How's this for a true Hollywood story.During the recently completed 53rd Cannes Film Festival Cannes Film Festival Film festival held annually in Cannes, France. First held in 1946 for the recognition of artistic achievement, the festival came to provide a rendezvous for those interested in the art and influence of the movies. , producers were shooting a movie in Cannes about a series of murders that take place during the filming of a movie at Cannes. The film, "Murder at the Cannes Film Festival," is the second original movie filmed for E! Entertainment Television, best known for its news and features about the entertainment industry. The mystery stars Bo Derek Bo Derek A slang term used to describe a perfect stock or investment. Notes: The term comes from the name of the actress (Bo Derek) in the 1979 movie "10," in which she portrayed the "perfect woman. , French Stewart Milton French Stewart (born on February 20, 1964) is an American actor, best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. and Karma karma or karman (kär`mə, kär`mən), [Skt.,=action, work, or ritual], basic concept common to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Lombard. While this year's festival was underway, film crews for the movie were soaking up the glamour-filled event between takes. The film is the brainchild of two veteran Hollywood marketing and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most executives, Charlotte and Joel Parker, a husband-and-wife team that has attended the film festival in the past. During a middle-of-the-night chat, the Parkers had an epiphany about a fictional murder mystery set in Cannes, in which the killings happen on the set of a movie being filmed during the festival. The couple wrote a treatment and made a deal with a longtime friend, veteran film producer David Michaels, who is currently producing a feature about the Marx Brothers for Danny DeVito's Jersey Films. Michaels subsequently brought the project to Merv Griffin Entertainment, which sold the project to E! "The setting for a murder mystery couldn't be better," said Charlotte Parker. "There's glitz glitz Informal n. Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" Peter G. Davis. tr.v. , glamour, money, movie stars and intrigue, all set on the picturesque Riviera." The crew now moves to Vancouver, B.C., where the interiors will be shot. Robert Kosberg, a producer for Merv Griffin Entertainment, said one of the keys to the sale was entertainment/hotel mogul Merv Griffin himself. The project was brought to him after he had returned from cruising the Riviera on his yacht during last year's Cannes festival. "Merv has a lot of relationships with talent (in the South of France South of France south n the South of France → le Sud de la France, le Midi ), and also knows this world himself," Kosberg said, adding that E! was the perfect choice for the project because it does lots of news and documentary coverage of the annual Cannes festival. |
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