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Worldwide box office: May 22-24 RankFilm (distributor)3-day (world)3-day (int’l)Cume (world)Cume (int’l) Territories 1 Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu (Disney) $144.9m $63m $144.9m $63m 52 2 Michael (Lionsgate/Universal) $48.5m $28.5m $782.3m $468.1m 84 3 Dear You (Damai) $39.5m $39.5m $151.5m $151.5m 1 4 The Devil Wears Prada 2 (Disney) $33.7m $21.2m $604.1m $408m 53 5 Obsession (Universal) $31.3m $8.9m $73.9m $21.2m 46 6 The Sheep Detectives (various) $14.5m $5.6m $82.2m $38.7m 58 7 Passenger (Paramount) $13.5m $4.8m $13.5m $4.8m 50 8 Colony…

The Mandalorian And Grogu, Lucasfilm-Disney’s first Star Wars universe feature in seven years, dominated the Memorial Day holiday weekend with an estimated $102m four-day take at the North American box office.  Jon Favreau’s sci-fi adventure earned an estimated $82m from 4,300 locations over the Friday-Sunday marking the official start of summer blockbuster season – and stepped up on Saturday, when walk-in traffic defied prior, lower forecasts that were predicated on Friday’s $33m haul. And while this is the lowest opening weekend by any Star Wars film since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012 – lower even than the maligned Solo: A Star…

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord has won the Palme d’Or at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Other winners on the night included Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, taking the Grand Prix, and a Best Director prize shared between Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s The Black Ball, and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland. Scroll down for the full list of winners The ceremony washosted by French actress Eye Haidara, who also hosted the opening ceremony on May 12. The nine-person jury was headed by South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, alongside directors Chloe Zhao, Laura Wandel and Diego Cespedes, screenwriter Paul Laverty, and actors Demi Moore, Isaach de Bankole, Stellan Skarsgard and…

US sales firm 193 has sealed deals on four key titles on its slate at the Cannes market, including The Brigands Of Rattlecreek, directed by Cannes Competition jury president Park Chan-wook. Brigands has sold to select Latin American territories (Sun Distribution) and Italy (Leone Film Group). Park’s film will star Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal and Tang Wei, in a western about a sheriff and a doctor who seek revenge against a group of bandits who use the cover of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorise the occupants of a small town. Fernando Meirelles’ satire Art starring Ralph…

Clio Barnard’s I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning won the People’s Choice award at Cannes Film Festival’s independent sidebar Directors’ Fortnight, which wraps today (May 21). It stars Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew as a group of childhood friends on the cusp of their 30th birthdays who grew up in the same building complex and are forced to confront a life where their hopes and dreams haven’t materialised. Tracy O’Riordan produces for Moonspun Films. Curzon distributes in the UK and Ireland. Irish playwright Enda Walsh wrote the script from Keiran Goddard’s novel. The film…

Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva has won the Grand Prix in the independent Critics’ Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was chosen by a jury led by president Payal Kapadia, and fellow jurors Ama Ampadu, Donsaron Kovitvanitcha, Oklou and Theodore Pellerin. Atlan, whose credits as a cinematographer include 2025’s The Girl In The Snow, makes her feature directing debut with a film about a group of French high schoolers on a trip to Pompeii, who experience intense emotions and unexpected events during their visit to the ancient city. The film is produced by France’s Les Films du Poisson…

Arthur Harari’s The Unknown and Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord both received a wide range of scores on Screen International’s 2026 Cannes jury grid. Body-swap mystery The Unknown sees Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider lead the story of a man who wakes up in the body of an unknown woman after they spend the night together. Harari is the Oscar-winning co-screenwriter of Anatomy Of A Fall and returns to Cannes with his third feature as a director.  Click on the image above for the most up-to-date version of the grid. Five of our 12 critics awarded The Unknown three stars (good), however two X’s…

South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin confirms he has written a sequel for his genre thriller Hope which premiered in Competition at Cannes Film Festival last night (May 17). “When you watch this film, I think you can readily imagine a sequel,” Na said in a press conference via a translator. “There is a story and a script that has already been written that I’d like to shoot. “If I have the opportunity, I will indeed make a sequel. The ensuing storyline will perhaps have to be modified a bit, but in any event I would indeed like to film a…

Cate Blanchett said the #MeToo movement “got killed very quickly” whilst discussing politics, film festivals and AI in a wide-ranging conversation at Cannes Film Festival. The Australian actor and producer said the #MeToo movement was shut down because the industry could not solve the problem. “It got killed very quickly which I think is interesting,” Blanchett explained. “There are a lot of people with platforms who are able to speak up with relative safety and say this has happened to me and the so-called average woman on the street, person on the street, is saying me too. Why does that…

EU commissioner Henna Virkunnen said the film industry “shouldn’t be too nervous” about future funding for European films under the proposed AgoraEU programme. Funding for film hasn’t been ringfenced in the AgoraEU programme because of a desire for flexibility, she told Screen. “But, [looking at the] overall picture, it’s important for the film industry that we were proposing to increase the whole funding, so there should be enough resources also for the film industry.” Asked if the film industry could expect similar or more funding than the current Media programme in AgoraEU, Virkunnen replied: “Yes, I see so. Of course,…