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Brad Pitt launches new Terrence Malick movie at Cannes
May 16, 2011Brad Pitt has launched Terrence Malick's long-awaited drama The Tree of Life at the Cannes Film Festival. The publicity-shy director was nowhere to be seen after the film's debut press screening on Monday was greeted with a mixture of boos and applause...
Coen brothers win $1m Dan David Prize
May 16, 2011Movie directors Joel and Ethan Coen have won a $1m (£617,000) international award for "a creative partnership unique in the history of film-making". The pair were given the Dan David Prize - awarded to people who have made "an outstanding...
Ashton Kutcher replaces Sheen in Two and a Half Men
May 14, 2011Ashton Kutcher will replace Charlie Sheen in the hit CBS comedy Two and a Half Men, Warner Bros Television says. Kutcher, who is married to actress Demi Moore, has hosted the prank show Punk'd and is probably best known as Michael Kelso on Fox's That...
Diana film 'not sensationalist', says Keith Allen
May 13, 2011British documentary Unlawful Killing was the focus of attention for the media at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday. Its makers claim the film throws light on circumstances surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. But at a stormy media...
Lindsay Lohan is sentenced to jail over necklace theft
May 12, 2011Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to four months in jail over the theft of a gold necklace from a shop in Los Angeles last year. The actress changed her plea to no contest, which under California law effectively means she admitted taking the jewellery...
Cannes begins with Woody Allen romance
May 12, 2011The 64th Cannes Film Festival has begun in the south of France with a screening of Midnight in Paris, a romantic comedy from US director Woody Allen. Allen, 75, was joined by cast members Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson and Michael Sheen on the traditional...
Cannes gets talking about British Kevin drama
May 12, 2011Critics have heaped praise on We Need to Talk about Kevin, the only British title in contention for the main award at the Cannes Film Festival. Variety said it was "an exquisitely realised adaptation of Lionel Shriver's best-selling novel"...
Twilight sequel leads MTV Movie Awards field
May 04, 2011Fantasy sequel The Twilight Saga: Eclipse has received eight nominations ahead of this year's MTV Movie Awards. The third film in the vampire franchise is up for best movie, while its stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart both receive acting nods...
Vin Diesel's Fast Five is biggest 2011 opener to date
May 03, 2011Vin Diesel film Fast Five has taken $86.2m (£51.9m) in its first three days, the biggest North American box office opener of the year so far. The fifth movie in the street racing franchise pulled in bigger takings than early estimates, which had...
Ben Stiller makes Broadway return
April 28, 2011Hollywood star Ben Stiller has returned to the Broadway stage for the first time since 1986 to act in the same dark comedy he previously appeared in. He stars opposite Sopranos actress Edie Falco in The House of Blue Leaves, as a zookeeper whose musical...