Previously announced is a Tom Cruise career retrospective, as well as the premiere of the belated sequel Top Gun: Maverick.
The festival will open on a gory note, with a French remake of acclaimed Japanese zombie film One Cut of the Dead by the director of The Artist.
The film will premiere just over a week before it opens in the US.
This year sees the stage set for the first screening of Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic, starring Austin Butler as the singer and Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker.