{"id":573863,"date":"2026-04-09T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573863\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:41:08","slug":"has-this-cannes-lineup-confirmed-studios-are-spooked-by-film-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573863\/","title":{"rendered":"Has This Cannes Lineup Confirmed Studios Are Spooked by Film Fests?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCannes unveiled its 2026 lineup<\/a> on Thursday, its star power juiced up by beloved international<\/a> auteurs Pedro Almodovar, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Asghar Farhadi.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd while there is some prominent Hollywood talent \u2014\u00a0such as Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve for Cristian Mungiu\u2019s Fjord, Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder for Jane Schoenbrun\u2019s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, and Cara Delevingne for Jordan Firstman<\/a>\u2018s Club Kid \u2014\u00a0they\u2019re going with the likes of indie outfits Neon, Mubi, and UTA behind them.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhere are the studios? Steven Spielberg\u2019s Disclosure Day at Universal was never a sure bet, and The Hollywood Reporter definitely wasn\u2019t feeling too hopeful about Tom Cruise\u2019s Digger (Warner Bros.) or Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey (also Universal). The same goes for Disney and the hotly anticipated Toy Story 5. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s also worth remembering that not every movie has been announced yet, with artistic director Thierry Fremaux likely to confirm some later additions in the coming weeks. That said, the recent studio tentpoles to play at Cannes \u2014\u00a0think Top Gun: Maverick, Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny \u2014\u00a0were announced in advance of the main selection press conference, which this year took place on Thursday morning French time. So, it\u2019s notable that we haven\u2019t had wind of any yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tFremaux even addressed the studio no-show at the top of the lineup conference. \u201cThe United States will be present [at this year\u2019s festival],\u201d he said, \u201cStudios less [so]. When the studios are less present in Cannes, they are less present full stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTom Cruise and Paramount came two years ago, for Mission: Impossible and Top Gun,\u201d he continued. \u201cBesides the studios and Los Angeles\u2026 [cinema] does exist and this selection will be testimony [to] that. The art of cinema will be present this year on the Croisette.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHistorically, screening at Cannes and other major film fests (Venice, Toronto, Berlin) has always been a mixed bag for the studios. The Croisette undoubtedly boasts the most glamorous red carpet on the planet (is there a more photographed set of stairs than those leading up to the Palais?) with big stunts garnering serious buzz, like Top Gun: Maverick\u2018s 2022 jet flypast blanketing the waterfront in red and blue smoke.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the festivals are subject to some of the most notoriously fickle critics, as explored by THR at the Berlinale<\/a> this year, an event that also failed to lure studio interest. Berlin director Tricia Tuttle traced the trend back to the 2024 Venice festival launch of\u00a0Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux, Todd Phillips\u2019 follow-up to\u00a0Joker, which was swiftly trashed by festival critics and declared dead on arrival. It limped its way to a meager $200 million worldwide (its predecessor, for comparison, accrued over $1 billion, but it also won the Golden Lion).<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd this isn\u2019t to say it\u2019s not an exciting lineup in Cannes: Ira Sachs\u2019 musical fantasy The Man I Love with Rami Malek, John Travolta\u2019s directorial debut Propeller One-Way Night Coach, Kiyoshi Kurosawa\u2019s Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner, and Hirokazu Koreeda\u2019s Sheep in the Box are all headed for the Palais, with documentaries from Ron Howard and Steven Soderbergh too.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, the distinct lack of Hollywood is so prominent that even Fremaux felt he must address it before diving into the 2026 slate. Is it safer to dodge the harsh Cannes critics? Has excitement around major festivals dwindled? Is it harder to market a film out of a fest, or attract audiences weeks after its world premiere? If Fremaux doesn\u2019t have a tentpole up his sleeve, such questions will only become more urgent when Cannes gets underway in May. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cannes unveiled its 2026 lineup on Thursday, its star power juiced up by beloved international auteurs Pedro Almodovar,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[252484,32176,236,88,2091],"class_list":{"0":"post-573863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-cannes-2026","9":"tag-cannes-film-festival","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}