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๐ŸŽง Cannes vs. Box Office: Film’s Troubling Split Personality

Sales boom as theatrical slumps: What’s happening?

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At the Cannes Film Festival, the active buyersโ€™ market and (largely) applauded indies had everyone in the market, from haute couture hangers-on to cinemaโ€™s swells, feeling festive says Claire Atkinson. But back in L.A., an early June gloom has descended, with Sean McNulty, Elaine Low and Richard Rushfield talking moviesโ€™ early signs of a summer bummer โ€” and a release calendar that looks like itโ€™s on Ozempic.

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