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AwardTHE French Directors’ Guild will honor Martin Scorsese with this year’s Carrosse d’Or, the Golden Coach prize, during the Direc-tors’ Fortnight in Cannes.

The honor will be handed out May 9 during the opening cere-mony of the festival sidebar. For its 50th anniversary, the French Directors’ Guild SRF said it was “proud to celebrate an outstand-ing and inspiring fi lmmaker.”

Last year, Werner Herzog won the award. Jia Zhangke, Jane Campion, Jim Jarmusch, Clint Eastwood and Alain Resnais are among the other directors hon-ored since the prize was created in 2002.‘Jurassic World 3’COLIN TREVORROW is return-ing to direct “Jurassic World 3.” He is currently working with “Pacifi c Rim: Uprising” script-writer Emily Carmichael on the script for the feature, which was announced last month by Uni-versal and given a June 11, 2021 release date.

Trevorrow and Carmichael will exec produce, along with franchise patriarch Steven Spielberg. Trevorrow was fi rst tapped by Spielberg to direct the fi rst installment in the rebooted franchise that hit theaters in 2015, going on to gross US$1.6 billion at the global box offi ce. The sequel “Fallen Kingdom” will hit theaters June 22. Trev-orrow, along with Spielberg, is exec producing the feature from director J.A. Bayona.

Lohan loses appealACTRESS Lindsay Lohan has failed in her latest attempt to sue the maker of the video game “Grand Theft Auto V,” which has sold more than 275 million copies so far.

Six judges at New York state’s Court of Appeals unanimously rejected her privacy case after dismissing a claim that one of the title’s characters was based on her. Instead, the judges said, the in-game “actress-slash-singer” merely resembled a generic young woman.

The case dates back to 2014 when Lohan fi rst sued Rockstar Games. She claimed at the time that the character of Lacey Jones not only looked like her, but also had a similar-sounding voice and wore clothes that resembled her own clothing line.‘True Detective’SOME changes have come to the long-delayed third season of HBO’s “True Detective.”

Director and executive pro-ducer Jeremy Saulnier, set to split directing duties for the entire run with show creator Nic Pizzolatto, has left after complet-ing the fi rst two episodes. Prolifi c TV helmer Daniel Sackheim, known for FX’s “The Ameri-cans,” is fi lling the void. Though the show’s episode count is still unknown, Sackheim is expected to divide up all the episodes with Pizzolatto, who is stepping into the director’s chair for the fi rst time this season. (SD-Agencies)

At a Glance

Scenes from “Roméo et Juliette.” Courtesy of AC Orange

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IT’S truly a timeless star-crossed romantic tragedy, and French composer Gerard Presgurvic knew he couldn’t compete with Shakespeare’s poetry, so he found a way to make it sing to the tune of younger audience members.

French musical “Roméo et Juliette” debuted in Shenzhen over the weekend, bringing four shows to Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center’s grand theater. With music and lyrics by Pres-gurvic, the musical premiered in Paris in 2001 and has been touring around the world ever since.

The plot remains largely as written by Shakespeare. To express the hatred between the two families, the costumes and lighting are designed mainly in two powerful colors: The Montague’s are seen in shades of blue and the Capulet’s in red. Hairstyles and makeup of some supporting roles, such as Romeo’s friend Mercutio, Juliet’s cousin Tybalt and Romeo’s cousin Benvolio, are all done up a modern street-punk style.

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“The dances of the Capulet’s are elegant and classical, while the dances of the Montague’s are modern and aggressive hip-hop,” said the musical’s choreographer Carl Portal at a press conference in Shenzhen last week.

“In this French musical, Shakespeare’s story is told in an entertaining way to make modern audience members understand the classic. Com-pared with U.S. Broadway musi-cals, which have heavy infl uences of jazz and blues, French musi-cals are bold, expressive and forceful, with rock, punk or electronic music styles. Other renowned French musicals, such as ‘Mozart, L’opéra Rock’ and ‘Notre-Dame de Paris,’ also use pop or rock compositions,” said Lucy Lee, president of AC Orange International LLC.

Damien Sargue, who has been playing Roméo since the fi rst production, said that when he fi rst played the role in 2001, he was only 20 and naive, but after 17 years in the role, he now understands more about life and love and can bring a deeper understanding to the per-formances. Clémence Illiaquer, playing Juliette, joined the cast at the age of 19 in 2016.

She emulated the role per-fectly with her lovely disposition and soft voice.

“Roméo et Juliette” debuted in Shanghai in 2012 for 21 shows and in 2016, the musical was staged in Guangzhou and Beijing for 30 shows.

After the Shenzhen perfor-mances, it will tour to Shanghai, Hangzhou and Tianjin for a total of 31 shows in China this year.

DISNEY Marvel’s upcoming mega-tentpole “Avengers: Infi n-ity War” has secured its release date in China.

The fi lm, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo and featuring most of the Marvel pantheon, will unfurl in China on May 11, two weeks after its North Ameri-can debut April 27.

The Marvel Cinematic Uni-verse is Hollywood’s biggest overall franchise in China by far, challenged only by “The Fast and the Furious” and past enthusiasm for the “Transform-ers” movies. “Avengers: Age of Ultron” earned US$240 million in the country in 2015, setting a slew of records at the time. “Captain America” and “Iron Man” movies also have been huge earners, while other MCU character titles consistently pull in more than US$100 million.

Disney is also planning a

major Avengers Tour at the Shanghai Disney Resort on April 19 to promote the release. No word yet on exactly which talent will be on hand for the extravaganza.

“Infi nity War” reunites the “Avengers” gang and friends, including Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), as they join forces with the “Guard-ians of the Galaxy” crew — Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista and Bradley Cooper — to stop the evil inter-galactic despot Thanos (Josh Brolin). Other characters from the MCU making a play include Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston). (SD-Agencies)

‘Avengers: Infi nity War’ sets China release date

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