Ari Aster is heading to the Croisette as Eddington will premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Eddington will compete for the coveted Palme d’Or.
To accompany the Cannes announcement, A24 released the first photo and poster for Eddington. The image features Joaquin Phoenix’s sheriff and Pedro Pascal’s mayor pointing at each other while standing in their small town. Aster’s Western black comedy depicts a standoff between the sheriff and the mayor that “sparks a powder keg,” with neighbors squaring off against each other in Eddington, New Mexico.
Eddington stars Phoenix, Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone.
Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON. Coming soon pic.twitter.com/N1J0uyOtXw
Eddington is Aster’s fourth feature film, behind 2014’s Hereditary, 2019’s Midsommar, and 2023’s Beau Is Afraid. A24 has distributed all of Aster’s films, including the upcoming Eddington. Hereditary was A24’s highest-grossing horror of all time at $87.8 million worldwide until 2023’s Talk to Me surpassed it.
Eddington is not the only A24 heading to Cannes. Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest will premiere out of competition, and Harry Lighton’s Pillion has been selected for Un Certain Regard.
Eddington will face stiff competition at Cannes. Notable films competing for the Palme d’Or include Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, an espionage black comedy starring Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, and Michael Cera; Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, a dramatization of the making of Breathless starring Guillaume Marbeck and Zoey Deutch; Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, a crime drama starring John Magaro, Josh O’Connor, and Alana Haim; and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, a dramedy with Renate Reinsve.
The 2025 Cannes Festival runs from May 13 to 24.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.