MUMBAI: Madagascar 3: Europe‘s Most Wanted will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

The Paramount and DreamWorks Animation film, which will release on 8 June, will be the first major studio title to surface in connection with Cannes, a popular place to launch summer tentpoles.

So far, only the opening-night film has been officially announced, Wes Anderson‘s Moonrise Kingdom, which Focus Features is releasing in the U.S.

An official announcement about Madagascar 3 is expected in the coming days.

Earlier, Paramount and DreamWorks Animation‘s Kung Fu Panda made its world premiere at the festival in 2008.