Armageddon in Cannes Entertainment Briefs: `Armageddon’ will hit Cannes – Touchstone Pictures will show 40 minutes of Michael Bay‘s “Armageddon” at a special screening at the Cannes International Film Festival next month. The event will include a lavish bash billed as “The Last Blowout, End of the World `Armageddon’ Party” to promote the big-budget summer release about a team of astronauts sent to destroy an enormous asteroid hurtling toward Earth. “Armageddon” actors Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi and Liv Tyler are expected to attend, along with Bay.