Saturday, May 23, 2026

SPECIAL SATURDAY POST: FINAL CRITICAL CHECK-IN BEFORE CANNES AWARDS

FINAL CRITICAL CHECK-IN BEFORE CANNES AWARDS


Updated as of this morning at 10:30 am (EST) for all 22 Palme competition tiles

IONCINEMA (5 point scale)

1) Fatherland 3.7
1) Fjord 3.7
1) Coward 3.7
4) Minotaur 3.5
5) A Man of His Time 3.4
5) The Man I Love 3.4
7) All of a Sudden 3.3
8) Paper Tiger 3.2
8) The Beloved 3.2
10) Hope 3.2
11) Naji Notes 2.8
11) The Black Ball 2.8
11) A Woman's Life 2.8
14) Bitter Christmas 2.7
14) Moulin 2.7
16) Gentle Monster 2.6
16) Another Day 2.6
18) The Unknown 2.4
18) Parallel Tales 2.4
20) Sheep in the Box 2.2

Note: Ioncinema did not have ratings this morning for The Dreamed Adventure or The Birthday Party.

SCREEN DAILY (4 point scale)

1) Fatherland 3.3
2) Minotaur 3.2
3) All of a Sudden 3.1
3) The Dreamed Adventure 3.1
5) Paper Tiger 2.8
5) A Man of His Time 2.8
5) Hope 2.8
8) Fjord 2.5
8) Naji Notes 2.5
10) The Man I Love 2.4
11) Bitter Christmas 2.2
12) The Black Ball 2.1
13) Coward 2.0
13) The Beloved 2.0
15) A Woman's Life 1.9
15) Moulin 1.9
15)The Unknown 1.9
18) Gentle Monster 1.8
19) Another Day 1.7
19) Parallel Lives 1.7
21) Sheep in the Box 1.3
22) The Birthday Party 1.1

INTERNATIONAL CINEPHILE SOCIETY (4 point scale)

1) Paper Tiger 3.69
2) Fatherland 3.58
2) A Man of His Time 3.54
4) The Man I Love 3.50
5) All of a Sudden 3.38
6) Minotaur 3.23
7) The Unknown 3.19
8)The Dreamed Adventure 3.05
9) Coward 3.00
9) Fjord 3.00
11) Bitter Christmas 2.96
12) Moulin 2.75
13) Hope 2.71
14) A Woman's Life 2.64
15) Naji Notes 2.62
16) The Birthday Party 2.55
17) The Beloved 2.54
18) Gentle Monster 2.45
18) Another Day 2.45
20) The Black Ball 2.23
21) Sheep in the Box 2.04
22) Parallel Tales 1.69

CANNES-RATINGS.ORG (10 point scale)

1) Bitter Christmas 7.46
2) Coward 7.43
3) All of a Sudden 7.36
4) Minotaur 6.99
5) The Black Ball 6.94
6) The Dreamed Adventure 6.72
7) Fjord 6.64
8) The Beloved 6.49
9) A Man of His Time 6.4
10) Another Day 6.23
11) Paper Tiger 6.14
12) Hope 6.09
13) Fatherland 6.08
14) A Woman's Life 5.56
15) Moulin 5.35
16) The Man I Love 5.28
17) Naji Notes 6.27
18) Gentle Monster 4.73
19) Sheep in the Box 4.44
20) Parallel Tales 4.17
21) The Unknown 4.13
22) The Birthday Party 3.99


and the MTFB "touch" the combination from all four sources.

1) Fatherland 13.62
2)  All of a Sudden 13.46
3) Minotaur 13.45
4) A Man of His Time 12.94
5) Paper Tiger 12.76
6) The Dreamed Adventure 12.68
7) Fjord 12.52
8) Coward 12.42
9) The Man I Love 11.94
10) Hope 11.76
11) Bitter Christmas 11.59
12) The Beloved 10.99
13) The Black Ball 10.60
14) Naji Notes 10.56
15) A Woman's Life 10.12
16) Moulin 10.03
17) Another Day 9.87
18) The Unknown 9.56
19) Gentle Monster 9.22
20) Parallel Tales 7.88
21) Sheep in the Box 7.76
22) The Birthday Party 5.65

The Kalshi line for the Plame d'Or as of 10:30am (EST): Minotaur, All of a Sudden, Fatherland.  Big spike for Minotaur in the past few hours.

Friday, May 22, 2026

SPECIAL FRIDAY UPDATE: CANNES AND THE CRITICS

SPECIAL FRIDAY UPDATE: CANNES AND THE CRITICS



With the awards now only hours away in France. MTFB is updating our window on the critical response there.

Additional titles have screened and continued adding of critics' responses puts us with 12 films we're including in our analysis of what's what at Cannes

Here's the rundown on each film from each critical accumulator I'm following: Ioncinema, Screen Daily, The International Cinephile Society and Cannes-ratings.org.

IONCINEMA (5 point scale)

1) Fatherland 3.7
1) Fjord 3.7
1) Coward 3.7
4) Minotaur 3.5
5) A Man of His Time 3.4
5) The Man I Love 3.4
7) All of a Sudden 3.3
8) Paper Tiger 3.2
8) The Beloved 3.2
10) Hope 3.2
11) Bitter Christmas 3.0
12) The Black Ball 2.8

SCREEN DAILY (4 point scale)

1) Fatherland 3.3
2) Minotaur 3.2
3) All of a Sudden 3.1
4) Paper Tiger 2.8
4) Hope 2.8
4) A Man of His Time 2.8
7) Fjord 2.5
8) Bitter Christmas 2.2
9) The Man I Love 2.1
9) The Black Ball 2.8
11)Coward 2.0
11) The Beloved 2.0

INTERNATIONAL CINEPHILE SOCIETY (4 point scale)

1) Paper Tiger 3.69
2) Fatherland 3.54
2) A Man of His Time 3.54
4) The Man I Love 3.50
5) All of a Sudden 3.38
6) Minotaur 3.23
7) Coward 3.06
8) Bitter Christmas 3.00
9) Fjord 2.96
10) Hope 2.71
11) The Beloved 2.54
12) The Black Ball 2.05

CANNES-RATINGS.ORG (10 point scale)

1) The Black Ball 8.62
2) Coward 7.80
3) Bitter Christmas 7.48
4) All of a Sudden 7.27
5) Minotaur 7.00
6) Fjord 6.81
7) The Beloved 6.49
8) Hope 6.37
9) A Man of His Time 6.33
10) Fatherland 6.12
11) Paper Tiger 6.07
12) The Man I Love 5.44


and the MTFB "touch" the combination from all four sources*.

1) Fatherland 13.60
2) Minotaur 13.42
2)  All of a Sudden 13.42
4) A Man of His Time 12.91
5) Paper Tiger 12.73
6) Coward 12.66
7) Fjord 12.57
8) Bitter Christmas 11.94
9) Hope 11.90
10) The Man I Love 11.72
11) The Black Ball 11.26
12) The Beloved 10.99


* Ratings have been balanced for each source.

Finally the Kalshi line this morning for the Palme d'Or have All of a Sudden out front with The Black Ball at #2 and Fatherland at #3.

The critics are all over the place with various groups placing films at wildly divergent spots within this top 12.  Look again at the combined ratings with the addition of what spot they're at in each of the four groups.  It's crazily inconsistent:

1) Fatherland 13.60 [1-1-2-10]
2) Minotaur 13.42 [4-2-6-5]
2)  All of a Sudden 13.42 [7-3-5-4]
4) A Man of His Time 12.91 [5-4-2-9]
5) Paper Tiger 12.73 [8-4-1-11]
6) Coward 12.66 [1-11-7-2]
7) Fjord 12.57 [1-7-9-6]
8) Bitter Christmas 11.94 [11-8-8-3]
9) Hope 11.90 [10-4-10-8]
10) The Man I Love 11.72 [5-9-4-12]
11) The Black Ball 11.26 [12-9-12-1]
12) The Beloved 10.99 [8-11-11-7]

My gut leans toward All of a Sudden.

A Tough week for Farhadi (Parallel Tales), Kruetzer (Gentle Monster), Kore-eda (Sheep in the Box), Harari (The Unknown) and Nemes (Moulin).

Source links:

https://www.ioncinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-cannes-grid-bitter-christmas.jpg

https://www.screendaily.com/cannes-jury-grid

https://icsfilm.org/cannes-ics-grid/cannes-2026-ics-press-industry-panel/

https://cannes-ratings.org/

Thursday, May 21, 2026

SPECIAL: Cannes Critics' Update

 SPECIAL: CANNES CRITICS UPDATE-THURSDAY

As an addendum to today's regular post I am updating the critics' charts with the most recently available information.

We're looking what seem to be the eight critical favorites from the Palme d'Or competition.  Each of them are somewhere on the MTFB radar as possible titles for TFF #53.  Currently, the charts are missing sufficient data on 4-5 films (keep an eye on the critical response to Lukas Dhont's Coward)  Award winners will be announced on Saturday.

Here's the rundown on each film from each critical accumulator I'm following: Ioncinema, Screen Daily, The International Cinephile Society and Cannes-ratings.org.

IONCINEMA (5 point scale)

1) Fatherland 3.7
1) Fjord 3.7
3) Minotaur 3.5
4) All of a Sudden 3.3
5) Paper Tiger 3.2
5) The Beloved 3.2
5) Hope 3.2
8) Bitter Christmas 2.9

SCREEN DAILY (4 point scale)

1) Fatherland 3.3
2) Minotaur 3.2
3) All of a Sudden 3.1
4) Paper Tiger 2.8
4) Hope 2.8
6) Fjord 2,5
7) Bitter Christmas 2.2
8) The Beloved 2.0

INTERNATIONAL CINEPHILE SOCIETY (4 point scale)

1) Paper Tiger 3.69
2) Fatherland 3.54
3) All of a Sudden 3.38
4) Minotaur 3.23
5) Bitter Christmas 3.04
6) Fjord 2.82
7) Hope 2.71
8) The Beloved 2.54

CANNES-RATINGS.ORG (10 point scale)

1) Bitter Christmas 7.61
2) Minotaur 7.38
3) All of a Sudden 6.86
4) Fjord 6.69
5) The Beloved 6.51
5) Hope 6.51
7) Fatherland 6.03
8) Paper Tiger 6.02

and the MTFB "touch" the combination from all four sources*.

1) Minotaur 13.62
2) Fatherland 13.56
3) All of a Sudden 13.21
4) Paper Tiger 12.70
5) Fjord 12.37
6) Bitter Christmas 12.00
7) Hope 11.95
8) The Beloved

* Ratings have been balanced for each source.

Finally the Kalshi line this morning for the Palme d'Or have All of a sudden and Minotaur in a dead heat closely followed by Fatherland.

Source links:

https://www.ioncinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-cannes-grid-bitter-christmas.jpg

https://www.screendaily.com/cannes-jury-grid

https://icsfilm.org/cannes-ics-grid/cannes-2026-ics-press-industry-panel/

https://cannes-ratings.org/

Cannes Continues / Some Buzz from Eisenberg / Mike Leigh Has a Title

 CANNES CONTINUES



The 79th Cannes Film Fest has passed its halfway mark and is barreling toward its conclusion this weekend. Taking a look at the metrics from Screen Daily, Ioncinema and Cannes-ratings.org, here are the films that seem to be at the forefront critically (*** indicates that the film is on my TFF watch list):

From Screen Daily (films in Palme competition with a better than 2.5 rating on a four point scale):

1) Fatherland 3.3***
2) All of a Sudden 3.1***
3) Paper Tiger 2.8***
3) Hope 2.8***
5) Naji Notes 2.5

https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=7d45952f-7ff1-4ba7-b98c-78b6cf24da1e


From Ioncinema (films in Palme competition with a better than 3.0 rating on a five point scale):

1) Fatherland 3.7***
2) Fjord 3.5***
3) All of a Sudden 3.3***
4) Paper Tiger 3.2***
4) The Beloved 3.2
6) Hope 3.1***

https://www.ioncinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-cannes-grid-fjord.jpg


From Cannes-ratings.org (films in Palme competition with a better than 7.0 rating on a 10 point scale and a minimum of 8 reviews):

1) Fjord 7.81***
2) Bitter Christmas 7.53***
3) All of a Sudden 7.24***
3) The Beloved 7.24

Of special note is the hugely favorable critical reception to Club Kid from the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.  It has a stellar 8.43 rating to lead all films in any section of the fest.  News broke on Tuesday that the film had been picked up for U.S. distribution by A24 after a bidding war that included: Netflix, Searchlight, Focus Features and MUBI according to this story from Variety.

The critical reception, the players vying for the film and the ultimate winning bid is enough to make me pay attention to it as a possible TFF selection.   Stay tuned.

Club Kid is a first feature for director/writer Jordan Firstman. .  The IMDb description is:

"A washed-up New York party promoter is forced to turn his life around when an unexpected visitor arrives."

https://cannes-ratings.org/

According to Kalshi  (as of yesterday), Minotaur has the best odds to win the Palme followed by All of a Sudden and Fatherland.


SOME BUZZ FOR EISENBERG




Spooking around the interwebs yesterday I came across the news that what has been referred to as "The Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical Comedy now has an actual title: No One Cares.  It also seems that the film has been screened at Cannes and it seems that the screening went well.  So says World of Reel. 

WOR describes the film as follows:

"Starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, with Eisenberg also appearing briefly, “No One Cares” is set in “the high-stakes world of community theater,” and follows a shy woman (Moore) who is unexpectedly cast in a local production of an original musical."

Giamatti plays the director of the community theater production.  I think it sounds great and I have had it on my TFF #53 watch list for some time mostly because Eisenberg screened A Real Pain at TFF in 2024.  That seemed to work out fairly well.  The film is being distributed by A24 which doesn't hurt.  Additionally WOR writes:

"A24 is positioning the film for a fall premiere, potentially at the Telluride Film Festival and then at the Toronto International Film Festival. An Oscar campaign will likely be mounted for all key players involved."


MIKE LEIGH HAS A TITLE




Another "Untitled Project" has an actual title and that's the next film from director Mike Leigh.  The name: Tender Loving Care.  Past that we know almost nothing about the project.  You can likely glean a bit of info from what IMDb still lists as "Untitled 2025 Mike Leigh Project"  which we assume is the same thing as the newly christened Tender Loving Care.

https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt35638092/details

The IMDb entry reveals that Bleeker Street is the U.S. distributor.

Considering Leigh's frequent stops at TFF over the years (Secrets and Lies, Happy-Go-Lucky, Another Year and others) you have to believe there's a decent chance that if it's ready, Tender Loving Care has a decent shot to play TFF #53.




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Monday, May 18, 2026

Early Returns from Cannes / Cousins New Doc Gets Distribution / Pics for Gentle Monster

EARLY RETURNS FROM CANNES

Though we're only through the first few days of the Cannes International Film Festival, we're already seeing the emergence of some potential prize-winners for the fest.  Here's the early version of the Screen Daily panel of critics:

SCREEN DAILY




As you can see the early films making a mark here are Pawlikowskis' Fatherland and Hamaguchi's all of a Sudden.  Both films have been fairly consistently on the various lists I have posted since the Oscar ceremony and before.  Meanwhile. Ioncinema's chart echoes the status of both Father land and All of a Sudden:


Meanwhile, we're awaiting a sufficient number of reviews to be accumulated at Cannes-ratings.org to truly make any assumption regarding where films are truly standing withe regard to that metric.

Couple of other notes here.  Both Farhadi's Parallel Tales, Kore-eda's Sheep in a Box and Kruetzer's Gentle Monster seem on shaky ground as regards prizes at Cannes and  perhaps as contenders for TFF #53.


COUSINS NEW DOCUMENTARY (ABOUT DOCUMENTARIES) GETS DISTRIBUTION




Telluride regular Marc Cousins (The Story of Film, A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things among several others) has garnered distribution for his next project: The Story of Documentary Film)  Kino Lorber has nabbed the North American rights for the 16 part doc about docs.

The question as to its possible appearance at Telluride rises from its inclusion at Sundance earlier this year.  My best guess is that owing to Cousins frequent presence at TFF and his current position as a Resident Curator and his past position on the fest's Board of Advisors. as well as being a TFF Tributee in 2022...my bet is we get some of the 16 episodes.

The story reagrding the Kino Lober acquisition is linked here from Variety.
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/kino-lorber-mark-cousins-the-story-of-documentary-film-1236751389/


PICS FROM GENTLE MONSTER

https://theplaylist.net/2026-cannes-film-festival-27-most-anticipated-films-20260511








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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Cannes Is On / Awards Watch Oscar Predictions and TFF Clues / Bitter Christmas Teaser and Poster / Pics of Possibles from Cannes

CANNES IS ON




The 79th Cannes Film Festival is officially underway in France.  As is our habit here at MTFB, we will monitor the fest for the next two weeks looking at buzz, critical reception and ultimately prize winners to assess prospects for films to do the Cannes/Telluride Two Step.  

As I have often mentioned, the link between the two film fests is quite strong with an average of 7ish or so films playing each year, first at Cannes and then later at Telluride.

I also tend to look at Cannes-ratings.org, Ioncinema and Screen daily for collections of critical responses.  Last year nine films made the trans-Atlantic leap from France to Colorado.  Here's where they stood critically at Cannes based on the Cannes-ratings.org site's 10 point system:

Sentimental Value 8.04
It Was Just an Accident 7.75
Pillion 7.30
Nouvelle Vague 7.23
Urchin 7.15
The Secret Agent 6.99
Mastermind 6.29
A Private Life 5.90
The History of Sound 5.31

It's too early in the fest to start keeping tabs on the critical reactions but we may be able to begin to evaluate some of that in Monday's post.


AWARDS WATCH AND TFF CLUES




Erik Anderson has begun his annual updating list of predictions for Oscar '27 and I'm going through them for possible TFF titles.  among the films that he lists as Best Picture possibilities, these are the ones that look most Telluride-friendly:

Fjord
Wild Horse Nine
Fatherland
The Social Reckoning
All of a Sudden
Sense and Sensibility
Behemoth!
Being Heumann
Coward
Hope
Jack of Spades
Minotaur
Paper Tiger
Saturn Return
Sweetsick
No One Cares (Jesse Eisenberg musical)

https://awardswatch.com/2027-oscar-predictions-best-picture-and-best-director-may/


BITTER CHRISTMAS TEASER AND POSTER

Pedro Almodovar's Bitter Christmas is playing Cannes...and could be a Telluride player as well.  In conjunction with its bow at Cannes, there is a poster and a teaser. Here they be:




And the teaser from Sony Pictures Classics and YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PgPkSpuYpY&t=2s



PICS FROM POSSIBLES FROM CANNES:

***From Vanity Fair:  Paper Tiger:


***From The Hollywood Reporter: Coward:





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Monday, May 11, 2026

Herzog and Cannes in 2026 / Tony Comes Off the List / Gaudagnino and Artificial Move to 2027

HERZOG AND CANNES IN 2026



The confusion surrounding whether Werner Herzog's Bucking Fastard might or might not screen at Cannes seems to have been cleared up.  Variety has reported that the film was selected but not for Palme d'Or competition.  That appears to have not sat well with the Herzog camp as they reportedly turned down the invitation.  

Variety further reports that the impetus for that decision has to do with the eligibilty for Rooney and Kate Mara who play sisters in the film.  From Variety:

"The reason that “Bucking Fastard” won’t be playing at that the Palais is that it wasn’t offered a Cannes competition slot. Herzog had hoped that stars Rooney and Kate Mara, who are said to give searing performances as twin sisters, would be eligible for awards, according to a source close to the filmmakers."

Open speculation is that Herzog will likely now premiere the film at Venice...which would still leave it positioned to make the TFF #53 lineup.

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/werner-herzog-bucking-fastard-turns-down-cannes-invite-1236741890/


TONY COMES OFF THE LIST




I had included Matt Johnson's Tony (sort of origin story for celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain starring Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) in the title role) on a couple of speculative lists for Telluride.  That's moot now as we.ve seen that the film has been dated for release on August 7th.


GUADAGNINO AND ARTIFICIAL MOVE TO 2027




Another film that is probably off the list of TFF #53 possibles is Luca Guadagnino's Artificial.  World of Reel reports that the film will be moving toa 2027 release primarily to avoid competing with Aaron Sorkin;s The Social Reckoning.  Both films had been dated for Oct. 9th according to IMDB.

The story from WOR (and PageSixHollywood) reads:

"...Amazon/MGM has decided that “Artificial” won’t be released in the fall — instead it is now aiming for an early 2027 release because it “didn’t want the film to go up against [Aaron Sorkin’s] ‘The Social Network’ sequel,” which is set to release in October, given that the two films “share similar themes of cutthroat tech billionaires.”

The 2027 dating likely moves Artificial off the Telluride watch list.





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Thursday, May 7, 2026

Monday, May 4, 2026

Two Million Times / Collating You Didn't Know You Needed / Looks and Re-looks / No No Narnia

TWO MILLION TIMES




MTFB blew past the two million view mark since the last post.  The average views per post now is 818.  That's a lot of reading...and writing.  Thanks for taking a look...2,000,000 times.



COLLATING YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEEDED




So, I went through the various lists that I have used to try to get a bead on TFF #53 including "Too Early" Oscar predictions, Cannes Speculation and ultimate choices, and "Most Anticipated" lists from the beginning of the year to get a sense of where my mind has been over the first four months of 2026 concerning potential TFF #53 films and here's what I discovered...

James Gray's Paper Tiger leads my take from all the different lists...not by much, but it is the film I have mentioned the most.

The next group all are close to Paper Tiger.  Four films are grouped here: 

Hamagichi's All of a Sudden, Guadagnino's Artificial, Inarritu's Digger and Munigiu's Fjord. 

Weirdly, despite these four being the second most mentioned in my speculations I can't say any of them feel like a sure thing for TFF.  And, of course, Warner Brothers has stated that Digger won't be doing any festivals much like Inarritu's The Revenant back in 2015).

The next group includes:

Almodovar's Bitter Christmas, Joel Coen's Jack of Spades, Farhadi's Parallel Tales and Kore-eda's Sheep in the Box.

And like the previous group, they all feel possible and none of them feel certain.

The final group has six films:

Herzog's Bucking Fastard, Pawlikowski's Fatherland, Sorkin's The Social Reckoning, McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine, Kwedar's Saturn Return and Harari's The Unknown.

I actually feel pretty good about Herzog and Pawlikowski. The other films in this group seem borderline possible.

Among the 18 other films that have appeared somewhere in m musings over the last four months, the most likely TFF candidates would appear to be:

The Long Winter (Haigh)
Coward (Dhont)
The Basics of Philosophy (Schrader)


As we begin the month of May we'll be paying particular attention to critical responses and ultimately the awards presentations out of Cannes which kicks off on May 12th and concludes May 23rd. 


LOOKS AND RE-LOOKS

We have a clip from Oren Jacoby's This Is Not a Drill.  The documentary screened at TFF #52.  Here's the clip from YouTube and The Film Stage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQNqE6lUk7Q




Also, we have a teaser/trailer for Asghar Farhadi's Parallel Tales with subtitles.  Also from YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3BV9KeJzGM


MTFB had it last week but didn't have a subtitled version.


NO NO NARNIA




I have been rather whimsically including an occasional mention that Greta Gerwig's Narnia; The Magician's Nephew might be a TFF #53 selection.  Admittedly, it seemed unlikely but entirely outside the realm of possibility given the frequent appearance of Ms. Gerwig and/or her partner, Noah Baumbach at TFF over the years.  Additionally, the fact that the it's from Netflix doesn't hurt in as far as a possible TFF play is concerned.

But all of that has been laid to rest as the film has been re-dates for a 2027 release.  The Hollywood Reporter, among many outlets reported this on Friday.  From THR:

"Gerwig’s adaptation of the sixth book in the C.S. Lewis fantasy series, The Magician’s Nephew...will now be getting a release on Feb. 12, 2027 and then will hit on Netflix April 2, 2027. Sneak previews of the film will begin on Feb. 10, 2027, only in Imax."

I guess it's still possible in a far-fetched scenario, that the film could still screen at Telluride, but with a release now coming nearly six months later...probably not.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/netflix-narnia-movie-greta-gerwig-release-date-1236581880/



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