http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/ Celebrity - Entertainment: Find breaking news, world news and pictures on Celebrity en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/ http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2109478-palme-dor-race-wide-open-cannes-film-festival.html 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, given to the best film in competition, will be handed out Sunday night, decided upon by a jury headed by Steven Spielberg. And while this year's festival h... Sat, 25 May 2013 12:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2109478-palme-dor-race-wide-open-cannes-film-festival.html 2013-05-25T12:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2109488-iranian-director-facing-jail-appears-cannes.html 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 homeland and he's been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime there.... Sat, 25 May 2013 12:18:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2109488-iranian-director-facing-jail-appears-cannes.html 2013-05-25T12:18:14Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2109358-rosberg-fastest-crash-marred-3rd-practice.html MONACO (AP) — German driver Nico Rosberg posted the fastest time in the crash-marred third practice session of the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday. The Mercedes driver is aiming for a third straight pole position and will be confident heading into the afternoon's qualifying. Monaco's razor-thin, sinewy street circuit again proved hard to handle and Ferrari ... Sat, 25 May 2013 10:43:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2109358-rosberg-fastest-crash-marred-3rd-practice.html 2013-05-25T10:43:12Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096150-heard-cannes-film-festival.html CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. 'GRIGRIS' ENTRY IN CANNES BRINGS PRIDE TO AFRICAN NATION OF CHAD Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun stirred up some emotion and national pride when he premiered his new movie "Grigris," at the Cannes Film Festival this week. ... Sat, 25 May 2013 08:27:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096150-heard-cannes-film-festival.html 2013-05-25T08:27:13Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2108594-cannes-dern-leading-man-nebraska.html 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. Let's surprise them with you,'" Dern recalled of learning from Payn... Fri, 24 May 2013 19:52:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2108594-cannes-dern-leading-man-nebraska.html 2013-05-24T19:52:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107914-roger-federer-finally-to-tweeting.html PARIS (AP) — Roger Federer is finally on Twitter. The owner of a record 17 Grand Slam titles says Friday he waited to join the social media site until after seeing how other athletes used it. Speaking at the French Open, which begins Sunday, Federer says: "At the end of the day, it's got to be something I needed to feel comfortable with." ... Fri, 24 May 2013 14:25:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107914-roger-federer-finally-to-tweeting.html 2013-05-24T14:25:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107788-spanish-court-opens-tax-probe-kings-daughter.html MADRID (AP) — Princess Cristina, the daughter of Spain's King Juan Carlos, is under investigation for possible tax fraud and money laundering, the latest blow to the Spanish royal family's reputation. Palma de Mallorca court judge Jose Castro on Friday asked tax authorities for information regarding Cristina's property and investments as well as finances ... Fri, 24 May 2013 13:21:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107788-spanish-court-opens-tax-probe-kings-daughter.html 2013-05-24T13:21:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107090-glitzy-amfar-raises-25-million-to-space.html CAP D'ANTIBES, France (AP) — With an apt rendition of "Gold-finger," singing legend Shirley Bassey roused celebrity-revelers to dig deep into their pockets at the 20th amfAR gala in the Cap D'Antibes Thursday, helping to raise an estimated $25 million for AIDS research. The British-born singer was one of several performers including Duran Duran who sang a... Fri, 24 May 2013 09:21:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107090-glitzy-amfar-raises-25-million-to-space.html 2013-05-24T09:21:02Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107018-prince-edward-presents-edinburghs-awards-us.html NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Queen Elizabeth's youngest son, Prince Edward, has visited the U.S. to promote one of the British royal family's charities, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. The prince presided over an awards ceremony Thursday at the Tennessee governor's mansion for the first batch of youth to participate in the leadership and character program. ... Fri, 24 May 2013 01:58:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107018-prince-edward-presents-edinburghs-awards-us.html 2013-05-24T01:58:53Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2105194-sorrentino-serves-up-cinema-banquet-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food — appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but aimless writer Jep Gambardella (actor Toni Servillo). Sorrentino's camera takes viewers through ... Thu, 23 May 2013 13:56:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2105194-sorrentino-serves-up-cinema-banquet-cannes.html 2013-05-23T13:56:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2104886-georges-moustaki-who-penned-piaf-dies.html PARIS (AP) — Georges Moustaki, an Egyptian-born composer, singer and poet who wrote songs for Edith Piaf and other French stars, has died at age 79. Marie-Ange Mirande of Moustaki's Paris-based production house said Thursday he died at his home in Nice overnight after a long illness. A memorial ceremony is planned Monday at the famed Pere Lachaise cemeter... Thu, 23 May 2013 10:55:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2104886-georges-moustaki-who-penned-piaf-dies.html 2013-05-23T10:55:57Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2103656-cannes-scott-thomas-glorious-dip-darkness.html CANNES, France (AP) — To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of "Only God Forgives," director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas — how else? — with the flattery of his own mother. "That's how he got me to do the film," Scott Thomas said in a beachside interview Wednesday. "He said, 'You're my mother's favorite actre... Wed, 22 May 2013 19:32:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2103656-cannes-scott-thomas-glorious-dip-darkness.html 2013-05-22T19:32:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102964-nyc-woman-probation-stalking-actress.html NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City woman has been sentenced to probation for stalking French actress Marion Cotillard on the Internet. Teresa Yuan was sentenced Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court. She pleaded guilty last year. Prosecutors said Yuan sent 504 emails and 120 webcam videos of herself to a Cotillard fan website in 2011. The 32-year-old Yuan is bei... Wed, 22 May 2013 15:34:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102964-nyc-woman-probation-stalking-actress.html 2013-05-22T15:34:03Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102460-ryan-gosling-breaks-cannes-heart-misses-premiere.html CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling. The 32-year-old Canadian actor was unable to attend the premiere Wednesday of director Nicolas Winding Refn's film "Only God Forgives." Gosling stars in the Bangkok noir about a boxing club owner pressured by his mother to his avenge h... Wed, 22 May 2013 14:06:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102460-ryan-gosling-breaks-cannes-heart-misses-premiere.html 2013-05-22T14:06:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102562-canet-seeks-gritty-york-blood-ties.html CANNES, France (AP) — The problem with New York these days is there's just not enough litter. At least, that's French director Guillaume Canet's experience. He had to supply his own garbage to recreate the grubby streets of 1970s Brooklyn for his debut English-language feature "Blood Ties." "Every day," the director laughed during an interview at the Cann... Wed, 22 May 2013 12:06:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102562-canet-seeks-gritty-york-blood-ties.html 2013-05-22T12:06:03Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100722-ap-photos-fashion-captured-cannes-cameras.html Nicole Kidman is the chameleon of Cannes. As a judge at this year's Cannes International Film Festival and a fashion-world favorite, Kidman has proven her style savvy in a colorful and cheerful embroidered L'Wren Scott dress, a regal black Alexander McQueen, and a white-ground floral dress by Christian Dior Couture that seemed a seamless fit for this posh... Tue, 21 May 2013 18:31:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100722-ap-photos-fashion-captured-cannes-cameras.html 2013-05-21T18:31:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100534-toback-baldwin-eye-cannes-movie-making-underbelly.html CANNES, France (AP) — A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers." The commercial underbelly of the Cannes Film Festival is a nonstop frenzy of deal-making in luxury hotels along the Croisette promenade and aboard yachts moored offshore. Films are pitched with various ingredients — a director, a script, a few stars — as agents and ... Tue, 21 May 2013 17:33:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100534-toback-baldwin-eye-cannes-movie-making-underbelly.html 2013-05-21T17:33:15Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2099518-justin-biebers-monkey-german-property.html BERLIN (AP) — Justin Bieber's pet monkey is no longer his. The capuchin monkey named Mally was seized by German customs on March 28 when the 19-year-old Canadian pop star failed to produce the required vaccination and import papers after landing in Munich for a European tour. Authorities issued an order Tuesday transferring ownership o... Tue, 21 May 2013 16:01:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2099518-justin-biebers-monkey-german-property.html 2013-05-21T16:01:53Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100258-prince-william-joins-father-conservation-plea.html LONDON (AP) — Britain's Prince William has joined his father Prince Charles in urging global action to tackle the illegal poaching of wild animals. William told a conservation conference at London's St. James's Palace that he is calling on his charity, the Royal Foundation, to engage young people in the cause. The conference brings together policy makers ... Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100258-prince-william-joins-father-conservation-plea.html 2013-05-21T15:53:44Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100048-depardieu-to-play-chechen-man-seeking-revenge.html GROZNY, Russia (AP) — French actor Gerard Depardieu will star in a drama about a Chechen man who seeks revenge for the killing of his son. Chechnya, a southern Russian province, has been in the spotlight since it emerged that the suspects in April's Boston marathon bombing are ethnic Chechens. The predominantly Muslim province was devastated by two separa... Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100048-depardieu-to-play-chechen-man-seeking-revenge.html 2013-05-21T15:19:05Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2099778-ari-folman-animates-robin-wright-the-congress.html CANNES, France (AP) — Hollywood is hell. That's an idea to set tongues wagging at the Cannes Film Festival, and it's the distinct impression left by Israeli director Ari Folman's head-spinning part-animated feature "The Congress." Fittingly, Cannes provided the inspiration for the director's dystopian vision of the entertainment business, which stars actr... Tue, 21 May 2013 12:06:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2099778-ari-folman-animates-robin-wright-the-congress.html 2013-05-21T12:06:25Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2098150-cannes-rolls-red-carpet-indian-movies.html CANNES, France (AP) — Indian cinema is being feted in Cannes on its 100th birthday. But amid the celebrations, the B-word — "Bollywood" — remains controversial. The French film festival has rolled out the red carpet for Indian cinema this year, with events including a gala dinner and screening Sunday of "Bombay Talkies," a portmanteau movie with four dire... Mon, 20 May 2013 16:34:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2098150-cannes-rolls-red-carpet-indian-movies.html 2013-05-20T16:34:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096106-coens-folk-revival-llewyn-serenades-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — The Coen brothers' resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village serenaded Cannes with its period music and melancholy tale of a self-destructive, feline-toting musician. "Inside Llewyn Davis" was met rapturously at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered Sunday night. Joel and Ethan Coen said their primary inter... Sun, 19 May 2013 17:57:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096106-coens-folk-revival-llewyn-serenades-cannes.html 2013-05-19T17:57:04Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096072-devilish-dutch-drama-borgman-debuts-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — There's something nasty lurking in the woods — and inside the characters' heads — in darkly comic Cannes Film Festival entry "Borgman." In Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam's supernaturally-tinged psychological drama, a mysterious interloper emerges from a forest and knocks on the door of a wealthy family's modernist mansion. Borgman... Sun, 19 May 2013 13:13:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096072-devilish-dutch-drama-borgman-debuts-cannes.html 2013-05-19T13:13:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096060-dior-presents-cruise-fashions-amid-stars-monaco.html MONACO (AP) — The glittering star power of Cannes migrated up the coast to Monaco for front-row seats at Dior's colorful, sexy cruise fashion show. With the Mediterranean Sea the picturesque backdrop, Dior showcased its 2014 collection on Saturday night. It was a wet, cold and generally miserable outside the white stage, but Raf Simons' designs provided t... Sun, 19 May 2013 12:40:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096060-dior-presents-cruise-fashions-amid-stars-monaco.html 2013-05-19T12:40:42Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2095156-cannes-helps-actors-bejo-rahim-cross-borders.html CANNES, France (AP) — The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette. But the world's leading film festival can transform careers — something no one knows that better than actors Berenice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, stars of director Asgh... Sun, 19 May 2013 07:06:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2095156-cannes-helps-actors-bejo-rahim-cross-borders.html 2013-05-19T07:06:20Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2094740-denmarks-de-forest-wins-eurovision-song-contest.html MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, hippie-chic 20-year-old for the catchy... Sun, 19 May 2013 00:23:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2094740-denmarks-de-forest-wins-eurovision-song-contest.html 2013-05-19T00:23:12Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2095642-catching-fire-dampened-drowned-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Little could lessen the fever-pitched excitement for "Hunger Games: Catching Fire," but heavy rain nevertheless dampened the film's lavish Cannes party. Stars of the "Hunger Games" sequel, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Sam Clafin, arrived Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. "Catching Fire," perhaps more than any other film ... Sat, 18 May 2013 23:31:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2095642-catching-fire-dampened-drowned-cannes.html 2013-05-18T23:31:15Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2089790-hot-press-heard-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: Will a switched-at-birth Japanese drama tug on Steven Spielberg's heart strings? The Cannes Film Festival was wondering that Saturday, when Kore-eda Hirokazu's elegant and emotional "Like Father, Like Son" premiered. It quickly emerged as an early con... Sat, 18 May 2013 18:48:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2089790-hot-press-heard-cannes.html 2013-05-18T18:48:23Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2095000-native-american-tale-with-international-pedigree.html CANNES, France (AP) — It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen. The film, an English language one from French director Arnaud Desplechin, made its premiere Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it's among 20 movies comp... Sat, 18 May 2013 14:26:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2095000-native-american-tale-with-international-pedigree.html 2013-05-18T14:26:22Z