{"id":664059,"date":"2026-05-25T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664059\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:33:09","slug":"boots-riley-says-cannes-didnt-pick-his-latest-movie-i-love-boosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664059\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots Riley Says Cannes Didn&#8217;t Pick His Latest Movie I Love Boosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNeon may be the toast of Cannes \u2014\u00a0again \u2014\u00a0after landing its seventh consecutive Palme d\u2019Or on Saturday thanks to \u201cFjord,\u201d but according to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/boots-riley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_boots-riley\" data-tag=\"boots-riley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boots Riley<\/a>, the distributor could have had another hot film in its 2026 lineup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWith the musician and filmmaker\u2019s latest movie \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/i-love-boosters\/\" id=\"auto-tag_i-love-boosters\" data-tag=\"i-love-boosters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I Love Boosters<\/a>\u201d having hit cinemas on May 22, Riley has been busy promoting the crime comedy \u2014\u00a0starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez and LaKeith Stanfield \u2014\u00a0across social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBut when asked by someone on X why Neon chose to launch the film at SXSW rather than in Cannes, Riley said that it was down to the French festival, which he claimed had also rejected his previous projects, including his 2018 dark comedy feature debut \u201cSorry to Bother You\u201d (which bowed in Sundance that year) and 2023 surrealist comedy series \u201cI am a Virgo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cCannes didn\u2019t pick Sorry to Bother You altho they picked other stuff that had been played in their home country,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThey picked The Idol over I\u2019m a Virgo. They didn\u2019t pick I Love Boosters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRiley concluded: \u201cThey just don\u2019t like my stuff. All good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI Love Boosters,\u201d Riley\u2019s second feature, is a absurdist comic send-up of consumerism, following a Robin Hood-like gang who shoplift high fashion from the rich and then sell it on on for a fraction of the price. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn Variety\u2018s review, it described the film as an \u201cincendiary prank of a movie\u201d that \u201cbegs our indulgence at times yet also invites us to get high on what a playful provocation it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tVariety has reached out to both the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/cannes-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cannes-film-festival\" data-tag=\"cannes-film-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a> and Neon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neon may be the toast of Cannes \u2014\u00a0again \u2014\u00a0after landing its seventh consecutive Palme d\u2019Or on Saturday thanks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[205302,32176,236,88,205303],"class_list":["post-664059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-boots-riley","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-i-love-boosters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664059","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=664059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}