Until now, all the haughty talk of a full-length feature film was just that.

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CANNES, France (CNN) -- Angelina Jolie is the talk of the Cannes Film Festival.

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The body has money in a string of upcoming releases, including the film version of award-winning novel We Need to Talk about Kevin and Paddy Considine's directorial debut Tyrannosaur.

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"Precious, " a gritty film about the struggles of a teen mother, got a major boost when talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and filmmaker Tyler Perry got behind the movie as executive producers after its success at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Film director Roman Polanski had invited him to a snazzy cafe to talk more about adapting his Tony Award-nominated play "Venus in Fur" into a movie when the pair spotted the chic "God of Carnage" playwright Yasmina Reza sitting with a distinguished-looking gentleman.

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