Cannes braces for American invasion
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?IN CASE you had any doubts — and maybe you didn’t — it’s now official: The Festival de Cannes is a very big event.
According to a story in Nice-Matin, the paper of record in the South of France, the festival close to triples the population of this wealthy seaside town, taking it from 70,000 to 200,000 for the 12 days it takes place. And all these people spend an awful lot of money: The festival estimates that 170 million Euros — that works out to about a quarter of a billion dollars — was spent here last year.
So maybe it’s to be expected that the major presence in this big, expensive festival, set to open tonight with Fernando Meirelles’ highly anticipated “Blindness,” is a big, expensive movie: “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Does that title ring a bell? It certainly does over here.
- From LAtimes
