Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013

CANNES, France (AP) — After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or. The prestigious award for the best film in competition will be handed out Sunday night, decided by a jury headed...

Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013

CANNES, France (AP) — "Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs and authorities' attempts to destroy the manuscript — a topic the director, Mohammad Rasoulof, knows quite a bit about. Rasoulof is also Iranian, his movies are banned in his...

Updated: Sat, May 25, 2013

CANNES, France (AP) — For 66 years, the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or, has been one of the most prestigious in movies. Winners have ranged from classic American films (Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation") to European classics...

Updated: 41 min ago

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/13Qe0uR ) reports that Perry was drawn...

Updated: 11 hr ago

CANNES, France (AP) — Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant." The gritty drama, which premieres Friday at the Cannes Film...

Updated: 14 hr ago

CANNES, France (AP) — For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip "Nebraska," Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene Hackman out of retirement and considered the likes of Robert Duvall and Jack Nicholson. Bruce Dern calls them "the obvious guys." "He said to me, 'I got an idea....

Updated: 15 hr ago

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Canadian man is facing charges that he stalked the brother of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, according to court documents. Twenty-three-year-old Zhao Han Cong (ZOW HAHN KAHNG) of Vancouver, British Columbia, was ordered Friday to remain held until he could...

Updated: 18 hr ago

CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. LIBERACE'S POODLE IS TOP DOG AT CANNES Canine glamour was honored Friday in Cannes, with pampered poodle Baby Boy from Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra" winning...

Updated: 20 hr ago

NEW YORK (AP) — It helps to have a singer portray a singer, of course. The onstage scenes came naturally to Jewel when she played the role of June Carter Cash in the new Lifetime movie, "Ring of Fire." Jewel's experience came in handy in an unexpected way during a key scene in the film, which...

Updated: 22 hr ago

CANNES, France (AP) — The annual Cannes festival on the French Riviera is the grandest platform in the world for the highest ambitions of film, a place where the art form is worshipped with wild passion and adoring reverence. Movies are projected pristinely in regal theaters, where they're...