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Cannes festival opens with quirky comedy and a camel

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival kicked off on Wednesday with quirky U.S. comedy "Moonrise Kingdom", Wes Anderson's exploration of childhood and young love centered around two 12-year-olds who fall in love and run away together.
May 17, 2012, 1:37 am
Baron Cohen's Dictator storms Cannes, camel in tow

CANNES, France (Reuters) - It took no less than a live camel strolling the promenade in Cannes to steal the show on the film festival's opening day, a feat that comedian Sacha Baron Cohen pulled off with chutzpah on Wednesday.
May 17, 2012, 1:11 am
A Minute With: Lopez, Banks on expectations when 'Expecting'

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jennifer Lopez and Elizabeth Banks - stars of this Friday's baby comedy movie "What to Expect When You're Expecting" are two Hollywood moms who could not be more different.
May 16, 2012, 11:54 pm
Aaron Sorkin to pen screenplay for Steve Jobs film

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Steve Jobs' life will be brought to the big screen by Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin in a movie based on Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography of the enigmatic co-founder of Apple, maker of iPods and iPads.
May 16, 2012, 1:35 pm
Public search Saturday for Fox executive Gavin Smith

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The family of Gavin Smith, the 20th Century Fox executive who went missing on May 1, is enlisting the public's help in a search for the 57-year-old Smith this weekend.
May 16, 2012, 1:14 pm
Warner Bros. passes $1 billion at international box office

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Warner Bros. surpassed $1 billion at the overseas box office in less than five months, setting a new studio record and marking the 12th straight year it has hit that number.
May 16, 2012, 1:13 pm
For women in 2011's top movies, it's quantity over quality

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Thanks to "Twilight"s' Bella Swan and the women from "The Help," it looks like Hollywood's glass ceiling for actresses is starting to show some cracks.
May 16, 2012, 12:41 pm
Lawyer says John Travolta vindicated by dropped sex lawsuit

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of the two male masseurs who accused actor John Travolta of sexual assault dropped his $2 million lawsuit on Tuesday, but the lawyer for the second man said he was going ahead with that case and was confident of success.
May 16, 2012, 12:36 pm
Cohen up to satirical tricks again in "Dictator"

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the Arab Spring resulted in the deaths of thousands and the ousting of Middle Eastern leaders last year, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, disguised by a fake beard and accent, was filming his latest movie portraying a hated North African dictator.
May 16, 2012, 12:20 pm
Review: Willie Nelson's son also rises on "Heroes"

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Everyone remembers the most galvanizing moment of this year's Grammys - when the telecast cut to commercial and, over a Chipotle ad, we heard a studio recording of Willie Nelson singing Coldplay's "The Scientist."
May 16, 2012, 11:48 am