Cannes 2025: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning; Eddington; Sirât

Eight years after Cannes dipped its toes into VR waters with their presentation of Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s ultra-haptic empathy machine Carne y Arena (2017), the festival’s general delegate Thierry Frémaux continues to promote cinema’s expanding XR toolbox. In addition to bringing back the festival’s Immersive Competition for a second year—from what I saw of the press tour held a few hours before the Opening Ceremony, it would be difficult to justify a third—Frémaux also, per an interview with Screen International, trained this year’s festival staff using an AI version of his own voice when he couldn’t be present to address them […] The post Cannes 2025: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning; Eddington; Sirât first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

May 18, 2025 - 21:05

Cannes 2025: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning; Eddington; Sirât

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Eight years after Cannes dipped its toes into VR waters with their presentation of Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s ultra-haptic empathy machine Carne y Arena (2017), the festival’s general delegate Thierry Frémaux continues to promote cinema’s expanding XR toolbox. In addition to bringing back the festival’s Immersive Competition for a second year—from what I saw of the press tour held a few hours before the Opening Ceremony, it would be difficult to justify a third—Frémaux also, per an interview with Screen International, trained this year’s festival staff using an AI version of his own voice when he couldn’t be present to address them […] The post Cannes 2025: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning; Eddington; Sirât first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.