Madonna, Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie Have Success In Cannes

RedTracker| Madonna’s Royal Film Disappointed but focused on quality, Madonna will not be screening her King Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson movie in Cannes. She has three weeks of post production to do and finishing touches on the soundtrack.

Indian billionaire Anil Ambani’s IM Global film financiers is backing the singer’s first big-budget directorial role. Positive words are flowing about the movie, which is being shown to buyers at private screenings.

Meryl Streep’s Margaret Thatcher

In Cannes Harvey Weinstein has acquired ‘The Iron Lady’, Meryl Streep’s film about Margaret Thatcher.

The movie, from director Phyllida Lloyd, Streep’s collaborator on “Mamma Mia,” is still not finished, but Weinstein has seen some assembled footage and says he was “blown away by the performance.”

Weinstein backed ‘The King’s Speech’, winner of four Oscars.via LATimes

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie’s controversial movie set in wartime Bosnia has a name — ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’ and a release date of Dec. 23.

Jolie, who also wrote the screenplay, last year described the then untitled movie as a love story between a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman on the eve of the 1992-95 Balkans conflict, in which 100,000 people died.

The director was criticized in Bosnia with some female rape victims objecting to the plot details. Jolie, a UN Goodwill Ambassador has asked the people of Bosnia to withhold judgment until they see the film. Much of the conflict has already been smoothed over.

“In the Land of Blood and Honey” features a local cast, and was shot in both the English and Serbo-Croat languages.

Producers Graham King and Tim Headington on Monday called it a “bold new film (which) illustrates the consequences of the lack of political will to intervene in a society stricken with conflict.” via Reuters