Cannes Marché Moves Pre-Festival Screenings From May to June

Discovery has spent much of the last few years explaining why it got out of the drama business.

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EXCLUSIVE: Frontières Platform, the genre-focused event run by Fantasia and Cannes’ Marche du Film, returns to the French fest for another edition this year, with 13 projects selected to take part in the showcase, running July 10-11. Scroll down for the full list.

With the lack of a Cannes (and a regular film festival circuit) in 2020 due to the pandemic, there were multiple reports that a lot of filmmakers were going to hold their work back until there could be a semi-normal event to premiere. Well, judging by early reports about which films might show up, it appears that Cannes 2021 could become a truly star-studded affair with some huge projects debuting at the event.

Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver are heading to Cannes. Annette, the new musical drama from French director Leos Carax, starring Cotillard and Driver, will open the 74th Cannes Film Festival, premiering in competition in Cannes on Tuesday, July 6.

Well, the race to summer and Cannes is on. Legendary filmmaker Leos Carax returns to Cannes with his first feature film since the critically acclaimed “Holy Motors” (2012).

After the COVID pandemic forced the Cannes Film Festival to be canceled last year, it seemed silly to think that we could possibly go two full years without the French event. Well, as we approach the July date for this year’s already-delayed Cannes, the director of the event, Thierry Fremaux is confident the in-person festival will happen this summer, according to a new interview with Rappler.

Also Read: Tribeca Film Festival Heads Outdoors With In-Person Event in JuneLast Month, the Tribeca Film Festival announced it was going ahead with its 20th-anniversary edition this June, moving screenings to outdoor venues and becoming the first major U.S.

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EXCLUSIVE: In a smart move that aligns business closer to this year’s Cannes Film Festival, leading international sellers and major agencies have agreed among themselves to stage their virtual sales market between June 21-25, the same dates which the Cannes Marché today announced it is moving its pre-screenings event.

Cannes’ Marché du Film’s virtual prescreening sales event has been pushed back by one month to late June after a majority of sales companies requested the change, the festival announced Wednesday.The virtual film market will now take place June 21-25, two weeks before the official, (hopefully) in-person Marché du Film in Cannes taking place alongside the festival in July.The event was originally meant to take place in May to bridge the gap between European Film Market and the delayed Cannes, and

In a welcome move to avoid Cannes events in three separate months this summer, the Cannes Marché is scrapping its ‘pre-Cannes screenings’ in May in favor of a June 21-25 event.

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