Overview
- Cannes Film Festival, which opened Tuesday, runs through May 23 with Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss and an honorary Palme for Peter Jackson.
- No major studio blockbusters are in the official lineup as Universal, Disney, Warner Bros., Sony, Paramount, Netflix and Amazon skipped premieres.
- Park Chan-wook leads a jury judging 22 competition titles that lean auteur, including two U.S. indies: James Gray’s Paper Tiger with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, and Ira Sachs’s The Man I Love with Rami Malek.
- Hollywood touches remain through a 25th‑anniversary Fast & Furious screening with cast in town and John Travolta’s directing debut, Propeller One‑Way Night Coach.
- Industry voices tie the pullback to fear of early reviews, higher costs and politicized press cycles, a shift that opens more space for international filmmakers to win attention and deals.