May
24
Entourage Hits the Croisette; Cannes Screenwriters
Entourage appears to be obsessed with Variety. Not only did the HBO show shoot several recent episodes at our offices in L.A., but they've followed us here to Cannes. Various Entourage sitings are being emailed to me. One person saw Jeremy Piven getting into a limo. Another saw Adrian Grenier exiting La Pizza. They threw a press conference this morning --opposite my surprisingly well-attended Am Pav screenwriting panel.
Ramin Bahrini talked about his second film, written in Persian and translated into English, Chop Shop, set in the mammoth junkyards of Queens, which is in director's fortnight. He was thrilled that Abbas Kiarostami came to see his film. (Born in North Carolina, Bahrini has both U.S. and Iranian citizenship.) John Sloss is selling Chop Shop in North America.
Juan Antonio Bayona discussed his Spanish-language feature debut The Orphanage which is in Critic's Week and will be released by Picturehouse. Guillermo del Toro, who is presenting and publicizing his protege's film, carried the pint-sized Spaniard on his shoulders at the screening. Antonio Bayona has made many shorts and commercials. 
Raised in Italy and college-educated in America, Cecilia Miniucchi talked about writing and shooting Expired, her sexually frank English-language film that debuted at Sundance and closes Critics Week. Her two stars, Jason Patric and Samantha Morton, were both shooting films and couldn't make Cannes.
Blake Nelson was hilarious talking about being a Portland writer who has long known local hero Gus Van Sant and always knew his skateboarding novel Paranoid Park would make a good Van Sant film. It turns out he was right. UPDATE: IFC picked up the film at fest's end.
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