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You Cannes Drive Me NUTS!!!!
Published 5/17/2008 at The Hot Blog
This is why I got so angry about the NY Times’ idiotic story about “the internet knives” being out for Indiana Jones… and this… and this… and this and sadly, this... Why do people run this shit without doing more than 10 seconds of damned legwork? 1. The Times of London, relying on inaccurate away-from-the-office Variety reporting, lazily failed to research or copy edit the FALSE information it offers about this premiere. Not only is it not true that studios shied away from Cannes after the (massively successful, but unpleasant) Da ...

Movie Marketing Madness: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Published 5/21/2008 by Chris at Movie Marketing Madness
... The filmmakers also made the decision to give Crystal Skull the biggest of big stages on which to debut, taking the movie (out of competition) to the Cannes Film Festival, making it the premiere for the film instead of something more traditional in Los Angeles or New York. That brought out a lot of skeptics who believed it would suffer from the critics there for serious films who were just waiting with sharpened knives for a popcorn action movie that they could savage. Mostly it was compared to The DaVinci Code since it made the same move a couple years ago, getting savaged by ...