Six days after John Lennon: The Last Interview premiered Out of Competition at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, Meta's "technology partner" credit on the title bars holds and Yoko Ono has not addressed the documentary's roughly ten minutes of generative-AI imagery in public. [1] Sunday's account framed the credit as the post-Cannes fact and the Yoko silence as the licensing precedent that will price the next ten major-catalog estate deals. The Day Six update is that both items hold without disturbance.

Steven Soderbergh's defense remains the same defense he offered before and during Cannes — that the AI sequences are "thematic surrealism," that the technique is used "where it's obvious that it is AI," and that Sean Ono Lennon blessed the project, saying his father "would've wanted to engage" with the technology. [2] The AP's coverage at the festival captured Soderbergh's response to critical reception: "You don't say yes to Meta offering you these tools and offering to finish the film and not know you're going to come in for some heat. That was part of the deal." [3]

Yoko Ono's name is on the registration line at the U.S. Copyright Office for the underlying 1980 RKO Radio audio. Her absence from the discourse — through the Cannes adjournment, through the Saturday Palme ceremony, through the Memorial Day weekend — is not consistent with her prior practice on Lennon-catalog matters. The next ten days will tell whether she comments through counsel, through a spokesperson, or in writing. The credit, in the meantime, is unchallenged.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles