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Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said Friday.

Actor Edward Furlong tried to hide, but ended up caught and behind bars in California for allegedly violating a protective order filed against him by an ex-girlfriend, authorities said.

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.

Dozens of mourners have gathered inside the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California in Oakland for services to remember Malcolm X's grandson, Malcolm Shabazz.

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

FAMED American filmmaker Oliver Stone, who judged the Golden Goblet Awards at the first Shanghai International Film Festival in 1993, will be back for the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival next month.

Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist and rock icon Pete Townshend attended the revival production of his seminal rock opera TOMMY at the Stratford Festival in Canada last night and joined the cast onstage for the curtain call.

I was 10 years old, and I didn't trust my dad's insistence that Cool Hand Luke would be the VHS that we'd be taking home from Hollywood Video.

Johnny Depp is being "immortalized" after a British researcher named a 505-million-year-old fossil after the Edward Scissorhands actor.

Sofia Coppola was just 8 years old when she first came to the Cannes Film Festival.

After Angelina Jolie made the surprise announcement on Tuesday of having undergone a preventative double mastectomy, the world stood in awe of her brave move and willingness to share her story.

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.

For once, Gov. Martin O'Malley got a pleasant surprise from Comptroller Peter Franchot at the start of a Board of Public Works meeting.

We already know TNT is bringing Sean Bean, Eric Dane, and the mind of Frank Darabont back to our TVs, but at today's Turner Upfront, TNT and TBS announced some more big names developing potential shows for the networks - including Steven Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, Steve Carell, Jamie Foxx, Elizabeth Banks, Diablo Cody, Denis Leary, Dick Wolf, ... (more)

Asked about their recent history as Oscar rivals, Steven Spielberg and Ang Lee look at each other hesitantly before Spielberg graciously offers, "After you." The two have come to the Cannes Film Festival just months after facing off as the two favorites for best director at the Academy Awards.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses for photographers during a photo call for The Great Gatsby at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

"Do you think it's too much?" asked the spider to the fly. The fly said, "I think it's what you want." This precious line of dialogue in "The Great Gatsby" when switched up to the film characters for the interaction between Gatsby the great and the character of Nick Carraway [Toby Maguire]... totally encompasses the "spectacular, spectacular" ... (more)

Leonardo DiCaprio has described the Cannes Film Festival as an "insane experience" but also hailed it as the "mecca for the world to celebrate filmmaking". The 66th Cannes festival kicks off this week with Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, a 3-D extravaganza starring Leonardo, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.

Sir Ben Kingsley and his son Ferdinand arrive at the Northern Ballet's The Great Gatsby at the Sadler's Wells theatre in London Stars have been gripped by Great Gatsby-mania at the London premiere of a new ballet based on the in vogue Jazz Age tale.

Musicians who were featured in the movie "Lincoln" are scheduled to perform later this month at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park near Hodgenville in central Kentucky.