FORMER Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design student Enda McCallion, now based in LA where he has made over 150 commercials, is to make his feature debut with Night, starring Mischa Barton.

Meanwhile his commercial for the Ryder Cup, shot in over 20 locations with a cast of 300, will start airing in early May.

New Brad Anderson production in train

BRAD Anderson, director of the stylish existential thriller The Machinist which starred a skeletal Christian Bale, is lining up a new thriller, Transsiberian, which he plans to shoot in Spain and eastern Europe in October. The plot involves a man and a woman innocently involved in a murder plot which they can't escape on the rail journey from China to Russia.

'The Philadelphia Story', here it comes

GEORGE Cukor's 1940 classic The Philadelphia Story, a romantic farce starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart, is to tour Ireland throughout May as part of the annual Bealtaine Festival, which celebrates creativity in older age.

Bye, bye Berlusconi, ciao to Cannes

WHILE former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi sulks, refusing to accept his defeat in the Italian elections, Nanni Moretti's The Caiman . . . a satirical movie that helped put him out of power . . . has swept the Donatello Awards, Italy's equivalent to the Oscars. The Caiman is now headed for the Cannes Film Festival, which opens with The Da Vinci Code on 17 May.

Hopefully it will be joined there by Lou Ye's Summer Palace, the only Chinese film selected for competition. A love story set in the 1980s during civil unrest in China and Berlin, it's currently before the Chinese censors who are concerned about its explicit sex scenes. Although it doesn't need censorship approval to screen at Cannes, to screen it without approval could lead to Lou Ye being barred from working with foreign film companies, as happened to Zhang Yimou with To Live in 1994.

IRELAND'S TOP FIVE (weekend 21-23 April)

1 (2) Ice Age: The Meltdown (Carlos Saldanha) 257,272 ( 2,898,363 to date)
2 (1) Scary Movie 4 (David Zucker) 203,547 ( 1,003,014)
3 (-) American Dreamz (Paul Weitz) 171,553 (-)
4 (3) Inside Man (Spike Lee) 75,518 ( 1,613,727)
5 (-) Tristan + Isolde (Kevin Reynolds) 56,387 (-)

Compiled from Sunday Tribune industry sources

US TOP FIVE (weekend 21-23 April)
1 (-) Silent Hill (Christopher Gans) $20.2m (-)
2 (1) Scary Movie 4 (David Zucker) $17m ($67.7m to date)
3 (-) The Sentinel (Clark Johnson) $14.7m (-)
4 (2) Ice Age: The Meltdown (Carlos Saldanha) $12.8m ($167.9m)
5 (4) The Wild (Steve Williams) $8.1m ($21.9m)