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Prior to the festival actually starting, the first glimpse of what's to come can be found in the billboards and posters that blanket Cannes as attendees begin arriving.

Robert Zemeckis and Jim Carrey will be in town next Monday to show off the first clips of their digital performance-capture version of A Christmas Carol, opening in November. I can't wait to find out who this chilling candle figure may be.

Dead old Marley? The Ghost of Christmas Past? Either way, it's a good start and suggests a new approach to some of the time-worn but still beloved characters.

It's a relief that the Disney movie may also have an element of spookiness to it. Scares and Christmas are not an obvious mix, but there's something about them that goes together nicely. Just ask Tim Burton. Or Charles Dickens for that matter.