AP - Indy made his comeback at Cannes, and Woody came back as usual. Angelina showed off her baby bump on the red carpet, and Madonna sold off everything in her handbag at a charity auction.
AP - The most recent Indiana Jones film more than recouped its big budget with an estimated $311 million in global box office sales through the long weekend, according to studio estimates Monday.
Reuters - "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of
the Crystal Skull" chased down $311.1 million from moviegoers
around the world, as nostalgic fans brought along their
children to watch Harrison Ford's latest escapades, distributor
Paramount Pictures said on Monday.
AP - CANNES, France (AP) — The French film "The Class," a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.
Reuters - Tributes poured in on Sunday for a
teenage actor who was stabbed to death during a fight outside a
pub that left three other men with serious knife wounds.
E! Online - Down-low lovebirds Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong couldn't stifle their romance on the Riviera as they attended the Dolce & Gabbana bash in Cannes. A source tells E! News that Kate and Lance "were holding hands in their car and when photographers' flashes started going off, Kate kind of jumped up, startled."
AP - Indiana Jones unearthed box office gold at domestic theaters with a performance that puts the film on track to become the second biggest Memorial Day movie opening ever, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Reuters - The director of "Entre les
Murs," the French classroom drama that won the main Cannes film
prize said on Sunday he had been deeply moved by the applause
that met the film when it was shown at the festival. -- read full article
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Reuters - "Entre les murs" (The Class), a
film set in a tough Parisian high school, won the Palme d'Or
for best picture at the Cannes festival on Sunday.
E! Online - Down-low lovebirds Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong couldn't stifle their romance on the Riviera as they attended the Dolce & Gabbana bash in Cannes. A source tells E! the Kate and Lance "were holding hands in their car and when photographers flashes started going off, Kate kind of jumped up, startled."
Reuters - Robert De Niro plays a movie
producer whose professional and personal life lurches from
crisis to crisis in a new comedy on the cut-throat world of
Hollywood and its relationship with the Cannes film festival.
