This year's Festival de Cannes is full-steam ahead, and the red carpet was brimming with stars like Carey Mulligan, Nicole Kidman, and Isla Fisher wearing some glamorous, dramatic gowns. The fashion is fun, sure, but the real reason people from all over the globe gather in the South of France each May is... movies.
Cannes kicked off with a flurry of announcements.
ATTACHMENTS
The always amazing Cate Blanchett is set to star in David Mamet’s JFK Assassination Thriller Blackbird.
Scarlett Johansson is stepping behind the camera and making her directing debut with the Truman Capote story Summer Crossing.
Samuel L. Jackson joins Hailee Steinfeld in the Brett Ratner-produced film Barely Lethal.
Uma Thurman will take on the role of controversial anti-gay activist Anita Bryant in Anita, which is produced by Sex And the City's Darren Star, along with Howard Rosenman, Jeffrey Schwarz and Dennis Erdman.
Voltage attaches Gabriele Muccino to direct Black List project Fathers And Daughters.
Reese Witherspoon is joining Joaquin Phoenix, Owen Wilson and Benicio Del Toro in the Paul Thomas Anderson pic Inherent Vice.
COMPANY NEWS
Producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard introduce Imagine 2.0.
New company Glacier Films announces11-film slate.
Worldview Entertainment is providing gap financing for Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here which has raised more than $2.6 million on Kickstarter.
SALES
Five Star Production's Thai horror movie 3AM Part 2 sold well in Asia, getting picked up for Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia and Malaysia. 
IFC nabbed U.S. rights to the Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams, Jess Weixler and Amy Brenneman film The Face Of Love.
New Europe sold I Used to be Darker to Germany and Austria.
Image Entertainment acquired the rights to the Winnie Mandela biopic, starring Jennifer Hudson and directed by Darrell J. Roodt, with Terrence Howard co-starring as Nelson Mandela. The company also nabbed Last Love, the Sandra Nettelbeck romantic drama starring Michael Caine.
The Weinstein Company is in negotiations for the film Philomena, the Stephen Frears directed movie that stars Judi Dench and Steve Coogan.
REVIEWS
Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby got a so-so reaction at the festival, even though it is seeing better-than-expected box office in the U.S.
Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring got a mixed reaction from Todd McCarthy at The Hollywood Reporter, while Scott Foundas at Variety called it "a spiritual sequel of sorts to The Social Network."
Check back each day for more news about Cannes.