Cannes Opening Night

Cast members and guests arrive at the Festival Palace for the opening night screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th International Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006. In all, 1,000 films will be screened during the two-week festival.

Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh arrives for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th international film festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006.

From right, Cannes Film festival jury members Helena Bonham Carter, Lucrecia Martel, Samuel L. Jackson, Wong Kar-Wai, and Ziyi Zhang arrive for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code" in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006.

French actor Jean Reno, left, and American director Ron Howard arrive for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," on the opening night of the 59th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006. Reno stars in the film directed by Howard.

Author Dan Brown arrives for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006. The film is based on Brown's best-selling book of the same name.

American actor Tom Hanks, right, points as he arrives with his wife, actress Rita Wilson, left, for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th international film festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006.

French actress Audrey Tautou arrives for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006.

Actor Tom Hanks; his wife, actress Rita Wilson; director Ron Howard; and his wife, Cheryl, standing left to right, arrive for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th international film festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006.

Clockwise from top, director Ron Howard; actor Tom Hanks (still pointing); Hanks' wife, actress Rita Wilson; actress Audrey Tautou; actor Paul Bettany and producer Brian Grazer arrive for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006.

"The Da Vinci Code's" Ian McKellen is all smiles as he arrives for the opening night screening of the film at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2006.

American actor and film festival jury member Samuel L. Jackson arrives for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th international film festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006. The film, which was kept under wraps until the first press screenings on Tuesday, is not competing for prizes at Cannes.

Actor Tom Hanks, left, greets the President of the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Jacob, right as he arrives with his wife, actress Rita Wilson, top center, for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006.

The grand, red-carpeted stairs of the Palais convention center, in Cannes, France. Director Ron Howard's screen adaptation of the "The Da Vinci Code" had the honor of opening the 59th International Cannes Film Festival.

Director Tim Burton turns his back to the papparazzi as he ealks the red carpet for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the opening night of the 59th International Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2006. Burton's wife, actress Helena Bonham Carter, is a festival jury member.

From left, Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ron Howard, Jean Reno, Reno's wife Zofia Barucka, Ian McKellen, and Jean-Pierre Marielle walk the world's grandest red carpet at the steps of the Palais convention center for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006.

Former Miss World Aishwarya Rai arrives for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th International Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006. The Bollywood beauty has attended the annual festival in France since 2002 and has also been a jury member. Her new movie, "Provoked," is scheduled to be shown at the festival on May 18.

French actress Audrey Tautou arrives for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006. Tautou stars in the film opposite Tom Hanks.

Actor Sidney Poitier, second from left, arrives with his wife, Joanna Shimkus, left, actress Juliette Binoche, second from right, and the French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu De Vabres at Cannes Film Festival for the opening night screening and black-tie gala, May 17, 2006.

Vincent Cassel, master of ceremonies, speaks in the theater in the Festival Palace for the opening screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2006.

Master of Ceremonies French actor Vincent Cassel, on stage left, and American actor Sidney Poitier speak as jury members, far right, look on prior to the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Wednesday, May 17, 2006.