclass airport, but for the month of May, progress might not seem so rosy. Just as many in Hollywood take flight for Cannes and the television upfronts in New York, the largest terminal move in LAX history will take place — with 16 airlines relocating from May 12 to 17, headlined by Delta’s move (and $1.9 billion upgrade) from terminals 5 and 6 to terminals 2 and 3. Expect choreographed chaos along the way. “We are flying Delta, but because of the codeshare [when more than one airline allows booking on a flight], we depart from Tom Bradley,” says publicity veteran Maxine Leonard of her Cannes trip. “I have never been so thankful to be departing from the international…

Met Gala Madness Vogue editor-in-chief and Conde Nast editorial director Anna Wintour (6), along with Katy Perry (8), Pharrell Williams, Gisele Bundchen, Tom Brady and Caroline Kennedy, hosted the annual fundraiser for New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute. Known as the Oscars of fashion, the $250,000- per-table soiree celebrated Rei Kawakubo, the experimental Japanese designer of Comme des Garcons and the subject of the museum’s spring fashion exhibition, “Art of the In-Between” (through Sept. 4). The dress code called for “avant-garde” as Rihanna (4) shocked in a Comme des Garcons dress resembling an exploding flower, Claire Danes (5) awed in a deconstructed Monse ensemble, Jaden Smith carried his own freshly shorn dreadlocks as an accessory, and the naked pranksterperformance artist Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich crashed the carpet while folded…

Ryan Gosling and Natasha Lyonne were at Little Dom’s separately. … Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux doubledated with Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka at Madeo. … Ben Affleck popped by Tavern. … Josh Gad lunched at Freds Beverly Hills. … Jessica Alba celebrated her birthday at Delilah with friends Jaime King and Beyonce, among others. … Mel Brooks held court at Porta Via. … Richard Branson was at Herringbone Santa Monica. … At The Palm, Stacey Snider broke bread with Ricky Strauss. Jeffrey Katzenberg, Richard Gere and Stan Rosenfeld also were in. HOT NEW RESTAURANT Pizzana The Quick Pitch Charles and Candace Nelson, the husbandand- wife duo behind Sprinkles Cupcakes, have turned their attention to pies — the savory kind. Naplesborn chef Daniele Uditi specializes in neo- Neapolitan thin-crusts, utilizing…

Phones are the lifeblood of a talent agency like UTA, but on April 11, its IT department discovered an intruder lurking in the voicemail system and computer network and quickly decided to shut them down, sending agents to conduct business on their iPads. Soon thereafter a demand from a hacker arrived: Pay a ransom or watch the agency’s most confidential data get posted online. It turns out UTA was lucky — an outside cybersecurity firm was brought in and, after conducting a forensic analysis, determined that nothing valuable had been pilfered. But the episode was one of at least a half-dozen extortion attempts against Hollywood firms over the past six months alone, say sources in the cybersecurity industry. Mirroring the audacity of the famed Bling Ring, the recent spate of…

S tylist Michael Fisher recommends a hard suitcase like the Tumi International 19 Degree Aluminum (left, image 2) for traveling to the fest. “It’s lightweight, compact and the wheels are easy to maneuver,” he says. Six other tips for getting a full wardrobe safely to the South of France: • Start with the suits. To pack a jacket, turn it inside out so that the inner lining is outside, protecting it from wrinkles. Fold the jacket vertically along the center back and horizontally until in quarters. Lay it at the bottom of the suitcase with trousers folded once below the knee on top. For silk jackets that can snag, layer tissue paper or a plastic dry cleaner’s bag on top. • Pack each outfit together. “You save time because you…

STYLISH FESTGOERS SHOULDN’T MISS … the May 15 dinner hosted by Natalie Portman, face of Miss Dior, at Christian Dior’s Chateau de La Colle Noire castle in Grasse … the May 18 Magnum Beach party on the Croisette to debut a partnership between Jeremy Scott’s Moschino and Magnum ice cream … a space-themed soiree at Port Canto on May 19 by Chopard and Rihanna, who recently designed a capsule collection for the jeweler … the May 24 cruise show by rhinestone-loving German designer Philipp Plein (think 21st century Ed Hardy) at his Cannes villa, La Jungle du Roi. If his February New York fashion show is any indication (Sofia Richie, Desiigner and The Hot Felon walked the runway, while Madonna, Kylie Jenner, Tyga, Paris and Nicky Hilton and Tiffany Trump…

PEDRO ALMODOVAR Spain’s master of melodrama is one of European cinema’s true originals. Wonderstruck from Todd Haynes, arguably America’s closest equivalent to Almodovar, may appeal to the jury president. AGNES JAOUI This consummate French actress/ writer/director/ singer is likely to love Redoubtable, the new film from The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius, a romantic biopic about legendary director Jean-Luc Godard. FAN BINGBING Big period costume dramas and fantasy actioners have been a staple of Chinese big-screen superstar Bingbing’s career, improving the odds for Sofia Coppola’s Civil War-set The Beguiled and Boon Joon-ho’s sci-fi fantasy film Okja. GABRIEL YARED Expect Oscar-winning composer Yared to listen closely to the latest from Cannes directors known for their obsessive attention to sound — including Fatih Akin with In the Fade and Hazanavicius with Redoubtable. MAREN…

NUMAN ACAR The Turkish-born actor, 42, has shown up on the TV series Homeland and Prison Break, but he could hit the next level for his work opposite Diane Kruger in the competition entry In the Fade as a man who is pushed over the edge by prejudice. KORNEL MUNDRUCZO The 42-year-old Hungarian director, who won the Un Certain Regard award in 2014 for White God, cracks the competition lineup with his latest, Jupiter’s Moon, which is generating buzz for its original, surreal story about a refugee who discovers he can levitate. BENNY (LEFT) AND JOSH SAFDIE At 33 and 31, respectively, the brothers Safdie are the youngest directors in the competition lineup with their Robert Pattinson starrer Good Time, a caper film that could cement them as leaders of…

France might be a bit less on edge now that its contentious presidential election is over and centrist Emmanuel Macron has defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. Much of the population is relieved, but now Cannes is coming up, and experts say security threats remain. “It’s a political revolution,” terror expert and police consultant Alain Bauer tells THR. “The election will have no effect on [jihadists].” Macron, who campaigned on confronting the causes of homegrown terrorism, will need to concentrate on “intelligence reform and better analytical skills,” says Bauer. The threat level in France remains “elevated” under the Vigipirate plan that has seen soldiers stationed at the Nice airport and Cannes train station where attendees arrive. While there were no incidents at 2016’s film festival and increased security was clearly…

Innovators, Events, Honors 25th Anniversary I ndustry veterans were surprised to learn in February that producer, financier and foreign-sales kingpin Avi Lerner had agreed to sell half of his Millennium Films to China’s Recon Group (which also owns the Aston Villa soccer club) in a deal reportedly valued at more than $100 million. They’ll be even more surprised that the 69-year-old Israeli is planning to retire in the next couple of years. Half a century since Lerner first got involved with the movie business as a very young man who had emigrated from his native Israel to South Africa, where he found work managing a Johannesburg movie theater, the gray-haired, gravelly voiced quintessence of indie film says he’ll soon step down from his joint companies, Nu Image Inc. and Millennium,…

In the late ’70s, Fox had two big reasons to love sci-fi: 1977’s PG-rated Star Wars and, two years later, the much more violent, R-rated Alien. Darth Vader looks almost cuddly compared to Alien’s implacable star, designed by the Swiss surrealist painter H.R. Giger. “We used to say they were The Beatles and we were The Rolling Stones,” says Alien producer Walter Hill of the blockbusters. “Our film had something people hadn’t seen up to that point: the artifice of a B-movie done in an A-movie style.” THR called Alien “extremely effective and scary as hell,” which is what director Ridley Scott wanted. “It’s much harder to really frighten people than to make them smile or laugh,” he says. “The two great films for that are The Exorcist, because possession…

Idol and ABC Idol’s ratings far outpaced ABC’s current numbers 3.0 RATING Idol 18-to-49 average 2015-16 1.7 RATING ABC’s primetime 18-to-49 average 2016-17 On the eve of the upfronts, American Idol is again the obsession in TV. Negotiations over Fox’s retired hit wrapped May 8 with ABC agreeing to revive it for the 2017-18 season — a deal insiders credit to the Disney network’s eleventh-hour push and the persistence of FremantleMedia CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz. “Six months ago, no one wanted it,” notes one agent. “If there was one person who made this happen, it’s Cecile. She was determined to get Idol back on TV.” The Idol owner’s motivation to reboot its crown jewel (shared with CORE Media Group’s 19 Entertainment) is clear. But the appeal to broadcast networks also makes…

Deal of the Week What will happen to WGN America? The cable network’s future as a destination for high-end, high-cost scripted originals is likely over in the wake of parent company Tribune Media’s $3.9 billion planned acquisition by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Tribune Media president and CEO Peter Kern, who replaced Peter Liguori this year, foreshadowed as much when he canceled WGN America’s top-rated drama Outsiders in April despite the network notching its most watched quarter in history. At the time, Kern claimed the surprising move was meant to reallocate resources “to a more diverse programming strategy” that would be more cost-effective and reach a broader audience. That leaves only slave drama Underground, which wraps its second season on May 10 as it awaits word on its future. Sources say producer…

VITAL STATS AGE 24 BORN Dublin BIG BREAK 2016 Sundance drama Mammal REPS WME, Management 360, Troika (U.K.), Macfarlane Chard (Ireland) Barry Keoghan would like it noted that he was born and raised in Dublin 1, the Irish city’s central zone and one of its grittiest. “I call it the real Dublin,” he says. “It’s been a big part of everything to me.” Since he started acting in 2010 (he got his first part after noticing an ad for actors in a shop window), Keoghan has stacked his résumé with dark roles: a cat killer on the Irish TV series Love/Hate, a homeless youth in the Sundance drama Mammal and now a troubled young man who’s lost his father in The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest, The Killing of a…

“Truthfully, I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka.” BRAD PITT The actor, acknowledging the drinking problem that contributed to the end of his marriage to Angelina Jolie. He says he’s now sober. “I wouldn’t have guessed a few months ago that we would be the least interesting labor story at News Corp.” TED SARANDOS The Netflix chief, taking a dig at Fox News’ legal problems during a panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference. Fox is suing Netflix over executive poaching claims. “I cover the news. I deal with holy hell around me. I go home to the man I’m in love with.” SHEPARD SMITH The Fox News anchor, on being gay at a conservative news network, during a talk at the University of Mississippi.…

On paper, the lineup of tentpoles set to unfurl between early May and Labor Day looks impressive — Alien: Covenant, Wonder Woman and rebooted outings in the Spider- Man, Transformers, The Mummy and Pirates of the Caribbean franchises, to name a few. But many Hollywood studio executives, after penciling in estimates for both their own and their rivals’ titles, are forecasting a domestic dip from last year’s $4.5 billion summer box-office season. One studio number cruncher puts the decline as high as 10 percent. Two others agree that, absent surprises, 2017 won’t match 2016. If their pessimism is correct, this summer is shaping up to be the worst since 2014, when ticket sales plunged to $4.1 billion, a drop of more than 14 percent year-overyear and the sharpest downturn in…

T he puritanical robes and winged bonnets created by costume designer Ane Crabtree for The Handmaid’s Tale are inspiring a highfashion collaboration — for real. Following the show’s unique marketing plan — including a partnership with a New York women’s club and a Paley Center pop-up costume exhibit May 4 to 14 — Hulu has tapped buzzy NYC fashion collective Vaquera to design a 20-piece collection using the handmaids’ signature red and embroideries of such phrases as “Maidez,” the name of the resistance. The line will debut at an NYC fashion show in June to coincide with the season finale. Jenny Wall, Hulu head of marketing (she leaves her post May 31), noticed that devotees of the Margaret Atwood novel were creating fan art and needlepoints and getting tattoos to…

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Most would agree that the international sales model ain’t what it used to be. Shifts in the film business — including the ascendance of Netflix and advances in technology that allow filmmakers to handle their own dealmaking — are changing the traditional role of the sales agent. Many sales companies are adjusting to the fluctuating market by getting involved with projects from the start as co-financiers or producers. Just ahead of Cannes, for instance, The Exchange announced that it would be launching a production division led by producer Tom McNulty (The Spectacular Now, Date Night). “We are focusing on production to create/own our IP so it gives more value to the company,” says Brian O’Shea, CEO of The Exchange. “With IP, we own more of the backend, and not just…

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Talk to anyone who has been attending Cannes for more than 10 years, and chances are you’re going to hear a “wild party” story. From the legendary bashes thrown annually by Wild Bunch (CEO Vincent Maraval once showed up to one with a live bull) to MTV’s allnighters in the hills, the Cannes of yesteryear is very different from the event it has become. Thanks to enhanced security — and plenty of complaints from the locals — these days, the city is usually asleep by 2 a.m. “It’s impossible now with the city of Cannes,” says Maraval, pointing to the fact that for years now, locals have been pressuring officials to calm the atmosphere surrounding the festival. Maraval says he suspected the fun was coming to an end in 2011…

CYBORG COP, 1993 So what if its title echoed 1987’s RoboCop — the action pic about a mad scientist turning men into cyborg killers spawned two sequels. SHARK ATTACK, 1999 Jaws, anyone? This movie, featuring Casper Van Dien and Ernie Hudson, also triggered two sequels. SPIDERS, 2000 An experiment gone bad on a NASA space shuttle inevitably leads to a giant spider in the streets of L.A. REPLICANT, 2001 Hong Kong director Ringo Lam guides Jean-Claude Van Damme through a dual role as a serial killer and his replicant, who’s tracking the killer down. ALIEN HUNTER, 2003 Right before his career revival in TV’s The Practice, James Spader battles an alien virus. NU BOYANA FILM STUDIOS, 2005 Nu Image bought the Soviet-era film studio, outside Sofia, Bulgaria, using it to…

1 ATTEND CHINA CO-PRODUCTION DAY Bridging the Dragon, the European-Chinese film association, will once again hold its annual China Co-Production Day on May 19 in partnership with the Marche Du Film. Catch industry panels about the latest trends in Chineseinternational cooperation and network with some of the Middle Kingdom’s most outward- facing industry veterans. 2 VISIT THE WEYING PAVILION Chinese mobile ticketing giant Weying is sponsoring a sizable Chinese industry initiative throughout the festival at a new pavilion within the Cannes international village. Daily events will take place featuring some of China’s most promising art house film producers (Yang Chen, Yang Jing, Sara Sha and others) and directors (Larry Yang, Wang Yichun, Wang Xuebo and more) as well as top local execs such as Huayi Brothers CEO Jerry Ye; Qiu…