Christmas comes to Cannes

Posted by Charles on Tuesday 19 May 2009

Filed under: Jim Carrey

It may be gloriously sunny here (apologies to everyone in UK, where apparently the weather isn't so great), but for one whole block of Cannes, it's already Christmas. Disney have spent what we imagine are distinctly non-credit-crunch sums to turn the Carlton Hotel into a winter wonderland to promote its big festive 2009 offering A Christmas Carol. Jim Carrey and director Robert Zemeckis pulled up in an appropriately Dickensian horse and carriage, before showing heat and assorted press 10 minutes of footage which has been created using performance-capture style animation (Zemeckis' Polar Express). Carrey plays Scrooge, of course, but also the ghosts of past, present and future. A Christmas Carol is the first of Zemeckis' animated movies to be done in 3D. If it turns out as good as The Muppets' version of this Dickens tale, we are so there.
 
heat's film editor Charles Gant is at the Cannes Film Festival