Sony introduced collectively a multiverse’s value of its filmmakers previous and current collectively Friday at Cannes for a dinner celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of Columbia Footage.
The attendees at Mamo Michelangelo included Cannes jury president and Barbie director Greta Gerwig (who made Little Girls for Columbia), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Oscar winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Dangerous Boys: Experience or Die administrators Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Chloe Zhao, whose The Rider was distributed by Sony Footage Classics, Anybody However You director Will Gluck and Kraven the Hunter filmmaker J.C. Chandor.
Entrepreneur and movie producer Charles Finch hosted the dinner with Tom Rothman, chairman & CEO of Sony Footage Leisure’s Movement Image Group.
Throughout the dinner, Rothman gave a toast by which he wandered among the many tables, stating particular expertise and giving a nod to their contributions to the studio, identify checking Ghostbusters: Afterlife director Jason Reitman for his upcoming SNL 1975, actor Woody Harrelson for every part from The Individuals vs. Larry Flynt to Zombieland and Spider-Man producer (and former Sony Studio head) Amy Pascal, whom he famous between the 2 of them, spanned about 40 years of the studio’s historical past.
“The historical past of our studio, its previous, its current, its future, touches everybody in our nice inventive group. That’s what main studios do, and that’s what all of the tech cash on Earth can not purchase,” mentioned Rothman to cheers.
Different attendees on the filmmaker’s dinner included Megalopolis actor Laurence Fishburne, CAA’s Bryan Lourd, actress Isabelle Huppert, Oscar-winning documentarian Mstyslav Chernov and Sanford Panitch, president, Sony Footage Leisure’s Movement Image Group.
Earlier within the night, Rothman attended a screening of the Rita Hayworth traditional Gilda, which first debuted at Cannes in 1946. Introducing a restored 4K model of movie, the exec stood subsequent to Cannes inventive director Thierry Frémaux and spoke in a mix of English and French concerning the legacy of Gilda. He famous that the driving drive behind the movie was Gilda producer Virginia Van Upp, who labored her approach up at Columbia Footage to turn out to be the primary feminine head of manufacturing within the Hollywood studio system. Gilda, directed by Charles Vidor and in addition starring Glenn Ford, is taken into account a excessive level in display legend Hayworth’s profession.
Rothman later famous he meant to solely keep for ten minutes of the screening, as he had seen the movie many instances. However he was swept away, and stayed till the credit. “Don’t inform me that motion pictures don’t matter. They do. They’ve, and so they all the time will,” he mentioned.