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PALM D'OR WATCH: Neon has acquired the North American rights to The Seeds of the Sacred Fig ahead of its premiere on Friday

Elsewhere, Emilia Perez seems to be the 1st competition that's dazzled the audience.

IF:
Despicable Me 4
Inside Out 2
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Wicked (new)
The Garfield Movie
Robot Dreams
Transformers One

I Saw the TV Glow:
Cuckoo
Daddio
Kinds of Kindness
National Anthem
Speak No Evil
A Quiet Place: Day One (1st trailer)
Sing Sing
MaXXXine

Walleye and six, you've won The Woman in the Yard and Drop respectively. What will you be dropping from your slate?

Also, 10 Lives has cleared waivers

With the way they spend, they might not even have realized they funded Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness or that the producers were taking this one to the open market

Focus has nabbed the worldwide rights (excluding South Korea) to Yorgos Lanthimos' next film Bugonia. It shoots this summer and will release next year. Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone are the first confirmed members of the cast.

The reported production budget is $300 million. How does a movie about Formula 1 cost this much to produce? G ran Turismo was a $60 million production and that was from a major studio rather than a middling streaming service. You could have easily made this one for $100 million. Formula 1 is backin...

Verona's Romeo & Juliet has cleared waivers

New Dates:
Untitled Joesph Kosinski F1 Project (No word yet on who will be helping Apple with Distribution as this release date confirmation came from IMAX) 6/27/25
Untitled Insidious Project 8/29/25

Preview totals:
IF $1.75 mil
The Strangers: Chapter 1 $1.2 mil
Back to Black $375k

Running List of Cannes Acquistions: Titles That Screened at the Festival: The Seeds of the Sacred Fig: Neon (North America) Market Pickups: Last Breath: Focus/Universal (United States, France, China, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Scandinavia)  The Monkey: Neon (U...

In the first acquisition on the Cannes market, Focus has landed the rights to survival thriller Last Breath.

Nope

Megalopolis got the expected divisive reactions out of Cannes with the only common overlap between the two sides pointing out just how weird it is. Gauging the reactions once its regular rollout begins in the fall should be entertaining.

Sony has dated the I Know What You Did Last Summer requel for July 18, 2025. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. are both expected to return.

10 Lives, The Woman in the Yard and Drop have been added to the wire