The full list of films that will be shown at this year's festival will be announced on 18 April.
Demme is the acclaimed director of a long list of dramatic films, including 1991's horrific "Silence of the Lambs" and 2008's "Rachel Getting Married" -- but music is never far from his mind.
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The organisers of last year's Cannes Film Festival were criticised when the list of 22 films nominated for its top prize, the Palme d'Or, was entirely made up of male directors.
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But for now, this list of 15 films stands as my selection of the overall top offerings in cinema for 2012.
Ranked number 9 on the American Film Institute's 2008 list of the 10 greatest films in the "Mystery" genre, Dial M for Murder was adapted by Frederick Knott from his hit Broadway stage play.
Since opening in May, it has broken several box office records and is currently ranked at number three in the list of the most successful films of all time, behind Avatar and Titanic, both directed by James Cameron.
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Four of the films on our list actually managed to earn back 100% of their production budgets, but in Hollywood, that's still a sign of failure.
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"Frankenweenie" and "The Cabin in the Woods" are tied for the 10th spot on this list of 2012's best films.
It includes a list of the highest-grossing films when adjusted for inflation.
They were also producers of 2007 films Hairspray and The Bucket List and are currently the executive producers of US TV series Smash.
Some of these films are cinematic gems -- although this list has its fair share of flops as well.
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The Sight and Sound list contains few surprises, with all of the films cited more than 40 years old.
The glaring omission of films directed by women on the list is frustrating but not at all shocking, unfortunately.
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Or that another client who was working overtime at a draining legal job and applying for graduate school should finally watch the top 100 films of all time on the AFI list, as he always wanted.
We could easily pick 8 films from that list and have a respectable alternative list of Best Picture nominees, right?
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To compile the list, Forbes examined the salaries, budgets and returns for films headlined by some of the biggest stars in the industry.
To compile our list, we looked at worldwide theatrical grosses for the top 200 films to date of 2010 and their estimated budgets (numbers courtesy of Box Office Mojo) to determine what percentage of a film's budget was earned back at the box office.
Not only did three excellent superhero movies storm theaters and climb up the list in 2012, but also this year I had a chance to watch most of these films again and reconsider my ranking of them.
While not an academy member, Friday said that if he were picking nominees his list would be similar to those announced Tuesday because there were so few films with people of color in principal roles or behind the scenes of movies that would be considered.
For the sake of this list we only looked at Oscar winners who had starred or co-starred in three films over the past five years.
This is one of the best biographical films ever produced, and is a great way to start off the list.
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