French sales and distribution company StudioCanal is backing the upcoming project from David Lynch titled "Inland Empire," sources confirmed Wednesday.

StudioCanal, a division of Vivendi Universal's French pay TV company Canal Plus, declined to discuss the project, which it has been trying to keep secret. Even posters for the film on the Croisette and around the Cannes market have been covered until a grand unveiling scheduled for Thursday.

StudioCanal is expected to handle world sales on the title, with its French distribution company Mars Films handling theatrical in France.

It is unclear whether any cast is attached to "Empire." Buyers looking at the project say that details remain hazy, in typical Lynch fashion. "It's about a film within a film. There's nothing to see, there's no script," one international buyer said.

StudioCanal financed Lynch's "The Straight Story" and "Mulholland Drive," both of which unspooled in Competition at Cannes, with Lynch picking up the best director prize for the latter.