Cannes Film Festival's 60th birthday will open on 16 May with Wong Kar-Wai's first English language movie, 'My Blueberry Nights'. Playing in competition, 'My Blueberry Nights' evokes the experiences of a lovelorn woman on a soul-searching journey across America - a familiar theme explored by the director. It will star singer Norah Jones, who makes her big screen debut. Twenty other movies have been selected to compete for the prestigious Cannes Palme d'Or. The US is represented by Quentin Tarantino's 'Death Proof', Gus Van Sant's 'Paranoid Park', David Fincher's 'Zodiac', Julian Schnabel's 'The Diving Bell And the Butterfly', James Gray's 'We Own The Night' and the Coen Brothers' 'No Country for Old Men', and also, out of competition by Michael Moore's 'Sicko', an expose of the American health system, and Steven Soderbergh's 'Ocean's Thirteen'.

Britain's sole representative is Michael Winterbottom's 'A Mighty Heart', also out of competition. In an exciting new departure, organised on his own initiative by Luc Besson, films from the official selection are to be screened on a giant inflatable screens in the so-called banlieus, the housing projects that ring several French cities where unemployment rates are high. They were a battleground in Paris for the ruthlesslysuppressed 2005 riots.

Madrid real about film

Madrid is to launch a new film festival next year, running from 28 March to 5 April. To differentiate itself from other festivals, it will limit its programme to premieres of 20 films from around the world.

All Ireland top five (weekend 13-15 April)

1 (-) Wild Hogs (Walter Becker) 348,962 (-) 2 (2) Blades of Glory (Will Speck) 257,796 ( 680,634 to date) 3 (1) Mr Bean's Holiday (Steve Bendalack) 236,543 ( 2,633,442) 4 (-) Shooter (Antoine Fugua) 175,966 (-) 5 (3) 300 (Zach Snyder) 102,530 ( 1,829,432)

Compiled from Sunday Tribune industry sources

US top five movies (weekend 13-15 April) 1 (-) Disturbia (DJ Caruso) $23m (-) 2 (1) Blades of Glory (Will Speck) $14.1m ($90.2m to date) 3 (2)Meet The Robinsons (Steve Anderson) $12m ($72m) 4 (-) Perfect Stranger (James Foley) $11.5m (-) 5 (3) Are We Done Yet? (Steve Carr) $9.2m ($33m)