Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent After being greeted with a seven-minute standing ovation on opening night of the Cannes Film Festival, Johnny Depp’s comeback movie “Jeanne du Barry,” directed by Maiwenn, has charmed French audiences after debuting in cinemas. The costume drama, which stars Depp as the French King Louis XV and marks his first leading role in three years, has been having a strong run at the French B.O., proving that the controversial star is still bankable. At least in France. The film was widely released by Le Pacte on 650 screens and has grossed nearly $4.1 million from more than 550,000 tickets sold in two weeks, according to Comscore France. Currently playing across 800 screens, the film got mixed reviews in Cannes, but still has the potential of selling up to 850,000 tickets (an estimated $6.4 million), according to Eric Marti at Comscore France.
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With Johnny Depp making his big screen return on the opening night of Cannes in Jeanne du Barry, after being shut out of Hollywood from battling ex-wife Amber Heard in the courts, Cannes Film Festival Juror Brie Larson was asked by a reporter at the jury presser as to whether she’ll see the actor’s movie Jeanne du Barry tonight.
Larson was asked as an “outspoken advocate for Time’s Up” how she felt about the controversial Depp film being at Cannes.
“You’re asking me that?” The Room Oscar winner pushed back.
“Um, I ‘m sorry, I don’t understand the correlation of why me specifically,” Larson continued.
The reporter emphasized how the Captain Marvel thespian was on the celebrity advisory council, and that Depp’s court case against The Sun in which he was labeled a “wife beater” was in the spotlight — would the actress actually go see his movie.
“I’ll see it when I see it,” Larson said, “I don’t know how I feel about it frankly.”
Jeanne du Barry is not playing in competition.
The movie’s profile raised even further in the tabloids recently after its director Maiwenn admitted to assaulting a leading French journalist in a recent TV interview. According to reports, Maiwenn approached Mediapart editor-in-chief Edwy Plenel at a restaurant in Paris, and pulled back his head by his hair and then spat in his face.
Cannes Film Festival Head Thierry Frémaux in a press conference yesterday defended his decision in selecting Jeanne du Barry as the 76th edition’s kickoff title: “I don’t know the image of Johnny Depp in the United States,” he told reporters.
“He is extraordinary in the film in a role which is difficult. I don’t why he was cast. You will have to ask Maïwenn her reasons for choosing him,” the festival boss
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