{"id":842,"date":"2026-05-12T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:44:22","slug":"what-to-know-ahead-of-the-cannes-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"What to know ahead of the Cannes film festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International film stars, directors and fans have begun descending on the French Riviera for Cannes. The 79th edition of the world&#8217;s most famous film festival begins on May 12 and will run for the next two weeks, with a constant parade of red carpets, premieres and the best of cinema. The lineup is indie and international but one big hitter is notably underrepresented in the competition: and that&#8217;s Hollywood. Eliza Herbert takes a look at what&#8217;s to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International film stars, directors and fans have begun descending on the French Riviera for Cannes. The 79th edition of the world&#8217;s most famous film festival begins on May 12 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=842\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}