Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has died aged 62 following a lengthy battle with cancer, his family say.
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Superhero movie The Avengers has topped the US and Canadian box office for the third week in a row, taking $55.1m (£34.8m), studio estimates suggest.
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Coldplay are chosen to perform at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
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From the festival: Plan B, Indian films and Dracula 3D
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With the forthcoming release of Men In Black III, Will Smith spoke about the film, his concerns about seeing his ears in 3D, and the possibility of him playing Barack Obama in the future.
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Keane hold off competition from Tenacious D to stay top of the album chart as Donna Summer hits enter the singles chart
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The James Bond film series is celebrating its 50th anniversary with Skyfall, the 23rd official Bond movie. It's been four years since the last 007 film Quantum of Solace, and today the first teaser trailer for Skyfall has been released.
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The British singer was the big winner at this year's awards in Las Vegas winning top artist and album for 21.
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Florence and The Machine are named as the Friday night headliners for Bestival on the Isle of Wight this September.
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Carey Mulligan backs a call for dementia awareness as a poll highlights the impact on families and friends.
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How UK bands increased their share of the US market
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Oscar-nominated actress Carey Mulligan's grandmother, known as Nans, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's eight years ago. She has now become an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.
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The Bee Gees' singer, Robin Gibb, has died.
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A look back at the life of Bee Gee Robin Gibb, founder member of one of the most commercially successful bands of all time.
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Thousands turn out to see rock band Muse carry the Olympic flame in their home town of Teignmouth, on day two of the Olympic torch relay.
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Marvel's The Avengers maintains its position atop the international box office for the fourth week in a row, grabbing another $56 million from 54 overseas territories for a worldwide total of $1.1 billion.
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A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest corporate takeover in the United States to date.
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Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won this year's foreign-language picture Academy Award, claimed a prize at Cannes Sunday to help fund his next film, with fellow Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard.
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A visual effects company that helped bring to life scenes in "Titanic" and the "Transformers" movies says it is partnering with a state-backed media company in Abu Dhabi to set up a studio in the oil-rich emirate.
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Polish director Roman Polanski has returned to the Cannes Film Festival, where he is to present a new film.
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After going missing for more than one week, actor Nick Stahl has made good on his promise to enter rehab, according to his wife.
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"The Avengers" continues to muscle out everything else Hollywood throws at it, easily sinking naval rival "Battleship" and other new releases.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Terminator 3" actor Nick Stahl, who had been missing for more than a week, has checked himself into rehab, his estranged wife told media outlets on Sunday. Stahl's wife Rose Murphy told E! Online celebrity news website that t…
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A French feminist group upset about the lack of female directors at this year's Cannes Film Festival staged a hairy protest on the red carpet Sunday.
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(Reuters) - "Battleship," Universal Picture's big budget science fiction film, is likely to dent the studio's profits after it opened with lower than forecast ticket sales, according to analysts. The film, which Comcast unit Universal has said cost $…
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"The Hunt", a taut psychological thriller starring Danish heart-throb Mads Mikkelsen as a man falsely accused of molesting a child, emerged Sunday as a hot contender at Cannes.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New action movie "Battleship" collided with Iron Man, The Hulk and the rest of "The Avengers" this weekend at movie theater box offices, and the super heroes came out on top. "Avengers" from Walt Disney Co's Marvel Studios add…
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - It is a subject rarely tackled in cinema, but Austria's Michael Haneke forces us to confront the reality that will befall us all - the end of life - in "Love", his beautiful and devastating film at Cannes. The French-langua…
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - Danish director Thomas Vinterberg burst on to the scene in Cannes in 1998 with the acclaimed "Festen", and critics say he is close to his best again this year with "The Hunt", a shocking take on child abuse and its impact o…
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CANNES, France (Reuters) - In a bumper year for U.S. productions in Cannes, director John Hillcoat, presenting prohibition-era drama "Lawless" at the film festival on Saturday, said the state of smaller-budget American movies was "distressing". Lawle…
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Our initial reaction to 007's returnThe first footage of the first James Bond film in four years, Skyfall, was unveiled on BBC1 this morning - Eon initially eschewing this new fangled internet business in favour for a cup of morning tea with Auntie -…
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Cheryl Cole, Lily Cole and Pete DohertyThe first Cannes 2012 weekend is over. Here's the latest batch of images. Cheryl Cole was on the red carpet for the Amour premiere - Michael Haneke's latest movie. In other news Lily Cole and ex-Libertine Pete D…
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Tom Hardy says: 'Who knows?'For the past couple of months, Tom Hardy has been sporting a particularly luxuriant beard, as part of his prep for Mad Max: Fury Road. And it looks like he might not be touching a Mach 3 for a good while longer. Empire got…
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Alongside Philip Seymour HoffmanFollowing the casting of Philip Seymour Hoffman in February, Anton Corbijn's adaptation of John Le Carre's A Most Wanted Man now has its second lead, in the shapely form of Rachel McAdams.The story follows Issa, a refu…
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With Peter Dinklage and Mila KunisHe said it was likely at the end of last year, but Robin Williams is now confirmed as The Angriest Man In Brooklyn, the English-language remake of the 1998 Israeli hit Mar Baum. This morning's new news is that he'll…
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Taking on the Jennifer Egan adaptationHow’s this for weird coincidences and a case of unlikely precognition? Almost exactly two years ago (give or take a couple of weeks), we talked about original Girl With The Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Op…
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Update: He's got the funds to make itUpdate: It's been a long slog, with Leonardo DiCaprio flirting with the lead at one point, but according to Variety, Field finally has the money to make the movie a reality. He's set to kick off filming early next…
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Director on Sin City 2 and Machete KillsIt’s been five days since promo posters appeared online for Robert Rodriguez sequels Sin City: A Dame To Kill For and Machete Kills, and today the director arrived in Cannes to talk up the two projects. Sitti…
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With Bridesmaids' Melissa McCarthyLast year, Bridesmaids did more than just become one of the most successful comedies and launch Kristen Wiig’s career to the next level – it also provided a healthy boost for both director Paul Feig and scene ste…
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Tyler Perry goes 'tec...Rob Cohen has been quietly beavering away rebooting the Alex Cross character – you know, the James Patterson detective / forensic psychologist originally played by Morgan Freeman in Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider –…
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Tom Hardy and co. promoting LawlessIt was beards-a-plenty at the Lawless photocall - with Tom Hardy definitely the clear winner. Tom was there with his co-stars promoting Lawless and as they headed down the red carpet at the end of the evening. Also…
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Jackie Chan, Madagascar 3 premiere...A range of photos for you from Day 3 of Cannes. The Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted photocall and premiere takes centre-stage, but there's a bunch from the other stars promoting themselves, their films or caus…
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Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone premiereThe Rust & Bone photocall and premiere were the main events for the second day at Cannes. The gallery below features the stars at the photocall and then the evening's premiere where Marion Cotillard led her cast…
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