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Seth MacFarlane won't host the 2014 Oscars, he says on Twitter

By Amy Kaufman — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:13:00 PDT

Bad news for those of you eagerly anticipating "We Saw Your Boobs: Part Two." Seth MacFarlane will not reprise his role as the host of the Academy Awards next March, the comedian announced on his Twitter account Monday.

See Taylor Swift's disgusted reaction to Gomez-Bieber reunion

By Nardine Saad — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:41:00 PDT

Taylor Swift's disgusted reaction manifests exactly what she thinks of Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber rekindling their romance. The singer unleashed her true feelings via an impromptu facial expression when her bestie Gomez kissed her ex-boyfriend backstage at the Billboard Music Awards, so obviously not wanting him to "Come and Get It."

Did Cannes premiere pay off for 'Gatsby' at foreign box office?

By Amy Kaufman — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:46:00 PDT

With its glitzy opening night premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last week, "The Great Gatsby" arrived overseas with a splash. Or at least that's what Warner Bros. was hoping for as the movie played for the festival crowd days before it debuted in many European theaters and beyond.

Cannes 2013: Is 'Borgman' this year's 'Holy Motors'?

By Steven Zeitchik — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:11:00 PDT

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival can reliably be counted on to offer at least one envelope-pushing genre-tinged exercise, the kind that makes festgoers marvel and shake their head in equal measure. Last year it was ”Holy Motors,” Leos Carax's Surrealist collection of stories about a Paris shape-shifter. In 2009, the Greek family-torture movie “Dogtooth” fit the bill.

Justin Bieber booed at Billboard Awards, says he's no 'gimmick'

By Nardine Saad — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:40:00 PDT

Justin Bieber was booed big time at Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.

2013 Billboard Music Awards: Swift dominates, Bieber deflates

By Gerrick D. Kennedy — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:53:00 PDT

LAS VEGAS -- On the Billboard stage, there’s not much room for surprises, at least not where the awards are concerned. This is a ceremony dictated by radio, sales, streaming and fan voting. So it should be expected that Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber would reign heavily over Sunday’s telecast.

Cannes: 'Drive's' Nicolas Refn keeps steering toward the bizarre

By Steven Zeitchik — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:13:00 PDT

CANNES — The movie with the Nazi martial-arts fight and drag queens dressed as clowns had just ended when Nicolas Winding Refn, giddy with excitement, or as giddy as droll Danes get, leaned forward in his seat and initiated a rousing round of applause.

Cannes 2013: The musical side of the Coens' 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

By Kenneth Turan — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:53:00 PDT

CANNES, France -- In close to three decades of filmmaking, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have shared a lot of looks. But with "Inside Llewyn Davis," which had its premiere in Festival de Cannes competition Sunday, one particular glance said it all.

Cannes: With 'The Congress,' Ari Folman votes for new audacity

By Steven Zeitchik — Sun, 19 May 2013 03:00:00 PDT

CANNES, France -- Few independent directors have won as many plaudits for their visual inventiveness as Ari Folman. Five years ago, the Israeli first-timer came to Cannes and caught the film world’s attention with his combat piece “Waltz With Bashir.” A largely autobiographical account of his experience in the first Israel-Lebanon war, “Bashir” subsumed real-life acting into a palette of painstaking hand-drawn animation. The film went on to be nominated for the foreign-language Oscar and win the Golden Globe in the category.

Cannes 2013: 'Salinger,' 'Osage County' among Weinstein hopefuls

By Steven Zeitchik — Sat, 18 May 2013 06:00:00 PDT

Cannes, France--With award-season hits such as “The Silver Linings Playbook” and “Django Unchained,” the Weinstein Co. had a small but potent slate in the latter half of 2012.