Cannes: Woody Allen’s' 'Café Society,' Starring Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg, to Open Festival

29 March 2016 5:07 AM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »

As expected, Cannes director Thierry Fremaux has selected Woody Allen's latest, "Café Society," to open the 69th Festival International du Film de Cannes (May 11 to 22). The film will make its world premiere on Wednesday 11 May in the Palais des Festivals’ Grand Théâtre Lumière, per usual for Woody Allen, as an Official Selection Out of Competition title. It’s a record-breaking coup for the New York director who has already opened the Festival twice, with "Hollywood Ending" (2002) and "Midnight in Paris" (2011).  The Competition Jury will be presided over by George Miller, and the Official Selection titles are due to be announced on April 14 (Indiewire takes a stab at what they might be here).  Cannes veteran Jesse Eisenberg, who starred in last year's Competition entry, Joachim Trier's "Louder than Bombs" (April 8), moves from Lex Luthor in franchise blockbuster "Batman v Superman: »

- Anne Thompson

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