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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Asia Pacific World Red carpet 'Robin Hood' as Cannes film frenzy kicks off AFP - Thursday, May 13 Send IM Story Print The French government called on Iran to immediately release jailed filmmaker Jafar Panahi, seen here in 2005, and allow him to take his seat as a member of the Cannes jury. CANNES, France (AFP) - – Cannes kicked off its annual frenzy of star-studded premieres, parties and provocative arthouse films with a gala screening of the Hollywood blockbuster "Robin Hood." Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, who star as the legendary English outlaw and his love interest Lady Marian, strolled up the red carpet late Wednesday for a gala screening of the film by Ridley Scott. The festival jury led by Tim Burton took a swipe at Iran by leaving one chair symbolically empty for jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi as they arrived on the stage for the opening ceremony in the festival palace. Panahi had been invited to join the jury but has been held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison since March, reportedly because he was making a film about the disputed 2009 Iranian presidential election. But controversy was unlikely to dim the star-power wattage of the 12-day festival due to host Sean Penn, Mick Jagger, Naomi Watts, Woody Allen and Jean-Luc Godard and a bevy of other A-list celebs. "Cannes is great glamour, great craziness. There's nothing like it in the world, not even the Oscars," said British actress Helen Mirren as she arrived wearing an off-the-shoulder black sheath dress and diamond earrings. Thousands of star-watchers cheered as celebs like Eva Longoria, Bollywood beauty Aishawrya Rai-Bachchan, and Salma Hayek filed in to watch "Robin Hood," whose director was unable to make Cannes because of a knee injury. Crowe hinted at a press conference earlier Wednesday that a Robin Hood sequel might be in the offing, saying that so far there were no definite plans but that if he was asked to reprise the role, "then great, let's do it." The star of Scott's muddy, bloody blockbuster said he was undaunted by the previous films in which big names like Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner played the archer-turned-outlaw who steals from the rich to give to the poor. The new version is a "back story" that presents Robin as a repentant soldier returning from the Crusades in the Middle East to defend a disunited England against the invading French. "At Robin's heart is a simple thing: he is distressed by the unnecessary suffering of other human beings," said Crowe. "I think that is an age-old thought process." Blanchett joked that "I always wanted to be Robin Hood rather than Maid Marian but the part was taken." Movie fans and industry suits were also massing in the palm-lined resort for the launch of the 63rd edition of the festival, whose heady cocktail of deal-making, glamour and art makes it the top film event of the year. "Robin Hood" is screening out of competition, like another major Hollywood film, Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps." Stone's movie sees Michael Douglas reprise his 1987 role as corporate raider Gordon Gekko -- who coined the phrase "Greed is good" -- getting out of jail and warning Wall Street of impending financial disaster. Nineteen films are in the race for the Palme d'Or to be awarded on May 23, inlcuding works by major arthouse names like Iran's Abbas Kiarostami and Britain's Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. Loach, who scooped the Palme in 2006, made a late entry on Monday with "Route Irish," a movie about British security contractors in the Iraq war. The only US film in competition for the Palme this year, "Fair Game" by "The Bourne Identity" director Doug Liman, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, looks at the former US government's bid to smear CIA agent Valerie Plame. Cannes 2010 will also see premieres of films by Mexico's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Japan's Takeshi Kitano. US film-maker Woody Allen, 74, and New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard, 79, add to the largely veteran line-up. Asia has a strong showing in the race for the Palme, with two entries from South Korea -- "Poetry" by Lee Chang-dong and Im Sang-soo's "The Housemaid" -- and with China and Thailand also represented. 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