According to Variety, Everybody Knows – the festival’s opening movie, starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz – already has some potential buyers lined up: Netflix.
The saga began when French cinema owners put pressure on Cannes to make Netflix movies unable to screen in-competition.
While their potential purchase should be unremarkable (Netflix has become a prolific purchaser of film festival features) the news comes just weeks after the streaming service pulled all their features from the line-up after Cannes organiser made an unfavourable rule change.
Despite having success with Okja and The Meyerowitiz Stories last year, Netflix quickly responded by pulling all their potential movies from the line-up, including out-of-comptetition movies.