After a sluggish opening week that left many sellers staring at their phones, the Cannes Film Market found something like a second wind in its final days, with a flurry of high-profile acquisitions injecting some much-needed energy into what had been a cautious, defensive Marché.
The late surge was headlined by two deals that had been quietly percolating on the Croisette. Netflix moved to acquire the animated feature In Waves, while Warner Bros.’ nascent specialty label Clockworks entered exclusive negotiations to take Park Chan-wook‘s upcoming revenge Western The Brigands of Rattlecreek — a project that had been flagged by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the market’s most coveted packages before the first screening had even unspooled.