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(18 May 2007) SHOTLIST
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FILE: France, Cannes - 16 May, 2007
1. Pan of red carpet at Cannes 2007 opening night
2. Cutaway of Cameras
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FILE: Paris - March 2007
3. Mid of Scarlett Johansson at Paris Fashion week
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FILE: Los Angeles - 11 Feb, 2007
4. Tilt down Scarlett Johansson at Grammy's
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FILE: London - 8 August 2007
5. Wide of Bryce Dallas Howard signing autographs
6. Various of Bryce Dallas Howard speaking to reporters
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FILE: Utah, 23 January 2005
7. Mid of Evan Rachel Wood
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FILE: Los Angeles - 9 August, 2005
8. Mid of Evan Rachel Wood
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FILE: Los Angeles - 13 February, 2006
9. Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams posing for photographers at Oscar luncheon
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FILE: Los Angeles 6 March, 2006
10. Various of Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams on red carpet at 2006 Oscars
REWRITING HISTORY IN CANNES
Its not just film premieres that puts Cannes on the map - just as much excitement comes from casting deals struck during the two week festival in the south of France.
On Friday, producers announced two new films will go into production - 'Mary, Queen of Scots' and the 'Bronte sisters' and boasted they had struck casting deals with a bevy of American actresses.
Scarlett Johansson, 22, is to play the mouthy red haired monarch Mary, Queen of Scots, in a historical film epic, to be made by Relativity Media.
James Curren ("The Painted Veil") has been appointed director.
The script will be written by Jimmy McGovern best known for gritty UK TV crime drama "cracker."
Producers said Mary would battle political enemies, scheming allies, and affairs of the heart in her quest to reunite the warring tribes of her native Scotland.
Mary, a Roman Catholic, ruled Scotland from 1542 to 1567, but her designs on the throne of England ruled by her Protestant cousin, Elizabeth I led to her downfall and beheading at the age of 42.
But it's a trio of US actresses have been cast as the most famous sisters of English literature - Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte.
Starring in the film will be former 'Brokeback Mountain' and 'Dawson's Creek' star 'Michelle Williams', 26, 'The Village' actress Bryce Dallas Howard, 26, and up-and-coming Evan Rachel Wood, 19.
The film will be the latest to feature American actors as English writers, following 'The Devil Wears Prada' star Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen in this year's 'Becoming Jane' and Renee Zellweger as Beatrix Potter in
'Miss Potter'.
Bronte will be directed and written by British filmmaker Charles Sturridge, who recently directed the Lassie remake.
The Bronte sisters created fantasy worlds for themselves while growing up as children in Yorkshire.
They created pseudonyms in their earlier works to get published.
Sturridge who's five sister strong family come from Yorkshire, said he has always wanted to tell the story.
Williams will play Jane Eyre author Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), Dallas Howard has been cast as Emily Bronte (1818-1848), most famous for Wuthering Heights, and Rachel Wood plays The Tenant of Wildfell Hall author and the youngest of the Bronte sisters, Anne (1820-1849).
Charlotte Bronte, arguably the most talented of the three, died at the age of 39.
Jane Eyre was published in 1847 and was an instant success.
Filming begins in September and the movie is expected to be released in 2009.
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