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• 10 Things We Know About Cannes: Richard and Mary Corliss (TIME.com) gives you the Cannes for Dummies.
  It’s still THE film festival
  Berlin may be more serious, Amsterdam hipper, Sundance more focused, Toronto more congenial. But Cannes, with its 40,000 visitors from around the world, remains the gold standard for movie conclaves.
  
  Learn humility.
  Humility through humiliation, that is. ...The signs read "Complet," which is French for "Get lost."
  

• Firefly/Serenity fans around the world have organised sceening in June of the Big Damn Movie for charity. Go to Can't Stop The Signal to see if there's going to be one in your home town.

• The skinny:
  
  - Helena Bonham Carter has replaced Helen McCrory (who's going to be inconveniently pregrant during the shooting, as the official story goes) as Bellatrix LeStrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Hello? Does she look like she could be Gary Oldman's older cousin? Also, a bunch of unknowns have been cast as the teenaged Sirius, Remus and Severus. (Coming Soon)
  
  - Genius cinematographer Christopher Doyle, bless him, calls Martin Scorsese on his "mediocrity". (via Cinematical)
  
  - Wong Kar-Wai, who's current serving as president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, has been announcing the cast of his first English-language film, My Blueberry Nights, set in America. Already Jude Law, Nathalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Norah Jones, are Ed Harris in. Kevin Spacey is also in talks. (Jo Blo)
  
  - Klaus Badelt, who was principal composer on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, talked to Ain't It Cool News about the experience of working on the score of The Promise (Wuji), the Chinese-language martial arts film from director Chen Kaige. >> Trailer for The Promise.