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Before we unveil our most anticipated film of 2011, I figure we might want to emphasize some of the names that most frequently populated our Top 100 Most Anticipated Films list. Here is our version of 10 movers and shakers for 2011.

I think that is the greatest gift to any director – when it is as meaningful and significant to an actor to embody a character, become part of a story, as it was for Ashley to portray Helen.

Spiderman co-stars Kirsten Dunst and James Franco will each be presenting both of their short films on the closing night of Critic's Week in Cannes. Franco's 13-minute short The Clerk's Tale will receive its world premiere screening and the pics for the short are sublime as they are 1970's magazine-like in their look. The short, which I imagine Franco filmed as part of his work at NYU is based on the eponymous poem by Spencer Reece, The Clerk's Tale is a psychological portrait of a gay man trapped in the monotonous routine of life at a high-end menswear store.

Souléymane Sy Savané is professionally trained actor – this is his first film. Red West you know his history. Elvis Presley’s best friend and bodyguard (Memphis Mafia), all the films with Elvis all his character roles in Hollywood with Oliver Stone, Altman, Coppola, and films like Roadhouse and Glory Road. But this is his first leading role. Their faces were critical.

"Good performances and technical competence can’t save the film and the sum of the individual efforts add up to something that should be saved for late night cable when you’re suffering from a bout of insomnia."