The Weinstein Company's annual presentation has become as much a Cannes staple as terrible questions from European journalists at press conferences, the kids holding up cardboard signs on the street asking for tickets, or a Naomi Kawase movie. Regardless of what they have in competition or otherwise (over the next week they're premiering both Todd Haynes' "Carol" and the Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard-starring "Macbeth"), every year the indie-film giants gather press and distributors in a hotel ballroom and show off their upcoming wares while plying them with canapés and white wine.
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But it's not always obvious awards bait. Some of what was screened this year has already made its way online: a trailer for "The Little Prince," which the company is distributing in some territories; the trailer for the Jake Gyllenhaal boxing...
