Party hearty

It's a veritable flurry of festival news.

Can-Can: "The Changeling," an awards-magnet drama from awards-bait director Clint Eastwood will be one of a smattering of American films at the scaled-back 61st Festival de Cannes. It stars the world's most famous humanitarian breeder (and Oscar winner) Angelina Jolie.

Steven Soderbergh and Charlie Kaufman also will be in competition at the French boondoggle, while DreamWorks plans a "Bee Movie" PR re-do with "Kung-Fu Panda" (Jack Black in a panda suit bungee jumping across the Croisette?) and Paramount will screen "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" in the just-for-fun and-potential-profit-boost category.

DeNiro's other job: The seven-year-old TriBeCa fest opens today with the mainstream Universal comedy "Baby Mama," and brother blog Risky Biz looks at the state of affairs for indie (or trying to be less indie) festivals such as this one.

Check here for highlights of the lineup, which includes an obligatory appearance of a dramedy "Bart Got a Room" starring indie poster boy William H. Macy and a road-trip tale with Elvis one-upper and "Glitter" star Mariah Carey. Try to find any logical thread there, we dare you.

Show goes on: Despite the absence of the ailing film critic Rogert Ebert, his Ebertfest kicks off today in the Chicago area. Read his blog here, and see what's on tap at this week's fest (hint: John Turturro's "Romance & Cigarettes") here.