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2023 Full coverage I 2022 Full coverage Festival / Market I 2021 Full coverage / Sample of newsletters ARCHIVES: Video gallery I Image gallery I Conference Future of Cinema in Cannes I PROMOTE YOUR FILM I VIDEO SERVICES IN CANNES Filmfestivals.com has become the number 1 online media on cannes with 1300 articles published for the 3 past editions. 10 newsletters reaching close to 2 M film professionals...Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster Earn Standing Ovation at 'The Beaver' International Premiere (Cannes 2011)
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CANNES -- Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson walked the red carpet together at Cannes' international premiere of The Beaver Tuesday night. They entered the Palais' Lumiere Theatre walking hand-in-hand. During the screening they sat next to Summit's Patrick Wachsberger and Rob Friedman. And as the lights came up at the end of the film, they were rewarded with a ten-minute standing ovation.
Earlier in the day, Gibson did not attend the official photo call and
"He will be here. He won’t be talking, but he will be here,” Foster had Still, the question of Gibson and his recent troubles hovered over the press conference, attended by Foster, screenwriter Kyle Killen and producer Keith Redmon.
The Beaver, in which Gibson plays a depressed man who tries
And while a number of journalists keep returning to how Gibson’s
Saying that she cast Gibson simply because he was the right actor She also said, “I am grateful for what he gave to this movie, he just gave from the heart without asking anything in return.”
Asked whether the film could mark the beginning of Gibson’s
When pressed why she has remained so loyal to Gibson, Foster Released by Summit in the U.S. on May 6 in limited release, The Beaver has grossed just $311,558 to date.
But Foster said she was giddy to have made a film, any film, and
“The movie isn’t for everyone, and we went into it knowing that,”
Noting that the movie has “a kind of European formality to it and
As for why Gibson’s character turns to a beaver puppet to express One questioner asked whether Killen was influenced the 1978 film Magic, in which Anthony Hopkins spoke through a ventriloquist’s dummy, but Killen said he wasn’t aware of that movie when he wrote The Beaver, though he was happy to join the tradition of puppet movies. “Team America really inspired me,” Foster joked of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s marionette movie, adding in all seriousness, “It is one of my favorite movies.” Gregg Kilday 18.05.2011 | Cannes's blog Cat. : actor America American atheists American film directors Anthony Hopkins Cannes Cannes Cinema of the United States Entertainment Entertainment Europe Film Foster Germany Getty Images Gregg Kilday Independent films Jodie Foster Jodie Foster Keith Redmon Kyle Killen Los Angeles Matt Stone Mel Gibson Mel Gibson Movie Release Nationality Patrick Wachsberger Person Career Person Location Producer Quotation Racism in the United States Rob Friedman screenwriter The Beaver The Beaver Trey Parker United States Valery Hache FESTIVALS
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