Cannes Film Festival

In Johnny Depp’s recent Vanity Fair article, he talks about his own private island, Little Hall’s Pond Cay, located in the Bahamas, which features six different beaches.

Heath Ledger's final film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the one director Terry Gilliam wants him to win another Oscar for his role in, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last night.

Ledger passed away while working on the project and Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped in to finish his part.

If you've ever said you'd give anything to lay a big one on Robert Pattinson, it turns out all you actually need is 25 grand.

One lucky fan with too much expendable income paid $25,000 for a kiss from Twilight star Robert Pattinson at an auction in Cannes last night. All proceeds from the auction benefited amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. 

Somewhere Kristen Stewart is laughing her ass off.

For some actors, being cast in a leading role can be a long and difficult process.

Those actors aren't Brad Pitt.

This week at the Cannes Film Festival Pitt discussed how he got involved in Quentin Tarantino's new film, Inglourious Basterds, which is a revisionist film centering on World War II and Hitler.

Robert Pattinson has been spilling all kinds of beans while in Cannes this week.

First, he confirmed that he will be starring in the fourth installment of the Twilight series. Now he has announced that he will also appear in British stage director Declan Donnellan's film debut, entitled Bel Ami, which is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant.

And then there were four.

Robert Pattinson confirmed yesterday, while attending the Cannes Film Festival in France, that there is going to be a film version of the fourth and final book in the Twilight series, entitled Breaking Dawn, and that he's signed on to star in it.

Filming of the second installment of the franchise, New Moon, is due to end this week and is set to premiere in November. The third film, Eclipse, is tentatively scheduled to debut in June, 2010.

There are a veritable Rat Pack of stars lining up to play Frank Sinatra in an upcoming biopic of the singer and actor.

Martin Scorsese is directing the film and is in need of an actor to play young Sinatra. The shortlist of actors being considered includes such Hollywood heavyweights such as Johnny Depp, James Franco, Jake Gyllenhaal, Justin Timberlake, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bublé and Jon Hamm, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

In a bit of a surprise bit of casting new, Jamie Foxx is also apparently in the running.

Quentin Tarantino is returning to Cannes, the film festival where his second movie, a film that changed cinema forever, Pulp Fiction, won the prestigious Palme d’Or in 1994.

Quentin’s new movie, Inglourious Basterds, about a group of Jewish-American soldiers on a covert mission to brutally terrorize Nazis during the French occupation, will be competing against Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, Looking for Eric, which was directed by Ken Loach, who won the Palme d’Or in 2006 for The Wind That Shook the Barley, and 17 other films.

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Scarlett HoJo Johansson missed the Cannes Film Festival premiere of her new Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona because the studio refused to acquiesce to her "bloated demands."