It's Official: 'Moonrise Kingdom' will open Cannes

AndersonWes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" is positioned to start the 65th Cannes Film Festival.Cannes delegate general Thierry Fremaux introduced Thursday the film happen to be selected for your fest's exclusive opening-evening slot, even though it remains unclear whether it may have in or from competition.Cannes starts May 16, within 24 hrs "Moonrise" is slated to start in French theaters through Studiocanal. A Croisette berth has made an appearance likely since Focus Features introduced the pic would open May 25 Stateside.An ensembler occur sixties Colonial and including Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDorman, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman and Bob Balaban, "Moonrise Kingdom" is Anderson's live-action follow-around his 2009 stop-motion toon, "Fantastic Mr. Fox."Fest has tended to start with U.S. studio/niche-division game game titles lately, for instance Disney-Pixar's "Up" (2009), Universal's "Robin Hood" (2010) and also the new the new sony Classics' "Evening amount of time in Paris" (2011).Fest runs May 16-27. Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com