Hollywood A-listers actress Nicole Kidman and director Ang Lee will join Steven Spielberg next month on the Cannes film festival jury, organisers said on Wednesday. Australian Kidman won the best actress Academy Award for her portrayal of author Virginia Woolf in "The Hours" while Taiwan-born Lee was named best director earlier this year for his fantasy epic "Life of Pi".

"Oblivion," a post-apocalyptic action flick starring Tom Cruise, obliterated the competition in its debut this weekend, taking in about $37.1 million, industry figures showed Monday. The film earned more than a third of this weekend's box office revenue -- nearly 37 percent of the top 12 films, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations -- as it knocked last week's winner "42" off the top spot.

Kim Novak, the star of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece "Vertigo" who turned her back on Hollywood, is to make a return to the red carpet at next month's Cannes film festival, organisers said on Monday. The US actress, 80, refused to accept the ironfisted rule of America's big studios and in 1965 largely abandoned film to devote herself to painting. She will be guest of honour at a special screening to mark the restoration of the film regarded as Hitchcock's finest work. Hitchcock once described the "Vertigo" as "a love story with a strange atmosphere".

Jerome Salle's film "Zulu" starring Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom will close the 66th Cannes film festival next month, the organisers said on Friday. The film, adapted from the eponymous novel by French author Caryl Ferey, was shot entirely on location in South Africa. Cannes, widely regarded as the world's top film festival, opens on May 15 with Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby," starring Leonardo di Caprio in a remake of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic novel. This year's jury will be headed by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg.