By Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the Cannes Film Festival won’t take the virtual route if it can’t be hosted as a physical event, festival director Thierry Fremaux has confirmed. “(For) Cannes, its soul, its history, its efficiency, it’s a model that wouldn’t work.
What is a digital festival? A digital competition? We should start by asking rights holders if they agree,” Fremaux tells Variety. “Films by Wes Anderson or Paul Verhoeven on a computer?
Discovering ‘Top Gun 2’ or (Pixar’s) ‘Soul’ elsewhere than in (a) theater? These films have been postponed to be shown on a big screen; why would we want to show them before, on a digital device?” said Fremaux, teasing some titles that have
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