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Canet seeks gritty New York in 'Blood Ties'
The problem with New York these days is there's just not enough litter. At least, that's French director Guillaume Canet's experience. He had to supply his own garbage to recreate the grubby streets of 1970s Brooklyn for his debut English-language feature "Blood Ties." "Every day," the director laughed during an ...
Ryan Gosling breaks Cannes' heart, misses premiere
The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling. The 32-year-old Canadian actor was unable to attend the premiere Wednesday of director Nicolas Winding Refn's film "Only God Forgives." Gosling stars in the Bangkok noir about a boxing club owner pressured by ...
Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. ___ DAMIAN LEWIS: FROM HOMELAND TO SCOTLAND "Homeland" without Sgt. Nicholas Brody? Damian Lewis says it's possible. The British actor has become an American television star playing the U.S. Marine-turned-conflicted al-Qaida terrorist in the award-winning thriller series. He'll ...
Monroe's photos for Prague exhibition stolen
A publicist for an upcoming Marilyn Monroe exhibition in Prague says that photographs of the star have been stolen. Alice Titzova of the PR agency 2media says the photos, stolen late Monday, were to be on display starting May 30 at the Prague Castle. Titzova says mannequins and display cases ...
Biden: Jewish leaders drove gay marriage changes
Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriage and other issues. Biden says culture and arts change people's attitudes. He cites social media and the old NBC TV series "Will and Grace" as examples of what helped changed attitudes on gay marriage. ...
Muppets creator Henson's items head to NYC museum
The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the ...
Sorrentino, Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes
La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui. Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's "A Castle in Italy" both feature wealthy characters whose lives have an emptiness at their center. Bruni Tedeschi — ...
Toback, Baldwin eye Cannes movie-making underbelly
A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers." The commercial underbelly of the Cannes Film Festival is a nonstop frenzy of deal-making in luxury hotels along the Croisette promenade and aboard yachts moored offshore. Films are pitched with various ingredients — a director, a ...
Depardieu to play a Chechen man seeking revenge
French actor Gerard Depardieu will star in a drama about a Chechen man who seeks revenge for the killing of his son. Chechnya, a southern Russian province, has been in the spotlight since it emerged that the suspects in April's Boston marathon bombing are ethnic Chechens. The predominantly Muslim province ...
In Coens' Cannes hit, Oscar Isaac gets his break
Joel and Ethan Coen had almost given up on casting the lead for their film "Inside Llewyn Davis." The part, a folk musician in early 1960s Greenwich Village, demanded the elusive combination of someone who could both carry a movie and perform the songs central to the film. Then they ...
Fran Haasch presents: Quaker Steak & Lube Bike Nights
Backyard BBQ
This exciting, annual music event is bringing Coheed and Cambria along with Twenty One Pilots to Vinoy Park in St. Petersburg on Saturday, May 25th!
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