By Katey Rich
It's time for Cannes again! What, you don't already have your ticket to the Riviera? Just so you know what you (and me, and pretty much everyone I know) will be missing, Variety has the full list of films that will be screening at the glitziest of film festivals. As suspected, Indiana Jones will be snapping his whip on the red carpet in world premiere, as will another potential summer smash, Kung Fu Panda. Only two American films will be screening in competition this year, Clint Eastwood's fall release The Changeling and Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York. Of course, one of the highest-profile American filmmakers, Steven Soderbergh, will also be there with his two-part Che, but his entry is officially counted as being Spanish. The usual collection of highbrow foreign films are part of the package as well, though it's hard to single out any special ones, since Cannes is the place they become special to begin with!
David O. Russell, a director famous for his videotaped hissy fit on the set of I Heart Huckabees, seems to have given another of his actors more than they can take. James Caan walked off the set of Nailed, on the first of what was intended to be a two-day shoot for the actor. The Hollywood Reporter recounts a bizarre story about the dispute between actor and director happening over a choking scene involving a cookie. No, really. There will surely be a lot of he-said, he-said finger pointing about this, but if you can't cooperate with a director for a two-day shoot, something must be very wrong.
Even though Will Smith has his own young son, Jaden, who has his own acting career, he enlisted another celebrity progeny to play a younger version of himself in the upcoming Seven Pounds. The Reporter writes that Tom Cruise's son Connor, whom he adopted with Nicole Kidman, will play the younger Smith, mostly in still photographs. Given the other options for children of celebrities-- namely, rehab-- I guess this is among the better choices. Smith makes a good role model-- after all, he did make it from the streets of Philadelphia to Bel-Air in practically no time.
And finally, Ang Lee is heading to the past once more, this time the fabled summer of 1969. He's adapting Elliot Tiber's memoir Taking Woodstock, about a series of events that led the author to accidentally cause the famed outdoor music festival. Variety writes that Focus Features president James Schamus will write the screenplay, with Lee directing. I guess they'll shatter our illusions that mud, music and a lot of hallucinogenics actually caused Woodstock.
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