Cannes Jury President Spike Lee Responds to Festival Postponement (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Over the last 73 years, the Cannes Film Festival has often been billed as the world’s biggest and most glamorous celebration of the movies.

But this year, it was poised to make history. Director and activist Spike Lee had been selected as the first black president of the festival’s jury.

Several of Lee’s films — including 1986’s “She’s Gotta Have It,” 1989’s “Do the Right Thing” and 2018’s “BlacKkKlansman” — had premiered in the South of France.

It was long overdue for him to lead the charge on who would take home the next Palme D’Or, the festival’s highest honor. But on Thursday, after weeks of speculation as the coronavirus spreads around the world, the festival announced that this year’s Cannes had been postponed from its scheduled dates