I'm Sean Fennacy. I'm Amanda Dobbins.

And this is the Big Picture at Conversation show about Meryl Streep. Today on the show, we are finally building a Hall of Fame for arguably the single, most important, skilled, and honored film actor of the past 50 years. Merrill Streep, she is starring in The Devil Wears Prada 2 later this month, Amanda's most anticipated movie of this century. So now's the time to build it.

There's a lot of Merrill to dig into, so we're going to cut right to the quick.

We're also going to talk about the Cannes Film Festival lineup, which was just announced right after this.

The Cannes lineup was announced.

Yes.

And you say what?

As expected, and I'm excited to be going.

The big talking point is that there aren't very many American films or American films

in competition and certainly no studio films.

That's right.

Which I suppose if you're going there to see, if you were going hoping to see Mandeloreen and Grogo, then you'll like be disappointed.

Why would you go to go see that, though?

Exactly. And that's sort of where I am, is that that's not why we're going to Cannes.

And that is, those are not the films that have come out of film can ever, but especially in the last like

five to ten years. That's, that's not the reason to pay attention to it. And in fact,

I think most studios that have taken big movies to Can in the last five to ten years have regretted

it. I agree with you. From the New Indiana Jones to Megalopolis, Horizon, even last year,

Eddington, which was, you know, in the smaller, not a studio movie.

Not a Mission Impossible, Elemental, the Pixar movie. This has happened for 10 years, you're right.

Yeah. So it doesn't make sense for them. As a referendum on the state of American movies, you know, and the chasm between big budget and quality, not like great, but it's not new to us. Yeah. I think,

I think that's right on the money. I think that it's clear that the studios see that there's not a

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