Festival jury member and Mexican actress Salma Hayek poses during a photo call in Cannes May 11, 2005. (Photo)

　　The yachts are scrubbed, the red carpet is unraveled and giant movie posters vie for attention on the seafront. Let Cannes, the world's greatest film festival, begin.

　　The 58th Festival de Cannes opens on Wednesday in the glamorous Riviera resort, offering up the annual orgy of Hollywood glitz, showbiz excess and a bewildering number of films both in and out of competition.

　　The biggest event of a packed 12-day program promises to be the sixth and final installment of George Lucas’s Star Wars epic, which gets its world premiere in Cannes on Sunday.

　　While not in the running for this year's coveted Palme d'Or, "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" will get the star treatment in recognition of a series that has changed cinema and earned its makers $3.5 billion in ticket sales since 1977.

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