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Cannes Film Festival says it is anticipating in-person industry attendance at its 2022 edition to be "much higher than last year", with the vast majority of delegates set to make the trip. Last year, the French fest reported 10,000 total registrations for its market, split roughly evenly between on-site and online…

The Cannes Film Festival has just confirmed our scoop from last month that Baz Luhrmann’s anticipated rock and roll pic Elvis will debut on the Croisette. The festival has announced that Luhrmann, Tom Hanks, Austin Butler and Olivia DeJonge will be in attendance for the world premiere. Cannes and Warner Bros have also…

Cannes has confirmed our scoop from last month by announcing details of the Top Gun: Maverick screening and the Tom Cruise special tribute. This is expected to be the film’s international premiere with the global premiere in San Diego. Press release from the festival below: “Tom Cruise will be in attendance in Cannes…

Iris Knobloch, the former boss of WarnerMedia France and Germany, has been selected by the Cannes Film Festival board as the event’s next president. She will succeed Pierre Lescure who is stepping down after this year’s edition, the festival has confirmed. She will also become the festival’s first female…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the scoop on what is happening with Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick and the 75th Cannes Film Festival. It has been rumored for months that Cannes head Thierry Frémaux wanted Cruise and his eagerly anticipated Paramount sequel to be part of the Croisette proceedings this year. Deadline can reveal…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has firmed a splashy Cannes premiere for Elvis, the Baz Luhrmann-directed epic story about the relationship between Elvis Presley and his manager Colonel Tom Parker that shook up the world of rock ‘n’ roll forever. No specific date yet, but the film is locked in for a Palais bow, sources said. On…

EXCLUSIVE: Streaming service Mubi is getting behind a scriptwriting showcase focusing on projects from women and non-binary writers, which will host its second edition at the Cannes Film Festival this year. The Cannes Screenplay List initiative comes from Wscripted, the marketplace dedicated to sourcing women and…

The Cannes Film Festival has added a new official partner ahead of this year's festival: China-owned social media platform TikTok. In a press release, the social media company said the partnership would allow the platform to give its users an inside look at the festival, and to help Cannes reach new audiences. The…

In what has seemed likely for quite some time sources tell Deadline Paramount and Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick is expected to screen at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Speculation has gone on for several weeks with many believing that even with Tom Cruise’s busy schedule, things could be worked out and the film…

Cannes Film Festival has released a statement in response to the war in Ukraine saying it will not accept “Russian delegations” this year. Scroll down to read it in full. At present, the French festival is not joining the boycott of Russian cinema, which was called for by the Ukrainian Film Academy and earlier today…

Netflix has become the first global streamer to ink a deal with the French film industry that will see the window between theatrical and SVOD release significantly reduced. It is now official that Netflix will be able to show movies 15 months after their theatrical releases in the country, slashing the previously…

Is something finally about to give in the long impasse between Cannes and Netflix? In recent days, director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford) has said he hopes his anticipated Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde might make it to the Riviera. Speaking to Screen, the director claimed…