My plane from JFK got into Nice 5 ½ hours late today. Things are slightly less quiet than usual on the Croisette – Cannes’ main seafront drag – for the day before the festival, mainly because cleanup efforts from last week’s storm are continuing, apparently up until the last minute.

Every year I’ve been here – this is my fifth trip since 1985, when I saw the world premiere of “The Kiss of the Spider Woman’’ – there’s a head scratcher among the films with huge displays outside the festival’s unofficial headquarters, the Carlton Hotel. Sure, you’d expect Fox to promote “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,’’ which is showing out of competition. But who even knew they have a new version of “Gulliver’s Travels’’ coming for “Christmas’’ with Jack Black in the title role?

Also promised for “Christmas’’ in a less prominent display elsewhere along the Croisette is a 3-D version of “The Nutcracker’’ directed by Russia’s Andrei Konchalovsky of “Runaway Train’’ fame. This one doesn’t have an American distributor yet. If ever.

The UK’s revived Ealing studios is trying to drum up pre-sales for “Burke & Hare,’’ a new film about the famous grave robbers directed by John Landis (“Animal House’’), currently in post-production, and “What the Puck,’’ a sports movie that Peter Cattaneo (“The Full Monty’’) is scheduled to begin shooting this summer.