Jessica Chastain's '355' Female Spies Save The World Project Is Hotter Than Hades In Cannes

The women are out in full force in Cannes, and in the post-Weinstein, #MeToo era, they mean business -- proving that they really can survive without Harvey. Variety reports that three major Chinese distribution companies are competing to acquire distribution rights in Greater China, and also to become equity investors in Jessica Chastain's original idea project '355'. 

AOC explained yesterday that not only does Penelope Cruz get equal pay when working with husband Javier Bardem, but Cruz has joined one of the hottest projects in Cannes.

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The big news out of Cannes concerns Cruz joining a blockbluster A-list female actors list including Fan Bingbing, Marion Cotillard, Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong'o promoting an ensemble spy film series they hope to launch, a multi episodes movie run similar to 'The Bourne Identity'. Deadline attributes the concept for '355' to Chastain. 'The 'Zero Dark Thirty' star has already lined up director Simon Kinberg for the launch film. On May 9, '355' secured French distribution from SND and the ladies are hard at work, putting this breakthrough project to bed with a global distribution network before Cannes closes in another week. 

'355' is named after the first female spy in the American revolution, although her precise identity is not known. In Chastain's film, five female operatives band together to stop a global organization determined to acquire a deadly weapon that would thrust the world into chaos. The women are strangers and technically enemies in some cases. Under this dire threat of global destruction, Cruz, Bingbing, Cotillard, Chastain and Nyong'o join forces and become friends in the code-name '355' cell. 

Unlike Charlie's Angels, there's no male mastermind directing the action. The five, fierce femmes are in charge, leaving Lupita Nyong'o over the moon in her smashing Prada gown, which she wore at the Secret Chopard party Friday night.