There's no shortage of projects featuring the scandal-plagued on the market at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
. It marks the embattled actor’s first project since he fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in a prop-gun accident on the set of another movie,, who will likely buy a half-dozen films in Cannes, says he would consider taking a chance on the film.shooting] in no way involved any malice on Alec Baldwin’s part with the tragic incident that happened on set, so I would not discount or avoid [that] project,” Charalambous says.
As another top buyer puts it, “It’s already so hard to release a movie. Why take a risk on a project where the conversation around the movie won’t be about the movie itself?”can sway decision-makers in Hollywood, European opprobrium remains less of a factor. International sales outfit Wild Bunch, which has long championed polarizing projects , has two projects up for grabs in Cannes that feature the high-profile accused.
Financiers, too, are escaping scrutiny. Few in Cannes have batted an eye at the fact that Roman Abramovich, a Russian oligarch who has been sanctioned in the U.K. and much of Europe over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is a backer of the well-received romantic dramaTchaikovsky’s Wife into the Cannes lineup by stating during a press conference: “We have a different position from that of France or the European Commission.”
That more laissez-faire attitude seems to extend also to the Saudi Film Commission, which has returned to the festival this year after laying low since the 2018 murder of— a crime that U.S. intelligence attributed to Saudi government agents.
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