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NEON has dated their fifth Cannes Palme D’Or winner Anora for Oct. 18 per Comscore in what will be a limited release. October is the traditional launch pad for NEON with their Palme D’Or winning fare including 2019’s ultimate Oscar Best Picture winner Parasite (Oct. 11), 2021’s Titane (Oct 1)…

No one really expected this year’s Cannes Film Festival to replicate the stellar showing of last year at the Oscars, when official selections Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall, and The Zone of Interest took an unprecedented three of the 10 Best…

In accepting the Palme d’Or today for his latest movie Anora, Sean Baker gave a shoutout for the survival of cinema. At the Cannes Film Festival awards presser he said he hopes his movie is “certainly one step toward helping” theaters. “You see theaters closing every day unfortunately. I follow…

Often, the juries at the Cannes Film Festival will try to make a political statement in their choices for the winners of the world’s most famous film festival. Not this year. At least, not in the way they might have. I rather thought that director…

“We really led with our hearts for everything we watched,” said 77th Cannes Film Festival Jury President Greta Gerwig on what was a fiercely competitive year. In a Cannes that delivered a Demi Moore comeback pro-femme horror film Substance, a ground breaking trans noir Spanish-lingo musical in Emilia…

UPDATE: Sean Baker's New York-set romantic dramedy Anora has scooped the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or. This marked Baker's second time in the competition after 2021's Red Rocket, and tonight's win amounted to the realization of what Baker said has been his "singular goal as a filmmaker…

It just had to be, didn’t it. U.S. distributor Neon only had two movies in the Competition: Anora and The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Neither could have fared any better with the critics and both won prizes tonight. It was Sean Baker’s Anora that stormed to the top prize on the Riviera, making it a…

Better Things actress Mikey Madison goes the distance in a raw and revealing performance as a high-class stripper who is romanced, and married by, the son of a Russian oligarch in Sean Baker’s Anora. The pic is one of many in Baker’s canon, including Starlet and Red Rocket, that centers on a sex…

Sean Baker returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday with Anora, his New York-set romantic dramedy about a stripper from Brooklyn who transforms into a modern Cinderella when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch. The film, playing in the official competition three years after Baker’s…

Sean Baker's previous film, 2022’s Red Rocket (2022), began with *NSYNC's Spotify-topping "Bye Bye Bye," but Anora starts with the slightly lesser-known "Greatest Days" by British boy band Take That. Musically, it's a bold choice, at odds with the frenetic spirit of what for over half its running time is…

Mikey Madison says the call from Sean Baker came entirely out of the blue. "I guess he'd seen a horror film I did, Scream [2022], on the opening weekend, and decided to call my agent the very next day. I met him and Samantha Quan, his producing partner, for coffee, and they pitched me this amazing, crazy…