'Tomorrowland' Cannes Opening Film Odds

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Odds on opening film at Cannes

By now we have usually heard what’s going to be the opening movie at the year’s biggest festival. For amusement only I offer my odds on the runners

What’s going on here? Last year we learnt what the opening film at Cannes was to be way back in January. Of course, the ultimately awful Grace of Monaco had been kicking around for ages and, with its local interest, had been favourite for the position since the previous autumn . Much the same could be said of The Great Gatsby 12 months earlier. The festival is still two months away, but Cannes usually enjoys setting up some preparatory publicity in early Spring.
Our assumption must be that they are waiting to see if something will be ready in time. It could be anything. The rules on selection are not hard and fast. The film is usually not in competition, but there are exceptions from time to time. The only certain thing is that the picture must feature at least one — ideally more — significant movie star. If you want a sense of the variance, remember that the big dumb The Da Vinci Code opened in 2006, two years before  Fernando Meirelles’s unsettling, depressing (in competition) Blindness.
Anyway, here are the runners and riders with ludicrous, plucked-from-the-air odds.

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller) — 5/2

INSIDE OUT (Pete Docter) — 4/1

TOMORROWLAND (Brad Bird) — 5/1

JURASSIC WORLD (Colin Trevorrow) — 11/2

CAROL (Todd Haynes) — 11/2

YOUTH (Paolo Sorrentino) — 10/1

I could see George at least show u. at the Cannes. It could kick off their European promotion tour for TOMORROWLAND.
He would also like to meet the jury Coens.

Uh this would be nice to see him there.

I hope Tomorrowland does get opening night at Cannes. It would be great to see George there.

It doesn't look as if Tomorrowland is going to Cannes.

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Cannes Film Festival 2015 Lineup – Full List- Gus Van Sant’s ‘Sea Of Trees’, Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’, Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’
by Ali Jaafar

and Nancy Tartaglione

April 16, 2015 2:07am
Refresh for latest… The Official Selection roster for the 68th Cannes Film Festival is being announced in Paris this morning. It’s been another down-to-the-wire process this year with few details emerging ahead of today. We know that Emmanuelle Bercot’s La Tête Haute is opening and that Mad Max: Fury Road is screening — and a lot of blanks will be filled in over the next hour or so. Deadline is live blogging the press conference on the Champs-Elysées and below we’re updating the list as fest chief Thierry Frémaux unveils the pics premiering on the Riviera in just under a month:




COMPETITION
Dheepan (working title), dir: Jacques Audiard

A Simple Man, dir: Stephane Brize
Marguerite and Julien, dir: Valerie Donzelli
The Tale of Tales, dir: Matteo Garrone
Carol, dir: Todd Haynes
The Assassin, dir: Hou Hsiao Hsien
Mountains May Depart, dir: Jia Zhang-Ke
Our Little Sister, dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Macbeth, dir: Justin Kurzel
The Lobster, dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
Mon Roi, dir: Maiwenn
Mia Madre, dir: Nanni Moretti
Son of Saul, dir: Laszlo Nemes
Youth, dir: Paolo Sorrentino
Louder Than Bombs, dir: Joachim Trier
The Sea of Trees, dir: Gus Van Sant
Sicario, dir: Denis Villeneuve
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Madonna, dir: Shin Suwon
Maryland, dir: Anna Winocour
The Fourth Direction, dir: Gurvinder Singh
Masaan (Fly Away Solo), dir: Neeraj Ghaywan
Hruter (Rams), dir: Grimur Hakonarson
Kishibe No Tabi (Journey to the Shore), dir: Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Je Suis Un Soldat (I Am a Soldier), dir: Laurent Larivere
Zvizdan (The High Sun), dir: Dalibor Matanic
The Other Side, dir: Roberto Minervini
One Floor Below, dir: Radu Muntean
Shameless, dir: Oh Seung-Uk
The Chosen Ones, dir: David Pablos
Nahid, dir: Ida Panahandeh
The Treasure, dir: Corneliu Porumboiu
OUT OF COMPETITION
Mad Max: Fury Road, dir: George Miller
Irrational Man, dir: Woody Allen
Inside Out, dir: Pete Docter and Ronaldo del Carmen
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), dir: Mark Osborne
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Oka, dir: Souleymane Cisse
Sipur Al Ahava Ve Choshech (A Tale of Love and Darkness), dir: Natalie Portman
Hayored Lema’ala, dir Elad Keidan
Amnesia, dir: Barbet Schroeder
Panama, dir: Pavel Vuckovic
Asphalte, dir: Samuel Benchetrit
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
O Piseu (Office), Dir: Hong Won-Chan
Amy, Dir: Asif Kapadia

I think that's because TOMORROWLAND is planning to screen on May 6th before the opening day of Cannes. And they're possibly going to the Paris Disney Park to promote the film.