Cannes is not finished when the applause ends. It is finished when the buyers are named.

IndieWire's acquisition tracker turns the festival into a map of ownership: Janus, Netflix, Mubi, Sony Pictures Classics, A24, Neon, Clockwork, Warner Bros. and other distributors are the practical afterlife of prestige, genre heat and prize chatter. [1]

That is the difference between a festival as mood and a festival as inventory. X can argue taste for weeks. The buyer map answers a colder question: who controls the release path once the red carpet is gone?

The article-stage fetcher could not read the IndieWire URL cleanly, but the planning memo records it as the fetched tracker for this item. This brief should therefore stay at the level of source discipline and acquisition structure, not claim new numbers or unverified territorial terms. [1]

Culture likes to call this buzz. Business calls it rights. The buyer list is why the second word is usually more durable.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles