Anne Thompson looks at the decision to screen
Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut early for buyers. The official screening isn't until Friday.
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and UTA's decision to screen their Charlie Kaufman movie, "Synecdoche, New York," early at the fest was a throw of the dice. First, the movie is one of the few hot tickets for sale in the U.S. at Cannes, but was given what is considered a "lucky" Friday slot at the fest, which has delivered for such films as Roman Polanski's The Pianist and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction in the past.
But it's far too late, apparently, for the top-execs at the U.S distrib companies with which SKE is hoping to close a sale during the fest.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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