May 10, 2001
The Hollywood Reporter
Cannes Briefs - Second Team

When the New Line thriller "Ripley's Game" wrapped principal photography in Berlin last month after an 11-week shoot in Italy and Germany, it was star John Malkovich and not the film's Italian director Liliana Cavani ("The Night Porter") who helmed "Ripley's" final clapper board snap, according to sources. Malkovich was Cavani's stand-in for the final three days of "Ripley's' " shoot because Cavani had to be in Milan's La Scala opera house to direct rehearsals for Giuseppe Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera."

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