The directors and stars who usually jet into Cannes to talk up glitzy projects to international distributors will be hard to glimpse this year as a number of top-tier sellers confirmed they were pausing high-wattage buyer presentations due to a combination of talent schedules, new ways of operating since the pandemic, and the restraints of the US writers’ strike.
As the Writers Guild of America (WGA) work stoppage enters its third week, pre-sales on projects with locked scripts can proceed, but WGA strike rules prohibit writers and their reps from discussing or negotiating incomplete or future projects.
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