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...even high-art programmers know that films are also movies. So this year Cannes had a quartet of horror-SF pictures. Two, X-Men The Last Stand and the Taiwanese thriller Silk, showed out of competition in the main selection. Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly played in the official sidebar Un Certain Regard. The fourth film, Bong Joon-ho's The Host was in the independent Directors' Fortnight program...
...Cannes' marquee genre item was X-Men The Last Stand, which after its Cannes world premiere opens today on 3,688 North American screens. Gitesh Pandya of Box Office Guru predicts this third installment of the X-Men franchise will rake in $108 million over the four-day Memorial weekend...
...will be out of moviegoers' habit (X-Men and X2: X-Men United earned a cumulative $700 million at the worldwide box office) rather than any special fizz or glitter in the new episode...
...comic book and movie franchise, X-Men has built a canny metaphor on the feeling of virtually all teenagers that they are outcasts, weirdos, mutants. Raging hormones will do that, and the X-Men, though no longer kids, remain locked in their adolescent attitudes. The producers of X-Men The Last Stand, and the countless fantasy films Hollywood will generate this summer and in years to come, are trusting that their prime audience stays adolescent and faithful forever...
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