Sony announced yesterday that they’ve hired Aaron Sorkin to adapt Walter Isaacson‘s biography of the late Steve Jobs for a feature to be produced by Scott Rudin, Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady. In so doing they’re declaring that they don’t expect that the Ashton Kutcher biopic to really get it or do it. They expect their film to be the definitive screen version, and with Sorkin writing it…most likely.

I probably would have bought the Bluray of Kenneth Lonergan‘s Margaret (Fox Home Video, 7.10) for its own sake, but now it’s really essential with the 186-minute cut included with the 150-minute theatrical version. Which I want to see with as fresh an attitude as I can muster. The longer one, I mean.

Will Margaret‘s 186-minute cut acquire the status that Leone’s full-length cut of Once Upon A Time in America has? (Not to be confused with the four-hour-plus version that will show in Cannes in a few days’ time.)

The big news is that MCN’s David Poland is here this year…not a rumor! Another big story is that there are two market screenings of Jeff Nichols‘ Mud this week (tomorrow at 2 pm and on Friday at 6 pm), which I’d love to quietly attend and hold my reactions until the official Cannes screen date on Saturday, 5.26, but the Wearefilmnation guys keep telling me “nope, sorry, we can’t.” And of course the journos all got together this evening at La Pizza, but that happens ever year…meh.

Tuesday, 5.15, 8:35 pm.

There’s a Rise of the Guardians breakfast and press conference tomorrow morning at 8:30 am, followed by a 11 am screening of Wes Anderson‘s Moonrise Kingdom, and then a 1 pm press conference. At 4 pm Laurent Bozereeau‘s Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir will screen at Salle Bazin. Filing time for an hour or two follows and then, at 9:30 pm, Yousry Nazrallah‘s After The Battle.

My Dusseldorf-from-Berlin plane touched down in Nice at 1:50 pm. 45 minutes to retrieve bag from carousel. 25 minutes waiting for and then loading onto the bus. Bus left Nice Airport 40 minutes ago and we’re currently slogging through traffic — another 5 or 10 minutes. 110 minutes, all in. Not awful…okay, it ‘s fine.

Update: Waited 25 minutes to get into pass-dispensing portion of the Pslais only to be told at the gate that no bags are allowed inside, and that I’d have to lug my gear back to the Place Maritime and leave them there. Par for the French course.