Actor Jack Black participates in a stunt on the Carlton beach pier for the film "Kung Fu Panda" during the 61st Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. The annual festival gets under way with its first premiere Wednesday night.
Actor Jack Black does kung fu moves with actors dressed as pandas for a publicity stunt on the Carlton beach pier to promote his new animated movie "Kung Fu Panda" during the 61st Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2008.
Actor Jack Black leads a squad of life-sized pandas in a march along the Carlton beach pier for the film to promote "Kung Fu Panda" during the 61st Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Black voiced the title character in the animated film that is being shown out of competition at the festival.
Festival goers wander past the Cannes film festival palace in the rain, on the eve of the opening of the 61st Cannes International Film Festival in southern France, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The Cannes Film Festival runs May 14-25.
Press photographers shoot workers fixing the red carpet onto the steps of the Cannes Film Festival palace, on the eve of the opening of the 61st Cannes International film festival in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The Cannes film festival runs through May 14-25.
Jury members pose at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008. From left are Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron; Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto; German actress Alexandra Maria Lara; U.S. actor-director Sean Penn; French actress Jeanne Balibar; Iranian author and director Marjane Satrapi; U.S. actress Natalie Portman; French director Rachid Bouchareb and Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The president of the 61st International Cannes Film Festival, actor-director Sean Penn of the U.S., poses during a press conference on the first day of the film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Wednesday, May 14, 2008.
A banner for the 61st International Cannes Film Festival is seen in Cannes, southern France, on May 12, 2008, two days before the opening of the festival.
Workers put the final touch to an advertising sign and decorations inspired from Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," in the main entrance of the Carlton Hotel, on the eve of the opening of the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
Posters of the 61st International Cannes film festival are seen at an entrance of the Cannes Festival Palace on Monday, May 12, 2008, two days before the festival opening in Cannes, southern France. The poster is a photograph by director David Lynch, adapted by Pierre Collier, a cinema poster artist.
Workers put up an advertising sign and decorations for Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" at the main entrance of the Carlton Hotel, on Tuesday, May 13, 2008, the eve of the opening of the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France. Spielberg's movie is to be screened out of comeptition in Cannes on May 18, and will hit the screens worldwide on May 22.
Canadian actor and screenwriter Don McKellar,left, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, center, and American actress Julianne Moore, arrive for a press conference for their film, "Blindness," which opens the 61st Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on Wednesday, May 14, 2008.
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, left, and American actor Danny Glover pose during a press conference for the film "Blindness" at the 61st Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on Wednesday, May 14, 2008.
Actress Julianne Moore poses during a press conference for the film "Blindness" at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on Wednesday, May 14, 2008. That movie opens the 12-day film festival Wednesday night.