The Daily Dish: May 21

-- Braff is swingle Everyone's favourite Sacred Heart heartthrob (see what I did there) is set to step behind the camera again for a comedy with perhaps one of the most ill-advised titled since Pootie Tang – that’d be Swingles. According to Variety, Zach Braff is in talks to pull a Garden State and star, direct, and, this time around, re-write a film about a bachelor who loses his wingman and teams up with a sassy woman he can't stand in order to get some girly action. The tart-tongued woman in question could be played by (insert groan here) Cameron Diaz, who’s already signed on to the project, although her role in it is still unclear. Braff just signed on for six additional episodes on the long-running series "Scrubs" and recently directed a chapter of the forthcoming ensemble piece New York, I Love You.

-- IFC nets two films at Cannes Lars von Trier's controversial new film may have severely divided audiences, no surprise there, when it premiered this week at the Cannes Film Festival with its mix of graphic sex, violence, mutilation and torture but something about the Danish auteur's horror Antichrist made IFC stand up and say yes. They've scooped up the litigious film for distribution in the U.S. The film, described by von Trier as "a very dark dream about guilt and sex and stuff," tells the story of a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) who escape to the woods to deal with the recent loss of their child when things take a turn for the horrific. But IFC aren't just interested in satisfying moviegoers' bloodlust and have opted for another, more commercial outing in the form of Ken Loach's Looking for Eric. The British director, known for heavier material like his Palme d'or winning The Wind That Shakes the Barley returns to Cannes with a look at a despondent mailman and rampant soccer fan who gets through the hard times with help from his imaginary friend, real-life soccer star Eric Cantona. Both films are competing for the Palme d'Or - an honour that von Trier received in 2000 for his film Dancer in the Dark - with the winner is set to be announced Sunday.

-- MLK biopic hits first snag The team at Dreamworks didn't even have time to pop open a bottle of bubbly in celebration of their planned Martin Luther King Jr. biopic before two of his children threatened legal activity. Bernice and Martin Luther King III claimed they weren't involved in negotiations that would allow the film studio access to MLK's intellectual property, speeches and other copyrighted material - a first for a feature film. Dexter King, one of the late civil rights' leader's sons, oversees the estate and signed off on the deal. But family in-fighting is not new for the King kin, with Bernice and Martin III claiming Dexter has tarnished their family's reputation and consistently made decisions without their input. And Dreamworks is mindful that this familial tension stands in direct contrast to MLK's message of peace and brotherhood, with spokesman Chip Sullivan telling AP: "We remain committed to pursuing a film chronicling Martin Luther King's life provided that there is unity in the family so we can make a film about unity in our nation. We believe this is what Dr. King would have wanted."