Indiana Jones’s toughest task – facing the Cannes snake-pit

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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 ...

Indifference
Published 5/17/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
Indifference "For all the warnings of history, the makers of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will stage their film's world premiere at the festival on the French Riviera tomorrow night," writes Times Online correspondent Dalya Alberge . "The film, which opens in the setting of 1957 at the height of the Cold War, is arguably the most anticipated movie release of 2008. Such is the interest that the trailer was seen more than 200 million times in its first week of release on the internet. {[But] the last time a studio dared to premiere a major blockbuster ...