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Briana Lupea

The video game adaptation premiered to an 8-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival It may be August, but Neon isn’t done picking up movies from the Cannes Film Festival. The studio announced Wednesday that it will release Genki Kawamura’s video game adaptation “Exit 8” in theaters in early 2026 after the film had its debut as part of Cannes’ midnight section in May. Based on the game “Kotake Create,” the film follows a man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway, who sets