The Cannes Film Festival lineup was announced Thursday morning in Paris with a relatively un-starry group of titles making up the as-yet incomplete competition slate.
Among the highest-profile films out of competition are Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, which will see Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett swathe up the red carpet on May 12, and Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf (who first came to Cannes a couple of years ago for the fourth Indiana Jones) and Carey Mulligan are also thus likely to put in an appearance on the Croisette.
Doug Liman’s CIA/political thriller Fair Game will bring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts to the Riviera while Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is set to screen out of competition. Watts also stars in that film as do Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin (also in Wall Street), Antonio Banderas and Freida Pinto.
The 16 films in competition will be augmented in coming days as festival director Thierry Fremaux intends to add extra titles. For the moment, fanboys will be happy to see Takeshi Kitano return to competition with Outrage while art-house lovers have Mike Leigh (Another Year), Nikita Mikhalkov (Burnt By the Sun 2) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Biutiful) to ponder. A full lineup of films across the main competition, special screenings and Un Certain Regard sections can be found here.
On the jury side of things, Tim Burton will be joined by such luminaries as Kate Beckinsale and Benicio Del Toro.
The jury, however, is still out as to whether Brad Pitt will once again grace the red carpet as it has yet to be determined if a film he’s starring in, Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, will be ready in time for the festival.
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