{"id":103217,"date":"2022-05-31T03:42:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T22:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/6-biggest-cannes-film-festival-winners-and-losers\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T03:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T22:12:04","slug":"6-biggest-cannes-film-festival-winners-and-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/6-biggest-cannes-film-festival-winners-and-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Biggest Cannes Film Festival Winners and Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival reminded the world just why people love going to the movies. And movie theaters received an important endorsement from a powerful A-list ally. \u201cI make movies for the big screen,\u201d Tom Cruise said on May 18, just hours before \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d premiered to a rapturous standing ovation on its way to a $151-million box office opening.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the biggest winners and losers from the French Riviera.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner: Neon. <\/strong>The indie distributor has a special touch with Palme d\u2019Or winners. Following 2019\u2019s \u201cParasite\u201d and 2021\u2019s \u201cTitane,\u201d Neon landed North American rights to this year\u2019s big Cannes champ: Ruben \u00d6stlund\u2019s comedy \u201cTriangle of Sadness,\u201d which stars Woody Harrelson as a rabid Marxist who is the captain of a cruise for the super-rich.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loser: An expensive genie.<\/strong> The conventional wisdom on George Miller\u2019s \u201cThree Thousand Years of Longing,\u201d starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, is that it\u2019s too divisive and artsy to make back its $60 million budget.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner: Star Power.<\/strong> Cannes returned with a roar, bringing back A-list glamour to the first full festival since 2019. In addition to Cruise, the fest also welcomed Julia Roberts \u2014 who attended the Troph\u00e9e Chopard dinner on May 19 \u2014 Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Anne Hathaway and Sharon Stone. Stone won every red carpet she walked, even though she didn\u2019t have a film playing at the festival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner: \u201cElvis.\u201d<\/strong> Baz Luhrmann\u2019s big-spectacle biopic starring Austin Butler scored the largest and most enthusiastic standing ovation at Cannes \u2014 clocking in at 12 minutes \u2014 a good sign for film\u2019s popular appeal. Warner Bros. Discovery pulled out all the stops with a raging after-party on the beach attended by its newly minted CEO David Zaslav. The mogul even walked the carpet with hair slicked back, perhaps as an homage to Elvis\u2019 coiffure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loser: Air-conditioning and masks.<\/strong> Was it hot in Cannes \u2014 or was it just you? With temperatures spiking in the south of France, the festival felt like purgatory this year, as most U.S. attendees complained that the Palais was too stuffy and hot during the big premieres. As for Cannes fashion, one accessory that was almost invisible? Masks. Almost all attendees carried on as if COVID was but a distant memory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner: Christina Aguilera. <\/strong>Can there be a Palme d\u2019Or for best musical performance? Taking the stage at 1 a.m. on May 27, the singer belted out a set of five of her songs \u2014 including the \u201cMoulin Rouge!\u201d anthem \u201cLady Marmalade\u201d \u2014 that had oligarchs and millionaires cheering as the highlight of this year\u2019s amfAR Cannes gala at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival reminded the world just why people love going to the movies. And movie theaters received an important endorsement from a powerful A-list ally. \u201cI make movies for the big screen,\u201d Tom Cruise said on May 18, just hours before \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d premiered to a rapturous standing ovation on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":103218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6-Biggest-Cannes-Film-Festival-Winners-and-Losers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}