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'It started off slow and got slower': Croisette hit by film sales slumpBehind the Palais at the Cannes film festival, the international Marché du Film runs across two floors and through an endless warren of green-carpeted aisles. There are stalls from all over the world and some 4,500 titles up for grabs. Yet something is rotten at this year's market. 'I've never seen so much to buy,' one Cannes veteran told the Hollywood Reporter. 'And no one's buying anything.'By the end of last week, the forecast looked so dire that there were rumours these stands would all be gone by Sunday. As of yesterday, however, the market was still defiantly open for business, flogging its mix of yakuza flicks, 'erotical' thrillers, monster romps and B-movie comedies. Even so, the recession is biting. Buyer attendance is down 30% as the big US companies sit on their chequebooks, while the hedge-fund gamblers who might previously have taken a flutter on a fledgling project are running scared. Many major

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CANNES, France (Reuters) - U.S. director Quentin Tarantino brings his eagerly awaited World War Two movie 'Inglourious Basterds' to the Cannes film festival on Wednesday, with Brad Pitt adding some star power to the red carpet. The movie, which borrows its title from Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 picture 'Inglorious Bastards,' is one of 20 entries in the main competition.

Myleene Klass is set to play a cannibal in a new movie. The British TV presenter - who recently signed a £100,000 deal to host the US version of 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' - is wanted by film industry power player Colin Steinberg to star in a thriller about a woman who eats her boyfriend.

Up has become the seventh Pixar out of nine to record a $50 million weekend, according to Disney's estimates released on Sunday. The new toon scored an estimated $68.2 million, which, if it holds up, will be the third-best opening for Pixar, behind The Incredibles ($70.5 million) and Finding Nemo ($70.3 million). (See complete box office history for Pixar movies.) With the summer just heating up, Disney can bank on having a $200 million hit on their hands.

Film News: Writer to pen original screenplay -- Myriad Pictures and RKO Pictures' genre division, the Roseblood Movie Co., are teaming to co-finance and produce a film based on an original screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis.

Front Page: Writer to pen original screenplay -- Myriad Pictures and RKO Pictures' genre division, the Roseblood Movie Co., are teaming to co-finance and produce a film based on an original screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis.

Pedro Almodóvar reunites with Penélope Cruz for a sensuous film-within-a-film that is a moviegoer's delightPedro Almodóvar has always managed to combine elegance and exuberance, and his latest movie is no exception: a richly enjoyable piece of work, slick and sleek, with a sensuous feel for the cinematic surfaces of things and, as ever, self-reflexively infatuated with the business of cinema itself. Yet I wonder if Almodóvar isn't in danger of retreading old ideas. It doesn't quite match the heartfelt power of his 2006 Cannes film festival contender, Volver; Broken Embraces is always conspicuously concerned with passion, but without being itself fully passionate.The action of the movie unfolds in two periods: flashing back and forth between the present day and 1994. It is a measure of Almodóvar's absolute technical mastery, and that of his editor José Salcedo, that this is never disconcerting or confusing. Lluís Homar plays Mateo, a former film director who lost his sight in a car cras

If youre going to watch a movie this week, its probably not going to be in your living room. How do we know? Well, you could go out to the multiplex to see Angels & Demons, Wolverine or Star Trek. Or, you could stay home and rent Paul Blart: Mall Cop.'