Hollywood disappointment to close Cannes
Newly House of York (Hollywood Reporter) - After its underwhelming debut at the Sundance Pic Festival, the Hollywood satire "What Just now Happened?" will get under one's skin a second chance at Cannes next month.
Henry M. Robert De Niro stars an embattled Hollywood producer whose life falls apart during ace turbulent workweek. In a life-imitating-art turn, the film's climactic view takes space at the Cannes Celluloid Festival, with the producer's fictional movie-within-a-movie opening the event.
"Happened?" also stars Catherine Keener as a tough-as-nails studio apartment chief and features a number of stars, including Sean Penn and Bruce Thomas Willis, playing themselves in self-parodying roles. Barry Levinson directs from an version of "Into the State of nature" producer Artistic creation Linson's memoir.
The film generated strong buzz going into January's Sundance Picture Festival, and was expected to sell for a significant seven-figure substance. Just the pic received a mixed critical response and failed to
