Cannes update from Hollywood Reporter

Festival looks to 'Blueberry,' 'Zodiac' for prime slots

Months of conjecture surrounding the Festival de Cannes lineup will come to an end Thursday as organizers unveil the festival's 2007 lineup. Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights," which the Weinstein Co. will release in the U.S., looks as if it will be completed in time to fill the high-profile opening-night slot May 16, while David Fincher's "Zodiac," a Paramount Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures co-production, is rumored as the festival closer on May 27. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's "Grindhouse," Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Thirteen," James Gray's "We Own the Night" and the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" are locked, and Michael Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart" is set to premiere May 21 in Cannes. The U.S.-heavy lineup awaits final confirmation on front-runner "Paranoid Park" by fest veteran Gus Van Sant. Michael Moore will most likely be making it back to the Croisette with his health care documentary "Sicko," following the director's Palme d'Or win in 2004 for "Fahrenheit 9/11." Paulo Morelli's "City of Men" (the sequel to Fernando Meirelles' "City of God") and Harmony Korine's "Mister Lonely" also are anticipated.