Posted on 05/21/2017 7:23:41 AM PDT by rktman
At premieres, beach parties, wine-soaked dinners and business meetings, the topic du jour at this year’s Cannes Film Festival: Trump. Buyers and sellers, studios executives and stars confess they’re glued to their smartphones, waiting for email alerts and updates on the latest White House scandal.
“I’m obsessed with it,” said Stuart Ford, CEO of sales and production company IM Global. “The first thing I do in the morning is check the news. The last thing I do at night is check the news.”
Some of the films searching for distribution along the Croisette grapple directly or indirectly with Trump and the populism that fueled his rise. Buyers are circling “Promised Land,” a documentary by Eugene Jarecki that centers on a cross-country trip against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election. Michael Moore also Skyped in for a talk with Harvey and Bob Weinstein on Friday to whet buyers appetites for “11/9,” an anti-Trump documentary.
(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...
He is in their heads...I love it.
The USA has assets over 1,000,000,000,000.
This is what they see.
LOL! If you cruise the comments, some are pretty good. ‘Specially for “variety” magazine. Kinda surprised they haven’t closed the comments for the article.
What “White House scandal”?
Probably coming over from Drudge if he linked the article.
Don’t you mean “Which White House scandal?”. ;-)
They never had any interest in making a movie about Fast and Furious where the Obama White House and Injustice department ran guns to Mexican narcoterrorists and then pretended they only learned about the guns when the media reported on it.
Those comments were vicious, politically.
Wow.
I would have missed them if not for your mention.
Thanks.
All the Lefties will be exposed to those thoughts. Amazing...
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