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Our Man in Cannes: Mark Cuban, movie maverick
2929, owned by Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, is having a high-profile year here in Cannes.
It wasn’t too long ago that the duo behind broadcast.com were newbies along the Croisette, ready to spend some of the billions of dollars they made by selling their Dallas-based company to Yahoo.
This week, 2929 picked up the international sales rights to John Waters’ new movie, “Fruitcake,” starring Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey. They’re selling rights to the film in the market section of the festival.
The movie focuses on a kid who gets separated from his Waters-weird parents on Christmas Eve.
The Cuban/Wagner team also is handling international sales for Barry Levinson’s “What Just Happened?”; James Gray’s “Two Lovers” and Guillermo Arriaga’s “The Burning Plain.”
Variety broke the story about the Waters deal Thursday.
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