PARIS: Steven Spielberg, George Clooney and Jodie Foster are tipped to be among those who will walk the red carpet at Cannes next month when the line up for the world’s top film festival is revealed Wednesday.

While the movies in the running for the main Palme d’Or prize are still under tight wraps, it appears that Spielberg will almost certainly show his adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic “The BFG” (The Big Friendly Giant) out of competition.

It will most likely be joined by Jodie Foster’s new thriller “Money Monster,” about a television financial pundit taken hostage by a man whose family has been left penniless by his dud tips.

Starring Clooney as the Wall Street tipster and Julia Roberts as his TV producer, the film will be released internationally during the festival, which runs in the French Riviera resort from May 11 to 22.

Festival chiefs Thierry Fremaux and Pierre Lescure have announced that Woody Allen’s new Amazon-backed film “Cafe Society” will open the annual jamboree, also out of competition. The movies in the main competition, however, are harder to call, with the final list often not decided until the very last minute.

But Hollywood star Keanu Reeves dropped a heavy hint to AFP Tuesday that the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s supermodel horror story “The Neon Demon” had made the line-up.

The actor, who is the male lead, confirmed he “would be in Cannes” when he arrived in Paris to promote his own documentary “Side by Side.”

However, the presence of festival favorite Pedro Almodovar, who made his name with “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” has been thrown into doubt when he was named as having an offshore company in the Panama Papers leak last week.