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Actor Zac Efron poses during a photo call for The Paperboy at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Efron leaves his comfort zone in 'The Paperboy'

Zac Efron felt uncomfortable filming his revealing role "The Paperboy" — and he says that's the way he wanted it. The "High School Musical" actor has moved into decidedly grown-up territory with the film by "Precious" director Lee Daniels, which screened Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival. It's a swampy ...

Singer Kanye West, left, and television personality Kim Kardashian arrive for the screening of Cruel Summer at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

It's Kanye and Kim Kardashian in Cannes

Kanye West showed off his short film and his celebrity girlfriend — TV reality star Kim Kardashian — in Cannes, the only place for anyone famous to be this week. The American rapper walked hand-in-hand with Kardashian at the launch of "Cruel Summer" on Wednesday night. The couple didn't stop ...

In this image released by ABC, host Robin Roberts, left, sits with actor Will Smith during "Good Morning America," broadcast from The U.S.S. Intrepid aircraft carrier, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 kicking off Fleet Week in New York.  Smith stars in the film "Men in Black 3 "opening Friday.  (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik)

Tommy Lee Jones wants to know about Moscow kiss

Will Smith may not want to talk about what happened last week in Moscow, but Tommy Lee Jones sure does. The actors met on the black carpet at the premiere of "Men in Black 3" Wednesday night, with Jones twice asking Smith, "How's life in Moscow?" Representatives from Sony Pictures ...

Gilbert girl, 8, lands roles in 3 movies

At 8 years old, Ria Cheruvu, can't make up her mind whether she should become a software engineer like her parents or the president of the United States. Asked which way she is leaning, the Gilbert girl replied, "I think I'll become the president of the United States. But both ...

Viola Davis to address students at RI alma mater

Viola Davis is addressing graduating seniors at the high school in the struggling Rhode Island city where she grew up. The Academy Award nominee is expected to speak to Central Falls High School's class of 2012 on Thursday morning. She was a member of its class of 1983 and has ...

Tommy Lee Jones wants to know about Moscow kiss

Will Smith may not want to talk about what happened last week in Moscow, but Tommy Lee Jones sure does. The actors met on the black carpet at the premiere of "Men in Black 3" Wednesday night, with Jones twice asking Smith, "How's life in Moscow?" Representatives from Sony Pictures ...

Kanye and Kim in Cannes

Kanye West showed off his short film and his celebrity girlfriend in Cannes. The rapper walked hand in hand with Kim Kardashian at the launch of "Cruel Summer" on Wednesday night. The couple didn't stop to talk to media but some of the cast revealed what it was like to ...

Stage and screen actress Janet Carroll dead at 71

Actress Janet Carroll, who played the mother of Tom Cruise's character in the movie "Risky Business," has died. She was 71. Carroll's son, George Brown, said the actress died Tuesday in New York after a long illness. Carroll worked steadily since that breakthrough role with Cruise in 1983. Her film ...

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2007 file photo, Raffaello Follieri, then boyfriend of Anne Hathaway, attends a private dinner hosted by Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana in New York. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke says Follieri is scheduled to be released Friday, May 25, 2012 from a prison in Loretto, 80 miles east of Pittsburgh. Follieri pleaded guilty to cheating investors by falsely claiming he had Vatican connections that enabled him to buy church property at a discount. He was sentenced in 2008 to 4 1/2 years in prison. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

Anne Hathaway's ex to be released from Pa. prison

An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway is about to be released from a Pennsylvania federal prison following a real-estate scam. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke says Raffaello Follieri is scheduled to be released Friday from a prison in Loretto, 80 miles east of Pittsburgh. Follieri pleaded guilty ...

Judge dismisses 'Soul Men' movie suit

A federal judge in Nashville has dismissed a case against two major Hollywood film studios brought by one half of the legendary soul music duo Sam and Dave. Sam Moore filed a lawsuit against the Weinstein Company and MGM studios claiming the 2008 film "Soul Men," starring the late actor ...

Rep. King: CIA, Pentagon, too close to filmmakers

A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, a Republican, first raised questions about the bin Laden movie last summer, ...

Review: 'The Intouchables' is a real crowd-pleaser

On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes his reluctant caretaker. Surely, life lessons will be learned by all and an unlikely friendship will form across racial and socioeconomic lines and we'll ...

Director Walter Salles, left, actors Kristen Stewart and Sam Riley pose during a photo call for On the Road at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

55 years later, 'On the Road' is finally a movie

Fifty-five years after its publication, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is finally burning on the big screen. Everyone from Marlon Brando to Jean-Luc Godard to Brad Pitt has circled the classic 1957 novel over the last six decades, but Walter Salles' adaptation is the first to actually get made. The ...

FILE - In this May 18, 2012 file photo, actress Naomi Watts wears a dress by Marchesa as she arrives for the screening of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. (AP Photo/Loic Venance, file)

AP Photos: Cannes red carpet gets Bond girl flair

Berenice Marlohe, the newest Bond girl, has been making the red carpet at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival look like a day at the beach. One day it was a gold lame gown by Emilio Pucci with a black lace insert on the halter top; on another it was ...

Review: Anderson rediscovers balance in 'Kingdom'

The contradiction inherent to all Wes Anderson films — the juxtaposition of the meticulous artificiality of the settings and the passionately wistful emotions that are longing to burst free — is at its most effective in a while in "Moonrise Kingdom." The director and co-writer's tale of first love, filled ...

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