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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...
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...occurred. In short, early humans and chimps may have mated and produced offspring before the two species permanently split. These hybrid species may have developed into either the modern humans or chimpanzees, although fossils seem to point to humans, Reich said. The interbreeding hypothesis might also explain why the X chromosome shared by humans and chimps is about 1.2 million years more recent than any other chromosome, Reich added. When humans and chimpanzees diverged into distinct evolutionary branches, the two species hardly had the cleanest of break-ups. So far, scientists have believed that “speciation?...