{"id":479634,"date":"2026-05-11T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479634\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:07:09","slug":"cannes-boss-thierry-fremaux-reacts-to-oscars-new-rules-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479634\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes Boss Thierry Fremaux Reacts to Oscars New Rules on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tQuizzed about the Academy\u2019s new rules on AI<\/a>, festival boss Thierry Fremaux<\/a> called them \u201cobvious\u201d as he spoke nostalgically about the celluloid film era. He argued that Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s \u201cApocalypse Now\u201d was an emblem of that authentic age and \u201cthe last organic film\u201d he saw.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe helicopters in the Valkyrie scene were the helicopters Francis Ford Coppola actually had,\u201d Fremaux said. \u201cToday, with digital technology, a filmmaker can say: \u2018I have six helicopters \u2014 give me 15.\u2019 And then you no longer know what you\u2019re seeing. Even in arthouse films, there are digital effects everywhere now.\u201d The issue, he says, is that there is a \u201chigh risk of lies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival chief, who is celebrating his 25th year at the helm of Cannes this year, also reacted the Academy\u2019s new rule to qualify films that won top prizes\u00a0at six major international film festivals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen people say that America is turning in on itself, that\u2019s not true. In any case, Hollywood is opening up to the world, embracing universality. For us, Cannes is all about that\u2014it\u2019s about universality,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\n\tFremaux also talked about the festival\u2019s relationship with Hollywood and the lack of fresh blockbusters slated for the 79th edition, which will nevertheless play Universal\u2019s \u201cThe Fast and Furious\u201d for its 25th anniversary<\/a> at a Midnight Screening. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs you know, Hollywood is undergoing a major shake-up. After COVID, the writers\u2019 strike, which, incidentally, is linked to issues surrounding artificial intelligence, followed by restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, and so on. Amid all of this, the triumph of that brilliant invention known as streaming platforms\u2014all of this necessitates a restructuring,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Fremaux said he was hopeful about the future of American cinema as he noted the industry had also faced a crisis in the 1960s right before the birth of the New Hollywood era with Arthur Penn, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and William Fritkin.<\/p>\n

\n\tFremaux was also asked to react the fact that France will host its next presidential elections next year, with the country\u2019s far right party leading early polls. Fremaux said the fest \u201cis often asked to take on a role, to reflect on issues that do not directly concern it,\u201d partly due to the fact that it was formed during tumultuous times in the 1940s. But he declined to comment further on the suspected outcome of these French elections and their potential impact on the cultural sector. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s true that in a year, we won\u2019t be talking about (these elections) anymore since they\u2019ll be behind us, since the festival will take place afterward,\u201d he said. \u201cThis has happened very often in the past, since presidential elections are generally held in April or May, and the Cannes Film Festival<\/a> is in May. I myself have known several presidents of the Republic, so we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival will kick off on Tuesday with an honorary tribute to Peter Jackson and the world premiere of \u201cThe Electric Kiss.\u201d As previously announced, the jury will be presided over with Park Chan-wook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quizzed about the Academy\u2019s new rules on AI, festival boss Thierry Fremaux called them \u201cobvious\u201d as he spoke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,11519,18,19,17,82,190864],"class_list":{"0":"post-479634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-cannes-film-festival","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-thierry-fremaux"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116557515779171707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}