Despite the film not winning the Golden Palm, since its Cannes Film Festival premiere on May 24, there’s been a lot of new coverage on The Palermo Shooting and Milla available online. Here’s our small compilation of news and media related to Milla’s part in the film.

Kicking things off with new media, because we all love new media, don’t we? First off, we have the very first hi-res promotional still of Milla in the film, and she looks fantastic! Milla’s segment was shot in Germany shortly after the late September 2007 Resident Evil: Extinction world premiere, hence the noticeable baby bump. Furthermore, Liz was kind enough to send in some small screen captures of a clip from the film; the clip itself is currently available for viewing on YouTube.

In some less pleasing news, Variety critic Todd McCarthy caught the film onscreen in Cannes — and, unfortunately, wasn’t impressed, citing the film as being “nicely shot,” but suffering “from being both pretentious and inconsequential.” Milla is barely mentioned, and only as being “very pregnant.” You can read the review in its entirety at Variety.com.

I think that might be all for the moment in The Palermo Shooting area of things. More media coming up, hopefully already sometimes next week! Stay tuned.

New Photo Albums:

• ‘The Palermo Shooting’ (2008) Movie Clip Screen Captures
• ‘The Palermo Shooting’ (2008) Promotional Stills

Apologies for the delay in updates, today is the first time in a long, long time that I’ve had a solid internet connection. However, as I’m sure most have noticed, I have not been idle, and have steadily uploaded hi-res footage of Milla at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, which wrapped up on May 25, to the gallery all week. I’ve just finished adding nearly 500 hi-res photos of Milla’s various Cannes appearances; many thanks to Dale and Liz for sending in some of them!

In addition to updating the existing Cannes albums, I also added some photos of Milla at the festival Dior party on May 23, looking absolutely gorgeous in a ruffled, strapless black mini. Personally, Milla looked fantastic the entire time she was in Cannes! My personal favorite, however, is without a doubt her amazing closing ceremony look, which had my jaw drop to the floor the minute I saw it.

New & Updated Photo Albums:

• 2008 Cannes Film Festival ‘The Palermo Shooting’ Premiere on May 24
• 2008 Cannes Film Festival amfAR Gala Benefit and After Party on May 22
• 2008 Cannes Film Festival Closing Ceremony on May 25
• 2008 Cannes Film Festival Dior Party on May 23
• 2008 Cannes Film Festival Dolce & Gabbana Party on May 23

More of Milla at the 61st Cannes International Film Festival! On Saturday, as expected, Milla attended the festival premiere of The Palermo Shooting with the rest of the cast and director Wim Wenders — and my goodness, did she just steal the red carpet or what? This look definitely ranks among my favorites ever; what a beautiful and classy outfit! And where does she get those gorgeous headbands? 76 medium-res photos of her at the event have been added to the gallery.

Furthermore, on May 23, Milla attended the festival Dolce & Gabbana party in Mougins - some of you surely noticed I uploaded the first photos already on Saturday, but I wasn’t able update about it until now. More footage coming soon. Finally, on May 25, Milla was spotted at the festival closing ceremony, looking her best ever — simply flawless. The first 23 medium-res photos of this event at the gallery.

Finally, a big thanks to our regular contributors Dale and Liz for keeping us posted with Milla’s doings in Cannes and for sending in amazing hi-res footage of Milla at the festival! Hi-res footage from these events will be added to the gallery later this week (when I’m not running out of battery). Click on the below links to navigate your way to and through the new footage.

New & Updated Photo Albums:

• 2008 Cannes Film Festival ‘The Palermo Shooting’ Premiere on May 24
• 2008 Cannes Film Festival amfAR Gala Benefit and After Party on May 22
• 2008 Cannes Film Festival Closing Ceremony on May 25
• 2008 Cannes Film Festival Dolce & Gabbana Party on May 23

After much speculation I am most pleased to announce Milla is indeed in Cannes, and is thus most likely to attend the May 24 Cannes Film Festival premiere of The Palermo Shooting. I’m in a crazy rush right now, but I’ve nevertheless added the first 50 medium-res photos of Milla at the Cannes Film Festival amfAR Gala benefit and after party on May 22 to the gallery, with many more additions coming up. And may I just say how absolutely stunning Milla looked at the event! She never disappoints. Thanks to Dale for the heads-up!

New Photo Albums:

• 2008 Cannes Film Festival amfAR Gala Benefit on May 22

Just a quick reminder to everyone that Wim Wenders’ The Palermo Shooting, in which Milla makes a small cameo appearance as herself, will premiere at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival. Hopefully Milla will be attending!

Yay! The recent online speculation regarding Wim Wenders’ The Palermo Shooting and the possibility of the film premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is finally over; The Palermo Shooting has been confirmed as one of the films in this year’s competition lineup! Congratulations to the entire Palermo Shooting team!

The festival will take place in Cannes, France on May 14-25 2008. Milla has attended the festival many times in the past - hopefully, with the premiere of The Palermo Shooting, this year will be no exception. She is, however, currently filming A Perfect Getaway in Puerto Rico.

The Palermo Shooting is a Wim Wenders-directed drama film, in which Milla makes a small cameo appearance. Check out our Upcoming Productions-page for details!

Some of you will remember how the possibility of Wim Wenders’ The Palermo Shooting premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was brought up a few weeks back. Well, unfortunately we still don’t know, because the Cannes Film Festival nominees announcement has been pushed back all the way to April 23. From Hollywood Today.net:

Amid rumors that the world’s most glamorous event outside of perhaps the Oscars, the Cannes Film Festival, led by Thierry Fremaux has been having a hard time finding movies they want for the annual competition, the date of their announcement of movies that will be featured in the festival beginning May 14 has been pushed back from April 17 to April 23 - leaving precious little planning time for all concerned.

It is the equivalent of the Academy Awards or Grammys suddenly saying they will not announce nominees until three weeks before airtime.

The timing of the announcement is of major concern to film companies, filmmakers and others involved in movies that might be among the approximately 20 that will compete for the top prize, the Palme d’Or, as well as movies in sidebar competition Un Certain Regard. Only after the official announcement will many of those involved set their travel and hotel plans. The loss of a week of planning time is going to squeeze these plans into an even tighter space.

The Palermo Shooting is a Wim Wenders-directed drama film in which Milla makes a small cameo appearance. The film is the second Milla-Wenders movie collaboration; in 2000, Milla starred in Wenders’ indie drama The Million Dollar Hotel. The Palermo Shooting is currently in post-production, and a likely candidate to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this May.