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Bits of #cannes you dont see: inside the Gary Busey Theatre (Taken with instagram)

Bits of #cannes you dont see: inside the Gary Busey Theatre (Taken with instagram)

In the Total Film #cannes HQ: The cat is back… (Taken with instagram)

In the Total Film #cannes HQ: The cat is back… (Taken with instagram)

Awful movie poster of the day: Purple Love #cannes (Taken with instagram)

Awful movie poster of the day: Purple Love #cannes (Taken with instagram)

Awful movie poster of the day: Tony Jaa is… on fire #cannes (Taken with instagram)

Awful movie poster of the day: Tony Jaa is… on fire #cannes (Taken with instagram)

Fountains in #cannes are a dramtic affair… anyone know whats going on here? captions please… (Taken with instagram)

Fountains in #cannes are a dramtic affair… anyone know whats going on here? captions please… (Taken with instagram)

Cannes 2011: Neil LaBute talks Crooked House We were a little surprised to hear that Neil LaBute would be directing Agatha Christie adaptation Crooked House, so we decided to quiz him about it.When we caught up with the writer-director in Cannes, we sat down with him for an intriguing Q and A:How did you get involved in this?“Every decade I like to take a hallowed English writer and adapt their work and prepare myself to be stoned. First it was A.S. Byatt and now Agatha Christie. I’ll get to Coward and Wilde eventually.“But seriously, I saw Julian Fellowes’ script and I like a mystery and I thought everything from the title on down was intriguing.”What did you like?“This one has never been touched on television or film; it was sort of outside the safe zone for her in terms of having a romance as well as the requisite murders.“And when I realised it was quite morally questionable by the end, I was like, “Wait, they’re singing my siren song.” It’s her 49th book, I think, but she still had a difficult time with her publishers with Crooked House, who did not want it to end the way it did.“It’s that nice grey zone of morality that I like to operate in.”Matthew Goode and Gemma Arterton are your lovers, then…“She’s an heiress whose grandfather passes away. She believes he was murdered and brings a beau from her past who’s now working at Scotland Yard into the mix, so that bristling tension that they never quite made it as a couple comes to the surface.”

Cannes 2011: Neil LaBute talks Crooked House

We were a little surprised to hear that Neil LaBute would be directing Agatha Christie adaptation Crooked House, so we decided to quiz him about it.

When we caught up with the writer-director in Cannes, we sat down with him for an intriguing Q and A:

How did you get involved in this?

“Every decade I like to take a hallowed English writer and adapt their work and prepare myself to be stoned. First it was A.S. Byatt and now Agatha Christie. I’ll get to Coward and Wilde eventually.

“But seriously, I saw Julian Fellowes’ script and I like a mystery and I thought everything from the title on down was intriguing.”

What did you like?

“This one has never been touched on television or film; it was sort of outside the safe zone for her in terms of having a romance as well as the requisite murders.

“And when I realised it was quite morally questionable by the end, I was like, “Wait, they’re singing my siren song.” It’s her 49th book, I think, but she still had a difficult time with her publishers with Crooked House, who did not want it to end the way it did.

“It’s that nice grey zone of morality that I like to operate in.”

Matthew Goode and Gemma Arterton are your lovers, then…

“She’s an heiress whose grandfather passes away. She believes he was murdered and brings a beau from her past who’s now working at Scotland Yard into the mix, so that bristling tension that they never quite made it as a couple comes to the surface.”

Pick n Mix, anyone? #cannes (Taken with instagram)

Pick n Mix, anyone? #cannes (Taken with instagram)

Cannes 2011: Dwayne Johnson is a Snitch Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is set to star in upcoming action thriller Snitch, the latest film to be snapped up for distribution on the Croisette.The film follows a suburban pop (Johnson) whose son is hit with a 10-year jail stint for drug offences. In order to reduce his son’s sentence, the father goes undercover to expose a senior drug dealer.Written by Revolutionary Road scribe Justin Haythe and inspired by a 1999 US TV documentary, the film has been one of the buzz titles of the festival’s market.

Cannes 2011: Dwayne Johnson is a Snitch

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is set to star in upcoming action thriller Snitch, the latest film to be snapped up for distribution on the Croisette.

The film follows a suburban pop (Johnson) whose son is hit with a 10-year jail stint for drug offences. In order to reduce his son’s sentence, the father goes undercover to expose a senior drug dealer.

Written by Revolutionary Road scribe Justin Haythe and inspired by a 1999 US TV documentary, the film has been one of the buzz titles of the festival’s market.

Total Film #cannes HQ gets a visitor… (Taken with instagram)

Total Film #cannes HQ gets a visitor… (Taken with instagram)

Cannes 2011: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Looper snapped up Looper, director Rian Johnson’s time-travel action flick starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has been acquired by FilmDistrict for US distribution.The film sees a future mob send targets back in time so assassins can take them out and leave them buried in the past.When an assassin (Gordon-Levitt) recognises a target as his future self, the pair must team up to fight other assassins now targeting them.The third film from Brick and Brothers Bloom director Johnson, Looper also stars Bruce Willis (as future Gordon-Levitt) and Emily Blunt.

Cannes 2011: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Looper snapped up

Looper, director Rian Johnson’s time-travel action flick starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has been acquired by FilmDistrict for US distribution.

The film sees a future mob send targets back in time so assassins can take them out and leave them buried in the past.

When an assassin (Gordon-Levitt) recognises a target as his future self, the pair must team up to fight other assassins now targeting them.

The third film from Brick and Brothers Bloom director Johnson, Looper also stars Bruce Willis (as future Gordon-Levitt) and Emily Blunt.

Forget Cheryl Cole… Mater is in #cannes too! (Taken with instagram)

Forget Cheryl Cole… Mater is in #cannes too! (Taken with instagram)

Cannes 2011: The Tree Of Life first reaction Terrence Malick’s long-awaited The Tree Of Life has finally screened in Cannes – to a mixed reaction.We’d say the cheers/catcalls ratio at the film’s end was roughly 70/30.Both sides will agree that it’s the US auteur’s most abstract meditation to date on life, the universe and everything.While the bulk of the film is set in the ‘50s, it also flashes all the way back to the birth of life as we know it. Yes, the rumours are true: there are dinosaurs.If the CG dinos aren’t the most impressive ever seen, there will be few films this year to beat Tree Of Life’s overall visual splendor.

Cannes 2011: The Tree Of Life first reaction

Terrence Malick’s long-awaited The Tree Of Life has finally screened in Cannes – to a mixed reaction.

We’d say the cheers/catcalls ratio at the film’s end was roughly 70/30.

Both sides will agree that it’s the US auteur’s most abstract meditation to date on life, the universe and everything.

While the bulk of the film is set in the ‘50s, it also flashes all the way back to the birth of life as we know it. Yes, the rumours are true: there are dinosaurs.

If the CG dinos aren’t the most impressive ever seen, there will be few films this year to beat Tree Of Life’s overall visual splendor.

Awful movie poster of the day/Awful title of the day… #cannes (Taken with instagram)

Awful movie poster of the day/Awful title of the day… #cannes (Taken with instagram)

Cannes 2011: Michael Fassbender is a vampire Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton and Mia Wasikowska have joined Jim Jarmusch’s latest - a ‘crypto-vampire love story’.The as-yet-untitled film will take pace against the desolation of Detroit and Tangier, and is set to film in Germany, Morocco and Detroit in early 2012.No plot details as yet, but Jarmusch told press “I’ve been imagining this film for years, I can’t wait to realise it.”

Cannes 2011: Michael Fassbender is a vampire

Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton and Mia Wasikowska have joined Jim Jarmusch’s latest - a ‘crypto-vampire love story’.

The as-yet-untitled film will take pace against the desolation of Detroit and Tangier, and is set to film in Germany, Morocco and Detroit in early 2012.

No plot details as yet, but Jarmusch told press “I’ve been imagining this film for years, I can’t wait to realise it.”

The lonliness of the long distance film journalist (Rich to be exact) - Dan #cannes (Taken with instagram)

The lonliness of the long distance film journalist (Rich to be exact) - Dan #cannes (Taken with instagram)