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• Hot off the press: Seen and heard in Cannes

  Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:Will a switched-at-birth Japanese drama tug on Steven Spielberg's heart strings?The Cannes Film Festival was wondering that Saturday, when Kore-eda Hirokazu's elegant and emotional "Like   Read more »

• Cannes Film Festival opens with 'The Great Gatsby,' star-studded jury including Nicole Kidman

  Cannes Film Festival is getting under way with a blockbuster day of Steven Spielberg and Baz Luhrmann 's "The Great Gatsby."The French Riviera extravaganza began on a rainy Wednesday, where the prestigious festival was to open with the 3-D adaptation of F.   Read more »

• David Geffen donates $25M for academy museum

  is naming a theater at the facility after Geffen.Record company executive Geffen founded DreamWorks Pictures with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.Geffen says the museum will provide a permanent home for the academy's tradition of "honoring the shining   Read more »

• 'Evil Dead' debuts at No. 1 with $26M box-office take

  G.I. Joe : Retaliation," both with an estimated $21.1 million. Final numbers Monday will sort out which movie comes out ahead. Steven Spielberg 's 3-D debut of his dinosaur blockbuster "Jurassic Park" came in fourth with $18.2 million. That's on top of the   Read more »

• 'Jurassic Park 3D' review: Nonstop fun

  in the movies -- " Avatar " in 2009, " Life of Pi" just this past November -- might be wondering how the rerelease of Steven Spielberg 's 1993 blockbuster "Jurassic Park" will fare in 2013. Will those computer-animated dinosaurs look as breathtaking as they   Read more »

Around the web

• Steamy lesbian-sex movie has Cannes abuzz

  and screwing it up and having your heart broken in a country and a world that’s changing with bewildering speed. It’s perhaps the first great love story of the 21st century that feels completely of the moment. Does Steven Spielberg agree? We shall see. 9 m ago from Salon Read more »

• Shutting out the indies is a big mistake for Xbox One

  tones, in a beat which was clearly meant to be one of the high points of the presentation. The answer to that question is Steven Spielberg. To be more accurate, the answer to that question is the generation of movie directors to which Spielberg belongs. Born 3:23 AM from GamesIndustry.biz Read more »

• Cannes: Robert Redford Goes Practically Wordless in the Lost-at-Sea Drama All Is Lost

  who may at some point need to curry his favor in the position of having to vote for or against him, especially a jury led by Steven Spielberg and containing Nicole Kidman. Not to mention that the guy who just won an Oscar for making a stranded-at-sea saga, 5/23/13 from Vulture Read more »

• Amazing GIF of Tony Allen’s Acting Job vs Spurs Includes Appearances By Steven Spielberg, Brendan Fraser

  Tony Allen, who had the NBA’s flop of the year Tuesday after being fouled by Manu Ginobili, has now been immortalized in this spectacular GIF. flopping against manu ginobili is like standing between two mirrors. Give the man a Pulitzer How drunk does one n 5/23/13 from The Big Lead Read more »

• Am I Blue?: Cannes Report, May 22

  Tweet Just as the competition for the Palme d’Or is a fight to the finish — like an Oscar race without the campaigning, as Steven Spielberg noted on the festival opening day — getting by here in Cannes can be a daily battle. Whether it’s a struggle for entrance 5/23/13 from Chicago Sun-Times Read more »