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Cannes                                     REVIEWED BY VINCENT LE LEURCH
             Cannes 2015  2019






             rival, he’s forced to leave Paris for   A 30-something woman navigates   By Kim Burdon with Stephen Fry,   COHEN MEDIA GROUP  EVERY DAY A GOOD DAY
             a while.                 love and heartbreak over the course   Hugh Laurie, Freddie Highmore,   750 Lexington Avenue  Completed. Drama, 100’.
                                      of one year. During that time, she   Imelda Staunton, Miranda Hart,          By Tatsushi Omori with Haru Kuroki,
             SOME BEATS               will unlock the secrets to her life in   Toby Jones.  10022 New York, New York, USA  Kirin Kiki, Mikako Tabe.
             Completed. Drama, 92’.   a sudden turn of events and in the   Sir Simon, a cursed ghost who   Tel: +1 646 380 79 29 
             By Jorge Riquelme Serrano with   most surprising of places.  has been successfully haunting his   [email protected]  IT’S BORING HERE, PICK ME UP
             Paulina Garcia,  Alfredo Castro,                   family’s  ‘Canterville Chase’ home   cohenmedia.net  Completed. Drama, 98’.
             Consuelo Carreno, Gaston Salgado,   THE BIG SHOT   for 300 years, fails to scare his new   Riviera: H6 (Marina Club)   By Ryuichi Hiroki with Ai Hashimoto,
             Andrew Bargsted, Millalaray Lobos.  Completed. Action/Adventure, 107’.  American tenants.  (Tel: +1 310 567 93 37)  Mugi Kadowaki, Ryo Narita.
             Planning to develop a tourist resort,   By Bai Wu  with  Qianyuan Wang,       Charles Cohen (Chairman-CEO),    Ai Hashimoto, Mugi  Kadowaki,
             a family enthusiastically disembarks   Beier Bao.  NOAH’S ARK                 John Kochman (Executive Vice   and Ryo Narita : three popular
             on an uninhabited island off the   Tenacious veteran cop stands up   Pre-Production. Musical.  President), Liz Mackiewicz (Senior   and talented young stars join with
             southern coast of Chile.  for justice in this cathartic crime   By Sérgio Machado.  Vice President Int’L Distribution),   director Ryuichi Hiroki in a finely
                                      action drama.             A musical comedy adventure about   Charles Vannier (Head of Delivery),   chiseled exploration of the vagaries
             THE WINTER                                         two bohemian mice embarking on   Peggy Siegal (President,    of the human heart.
             Completed. Drama, 93’.   DEATH WHISPER             the quest to secure their place on   Peggy Siegal Publicity)
             By  Emiliano Torres  with Alejandro   Completed. Horror.  Noah’s iconic Ark.                          JUST ONLY LOVE
             Sieveking, Cristian Salguero, Adriàn   By Awi  Suryadi  with Amanda         ALIBI                     Completed. Drama, 120’.
             Fondari, Pablo Cedron.   Rawles, Angga Yunanda.    POOR BOY                 Completed. Thriller, 91’.  By  Rikiya  Imaizumi  with  Yukino
             After working his whole life on an                 Pre-Production. Drama.   By Roland West with Chester Morris,   Kishii, Ryo Narita, Mai Fukagawa.
             isolated ranch in Patagonia, the old   EXTREME JOB  By Guy Pearce with Guy Pearce,   Mae Busch, Eleonor Griffith, Regis   For young office worker Teruko, her
             foreman Evans is forced to retire,   Completed. Action/Adventure, 111’.  Carice  Van Houten, Frances   Toomey.  beloved Mamoru takes priority over
                                      By Byeong-Heon Lee with Seung-
             replaced by Jara, a younger man   Yong Ryu, Hanee Lee, Sun-Kyu Jin,   O’Connor, Richard Roxburgh,     everything, even her friends and
             who plans to set up there with his   Dong-Hwi Lee.  Callan Mulvey, Sarah Peirse.  BATTLING BUTLER     work. Constantly waiting for him to
             wife and kids.                                     A boy wakes up in the hospital on his   Completed. Comedy, 77’.  contact her, be it at work or during
                                      A team of narcotics detectives goes   seventh birthday from an accident   By Buster Keaton with Buster   meals, she repeatedly checks her
                                      undercover in a fried chicken joint to             Keaton, Sally O’ Neil, Snitz Edwards,
              CJ ENTERTAINMENT /      stakeout an organized crime gang,   and tells his parents that he now        smartphone.
             CJ ENM CORPORATION       but things take an unexpected turn   belongs to another family.  Francis Mcdonald.  WHEN I GET HOME, MY WIFE
                 26th Fl, 521, Teheran-ro,   when the detectives’ chicken recipe   SEAL TEAM  BETWEEN THE LINES    ALWAYS PRETENDS TO BE DEAD
                 Gangnam-gu, Teheran-ro,   suddenly transforms the rundown   Pre-Production. Animation.  Completed. Drama, 101’.  Completed. Romance, 115’.
                    Gangnam-gu        restaurant into the hottest eatery   By Greig Cameron.  By Joan Micklin Silver with Jeff   By Toshio Lee with Nana Eikura, Ken
                06164 Seoul, Korea (South)  in town.            An action packed family comedy   Goldblum, John Heard, Lindsey   Yasuda, Ryohei Otani, Sumika Nono.
                  Tel: +82 2 371 92 97   MISS & MRS. COPS       from the makers of Zambezia   Crouse.              A  legendary Yahoo ! Answer
                   [email protected]  Completed. Comedy.        and Khumba follows a team of   THE BOSTONIANS      becomes a major motion picture!
                 https://ocean.cjenm.com  By Da-Won Jung with Mi-Ran Ra,   international seals who defend their   Completed. Drama, 122’.
                    Riviera: E19      Sung-Kyoung Lee, Sang-Hyun Yoon.  island from mobster sharks.  By  James  Ivory  with Christopher   CONTENTS PANDA /
              Yoonhee Choi (Head of Int’L Sales    Once a legendary detective and   DARK ENCOUNTER   Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica    NEXT ENTERTAINMENT
                & Distribution), Joon Pyo Mo    a new mom, Mi-young (RA),   Production. Thriller.  Tandy.               WORLD (NEW)
               (SVP, Int’L Sales & Distribution),    now works a desk job. But when   By Carl Strathie with Laura Fraser,   7F, 5 Hakdong-ro 9-gil, Gangnam-gu
                Dani Jeong (Manager, Int’L   overenthusiastic newbie Ji-hye   Mel  Raido, Vincent  Regan, Alice   THE EUROPEANS  06044 Seoul, Korea (South)
              Marketing & Festivals), Eunji Kim   (LEE) is assigned to Mi-young’s civil   Lowe, Sid Phoenix, Grant Masters.  Completed. Drama, 90’.  Tel: +82 2 3490 9353 
              (Sales Manager), James Seo (Sales   complaints team, the two  female   Rural Pennsylvania, 1982, a   By James Ivory with  Lee  Remick,   [email protected]
               Manager), Kate Kim (Manager,   cops get caught up in a serious   struggling family have a frightening   Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy.  its-new.co.kr
                Int’L Marketing & Festivals),   criminal case that triggers an action-  encounter with otherworldly       Riviera: G6
               Jerry Kyoungboum Ko (Head of   filled comedic investigation.  beings, which will lead to the   THE GREAT BUSTER  Jae-Min Kim (President), Vincent
               International), Namyoung Kim                     truth of their daughter’s disturbing   Completed. Documentary, 102’.  Kim (Division Director), Danny Lee
                  (Intl. Sales Manager),    PARASITE            disappearance.           By Peter Bogdanovich.     (Director of Int’L Business), Whitney
               Juhee Yi (Marketing Manager)  Completed. Drama.                           THE NAVIGATOR              Kim (Manager of Int’L Business),
                                      By Joon-Ho Bong with Kang-Ho   SALMA’S BIG WISH
             THE CLOSET               Song, Sun-Kyun Lee, Yeo-Jeong Cho,   Post-Production. Family.  Completed. Comedy, 66’.  Mu Yun Kim (Assistant Manager of
             Post-Production. Horror.  Woo-Shik Choi, So-Dam Park, Hyae-  By Carlos Gutierrez Medrano.  By  Buster  Keaton,  Donald  Crisp   Contents Business Team), Claire Jung
             By Kwang-Bin Kim with Jung-Woo   Jin Chang.                                 with Buster Keato, Kathryn Mcguire,   (Assistant Manager of Intl Business),
             Ha, Nam-Gil Kim.                                   THE SHED                 Frederick Vroom.          Hyunmok Jung (Assistant Manager),
             After moving into a new house, a   SINGLES MAKE COUPLES  Post-Production. Horror.  QUARTET              Peter Lee (Assistant Manager)
             young girl begins displaying strange   Completed. Comedy, 110’.  By Frank Sabatella with Frank   Completed. Drama, 101’.  0.0MHZ
             and disturbing behavior until, one   By Le Thien Vien with Ngoc Trinh,   Whaley, Timothy Bottoms, Siobhan   By James Ivory with Isabelle Adjani,   Completed. Horror.
             day, she disappears behind a closet.  Dieu Nhi, La Thanh, Ho Vinh Anh.  Fallon, Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro,   By You Sun-Dong.
                                      Love, marriage, and family come   Sofia Happonen.  Maggie Smith, Alan Bates.
             EXIT                     to be seen in a new light as three   As an orphan, living with his abusive   THE BEAST
             Post-Production. Comedy.  friends embark on wedding planning   Grandfather, life sucks for Stan. But   COLORBIRD INC.  Completed. Crime.
             By Sang-Geun Lee with Jung-Seok   business.        he’s got it better than his best friend   3-10-3 Kamimeguro,   By Lee Jeong-Ho with Lee Sung-Min,
             Cho, Yoon-A Lim.                                   Dommer who he regularly has to   #307, Meguro-ku   You Chae-Myung.
                                           CMG / CINEMA         defend against the school bullies.  153-0051 Tokyo, Japan  Two detectives collide to solve the
             THE GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS
             Post-Production. Drama.       MANAGEMENT           AWAY                          Tel: +81 3 6451 28 85   murder case.
             By Tom Shu-Yu Lin with Sinje Lee,   GROUP LLC      Completed. Animation, 74’.    [email protected]
             Hiroshi Abe, Sylvia Chang.  8383 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 320                         colorbird.co.jp    THE CULPRIT
                                                                                                                   Completed. Thriller.
                                       90211 Beverly Hills, California, USA  LOVING VINCENT :    Riviera: C2
             HIDE AND SEEK                 Tel: +1 310 300 99 59   THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM    Yasushi Miyamae (President and   By Koh Jungwook with Song Sae-
             Post-Production. Thriller.                         Completed. Documentary, 60’.                       Byeok, Yoo Sun.
             By Joel David Moore with Jonathan   [email protected]  By Miki Wecel with Douglas Booth,   CEO), Rintaro Kiyota (Sales Assistant)  After his wife was killed, he began
             Rhys  Meyers,  Jacinda  Barrett,  Joe   cinemamanagementgroup.com  Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk,     doubting everything.
             Pantoliano, Sue Jean Kim.        Lerins: M17                                LOVE’S STOPPAGE TIME
             When a wealthy businessman follows   (Tel: +1 818 914 13 23)  Helen Mccrory, Chris O’Dowd,   Post-Production. Romance, 104’.  INSEPARABLE BROS
                                                                Saoirse Ronan, John Sessions,
             a lead to find his missing brother,   Edward Noeltner (President),          By Hayato Kawai with Mizuki Itagaki,   Completed. Comedy.
             he dives headlong into a twisted   Jonathan Dubow (Senior Sales   Eleanor Tomlinson, Aidan Turner.  Sakura Kiryu, Ryoma Takeuchi, Anna   By Yook Sang-Hyo.
             underworld of squatters and vagrants   Executive), Alexandra Stagliano   A 60 minute documentary detailing   Ishibashi, Masahiro Komoto.
             that threatens to tear apart his family   (Market Assistant), Florencia   the  10-year  journey  it  took  two   THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
             as he struggles to maintain his sanity.  Gasparini Rey (Sales Executive)  passionate filmmakers, Dorota   TARO THE FOOL  Completed. Thriller.
                                                                Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, to   Post-Production. Drama, 120’.  By Yoon Sung-Hyun.
             LOVE BATTLE              AINBO                     achieve their Impossible Dream.  By  Omori Tatsushi  with Yoshi,
             Post-Production. Romance.  Pre-Production. Animation.                       Masaki Suda, Taiga.          COPRODUCTION
             By Wirat Hengkongdee with Esther   By José Zelada, Richard Claus.  WILLIAM   Taro is a boy who has never in his    OFFICE (PARIS)
             Supreeleela, Prama Imanotai.  Born in the deepest jungle of the   Completed. Drama, 104’.  life been to school. Unmoored, left   24 rue Lamartine
                                      Amazon, AINBO struggles to save   By Tim Disney with Maria Dizzia, Will
             UNTITLED DRAKE DOREMUS FILM  her homeland from the dark spirits   Brittain, Waleed Zuaiter, Susan Park.  to his own devices, he has only his   75009 Paris, France
             Post-Production. Romance.  of greed and exploitation.  Two doctors conceive a Neanderthal   freedom, and the people around   Tel: +33 1 56 02 60 00 
             By Drake Doremus with Shailene                     baby using ancient DNA. William   him. The story describes his life,   [email protected]
             Woodley, Jamie Dornan, Sebastian   THE CANTERVILLE GHOST  must learn to exist in a world where   sometimes vibrant, and sometimes   coproductionoffice.eu
             Stan.                    Pre-Production. Animation.  he is the ultimate outsider.  violent.           Riviera: L8 (Tel: +04 92 99 33 14)
                Screening
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