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  • The Hollywood Reporter's best stories of the week

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    The Hollywood Reporter's list of its 10 best stories of the week: 'STAR TREK'S' DAMON LINDELOF ON BRAD PITT, HAVING POWER AS A WRITER AND HIS AGONY OVER 'LOST' The scribe for two $200 million productions this summer, "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "World War Z," Lindelof reveals what he and...

  • Model-actress Marine Vacth a Cannes rising star

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes has been the birthplace of many a star, and the latest candidate to shine is Marine Vacth, who plays a teenager confronting the complexities of adolescent sexuality in Francois Ozon's "Jeune et Jolie" ("Young and Beautiful.") The 23-year-old French model fully...

  • Correction: Space Station-Star Trek story

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 15 about astronauts at the International Space Station getting the new "Star Trek" movie, The Associated Press reported erroneously when the film opened on Earth. "Star Trek into Darkness" opened in the United States on Thursday; it opened in some other...

  • Julianne Moore: 'bad Mom' role is her antithesis

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    CANNES, France (AP) — Julianne Moore sometimes identifies with the characters she plays but when it came to playing a bad mother in "What Maisie Knew," she couldn't relate. In the recently released film, Moore portrays a rock-star mom going through a bitter divorce who's having trouble...

  • Tale of Mexican drug violence rattles Cannes

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival has had its first shock to the system, in the shape of Mexican director Amat Escalante's unsparingly violent drug war drama "Heli." The story of the devastation wreaked by narco-violence on an ordinary Mexican family, the movie paints such a...

  • For stars, 'Hangover' series was a game changer

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four years ago, Bradley Cooper had built a solid reputation as a scene-stealing supporting player. Ed Helms was best known for his sweet but buffoonish Andy on "The Office." And few, besides comedy-club bookers and his own family members, could wrap their mouths around the...

  • Indian actor Dutt surrenders to serve jail time

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian actor Sanjay Dutt surrendered before a Mumbai court Thursday to begin serving time for a weapons conviction linked to a deadly terror attack in the city in 1993. India's Supreme Court sentenced Dutt to five years in prison in March for illegal possession of weapons...

  • Thai ghost film remake appeals with funny twist

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    BANGKOK (AP) — Thais' deep affection for ghost stories and laughter has brought a new phenomenon to movie theaters — comic touches added to an oft-told tragedy of true love, which have made the latest adaptation of the Mae Nak legend into the all-time highest-grossing Thai film. "Pee Mak...

  • DiCaprio, Spielberg open a stormy Cannes

    Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

    CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival got off to a blockbuster, if stormy start, as Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" opened on a soggy French Riviera. Amid heavy rain, dancing flappers flocked down the Cannes red carpet Wednesday night, bringing a touch of the Jazz Age to the...

  • Review: Clever 'Stories We Tell' explores memory

    Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

    "Stories We Tell" is a documentary about Sarah Polley's family: her father and mother, sister and brother and the sister and brother she has from her mother's first marriage. It's about moments they've shared that are seemingly prosaic and universally relatable, depicted through the grainy,...