Cannes Market Report; Front Lines at The Upfronts
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Cannes Film Festival is full of big stars, yachts and artsy movies. But behind the scenes, at the Cannes film market, hundreds of independent producers look for money from foreign buyers to make their next movies. Jonathan Wolf, managing director of the American Film Market (AFM) gives us a report on what’s for sale and who’s buying at Cannes. Plus, the broadcast TV networks had their high stakes sales event last week--unveiling their fall shows for advertisers at the upfronts. Kim Masters was there. She and James Hibberd of The Hollywood Reporter talk about the presentations and what we’ll all be watching in the fall.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:06.8 | You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time. |
| 0:12.4 | Everybody thinks your business, business, really, really, all white life. |
| 0:18.2 | He doesn't clean, please. |
| 0:19.9 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood, Hollywood. What's with him? |
| 0:22.9 | Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood. |
| 0:33.8 | This week on the business, when you think of the Cannes Film Festival, you think big stars, red carpets, yachts, and mostly artsy movies. |
| 0:38.2 | But behind the scenes, there's the Can Film Market, where hundreds of independent movies are looking for money in a tough economy. Plus, the broadcast networks had their big party |
| 0:43.9 | last week unveiling their fall schedules for advertisers at the television uptrunks. But first, |
| 0:49.3 | it's the Hollywood news banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 0:57.6 | You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money. What's with him? I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. Hollywood. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello, Kim. So John, I have been in |
| 1:12.6 | New York for the upfronts, and that's where my brain has been marinating in the broadcast networks, |
| 1:18.2 | and we'll have more on that later in the show. But, John, you've been keeping an eye on the other |
| 1:21.9 | big event of this season, and that is Cannes. What's been going on? Let's just say there's been a lot more business at the up front than there has been at the Cannes Film Festival. Going into the festival, |
| 1:31.4 | everybody was a little nervous about whether people would spend money. And they certainly |
| 1:35.6 | spent money throwing the big parties, the yacht parties, the Robin Hood premieres, but it's |
| 1:39.8 | been an incredibly slow sales year. And I have to say, the critics have not been very excited about |
| 1:45.3 | anything except maybe Carlos, which is, you're ready to take off a day from work is a five |
| 1:51.2 | and a half hour movie. Let's go get some, a bite and go see that. You have buns of steel. |
| 1:58.6 | Thank you, John, for noticing. But that has been the But that has been the big deal so far to the festival. |
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