Warner Bros. has announced it’s moving Bradley Cooper’s take on “A Star is Born” up to May 18th, 2018 release.

My sources say that indicates a definite premiere in Cannes, and probably the opening night film. What glamour on the Croisette!

But listen: Cannes is moving up a whole week next year and will begin on Wednesday, May 9th! Sacre bleu! The festival should be starting on the 16th. not the 9th. Festival goers will be bringing rain coats, umbrellas, and sweaters. Talk about a cool film festival!

This past year, Cannes moved to the end of May, where it’s supposed to be. When it’s opened on days like the 12th, 13th, or 14th I can remember some pretty torrential rains. I have photos from recent years of Nicole Kidman amid seas of umbrellas!

Well, Lady Gaga will like arrive on the red carpet at the Palais des Festivals self enclosed in a rain proof outfit. Either way, Cannes 2018 is already guaranteed quite a celeb kick off!

Oscar prognosticating has begun, the internet is rampant with speculation what the Best Picture nominees will be, Best Actors and Actresses etc. It’s always amusing because many of the films being talked about have not been seen and little is known about them.

Among the ones we know: “Dunkirk,” “Detroit,” “The Shape of Water,” “Wind River,” “Molly’s Game,” “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” and “Call Me By Your Name.” I’m a big fan of “Baby Driver,” and would love to see it get some kind of awards action. Ditto “The Big Sick” and “The Beguiled.”

But the ones we don’t know about include Steven Spielberg’s “The Post,” about the Pentagon Papers; Clint Eastwood’s “The 15:17 to Paris,” and a movie with no title by Paul Thomas Anderson starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

The latter film has no title despite a release clock that’s ticking down. Little is known except DDL plays an Yves Saint Laurent type fashion superstar from the 1950s. According to people I’ve asked, he is not gay. So that’s one factoid. And the script is supposed to be excellent. Check two.

But what about a title? PTA is maybe having trouble with that, so I polled around to give him some suggestions. The original title was “Phantom Thread.” But that was awful and has been tossed. Immediately crossed off the list– “Fashion.” Or anything with “Fashion” in it. No one liked “The Golden Thimble” or “The Silver Thimble.” “Seams Like Old Times” also was rejected by friends. Even “Seams Like a Pattern.”

One idea: “Project Runway.” Taken. “Dress for Success” also taken. “Skirting the Issue.” Hmmm…”Inherent Taste”? No. “There Will Be Sewing”? Unt-uh. “Haute Nights?” Maybe. “Punch Drunk Sewing”? (I actually liked that one.) “Fashion Gangs of Paris”?

Will frogs rain down on fashion shows in Paris? Or Frogs? We don’t know. But somehow this untitled film could up end all the Oscar gamblers (but not Oscar Gamble, sports fans). Ideas? Send them to showbiz411@gmail.com.

You just never know around here.

While everyone’s everyone’s been writing about the death of the box office, potential Oscar movies disappointing, etc., there’s a little engine that could: “Wind River.”

The Weinstein Company drama passed $30 million last night and is has tremendous word of mouth. It’s not far fetched to say this might be their Oscar movie, maybe so more than “The Current War.” Another late fall release, “The Upside,” should be a commercial hit and big awards magnet for Golden Globes.

But “Wind River” is a little gem that just went out there and did its job. Taylor Sheridan wrote and directed, coming off his great screenplays for “Sicaro” and “Hell or High Water.” And here’s something to note– “Wind River” has now made more than “Hell or High Water.” That Oscar nominee was beloved, produced an Oscar nom for Jeff Bridges, and still only made $27 mil US and $10 mil international. “Wind River” is going to exceed both of those numbers.

Acting wise, don’t count out Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. As a lot of other more hyped movies fall by the way side, Renner and Olsen look more and more like Oscar contenders. Right now, those crazy Oscar prognosticators– who get a lot wrong when all is said and done– are counting on movies they haven’t seen or crossing fingers for films that will not play wide and have very niche audiences.

If you loved the “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” the new Wes Anderson movie “Isle of Dogs” is for you. One view of the trailer should do it. Can’t Wait!

Something is going wrong with “American Made,” that’s for sure.

Still unspooling overseas before a September 29th American release, Tom Cruise’s latest film finally opened in his most fervent fan country, South Korea, over the weekend.

In June, South Korea gave Tom a record opening with $6.6 million for “The Mummy.” It was that country’s biggest opening ever.

But last weekend, “American Made” did not fare nearly as well. It came in with $1.9 million. More than two thirds of the Cruise fans stayed home and wondered what Rocket Man Kim Jung Un was up to instead.

“American Made” now has a very slight $50 million from plays in nearly every country abroad wit the exception of China and Russia. For “The Mummy,” China was a mega blockbuster with over $90 million. That kind of number would certainly help now.

We’re 10 days out from the US release, and there isn’t much buzz. But critics seem to like it. “American Made” has an 88 on Rotten Tomatoes. But you never know what that means. The Wrap reviewer didn’t much like it, yet the movie got a ‘fresh’ rating. Here’s what he wrote: