International trailer for Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights, with Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Norah Jones, Tim Roth, David Strathairn and Natalie Portman. The stills gallery at OutNow also has some new pictures. The film will open this year's Cannes Film Festival, which is taking place over the next 11 days. [imdb]

Pictures from the Coen brothers' adaptation of No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. It will premiere at Cannes. (RopeofSilicon) [imdb]

What appears to be the first production still from Noah Baumbach's (The Squid and the Whale) new dramatic comedy, Margot at the Wedding. It shows Nicole Kidman who plays Margot. The cast also features Jack Black, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Turturro, and Ciaran Hinds. (via Film Experience Blog) [imdb]

Daniel Craig will star in Edward Zwick's WWII epic set in Nazi-occupied Poland, Defiance. (Dark Horizons)

Producer Avi Arad talks about the planned comic book movie, Magneto. (MTV Movies Blog) [imdb]

Directed and co-written by “Batman Begins” scribe David Goyer, the prequel has all sorts “of opportunities for the kind of things that [will] make [it] interesting,” Arad contended, including a look at his early friendship with and ultimate rift from Charles Xavier, the mutant who would later become the leader of the X-Men.

First stills have been released for the fantasy adaptation, Dark Is Rising. Based on the novel by Susan Cooper, it stars Christopher Eccleston, Ian McShane, Gregory Smith, Amelia Warner, James Cosmo, Frances Conroy, Wendy Crewson, Jonathan Jackson, and Alexander Ludwig as Will Stanton. (Coming Soon) [imdb]

Big batch of pictures from the filming of the Thomas Dylan biopic The Best Time of Our Lives - now called The Edge of Love - starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Rhys, Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller. This one is just begging to be iconned. (JustJared) [imdb]

JustJared has a clip of Fergie's new music video, "Boys Don't Cry", which features Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes.

The official poster for the 60th Festival de Cannes. It shows Pedro Almodovar, Juliette Binoche, Jane Campion, Souleymane Cisse, Penelope Cruz, Gerard Depardieu, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, and Wong Kar Wai.

Wong Kai Wai's first English-language feature, My Blueberry Nights, in competition this year at Cannes, will be - as many already predicted - the opening night film. GreenCine Daily has the complete line-up. Among the films in competition are Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men, David Fincher's Zodiac, Julian Schnabel's Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), and Catherine Breillat's Une Vieille Maitresse. Screening out of competition are Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart, Denys Arcand's L'Âge des ténèbres, Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Thirteen, and Michael Moore's documentary, Sicko.

EW has a feature on A Mighty Heart, Michael Winterbottom's (The Road to Guantanamo) adaptation of the book by Mariane Pearl, whose journalist husband was kidnapped and killed by militants in Pakistan. Angelina Jolie and Dan Futterman play Mariane and Daniel Pearl. [imdb]

Lindsay Lohan, displaying no sense whatsoever, has left the Dylan Thomas biopic, The Best Time of Our Lives. Cillian Murphy, Keira Knightley, and Matthew Rhys are still attached. [imdb]

Michael Gambon (Gosford Park) and Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensability) will play the heads of the once-distinguished yet Catholic aristocratic family, the Marchmains, in Brideshead Revisited, based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh. The film also stars Ben Whishaw (Perfume) and Hayley Atwell (The Line of Beauty) as their children, Sebastian and Julia, and another rising star Matthew Goode (The Lookout) as Charles Ryder, the outsider who befriends them. Directed by Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane). (Dark Horizons) [imdb]

Some new hi-res stills from  Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Thanks to xxflissxx. ETA: AND THERE'S MORE! Here.

Dark Horizons interviews Ray Lawrence, director of Lantana and Jindabyne.

Casting update on HBO's True Blood, the new show based on Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse mysteries. British actor Stephen Moyer (Ultraviolet) is onboard as the vampire Bill Compton, Brooke Kerr as Tara, Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse, and Sam Trammel as Sam Merlotte. Anna Paquin plays the heroine, Sookie Stackhouse, a young Louisiana waitress whose her life is turned upside down when Bill walks into the place where she works two years after vampires 'came out of the coffin' on national television. The series is executive produced by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under). Shooting on the pilot, "Strange Love," will start in June. (The Deadwood Stage) [imdb]

Right on queue, the New York Times has an article on the "British Invasion", the current pilot season and new projects for the cast of Rome:

In what several television network and studio executives are calling a “British invasion,” the current network pilot season is marked by one salient trend: An awful lot of British actors are getting hired.

“There is a tremendous number of British actors being signed,” said Sharon Klein, the head of casting for the 20th Century Fox Television studio. “It’s certainly more than ever before.”

The 2007 Cannes International Film Festival lineup so far; it includes the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men, James Gray's We Own the Night, and selected scenes of The Golden Compass. (Variety)

Emine Saner at the Guardian asks, Do women and horror movies mix?

Hilary Swank interviews her The Reaping co-star Idris Elba. Damn, he's hot. And while we're thinking about The Wire, check out Wing Chun's recap of the pilot at Television Without Pity.

Leo and the Bear: Annie Leibovitz's Vanity Fair photoshoot with baby polar bear Knut and Leonardo DiCaprio. In the magazine's Green Issue, the fight against global warming gets a lot more...stylish. ( cover of knut and leo )