The Cannes Lions Entertainment Person of the Year 2026 isn’t a traditional Hollywood studio boss or network head. It is Eddy Cue, Apple‘s senior VP of services. The Silicon Valley powerbroker commanded the stage Monday midday at the Lumière Theatre in the Cannes Palais des Festival in a crowded keynote seminar, and he did so in tandem with a big-name Hollywood player, namely hit producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Cue oversees Apple TV, Apple Music and Apple’s film and TV studios, while also serving as senior vp of health. Among Apple’s original hit series are the likes of Pluribus, which he has touted as the “biggest series to date” for the platform and Ted Lasso.
Cue and Bruckheimer, on Monday, again teased a sequel to the hit film F1. “We’re going to come back and hopefully make another F1,” producer Bruckheimer told the audience, also mentioning the name of F1 and Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski.
Cue later added: “We’re going to do it again. Hopefully, we’re doing another Formula 1 movie. I think everyone wants to see another one. It was Brad Pitt’s biggest movie of all time. … It was a great story, it was fun, and you loved it when you were walking out of the theater or watching it at home.”
