While Zhang Yimou is still shooting scenes for Curse of the Golden Flower with Chow Yun-Fat and other members of the cast, at the Cannes Film Festival a small sample of the film has been taken to the festival for viewing by buyers:"CANNES -- It is a seller's market at the Festival de Cannes this year as a plethora of robust American buyers prepare to scour for possible gems on the Cannes waterfront, where there's always plenty of exciting world-class cinema on view -- but precious few commercial titles to buy. That's because at this year's fest, most of the must-see titles already boast distribution. The likely outcome of this screening frenzy is that veterans with full release slates will resist the temptation to overpay, while hungrier distributors with something to prove will shell out the big bucks......Two big-budget Chinese films that were not ready for Cannes will screen footage in the market, including Zhang Yimou's period romance "The City of Golden Armor," starring Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li, and "The Banquet," starring Ziyi Zhang." Hollywood Reporter
(The film as you notice is still being called The City of Golden Armor.)
