ROBERT REDFORD LEADS STAR LINEUP AT MIPCOM 2010

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Paris 14 September 2010 – For its 26th edition, MIPCOM is preparing to welcome a host of international television and cinema stars.

Heading the lineup is actor, director, producer, Robert Redford who will be attending this year’s MIPCOM to celebrate the first anniversary of Sundance Channel in Europe. As the founder of Sundance Channel, Robert Redford will participate in a media question and answer session on Wednesday,October 6, during which he will discuss the Sundance Channel's international expansion plans. US-based Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC), has launched its Sundance Channel, WE tv and RUSH HD brands internationally and manages their global expansion.

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Cannes will be infected by the highly-anticipated series, The Walking Dead,brought by Fox International Channels (and Entertainment One) to MIPCOM. Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator, Aliens, Armageddon, The Incredible Hulk) who also produces the guild's Produced By conference and talent, Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually, Teachers, Strike Back) and Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break) will invade the Croisette to promote the series. The Walking Dead is produced by AMC and based onRobert Kirkman’s best- selling graphic novel by the same name. The show tells the story of a group of survivors trying to persevere in a world stricken by a zombie apocalypse.

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Cannes Catches Freak Waves. Is it Global Warming?

The Cannes Film Festival is set to begin on May 12.
Freak waves battered the southern French coast between Cannes and Nice on Tuesday afternoon, causing major damage to beach constructions.  We're just a few days away from the start of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, and some businesses don't feel they can re-open in time.
Is it global warming? Or is it just Mother Nature?

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Ten-metre-high waves (33 feet) battered the coastline, leaving one woman with a fractured leg and causing major material damage.  From France 24:

"There were very big waves this afternoon that caused major material damage to beach constructions, but there were no disappearances," regional authorities told AFP.
In Cannes, some 20 restaurants were damaged and several cars overturned.
In Nice, not only the beaches were closed but also part of its famous Promenade des Anglais.
The timing of the natural disaster – days before the opening of the tourist season – could spell economic disaster for the French Riviera.
The owner of Castel, a trendy beachside restaurant in Nice, told local daily Nice-Matin he was unsure whether his business could reopen this year.
“It’s terrible. We feared for our lives when the waves turned into seven to eight-metre-high monstrous bombs. It was out of question to resist”
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Anne Thomspon, of IndieWire, also reported on the freak waves. Anne is scheduled to moderate a film panel during Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week. In a related post, to be found on her TOH blog, she noted that Roger Ebert was named Webby Person of the year:
Writes TOH, 'In his much-retweeted post entitled The Golden Age of Movie Critics, Ebert serves a feast of wisdom both about film writing and life in general. He closes his post:"

That’s what an education is for. That’s what life is for. That’s the discovery made by these extraordinary writers I’ve found on the World Wide Web. Find out all you can, and see what you can do with it.

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