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I'm glad to know what I'm not the only person who has spent the last thirteen years hoping and praying for a sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Just kidding! I don't think that movies needs a sequel. Alas, somebody does, and that somebody is not Ang Lee. Ronny Yu, on the other hand, is, which will probably earn him the title of "Poor Man's Ang Lee" after he directs this follow-up to the 2000 film. With a script by John Fusco and money coming in from The Weinstein Company, the still-untitled sequel will begin filming in May. [Via Deadline]

Well, the Director's Guild nominations have come in, and they've proved to be entirely predictable. Not a surprise in the house. And that isn't to say the directors nominated aren't deserving and that their films don't merit acclaim but come on, there are so many brilliant films being made and so many talented people at work, that although awards don't mean everything, it's just slightly disheartening to see the scope of praise be so narrow.

Here's a confession: Tim Burton's film adaptation of the classic gothy soap 'Dark Shadows' is an hilariously entertaining pile of garbage.

To the dismay of everyone within earshot of my desk, my excitement will not be quelled about how totally major this year's Cannes Film Festival is going to be. In addition to new awards-contenders from the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Michel Gondry (who didn't make the list, only because I couldn't find much on his latest film, L'epine Dans le Coeur), the sun-soaked Riviera festival will premiere Sam Raimi’s return to death and evil, as well as Jane Campion’s first major release since the Kiwi director tried, disastrously, to make Meg Ryan edgy in 2003’s In the Cut. Penelope Cruz hugs a lot of people in Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces, Ang Lee takes Woodstock and Brad Pitt screams, “Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps ... and I want my scalps!” Oh, and the late Heath Ledger might just get another Oscar. After the jump, the festival’s, if not the year’s, most anticipated films (with trailers).