Rachel Zegler<\/a>, Ben Platt
Director: Karim A\u00efnouz
Agency: FilmNation
Why Buyers Care: The family drama is based on an autobiographical\u00a0New Yorker\u00a0article\u00a0by Emily Ziff Griffin\u00a0and marks Brody\u2019s first screen role since winning the Oscar for \u201cThe Brutalist.\u201d It also comes after Zegler picked up an Olivier Award for \u201cEvita,\u201d the London stage sensation soon to make its way across the Atlantic to Broadway. And the story sounds like a heartbreaker, following a composer Elliot (Brody) who invites his daughter Emma (Zegler) on a gay cruise through the Caribbean in 1991 at the height of the AIDS crisis. Platt will write original music for the film, in addition to appearing in a supporting part and Zegler will lend her vocal talents to the project. <\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThe Passenger\u201d
Cast: Jeremy Strong
Director: Magnus von Horn
Agency: FilmNation
Why Buyers Care: The adaptation of a 1938 novel of the same name by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, is being billed as an escape thriller, but it seems eerily prescient. Strong, hot off \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d and soon to put his spin on Mark Zuckerberg in \u201cThe Social Reckoning,\u201d has been tapped to play a businessman forced to flee Berlin after Kristallnacht. Von Horn\u2019s last film, \u201cThe Girl with the Needle,\u201d was nominated for an Oscar for best international feature. This historical tale, which will premiere as authoritarianism is on the rise, could raise his profile even higher. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAvedon\u201d
Director: Ron Howard
Agency: Fifth Season
Why Buyers Care: Howard may be best known for blockbusters like \u201cApollo 13\u201d and \u201cA Beautiful Mind,\u201d but in recent years he\u2019s become a skilled documentarian, peeling back the curtain on everyone from Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s\u00a0to The Beatles. He\u2019s got a fascinating subject in Avedon, perhaps the most famous and influential 20th century photographer, and to tell his story he\u2019ll have unprecedented access to the artist\u2019s personal archives, as well as interviews with his friends and collaborators. \u201cAvedon\u201d will premiere at the festival, and it sounds exactly like the kind of celebrity portrait that the man himself excelled at capturing \u2014 a snapshot of a legend that reveals the human being beneath the iconography. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe Brigands of Rattlecreek\u201d
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal, Tang Wei
Director: Park Chan-wook
Agency: WME Independent, 193, a Legendary Company
Why Buyers Care: Director Park, the president of this year\u2019s grand jury at Cannes, enters the market with this package a WGA-expat and renegade with his starriest cast ever. The combined twangs of McConaughey and Butler will likely be irresistible to buyers, plus there\u2019s the added power of Marvel hero and internet boyfriend Pascal and \u201cLust Caution\u201d breakout Wei. \u201cBrigands\u201d is a Western revenge fantasy as only this director could tell it \u2013 exploring \u201cthe consequences of violence, the value of family, the power of memory, and the true cost of life.\u201d Not sure what all that means, but we\u2019re here for it!<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cClub Kid\u201d
Cast: Jordan Firstman, Cara Delevingne, Diego Calva
Director: Jordan Firstman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Agency: UTA
Why Buyers Care: Firstman straddles (a term he would love) the line between art house cool and foamy pop influence as both an actor and personality. The indie world is waiting with anticipation as he steps up not only in a more dramatic role, but as a feature director. Early word is he sticks the landing, and in a familiar space \u2013 playing a NYC club promoter who\u2019s stayed a bit too long at the party, especially when the son he didn\u2019t know he fathered shows up.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cDernsie\u201d
Cast: Bruce Dern, Quentin Tarantino, Alexander Payne, Billy Bob Thornton, Walton Goggins, Patty Jenkins, Will Forte, Laura Dern
Director: Mike Mendez
Agency: UTA
Why Buyers Care: The math is simple here, as 89-year-old screen legend Dern opens up about a turbulent, but rewarding life and career in Hollywood. A stacked ensemble of talking heads, including his Oscar-winning daughter, add even more color to this look at a maverick luminary.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cBulls\u201d
Cast: Dylan O\u2019Brien, Lewis Pullman, Kaia Gerber
Director: James Morosini
Agency: CAA, WME Independent and QC Entertainment
Why Buyers Care: O\u2019Brien has finally seemed to shake off his YA heartthrob days, delivering commanding performances in a string of recent films like \u201cPonyboi,\u201d \u201cTwinless\u201d and \u201cSend Help.\u201d Paired with two buzzy stars \u2013 real life couple Pullman and Gerber \u2013 this erotic thriller package should appeal to the Cannes market\u2019s baser instincts. It follows a wallflower (O\u2019Brien) who travels to a hedonistic resort, unwittingly becoming the obsession of a dangerous husband and wife.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cLater the War\u201d
Cast: Channing Tatum, Tessa Thompson, Patsy Ferran
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Agency: CAA
Why Buyers Care: Irreverent indie king Kaufman, the man behind \u201cBeing John Malkovich\u201d and \u201cEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,\u201d has always paired top talent with surrealist concepts, and this one looks like a perfect storm of his singular directing sensibility and ability to lure marquee names. Tatum proved in last year\u2019s \u201cRoofman\u201d he could handle roles that don\u2019t exclusively require easy smiles and no shirt. In this market package, he\u2019s set to star as a popcorn actor-director looking to prove he\u2019s got more substance \u2013 by making a film about the Holocaust.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe Last Day\u201d
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Wagner Moura, Victoria Pedretti
Director: Rachel Rose
Agency: CAA
Why Buyers Care: Up-and-coming director Rose (\u201cTryst,\u201d \u201cAre You Hungry?\u201d) delivers what seems to be an overdue comeback for Oscar winner Vikander, in a story inspired by Virginia Woolf\u2019s \u201cMrs. Dalloway.\u201d Over one summer day in New York, a mother and writer (Vikander) grappling with grief and stagnation confronts her life choices. Increased star power from \u201cThe Secret Agent\u201d star Moura, and genre player Pedretti, won\u2019t hurt in attracting buyers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Cannes kicks off, Hollywood\u2019s getting ready for another round of \u201clet\u2019s make a deal,\u201d Cote d\u2019Azur style.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10532,321,93,61,60,28514,58999,103115],"class_list":["post-445267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jason-statham","tag-jeremy-strong","tag-rachel-zegler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}