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  • April 27, 2012

    While the announcement of films playing at the Cannes Film Festival did not include ‘The Gangster Squad’, a piece by The Playlist suggests that Sean Penn is coming to Cannes with a new performance, and since he only has one film in the can…well…you do the math. This could possibly make a lot of sense considering Warner Brothers recently gave its prime release date to Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’. Could the studio be planning to launch Ruben Fleischer’s flick a bit earlier than expected? Hit the jump to see my thoughts, but in short…I sure hope so.

    With the strong American presence at Cannes this year and a slight lack of large scale productions, debuting a film like this could really be the right move. The main concern with ‘The Gangster Squad’ is that it’s more of a crowd pleaser than an awards player, so if it got kudos from the festival, that could alleviate that issue to some degree. It’s possible (and perhaps even probable) that this rumor is just that and won’t come to pass, but I’ll be keeping my ears to the ground in case I hear anything more substantial…

    -Thoughts? Discuss on the Forum!

    About Joey Magidson


    When he’s not obsessing over new Oscar predictions on a weekly basis, Joey is seeing between 200 and 300 movies a year. He views the best in order to properly analyze the awards race/season each year, but he also watches the worst for reasons he mostly sums up as "so you all don't have to". In his spare time, you can usually find him complaining about the Jets or the Mets. Still, he lives and dies by film. Joey's a voting member of the Internet Film Critics Association as well. Today the IFCA, tomorrow the world!

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    1. It’s hardly a guarantee, but it would make sense to debut the flick there…we shall see.

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    2. Looking forward to hearing about it!

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