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Premiering your expensive movie at a prestegious festival can backfire unless you know you're going to get good buzz, and then maybe the movie gets its general release only a few days later. Look at what happened with Dial of Destiny a couple years ago where it premiered at Cannes to a muted response and then didn't actually get released to the public until an entire month or so later, by the time it came out there was no hype at all.