The B Movie Business in Cannes

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The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing, and anchor Marco Werman speaks with The Guardian's Xan Brooks about a marketplace on the sidelines of the festival where B-movie deals are made. In the words of Brooks, movies pitched there present a world in which "all the women are nubile Kung Fu Zombies."

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