The 64th annual Festival de Cannes will kick off after Midnight in Paris with Woody Allen’s romcom set to open the festival on May 11, organizers said on Wednesday.
The film will premiere at the Lumiere theater in Cannes on the same day of its release in France.
The romantic comedy, shot last summer in Paris, stars a Franco-American mix of talent including Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Lea Seydoux, Adrien Brody, Gad Elmaleh and France’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Midnight was produced by Spain’s Mediapro and New York-based Gravier Productions. Mars Films will simultaneously release the title in Gaul in 400 theaters as it screens for the Cannes crowd.
In the first public-professional festival opening night in history, the festival and its media partner Canal Plus are offering Gallic theater owners the chance to screen the entire opening night program live in their cinemas for filmgoers.
“Midnight in Paris is a wonderful love letter to Paris,” festival director Thierry Fremaux said of the selection. He added: “It’s a film in which Woody Allen takes a deeper look at the issues raised in his last films: our relationship with history, art, pleasure and life. His 41st feature reveals once again his inspiration.”
Robert De Niro will preside over the jury for the fest’s 64th edition as part of a Franco-American, bi-continental celebration of the Tribeca Film Festival’s 10th anniversary.
The 64th annual Festival de Cannes will kick off on the Riviera on May 11 and run through May 22.
*Updated:
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American rights to Woody Allen's latest, Midnight in Paris.
“Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen at his most magical," said SPC's Michael Barker and Tom Bernard in a joint statement. "We couldn’t be more pleased to be back with Woody, Letty and their entire team, as well as our friends at Mediapro.”
Letty Aronson, Steve Tenenbaum and Jaume Roures produced the film, which was financed by Mediapro, the Spain-based company that also funded Allen's last two films, Vicky Christina Barcelona and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
SPC also released Stranger, as well as Allen's Sweet and Lowdown and Whatever Works.
hollywoodreporter, michael-sheen.co.uk via gossip-dance
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Carrie
Friday, February 4, 2011
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