Julie Delpy and Vincent Gallo will co-star in the $10 million “The Last Mile,” a thriller being launched at Cannes by international sales agent and French distrib Rezo.

Thesps play members of a criminally inclined group whose amateurish heist grinds to a halt when their getaway car becomes stuck in a monster traffic jam.

Pic produced by Christophe Mazodier’s French shingle Polaris and co-produced by Delpy was written and will be directed by first-time helmer Philippe Rouquier.

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U.K.-based Intandem Films is handling international sales and has already closed a dozen deals on Julie Delpy’s sophomore pic, the period thriller “The Countess,” slated to shoot in Eastern Europe later this year.

Produced by genre specialist Bloodworks, the shingle behind Lionsgate’s recent “2001 Maniacs,” and Social Capital, the project has advanced apace since Delpy’s helming debut, “Two Days in Paris” emerged as one of the buzz pics at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. Samuel Goldwyn Films and Netflix’s Red Envelope picked up “Two Days” for the U.S.

Delpy was also co-nominee for an Academy Award in the adapted screenplay category for “Before Sunset.”

The 5 million “Countess” stars Delpy as the bloodthirsty Hungarian Countess Bathory, a real-life aristocrat whose murderous ways inspired Gothic horror stories, centuries after her death around 1614. According to legend, she bathed in the blood of virgins, believing it would preserve her beauty.

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For those of you living in and around the Seattle area, ‘2 Days in Paris’ will be showing at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 16th.

Source: Seattle Times

According to prnewswire.com, Julie’s new film, ‘The Countess,’ will begin filming in Fall 2007 and will also star Radha Mitchell and Ethan Hawke.

The classic Hollywood cliché of an actor saying, “All I really want to do is direct,” holds true for some of the filmmakers at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

Julia Stiles and Julie Delpy spoke about the process of filmmaking at the Tribeca Talks panel “Bringing Home The Bacon” on Friday, and Eva Mendes sat down with WCBS-TV reporter Katie McGee to talk about her experience as an executive producer.

“I did the job of editor; I went to the mailbox and sent it to festivals. (I did) a little bit of everything,” Delpy said about her film “Two Days In Paris.”

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