Worldfilm Roundup: Cannes-demonium

At his new hangout, Glenn Kenny reports on Jack Black's Kung Fu Panda shenanigans -- and the gruesome aftermath. More Cannes updates from GreenCine Daily:  Blindness, Waltz with Bashir, Four Nights with Anna, and Lion's Den. If you time it right, you can watch the red carpet arrivals at IFC's Cannes Cam -- and we have a photo gallery from the Blindness premiere. Oh, and Angelina is having, uhm, twins.

Legendary German director Werner Herzog is everywhere these days. His new film Encounters at the End of the World is about to open at Film Forum, he just announced a remake of Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant with Nicolas Cage in the Harvey Keitel role, and now Gregg Goldstein brings news that he's going to collaborate with David Lynch on My Son, My Son, "a horror-tinged murder drama based on a true story." In the same item, we also learn that Lynch will also be producing Alejandro Jodorwosky's "metaphysical gangster movie" King Shot, starring Asia Argento, Udo Kier, and Nick Nolte.

Online viewing: Chris Ware's latest animation for This American Life, Isabella Rosselini's Green Porno, and ad-supported streaming movies on Jaman.