With Warner Bros.’ “Mad Max: Fury Road” and Pixar’s “Inside Out” both premiering at Cannes, a thought from some is: is the Croissette becoming more mainstream? The answer: hardly. Outside of those two tentpoles that are both out of competition, there’s only four American productions in competition at Cannes (and two of the four filmmakers are non-American). Some mainstream highlights are always a good way for the festival to offset its arty and foreign taste (look at the full line-up this year and you’ll see very few mainstream concessions), and it's been doing this for years (see “Maleficent” and “The Great Gatsby” for recent examples).
This will be Pixar’s second time at Cannes, and it’s a repeat for director Pete Docter — his film “Up” was the first animated film to be the festival’s opening-ceremony movie. “We are overjoyed at being included in this year's official selection at Cannes,” Docter said in a statement. “With ‘Inside Out,’ we spent years imagining — and then...
