The 10 biggest blockbusters to ever premiere at Cannes

This year’s Cannes Film Festival is already being dubbed a “blockbuster” year by the Associated Press, and there are a couple of reasons for that. Of course, this is the most normal season the festival has seen since 2019. The 2020 festival was canceled, 2021's was downsized, while last year tiptoed closer to typical, even if it didn’t quite get there.

But it’s also the films (and in the case of The Idol, series) highlighted at the festival this year that are igniting blockbuster discussion. The first Indiana Jones entry in 15 years is set to premiere at the festival this year, as is Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, which cost Apple TV+ an estimated $200 million.

However, Cannes is well-acquainted with major box-office successes by now. While the festival hasn’t allowed a Marvel movie in (at least, not yet) it hasn’t shied away from other major franchise entries or Disney movies. Here are the Cannes premieres that have gone on to take in the most cash. (And, for clarity and simplicity, we’re talking premieres—films like Top Gun: Maverick and Shrek that screened at the festival but premiered elsewhere are not included.)

10. Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood

Worldwide box office: $377.4 million Quentin Tarantino has had quite a few of his films screened at Cannes (and in 2023, he’ll host a special screening at Directors Fortnight, though it doesn’t seem to be one of his own movies). , which premiered at the 2019 festival, is the third Tarantino feature to screen in competition. Though it didn’t win the Palme d’Or like Pulp Fiction, it did go on to gross , a healthy box office figure for a film out of Cannes. (It is not, however, Tarantino’s highest-grossing film ever; that distinction belongs to Django Unchained at ). [Mary Kate Carr]