The wait is over. The 77th Cannes Movie Competition is unveiling this 12 months’s competitors lineup, highlighting the titles competing for the 2024 Palme d’Or at a Thursday press convention in Paris.
Cannes competition president Iris Knobloch and inventive director Thierry Frémaux are unveiling the official choice. The lineup consists of the official competitors and out-of-competition titles, the movies in the primary competition sidebar Un Sure Regard in addition to particular and midnight screenings.
You’ll be able to watch the reside feed of the press convention right here.
The French competition is coming off a robust 12 months after 2023 competitors titles Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Curiosity went from the Croisette to Oscar success. Justine Triet’s courtroom drama picked up each the Palme d’Or in Cannes and the Oscar for greatest unique screenplay, whereas Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust story took the runner-up grand prize in Cannes and two Academy Awards: greatest worldwide function and greatest sound.
Cannes’ 2024 version kicks off Might 14 with the out-of-competition world premiere of the French comedy The Second Act, directed by Quentin Dupieux and starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon.
Among the many Hollywood highlights on the Croisette this 12 months are George Miller’s hotly-anticipated Max Max: Fury Street prequel Furiosa, starring Anya Taylor-Pleasure, and Kevin Costner‘s Horizon: An American Saga, the primary of his two-part Western epic. Each Warner Bros. titles are screening out of competitors in Cannes and are utilizing the high-profile competition bow to kick-start their world roll-outs. Warner Bros. is releasing Furiosa in France on Might 22 and on the U.S. on Might 24. The primary of the Horizon movies bows stateside on June 28. The second drops two months later, on Aug. 16.
It was introduced Tuesday that Francis Ford Coppola‘s extremely anticipated, self-funded function Megalopolis would display screen in competitors on Might 17. The movie starring Adam Driver, Shia LaBeouf and Aubrey Plaza not too long ago screened for potential consumers.
Directing and producing legend George Lucas can be feted at this 12 months’s Cannes, receiving an honorary Palme d’Or for his life’s work. The Star Wars helmer screened his directorial debut, THX-1138, in Cannes’ Administrators’ Fortnight sidebar again in 1971. His final movie as a director: Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, additionally premiered on the competition, screening out of competitors in 2005.
In a brand new addition this 12 months, the Cannes Competition introduced it would launch a aggressive immersive part that includes works of digital and augmented actuality that “push the boundaries of storytelling.”
A global jury, headed by Barbie director Greta Gerwig will decide the winners, together with this 12 months’s Palme d’Or, from the competitors titles.
The 77th version of the Cannes Movie Competition runs Might 14-25.