By Jake Coyle, Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --Quentin Tarantino is going back to Cannes, after all.
The director's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was announced as a late addition to the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. It will premiere in competition at the upcoming French festival, adding one of the summer's starriest, most anticipated films to the Cannes' red carpet.
When Cannes' artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced the festival's official selections last month, he said he was hopeful Tarantino would finish editing in time for the film to return to the festival where "Pulp Fiction" 25 years ago won Cannes' top award, the Palme d'Or.
"We were afraid the film would not be ready," Fremaux said in a statement Thursday. "But Quentin Tarantino, who has not left the editing room in four months, is a real, loyal and punctual child of Cannes."
"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," which opens in theaters July 26, is set in late '60s Los Angeles and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a TV actor and Brad Pitt as his longtime stunt double. Margot Robbie co-stars as Sharon Tate, the actress murdered by Charles Manson's followers in 1969.
As a producer, DiCaprio will additionally bring a documentary on climate change to Cannes titled "Ice on Fire."
Fremaux also added Abdellatif Kechiche's "Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo" to the festival's main slate Thursday. Kechiche won the Palme d'Or in 2013 for "Blue Is the Warmest Color." Last year, French authorities investigated the director for sexual assault after a complaint filed in Paris. Through his attorney, Kechiche has denied the allegation.
The Cannes Film Festival opens May 14 with the premiere of Jim Jarmusch's "The Dead Don't Die" and runs through May 25.
Nintendo reports lower profits as demand drops for its aging Switch console
Nintendo, the Japanese video game maker behind the Super Mario franchise, said Tuesday that its profit fell 60% in the first half of the fiscal year, as demand waned for its Switch console, now in its eighth year since going on sale.
Kyoto-based Nintendo Co. reported a 108.7 billion yen ($715 million) profit for the April-September period, as sales slipped 34% from the previous year to 523 billion yen ($3.4 billion).
More than 74% of its sales revenue came from overseas, according to Nintendo, which didn't break down quarterly numbers.
Global Switch sales during the period dropped to 4.7 million machines from 6.8 million units the previous year.
But Nintendo said in a statement that Switch sales were still growing and vowed to stick to its goal of selling a Switch console to each and every individual, not just one Switch per every household.
Nintendo stuck to its earlier projection for a 300 billion yen ($2 billion) profit for the full fiscal year through March 2025, down nearly 29% from the previous fiscal year.
Annual sales were forecast to drop 23% to1.28 trillion yen ($8.4 billion).
It also lowered its Switch sales projection for the fiscal year to 12.5 million units from an earlier forecast to sell 13.5 million.
Nintendo and other game and toy makers rake in their biggest profits during the Christmas shopping season, as well as New Year's, a holiday celebrated with fanfare in Japan, when children receive cash gifts from grandparents and other relatives.
Nintendo has not yet announced details on a successor to the Switch.
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