Cannes Wrap-Up

Your Film Festival Round-Up Here's this week's wrap-up from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival: [‘Megalopolis’ Confounds Cannes Audience as Laughter Drowns Out Cringey Dialogue]( Is it a film? Is it a manifesto? What is “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s new magnum opus, which debuted in Cannes on Thursday? The filmmaker's self-financed epic drew mixed responses from its first audience. Read Sharon Waxman's full reaction [here](. [A Serious Cannes Film Festival Opens With a Goofy Comedy, ‘The Second Act’]( Things are serious at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. So what better way to kick it off than with a comedy? That’s what Cannes did on Tuesday night, launching with “The Second Act” by jokey provocateur Quentin Dupieux. Click to read Steve Pond's take [here](. [36 of the Biggest Directors at Cannes 2024]( As we do every year, TheWrap is celebrating the Cannes Film Festival by spanning the globe in photos of directors from all sections of the festival. This year’s portfolio consists of three dozen directors shot in 18 cities on four continents. Checkout the list of directors [here]([.]( [‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Review: Anya Taylor-Joy Takes Over in a Brutal Return to Fury Road]( Cannes 2024: The fifth “Mad Max” installment contains as many vehicular stunts as a “Fast & Furious” flick but still felt at home in the Grand Theatre Lumiere at Cannes Read Steve Pond's full review [here](. [‘Megalopolis’ Director Francis Ford Coppola Slams Studio System at Cannes: ‘The Studios Are in Great Debt’]( As legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola seeks distribution for his self-financed $120 million epic [“Megalopolis”]( at the Cannes Film Festival, he offered a blunt assessment of the traditional studio system during a press conference on Friday. “I fear that the film industry has become more of a matter of people being hired to meet their debt obligations because the studios are in great, great debt,” Coppola said alongside his cast for the movie he’s wanted to make for decades. “The job is not so much to make good movies, the job is to make sure that they pay their debt obligations. Obviously, new companies like Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, they have plenty of money. So, it might be that the studios we knew for so long are not to be here in the future anymore.” “Megalopolis” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to a 10-minute standing ovation on Thursday night and is filled with references to the fall of Rome as it relates to our current state of politics. Though the film is a reflection of how empires have fallen in the past, it’s ultimately a passion project for writer and director Coppola and has yet to secure domestic distribution. Coppola insists he’s always been a maverick when it comes to financing his own projects, but he’s nervous about the state of movie distribution now and in the future. Continue reading the full story [here](. [Cannes 2024 Red Carpet Gallery]( Can the entertainment industry’s most exciting celebrities and filmmakers take their Hollywood glam to France? Yes they Cannes. See the best of 2024 Cannes Film Festival red carpet fashion [here](! That's A Wrap! 2034 Armacost Ave. | Los Angeles, CA 90025 [Unsubscribe](