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Bullet news from the week in film . . .

• Natalie Portman oui, ouied on. Lineup for Cannes Film Festival released this week. With crop of undiscovered talent, organizers hope to refocus spotlight away from peripheral party-goers. Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh among the big names premiering new films; Spielberg to unveil new Indiana Jones - sure to receive trucelent disdain from Jean-Luc Godard. Sean Penn and Natalie Portman will headline the jury.
  
  
• Pls baby pls, baby baby, pls. Spike Lee to direct film shot entirely with cell phones. Teaming with Nokia, the director calls the project, "the first hand democratization of film" and offers users the chance to submit footage of which Lee will shape into a story of humanism through music. Hope it's better than Girl 6.
  
  
• 3 Snipes, You're out! The new king of 'direct to video' going directly to jail. Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday for failing to file income taxes the actor insisted he never had to pay. Snipes somberly accepted his penalty and admitted, "the money train has been derailed."