Reuters - Who said the Web was worldwide? Not director Atom Egoyan, whose new film "Adoration" explores just how confining cyberspace can be when a teenager confronts a culture clash that has damaged him and his family.

Reuters - Josh Brolin has a vice president.

AP - Unless it is one of his "Ocean's Eleven" casino romps, Steven Soderbergh never makes things easy for an audience.

AP - Jennifer Garner and husband Ben Affleck have signed up to help funds for an athletic complex at her hometown university in West Virginia.

Reuters - The films shown at Cannes have always held up a mirror to the plight of people in the territories they hail from, sometimes in stark contrast to the excesses of the Croisette.

Reuters - Wim Wenders' latest film, the thriller "Palermo Shooting," is generating more excitement than anything the 62-year-old German auteur has made since 1999's "Buena Vista Social Club."

Reuters - Portugal's most famous singer will soon be immortalized on film.

AP - You don't need to be a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury to have a say in what movies deserve awards. All it takes is an Internet connection and an opinion.

AP - It's a far cry from the glamour of Cannes: No celebrities strutting their stuff; an all-male audience drinking coffee and juice rather than champagne; and if any female spectators showed up — well, no one knew. They came in through a back entrance into a separate hall, off-limits to the male organizers.

E! Online - Indiana Jones fans, the theory goes, are different.

AP - "It was a fantasy role. You point a .44 Magnum at someone and say, `Do you feel lucky?'" — Clint Eastwood, on his role as Harry Callahan, the renegade cop in 1971's "Dirty Harry" movie and four sequels.

E! Online - Oh right, like you're not really sure whether you want to go see it.