Cannes 2025 Cannes 2025: The Final Carpet And that’s it for Cannes 2025 as the festival wrapped up last night with the traditional award ceremony celebrating this year’s honourees. The Palme d’Or went to Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident. He's been sent to prison twice in Iran for criticising By Lainey • May 26, 2025 11:40 am
Cannes 2025 A smattering of Cannes fashion The Cannes Film Festival ends this weekend, which means it’s time for that annual end-of-Cannes event, the amFAR Gala. As we’ve mentioned several times over the last couple weeks, the fest’s new dress code rules, targeting “naked and voluminous” dresses, has maybe contributed to a rather boring By Sarah • May 23, 2025 11:38 am
Cannes 2025 Paul Mescal in Cannes These are fresh photos of Paul Mescal in Cannes today at the photo call for The History of Sound which premiered last night but it’s not his gala look that’s doing it for me, it’s Paul Mescal in the daylight. Honestly, the original point of this post By Lainey • May 22, 2025 10:24 am
Cannes 2025 JLaw : a long season ahead? Flashback to May 2024. Cannes 2024 was just about to kick off and I posted about how Demi Moore was heading to the festival for the first time since 1997 and was expected to make a splash as both the Chopard godmother and the star of one of one of By Lainey • May 21, 2025 02:08 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Rihanna: Fashionably Freed In the weeks preceding her confirmation at the Met Gala that she and Rocky are expecting their third child together, Rihanna wore a series of baggy outfits so as to guard the surprise, even though it really wasn’t all that much of a surprise. It’s impolite to come By Lainey • May 21, 2025 12:43 pm
Cannes 2025 Summer of Scarlett It’s a busy week for Scarlett Johansson. Fresh off hosting the final episode of Saturday Night Live’s 50th season—and maybe her husband’s last season?—she popped up in Cannes for the premiere of her feature directorial debut, Eleanor the Great. The film stars June Squibb and By Sarah • May 21, 2025 10:32 am
Cannes 2025 Alexander Skarsgård’s Cannes weekend Alexander Skarsgård is very busy. Murderbot premiered on Apple TV+ on Friday—eventually I will have a review!—and on the same weekend, he turned up at Cannes for the premiere of his new film, Pillion, co-starring Harry Melling (probably still best known as Dudley Dursley, but this guy has By Sarah • May 20, 2025 03:45 pm
Cannes 2025 Dakota Johnson: A Fashion Statement? One of the topics of conversation heading into Cannes this year was about the dress code and the festival’s policy on the naked dress, effectively banning it from the red carpets at the Palais, along with gowns that are too big. We haven’t seen too many so-called violations By Lainey • May 20, 2025 02:12 pm
Cannes 2025 Mia Threapleton’s Cannes moment Cannes is in full swing, but it seems like it’s an unusually muted year, at least on the business side of things. Beyond the festival, Cannes is also a film market, but like Sundance earlier this year, blockbuster deals are not really happening—a recession indicator. Everyone is nervous By Sarah • May 20, 2025 12:45 pm
Cannes 2025 Rihanna and Rocky: A Cannes “Umbrella” Sorry, sorry, can’t help myself. It’s one of her most biggest, most enduring hits. “You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh eh eh, under my umbrella…” And Rihanna and Rocky were just in Cannes last night under an umbrella at the premiere of Spike Lee’s By Lainey • May 20, 2025 10:40 am
Cannes 2025 Angelina, Natalie, Emma – Oscar winners on Cannes Friday PROGRAMMING NOTE: Monday is a stat holiday in Canada so we will be dark and returning to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday. One of the most highly anticipated films of the year is screening in Cannes tonight – Ari Aster’s Eddington opens wide and it’s an ambitious move because By Lainey • May 16, 2025 04:47 pm
Cannes 2025 Kristen Stewart wants to “crash and burn” Kristen Stewart is back in Cannes, a familiar place for her. As an actor. She’s at the festival this year, however, as a first time feature film director. The Chronology of Water, based on the book by Lidia Yuknvavitch, will have its world premiere tonight at the Palais. Kristen By Lainey • May 16, 2025 01:10 pm
Cannes 2025 Intro for May 15, 2025 Dear Gossips, As expected, the crowd in Cannes went wild over Tom Cruise last night for the premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. He’d spent the day in and out of the Palais for various photocalls and select media opportunities, and stopped in on Christopher McQuarrie’s masterclass By Lainey • May 15, 2025 09:41 am
Cannes 2025 Cannes begins The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival is underway, and already, we’ve seen fallout from the new dress code banning “nudity and voluminous outfits” on the Croisette. During yesterday’s jury press conference, Halle Berry said she had to change her dress, from designer Guarav Gupta, because it had a By Sarah • May 14, 2025 11:24 am
Top Reads Tom Cruise: Teacher and Student The Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning bonanza is now in Cannes. Director Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise were joined by Angela Bassett, Hannah Waddingham, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, and Simon Pegg today for the photo call ahead of tonight’s spectacle at the Palais. Tom won’t be staying long By Lainey • May 14, 2025 10:20 am
Top Reads Halle Berry’s travel item Halle Berry is on the Cannes jury this year and she arrived a few days ago. Here she is at the Hotel Martinez yesterday, one of the festival hotspots and where jury members often stay because of its location on the Croisette and its proximity to the Palais where they By Lainey • May 13, 2025 11:22 am
