{"id":140846,"date":"2026-05-13T04:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/cannes-film-festival-opens-with-no-backing-from-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:03:03","slug":"cannes-film-festival-opens-with-no-backing-from-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/cannes-film-festival-opens-with-no-backing-from-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes Film Festival opens with no backing from Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stars arrived at the Cannes Film Festival, which opened on May 12, without Hollywood backing.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrities from Demi Moore to \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d star Elijah Wood headed up the red carpet for the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, where the impact of AI and the absence of Hollywood studios are major talking points.<\/p>\n<p>Others on the carpet included model Heidi \u200bKlum, the Marchioness of Bath and Bollywood film star Alia Bhatt.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Thynn, the Marchioness of Bath\/Getty<br \/>\nHeidi Klum\/Getty<br \/>\nBoolywood Star Alia Bhatt\/Getty<br \/>\nJane Fonda<br \/>\nDemi Moore<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elijah Wood walked the carpet ahead of presenting \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d director \u200bPeter Jackson with an honorary Palme d\u2019Or for lifetime achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Elijah Wood and Peter Jackson<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/cannes-film-festival-opens-with-no-backing-from-hollywood\/\">Cannes Film Festival opens with no backing from Hollywood<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars arrived at the Cannes Film Festival, which opened on May 12, without Hollywood backing. Celebrities from Demi Moore to \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d star Elijah Wood headed up the red carpet for the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, where the impact of AI and the absence of Hollywood studios are major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}