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Cannes Film Festival Delayed to July 2021

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The Cannes Film Festival has bowed to the inevitable, announcing Wednesday that it will move this year's event from May to July, due to safety concerns around the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. "As announced last autumn, the Festival de Cannes reserved the right to change its dates depending on how the global health situation developed," Cannes said in a statement. "Initially scheduled from 11 to 22 May 2021, the Festival will therefore now take place from Tuesday 6 to Saturday 17 July 2021." The move, while expected, will have a domino effect across the festival circuit.

The Venice Film Festival is scheduled to kick off on Sept. 1. Cannes' new dates mean there will be less than two months between Europe's number one and number two.

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