Cannes piracy summit draws industry elite
CANNES -- An international summit meeting, the first of its kind -- drawing top executives from the American studios as well as their European counterparts -- is scheduled to take place Sunday to tackle the subject of film piracy. The high-level confab has been jointly organized by the Cannes Film Festival and the French Ministry of Culture, which will be represented by jury president Quentin Tarantino and Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, minister of culture and communication. The U.S. will field Sony's Jeff Blake, Warner Bros. Pictures' Richard Fox, 20th Century Fox's James Gianopulos, DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg, Universal's Ron Meyers, BVI's Mark Zoradi and the MPA's Jack Valenti. International participants will include France Telecom's Thierry Breton, Vivendi's Jean-Rene Fourtou, Mukta Arts' Subhash Ghai, FIAPF's Andres-Vincente Gomez, Canal+'s Bertrand Meheut, Gaumont's Nicolas Seydoux, Mosfilm's Karen Shakhnazarov and the China Film Group's Buting Yang as well as directors Luc Besson and Jacques Fansten.
- 5/14/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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