Category Archives: Entertainment

Cannes crime: 2nd jewel theft during film festival

PARIS (AP) — Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 million euros ($2.6 million) — in the second such jewelry heist during this year's C...

Payne back on the road with ‘Nebraska’ at Cannes

CANNES, France (AP) — Shooting the Midwest in monochrome came naturally for Alexander Payne in his father-son road trip "Nebraska."

Top stars square off for summer tour dollars

All anyone's been talking about are those aged wonders The Rolling Stones and their 50th-anniversary tour, but there's so much more happening on the road this summer.

One more shot at romance in ‘Before Midnight’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The hardest segment to watch in "Before Midnight" — an extended, emotional hotel-room argument that comprises the film's final third — was actually the easiest to shoot, say co-stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy a...

Banned Iranian director Rasoulof coming to Cannes

CANNES, France (AP) — Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose movies are banned in his country and who has been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime, is coming to Cannes for a screening of his latest film.

Review: ‘We Steal Secrets’ juicy look at WikiLeaks

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prolific documentary-maker Alex Gibney delivers a gripping account of the wins and losses of hard-charging idealism on the front lines of the information wars in "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks." Exhaustively re...

Jewelry stolen a 2nd time during Cannes festival

PARIS (AP) — A second jewelry theft has been reported in the French Riviera during the Cannes Film Festival, this time an expensive necklace.