Hollywood Ghosts the Croisette, Queer Cinema Owns It and AI Crashes the Party: Five Takeaways From Cannes 2026

Hollywood Ghosts the Croisette, Queer Cinema Owns It and AI Crashes the Party: Five Takeaways From Cannes 2026

Quiet on the surface, Cannes 2026 exposed the fault lines reshaping cinema — from the evolving indie ecosystem and the studios’ festival retreat to the industry’s uneasy embrace of AI. Published on May 23, 2026 (L to R): Competition favorite ‘The Black Ball,’ ‘Club Kid’ director Jordan Firstsman, Vin Diesel at ‘The Fast and The…

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Cannes Winners Unveiled (Updating Live)

Cannes Winners Unveiled (Updating Live)

The closing ceremony of the 79th Cannes Film Festival has begun in the Grand Théâtre Lumière, where the jury will announced the winners of this year’s event, including the Palme d’Or. You can watch the ceremony live on TikTok Brut or, inside France, on public channel France 2. This year’s jury is headed by South…

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Co-opting the “Hollywood Machine to Tell Different Kinds of Stories”: Liam Young on His Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Co-opting the “Hollywood Machine to Tell Different Kinds of Stories”: Liam Young on His Immersive Experience ‘In Other Worlds’

Welcome to a different kind of science fiction experience! Embark on a journey through six possible future worlds and engage with films, audio stories and soundscapes, installations and projections, costumes and tapestries, movie miniatures and speculative artefacts. This is In Other Worlds, an immersive experience created by designer, director, and producer Liam Young (Planet City),…

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Maika Monroe’s Wayward Governess Is Bloodthirsty in Gory Teaser Trailer for ‘Victorian Psycho’

Maika Monroe’s Wayward Governess Is Bloodthirsty in Gory Teaser Trailer for ‘Victorian Psycho’

Maika Monroe is eerily bloodthirsty in a newly released teaser trailer for her latest horror, Victorian Psycho. The film — from the producers of Longlegs, the feature that solidified Monroe’s status as a Scream Queen — gets its world premiere on Thursday in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, after The Hollywood Reporter unveiled an exclusive first look…

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