Cannes Underscores International Film Business Resilience
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variety.comTitane” is also the first time the biggest fest prize in the world has gone to an out-and-out horror schlock fest. Other genre movies – Un Certain Regard’s “Lamb” and supernatural thriller “The Innocents” – proved standouts at the festival.
Many of these genre films – Directors’ Fortnight’s “Medusa” for example – are made by women. Meanwhile, genre is ever more embraced as a market proposition.
In June, Wild Bunch International and Capricci announced the launch of French genre production house Wild West. Studiocanal also looks to be warming to genre, bringing two titles onto the Cannes Virtual Market, horror thriller “Baghead” and “Bunker,” equal parts escape-game thriller and paranormal spinechiller.
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