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Crew members install the red carpet at the Palais des Festivals ahead of the opening ceremony of the 78th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

5 things to look for at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

The 78th Cannes Film Festival got underway Tuesday, kicking off two weeks of French Riviera frenzy. Here are five things to look for at this year’s Cannes.
 
This image released by Focus Features shows Benicio Del Toro in a scene from "The Phoenician Scheme." (TPS Productions/Focus Features via AP)

Cannes, the global Colosseum of film, readies for 78th edition with new challenges on the horizon

 
Paul Mescal, from left, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan, and Harris Dickinson, cast members of the upcoming films about The Beatles, speak during the Sony Pictures presentation at CinemaCon on Monday, March 31, 2025, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The Beatles biopics cast revealed: Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Joseph Quinn and Harris Dickinson

 
This combination of photos shows actor Paul Mescal at the 77th British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA's, in London on Feb. 18, 2024, left, actor Rita Moreno at Time's second annual Women of the Year Gala in Los Angeles on March 8, 2023, center, and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino at the awards ceremony during the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 27, 2023. Mescal, Moreno and Tarantino are getting awards at the annual Academy Museum Gala in October. (AP Photo)

Academy Museum Gala picks starry honorees for its fall fundraiser

 
Andrew Scott poses for a portrait to promote the film "All of Us Strangers" on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP)

Even Andrew Scott was startled by his vulnerability in ‘All of Us Strangers’

 

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This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Andrew Scott, left, and and Paul Mescal in a scene from "All of Us Strangers." (Parisa Taghizadeh/ Searchlight Pictures via AP)

Movie Review: Ghosts and longing and love in ‘All of Us Strangers’

 
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Director Andrew Haigh poses for a portrait to promote the film "All of Us Strangers" on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP)

Andrew Haigh on the collapsing times and unhealed wounds of his ghost story ‘All of Us Strangers’

 
FILE - Members of the The Writers Guild of America picket outside Paramount Pictures on May 3, 2023, in Los Angeles. Hollywood productions and promotional tours around the world have been put on indefinite hold as actors and writers are on strike against big studios and streaming services.(AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Movies and TV shows affected by Hollywood actors and screenwriters’ strikes

 
An advertisement for streaming service Paramount+ appears above striking writers and actors at rally outside Paramount studios in Los Angeles on Friday, July 14, 2023. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Movies and TV shows affected by Hollywood actors and screenwriters’ strikes