Mike Leigh 'confirmed' for Cannes film festival

One film is a dead cert for this year's Cannes film festival: Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, which has already been announced as the opening night gala , screening out of competition. Now, ahead of tomorrow's Paris press conference in which festival director Thierry Fremaux will firm up the rest of the festival's line-up, film sites are abuzz with speculation as to the other key titles. Today, Variety confidently reports that Mike Leigh's Another Year, which stars Jim Broadbent and Imelda Staunton, has been confirmed, as has Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful, a Spanish-language drama starring Javier Bardem. Other hotly-tipped titles include Fair Game, Doug Liman's spy thriller starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, which Variety reports screened earlier this week for Fremaux and his selection committee, and Woody Allen's London-set You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. Other British interest may be piqued by the inclusion of Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe, an adaptation of the Posy Simmonds graphic novel first serialised in the Guardian. Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel, Money Never Sleeps, has been much rumoured to close this year's festival, which runs from May 13-23, but this remains unconfirmed, as does the gossip that Terrence Malick's Tree of Life - possibly the most eagerly-awaited of the titles - will be completed in time to screen in competition. This year's festival runs from May 13-23. The emcee will be Kristin Scott Thomas, and the head of the jury Tim Burton. They could be contenders: the key titles vying for a spot at this year's Cannes film festival (already confirmed: Mike Leigh's Another Year, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biutiful and Ridley Scott's Robin Hood) Aurora, directed by Cristi Puiu, the second part of his six-film cycle that started with The Death of Mr Lazarescu Carlos the Jackal, directed by Olivier Assayas Carancho , directed by Pablo Trapero and starring Ricardo Darin The Certified Copy, directed by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Juliette Binoche Fair Game, directed by Doug Liman and starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts The Frankenstein Project , directed by Kornél Mundruczó Hahaha , directed by Hong Sang-soo The Housemaid , directed by Im Sang-soo Miral , about Hind Husseini's attempts to open in orphanage in 1948 Jerusalem, directed by Julian Schnabel and starring Willem Dafoe and Freida Pinto La nostra vita , directed by Daniele (My Brother is an Only Child) Luchetti Of Gods and Men , a drama about Cistercian monks directed by Xavier Beauvois Outrage, directed by Takeshi Kitano La Princesse de Montpensier, directed by Bertrand Tavernier and starring Melanie Thierry Poetry , an end-of-life drama from Lee Chang-don Potiche , directed by Francois Ozon, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu The Revenge , a drama about a Holocaust survivor directed by Susanne Bier Socialism , a documentary directed by Jean-Luc Godard The Sound of Ice Cubes, directed by Bertrand Blier, starring Jean Dujardin Tamara Drewe, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper Tournée , directed by and starring Mathieu Amalric The Tree , directed by Julie Bertucelli and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg The Tree of Life , directed by Terrence Malick, starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Fiona Shaw The Turin Horse , directed by Bela Tarr Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, directed by Oliver Stone and starring Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan and Josh Brolin You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger , directed by Woody Allen, starring Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts and Freida Pinto And what's not: films that (almost) definitely won't be finished in time Hereafter, directed by Clint Eastwood Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky And Gus van Sant's as-yet-untitled latest