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Looming Strikes Drain Star Power From Berlin
2001-02-01
BERLIN - A number of Hollywood stars won't be able to attend next month's Berlin Intl. Film Festival, because they're squeezing in film projects before possible writers' and actors' strike this summer, Variety reported. Outgoing festival director Moritz De Hadeln said Tuesday that he could present his list of stars only with "great caution" thanks to the stoppages. "We have been experiencing massively contradicting messages about who is coming and who isn't," he said at a Berlin press conference. Sure bets include Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anthony Hopkins and Kirk Douglas, the subject of this year's homage. Author John Le Carre is also expected to attend, as are Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix, Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Bob Hoskins, Pierce Brosnan, Alfred Molina and Sean Connery. The festival is expecting a strong list of directors including Ridley Scott, Steven Soderbergh, Philip Kaufman, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Patrice Leconte, Roger Donaldson, Lasse Hallstrom, Guiseppe Tornatore, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Nichols, Spike Lee, and Emir Kusturica. The festival kicks off Feb. 7 with Annaud's "Enemy at the Gates" and closes Feb. 18 with a re-release of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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