Cannes Film Festival Gives ‘Furiosa’ Quite The Standing Ovation

May
15,
2024

The Cannes film festival has returned and Furiosa kicked off the 2024 festival with what is being debated as either a 7 or 8 minute standing ovation. No matter who you ask, or whether you’re team 7 or 8 minutes, that’s quite the nod to the film’s debut!

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, is now the fifth installment in George Miller’s celebrated action franchise! It’s last installment saw Charlize Theron take on the role which is now being helmed by Anya Taylor-Joy. The new film its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night and was greeted with a seven-minute standing ovation in the Grand Lumiere Theatre as Miller and members of his cast, including stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, looked on, and encourged the clapping audience to cheer for their director.

This latest installment in the franchise comes nine years to the month after the most recent prior installment of the franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road, which starred Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. That film premiered just a short 45 years after Miller’s original Mad Max film became the most profitable film of all time to that point (grossing $100 million on a $350,000 budget).

This Cannes Film Festival moment is decades in the making for Miller, who wrote this script as part of the development process for Fury Road, so he could understand the Furiosa character better. He shares screenplay credit with Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris on the feature.

The film is currently holding a 97% critic approval rate on Rotten Tomatoes. Let us know what you think, and if you’re as excited as we are to watch this latest installment!