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Park Chan-wook's jury awards the Palme tonight; what the festival actually adjourns is a political compound and a deals market with two mid-cap checks for the whole year.
A platform got top billing on a film about a man who never lived to meet a platform, and the rights administrator has not spoken.
The trade press is selling the bull case while the prediction markets are pricing a meaningful downside miss; the MRC release is the receipt.
Friday's number lands inside the Polymarket bottom-heavy range and on track for a four-day Memorial Day weekend that needs Disney's $500-to-$600 million domestic case to clear theatrical break-even.
A 21-film field in 2026 against a 3-film field in 2010 is the structural change; Schoenbrun's horror comedy is what won inside it.
The Palme d'Or vote is tonight, the U.S. distributor's silence is now three days deep, and the only fall-slate centerpiece in question is Almodóvar's.
Bulgaria's Vienna win produced a Sofia broadcaster and four city bids in a week; on Friday it produced a second country reconsidering eight years of staying out.