EXCLUSIVE: In a move that would amount to the Cannes Film Festival‘s very own clip reel of unfinished upcoming movies, Deadline has heard that a screening of footage from select films will take place in an official venue on Thursday. Details are scarce, but pics that could be in the surprise pack include Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible, the tsunami movie starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts, and Wong Kar Wai’s martial arts bio
The Grandmasters. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained and Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master might also be included, although the Weinsteins showed footage from those films last night.
Other films are expected to be in the mix for what we hear will be an hourlong showing that will be open to all accredited fest attendees. This is a new move for the festival and could drum up some extra heat. The screening, Deadline understands, will take place at the Salle du Soixantième — the same venue where the roof was damaged by heavy winds the other day. Only this time, the festival will look to blow the roof off on purpose.


Please to hear that The Impossible, starring Naomi Watts in the lead, and Ewan McGregor, may be screened for the first time in Cannes.
It’s “footage” of the movie, not a screening. It’s just a marketing thing.
Late Wednesday afternoon here and no official mention of this yet, unless I’ve missed it of course. Anyone head anything? At least the weather has turned good and les filles are as joilies as usual again.
would be surprised if “Django Unchained” screened, since there is still another month, at least, of filming currently left
That’s why the article says they showed “footage”.