Cannes market

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Cannes market

Screen International is tracking the key packages launched before and during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival’s market, which runs May 12-20.

Refresh the page for latest updates. Most recently announced projects are at the top.

Bulls
Dylan O’Brien, Lewis Pullman, and Kaia Gerber will star in the erotic thriller about a disillusioned man who heads to a hedonistic island resort. QC Entertainment is financing and producing and Roth/Kirschenbaum Films is also producing. CAA Media Finance, WME Independent and QC Entertainment will jointly represent US sales and production is scheduled to begin this year.
International sales: Manifest Pictures

Becoming Capa
Esther McGregor and Mark Eydelshteyn star as famed war photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa.
International sales: HanWay

The Blair Witch Project
YouTuber Dylan Clark directs the reboot for Lionsgate and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, based on the 1999 indie horror sensation about an ill-fated documentary crew that ventures into the Maryland woods in search of a fabled witch.
International sales: Lionsgate

A Waiter In Paris
Leo Woodall and Clémence Poésy star in Bafta TV-winning director Peter Hoar’s feature debut, A Waiter In Paris, adapted by Ben Hopkins from the memoir of the same name by Edward Chisholm, about a depressed and over-educated man, about to turn 30, who arrives in Paris. Jason Solomons and Phin Glynn produce. WME Independent is co-repping the US.
International sales: Cornerstone

The Passenger
Jeremy Strong will portray a Jewish businessman on the run in Berlin after the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, marking the English-language debut of The Girl With The Needle director Magnus von Horn.
International sales: FilmNation 

Bare
Lorna Tucker’s feature directing debut based on her memoir of the same name. Florence Hunt leads the cast alongside Isla Fisher and Colin Firth.
International sales: Noora Films

The Spacesuit 
An astronaut (Vanessa Kirby) is forced to make an impossible decision after an incident with her co-pilot (Lewis Pullman) leaves an indelible stain on the mission in the days leading up to lift off. UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance will represent North America. The Royal Hotel’s Kitty Green directs. 
International sales: HanWay 

John Doe
Miramax is producing and financing the action thriller starring Jason Statham and directed by his The Beekeeper helmer David Ayer from a screenplay by Zak Penn. The story centres on a man with no memory except for a woman’s name who discovers he is on a mission and is being pursued by the people who trained him.
International sales: Black Bear

Cavendish
Sophie Thatcher, Erin Kellyman and Joe Alwyn star in the next feature from Bring Them Down UK filmmaker Christopher Andrews - a thriller set against the witch hunts of 17th-century Britain, due to shoot in Poland in September.
International sales: Cornerstone (CAA, North America) 

The Brigands Of Rattlecreek
South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook will direct the English-language western starring Matthew McConaughey, Pedro Pascal, and Austin Butler. When bandits massacre his wife and townspeople, a sheriff teams up with a mysterious strange to plot revenge.
International sales: 193 

Margot & Rudi 
Naomi Watts and Ukrainian ballet star Alexandr Trush have signed on to play 1960s ballet legends Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. Mrs Harris Goes To Paris filmmaker Anthony Fabian directs, with Goodridge producing for Good Chaos, Fabian for Elysian Films, Olivia Hetreed for Sympathetic Ink and Chris Coen.
International sales: WestEnd Films 

When Darkness Loves Us 
Emilia Clarke stars in New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft’s horror When Darkness Loves Us about a woman who has survived 15 years in an underground cave. Cornerstone is selling on behalf of US distributor Bleecker Street, who have world rights excluding Australia-New Zealand, and will release in the US in 2027.
International sales: Cornerstone Films 

Embers
Hungary’s István Szabó, an Oscar winner in 1981 for Mephisto, directs Ralph Fiennes and Viggo Mortensen in the story of two friends who reconnect a decade after a terrible secret tore them apart. Filming has begun in Budapest.
International sales: Embankment Films

All The Little Live Things
Latest from French filmmaker Carine Tardieu, whose previous film The Ties That Bind Us won the top prize at this year’s Cesar awards. Benoît Magimel, Léa Drucker and Melanie Thierry star in the project, which is based on the 1967 American novel of the same title by American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner.
International sales: Indie Sales

Bitcoin
Gal Gadot, Isla Fisher, Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson star in Doug Liman’s thriller about one man’s quest to prove that he is the creator of Bitcoin. It began shooting in February on a performance capture stage with locations being added by AI.
International sales: 193

Quo Vadis, Aida? – The Missing Part
Sequel to Jasmila Žbanić’s Oscar-nominated drama set during the fall of Srebrenica in 1995. Jasna Đuričić returns for the lead role. Filming has started in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
International sales: Indie Sales

The Salamander Lives Twice
Matt Smith and Imogen Poots star in this thriller set on a remote island. Come to Daddy director Ant Timpson helms the project, which is produced by Velvet Moss and Anti-Worlds.
International sales: Embankment Films

Love And War
Samantha Morton stars in thriller based on a true story about a mother searching for her daughter in war-torn Syria. Lisa Mulcahy directs. Pre-production is set for later this year.
International sales: Alliance Media Partner

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