A Few Good Starting Points (just in case you haven’t been able to dock your yacht yet . . .)

• At a Hewlitt Packard panel on the future of animation, participants sometimes crossed swords on the finer points of technology, but all agreed that, as in live-action, the script is the key to…
• Paris-based Backup Media, a film consultancy and investor, has unveiled the first financing deals put through on three titles by B Media Global. Launched last year by Backup, B Media Global is a film…
• IM Global topper Stuart Ford knows how to make a splash with Martin Scorsese: Put him on a boat. The director mingled at one end of Emmett/Furla’s yacht party on Thursday to promote “Silence,”…
• Lionsgate hosted a wet and wild party at Baoli Beach in honor of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin also hit the red carpet at the Cannes Film …