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👋 Good morning! A reminder, as the Cannes ovation reports roll in: the numbers have always been partly mythology. Steven Spielberg personally timed the standing ovation for 'E.T.' at the 1982 Cannes closing night: six and a half minutes. By the time he landed back in L.A., press reports had it at 20. "I'm happy with six," he said. "I never even had a two-minute ovation." The current all-time record is 22 minutes ('Pan's Labyrinth,' 2006), a number that has presumably not gotten any shorter with age.
Welcome back to The Dailies. Gold star for making it to Friday. We’ve got streaming numbers, Cannes updates, and everything else you need to know. 👇
TOP STREAMED
📊 This week’s top-streamed originals…
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 | Remarkably Bright Creatures NetflixFILM The adaptation pulled 4.4M domestic views in its opening weekend per Luminate and 10.4M global views in the same frame according to Netflix. A strong debut for a Netflix drama, nudging past earlier 2026 breakout 'People We Meet on Vacation' (3.8M domestic views in its opening weekend). Clear win for the streamer. |
 | M.I.A. PeacockSERIES Bill Dubuque's new series pulled 1.2M domestic season views and 7.9M domestic hours watched in its debut weekend (Luminate), topping the overall domestic TV chart across all platforms. It fell short of Peacock's earlier 2026 breakout 'The 'Burbs' (2.1M domestic season views in the same frame), but still a solid launch for the platform. |
 | Citadel PrimeSERIES S2 of the famously expensive spy series ($300M+ reported for S1) opened to 1.3M domestic season views and 6.5M domestic hours watched through its opening weekend, according to Luminate. That's down 71% from S1's 4.5M domestic season-view opening. Not the comeback Prime was looking for. |
Top-streamed chart (U.S.) May 6 to May 13. Data provided by Luminate.
CLOSEUP
🇫🇷 Cannes is headed into Day 4…
'Tangles' cast and crew at Cannes yesterday. (Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
The first few days are behind us. Here's how the early competition screenings landed, plus a couple of non-competition premieres worth flagging.
In competition…
'Nagi Notes' (Koji Fukada) — Competition opener. Warm, measured reviews; "quietly resonant" per Variety. Critics liked it, but no one's calling it a Palme contender.
'A Woman's Life' (Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet) — Léa Drucker's performance has her immediately in the Best Actress conversation. Critics largely agreed it's a showcase performance.
'Fatherland' (Paweł Pawlikowski) — The week's most rapturous competition reception for the 82-minute black-and-white drama starring Sandra Hüller as Erika Mann, from the director of 'Cold War.' It's the first film of the festival generating real Palme buzz. THR called it "damn-near perfect." 👏 Standing O: 6 min
'Parallel Tales' (Asghar Farhadi) — Starring Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Cassel and Catherine Deneuve in a loose adaptation of Krzysztof Kieślowski's 1988 'Dekalog: Six.' Loved by some, dismissed by others. The mixed reception effectively took it out of the Palme conversation. 👏 Standing O: 5.5 min
Outside the competition…
'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' (Jane Schoenbrun) — Opened Un Certain Regard, the festival's main sidebar, to the week's most euphoric reception. Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder starred in Schoenbrun's queer slasher horror. Critics called it an instant midnight-movie classic. MUBI releases August 7. 👏 Standing O: 9 min
'Tangles' (Leah Nelson, Special Screening) — Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen produced this black-and-white animated feature adapted from Sarah Leavitt's graphic memoir about a daughter navigating her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston and Rogen voice the leads. Critics called it a lovingly rendered family story. No U.S. distributor yet; Charades handles international.
The weekend brings some of the festival's most anticipated screenings. Hamaguchi's 'All of a Sudden' bows today, James Gray's 'Paper Tiger' (Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Miles Teller) screens Saturday, and Na Hong-jin's 'Hope' closes out Sunday.
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WIDESHOT
🎬 James Bond, Artists Equity, and Netflix AI…
Bond 26's rumored frontrunners: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Callum Turner, and Jacob Elordi. (Getty Images)
🔫 Amazon MGM has started auditioning for the next 007. They brought in Nina Gold to find their Bond, and she knows her way around a franchise ('Game of Thrones,' 'The Crown,' five Star Wars films). She joins a team that includes Denis Villeneuve (director), Amy Pascal and David Heyman (producers), and Steven Knight (script). Industry chatter has landed on Jacob Elordi, Callum Turner, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as frontrunners, though producers previously floated going with an unknown. The Broccoli family held creative control of the franchise for over 60 years before handing the keys to Amazon last year, and the fear was that a corporate landlord would water it down. The early moves, at least, suggest this is being treated with real care.
💸 Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's bet on Netflix backend just paid off. When their production company Artists Equity structured the deal for 'The Rip,' they negotiated something Netflix almost never allows: a performance bonus for the entire cast and crew, tied to viewership in the film's first 90 days. 'The Rip' cleared the threshold (41.6M views in its first three days), and Artists Equity confirmed this week the bonus has been paid out to all 1,200 people on the production. Netflix's standard model is flat upfront fees, no backend. This deal is a proof of concept for something different: when the film wins, everyone who made it wins, too. Probably not life-changing money in this case, but a step in that direction.
🤖 Netflix is quietly building an AI animation studio. The streamer has been staffing up an internal unit called INKubator since March, hiring producers, engineers, and CG artists to produce animated shorts using generative AI. It's not their first AI move this year (they acquired Ben Affleck's post-production-focused startup InterPositive back in March), but INKubator appears to go further, using generative AI to create content from the ground up rather than polish it. It's led by Serrena Iyer (ex-DreamWorks, MRC, A24), and the ambitions are big: "feature-quality content" with an eye toward longer-form down the road. Netflix has yet to publicly announce the studio.
LAST LOOKS
Film Development 🗒️
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are adapting war memoir 'No Way Out' for Netflix, with Matt Charman on the script. (more)
Britt Lower and Selton Mello have signed on to Michael Almereyda's Don DeLillo adaptation, 'Zero K.' (more)
‘Grown Ups 3’ is officially in the works at Netflix, with Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy returning to write it. (more)
Will Smith is heading to Amazon MGM in thriller 'Supermax,' playing an FBI agent untangling a murder inside a max-security prison. (more)
Sarah Gadon and John Gallagher Jr. have wrapped Michael O'Shea's psychological thriller '20/20.' (more)
‘A Matter of Time’ will star Ben Stiller, Nicholas Galitzine and Bella Maclean in Netflix and Sony’s new fantasy drama. (more)
Halsey is starring in and co-writing psycho-sexual horror 'Replacer,' with Avan Jogia directing and Lilly Wachowski producing. (more)
Kate Beckinsale is taking on George A. Romero's final zombie saga chapter, 'Twilight of the Dead.' (more)
TV Development 📺
'Barbaric' is headed to Netflix as a series, with 'X-Men: First Class' writer Sheldon Turner co-showrunning the fantasy adaptation. (more)
Jodie Comer is set to lead Damon Lindelof's HBO limited series take on 'The Chain.' (more)
'Myron Bolitar' is coming to Netflix via David E. Kelley, part of the streamer's newly extended deal with Harlan Coben. (more)
‘The Retrievals’ landed a Netflix series order from ‘Maid’ and ‘Sirens’ creator Molly Smith Metzler and LuckyChap. (more)
‘Calabasas’ landed a Netflix series order from ‘Bridgerton,’ creator Chris Van Dusen, with Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts executive producing. (more)
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ has been renewed for a second season at Apple TV+. (more)
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📅 This week’s new releases…
🎥 THEATRICAL
Obsession: Blumhouse supernatural horror from YouTube filmmaker Curry Barker.
In the Grey: Action thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Eiza González
Is God Is: Revenge thriller from first-time director Aleshea Harris.
📺 STREAMING
Dutton Ranch: (Paramount+) 'Yellowstone' sequel series.
Nemesis: (Netflix) Crime drama from 'Power' creator Courtney Kemp.
Good Omens: (Prime Video) Third and final season of the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett fantasy comedy with Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
Off Campus: (Prime Video) S1 of the Elle Kennedy college hockey romance adaptation.
The Punisher: One Last Kill: (Disney+) Marvel's first R-rated Disney+ project, with Jon Bernthal returning as Frank Castle.
🔮 BOX OFFICE PREVIEW: It's a coin flip at the top this weekend, with 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' and 'Michael' both tracking $18-23M, either of which could finish first. 'Mortal Kombat II' is right behind at $15-20M in its sophomore frame, though its "B" CinemaScore suggests a steeper drop is coming. The newcomers are splitting the same counterprogramming audience and none are expected to threaten the holdovers.
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