Cannes Film Festival makes do with lighter lineup

Hard times for the economy. Hard times for the Cannes Blur Festival, at atomic in agreement of bright Hollywood films for which the world's a lot of celebrated cinema advertise is known.

Cannes opens Wednesday, May 12, with Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood," one of the few A-list premieres at this year's festival, whose calendar has an atmosphere of bread-and-butter themes.

The timing of Cannes could not be bigger for "Robin Hood." The cine opens theatrically Wednesday in France and abroad over the next two days, including the U.S. admission Friday, so the media aberration as Crowe and Blanchett strut the Cannes red carpeting is abundant publicity as it tries to attempt with accepted blockbuster "Iron Man 2."

"It's an honor, but it's aswell blood-soaked useful. Everything today is marketing. You've got to get positioned absolutely fast. You bigger authorize yourself in that aperture week," said administrator Scott, who was not accessory Cannes because of contempo knee surgery. "We're actual blessed to be aperture Cannes, because it's such an astronomic area and helps get your blur out there."

Along with "Robin Hood," starring Crowe as the artful archer aggressive medieval bandit barons, Cannes offers a aboriginal attending at banking wolves of our own times with Michael Douglas and Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the followup to their 1987 hit "Wall Street."

The 12-day anniversary aswell appearance administrator Charles Ferguson's "Inside Job," a documentary anecdotal by Matt Damon that examines the causes of the bread-and-butter meltdown. The Directors' Fortnight, a calendar of films alfresco the festival's capital program, aswell appearance Jean-Stephane Bron's "Cleveland vs. Wall Street," about a accusation adjoin mortgage bankers the city-limits blames for adverse real-estate foreclosures.

Stone's "Wall Street" followup brings aback Douglas' accumulated brigand Gordon Gekko. After accepting bent in the aboriginal film, Gekko did eight years in prison, wrote a account and now is agog to get aback into the trading bold from which he is barred.