More than a year has passed since Richard Kelly's Southland Tales screened to widespread critical derision at Cannes.

There was talk of re-editing the incoherent, self- indulgent movie, which follows the build-up to the end of the world as we know it, in time for the 2006 Toronto festival, but that did not happen. It looks likely that the once futuristic film, set in 2008, and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, will not open in the US until 2008.

Nevertheless, Kelly, who directed Donnie Darko, has been given the green light to make his next movie in the autumn: The Box, a supernatural thriller he adapted from Richard Matheson's short story Button, Button. Cameron Diaz will star as a woman who receives a mysterious box from a stranger and is told that certain things will happen depending on which button she presses.