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Benedict Cumberbatch's "Star Trek Into Darkness" villain is so fearsome, the movie built much of its hype around learning the character's identity in the months leading up to its release.

James Toback and Michael Mailer's feature documentary Seduced and Abandoned , starring Amagansett actor Alec Baldwin, will premiere as a Special Screening in the Official Selection at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on Monday, May 20, 2013.Produced by Mailer, Baldwin and Toback, and executive-produced by Alan Helene, Larry Herbert, Neal Schneider ... (more)

A live outdoor television broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival was briefly interrupted Friday when what sounded like gunshots sent crew and spectators scurrying for cover.

Two directors from countries with tough film censorship brought bold and probing movies to the Cannes Film Festival on Friday - one exploring China's social problems, the other delving into the mysteries of the human heart.

CANNES, France - The Weinstein Company's fall slate of awards contenders will feature a glamorous Grace Kelly, a brawny Nelson Mandela and a mysterious J.D. Salinger.

Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials said Friday.

The Cannes Film Festival is all about old-school charm and glamour, but it knows the importance of nurturing its younger talent.

Ray Liotta plays cold-blooded crime boss Roy DeMeo, who turns Richard Kuklinski into a hit man in "The Iceman." It's the couple's first date, a diner in North Jersey, small talk.

Julianne Moore sometimes identifies with the characters she plays but when it came to playing a bad mother in "What Maisie Knew," she couldn't relate.

The "Suit and Tie" singer made a stylish appearance at the Cannes Film Festival in a, well, suit and tie, which made the celeb look mighty dapper, along with his beige coat, trendy shades and slicked-back, newly long-on-top hair.

Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, was there to premiere a work-in-progress cut of a film he had spent years wrestling with: "Apocalypse Now." "I have nice memories of Cannes," Coppola said in an interview Thursday on the roof of the Palais, the festival center.

The 23-year-old "Harry Potter" actress stars in Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," which premiered Thursday at the French Riviera festival.

Not everyone is a fan of "The Great Gatsby'''s hip-hop flavored soundtrack, but director Baz Luhrmann says using modern music was essential to capturing the spirit of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel.

CANNES, France - The Cannes Film Festival has had its first shock to the system - Mexican director Amat Escalante's unsparingly violent drug war drama "Heli." Some audience members and critics balked at its explicit bloodshed, which includes a long scene of torture.

Angelina Jolie's mother had breast cancer and died of ovarian cancer, and her maternal grandmother also had ovarian cancer -- strong evidence of an inherited, genetic risk that led the actress to have both of her healthy breasts removed to try to avoid the same fate, her doctor said Wednesday.

Christoph Waltz, Daniel Auteuil, Naomi Kawase, Lynne Ramsay, Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman, Cristian Mungiu, Ang Lee and Vidya Balan attend the Opening Ceremony and 'The Great Gatsby' Premiere during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at the Theatre Lumiere on May 15, 2013 in Cannes, France.

Duran Duran's 2011 concert film, which was directed by David Lynch, has become one of the first big success stories of this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour' of the districts.

In February, Lee won the Oscar many expected to go to Spielberg for his Civil War epic "Lincoln." But it was the Taiwan-born Lee, who had previously won the award for "Brokeback Mountain," who won for his 3-D shipwreck saga "Life of Pi." At Cannes, though, Spielberg is something like Lee's boss.

Michael Douglas, right, as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson in a scene from Behind the Candalabra.