It's never easy creating effects for a major summer blockbuster, but the work on Iron Man (which opened May 2 through Paramount Pictures) faced the extra burdens of putting a good face on Marvel's first self-financed feature and winning over a director openly skeptical of CG effects.

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To put this into perspective: The Hong Kong film festival yields the lowest licensing revenues, as Asia has such a rampant piracy problem. There is only about a 2-week profit window for distributors in Asia, so they don’t pay well for foreign films. Cannes, however, drawing most of Western Europe, is the best paying foreign market of the year. Since Johnny Sunshine received licensing requests that amount to more than the total budget of the film just at Hong Kong, expectations are VERY high for our sales performance at Cannes. Our partner, Sean-Michael Argo, is there now, and we are incredibly excited to see how things look when the dust settles at the end of the festival!