The 35-year-old, who shared the Palme d'Or in 2013 for her daring performance in "Blue is the Warmest Colour", was due to lend her star power for a series of red-carpet premieres in the coming week at Cannes. 

"When my team and I would come home from test and vaccination sites at night... watching the maddening news, it really felt like there was someone with a machine gun, gunning down communities that were the most vulnerable from a turret at the White House," Penn said of former president Donald Trump's administration.

The movie, starring Scarlett Johansson as the cat-suited superspy, took in an additional $60 million streaming on Disney Plus (at $29.99 for subscribers), and $78 million internationally, for an impressive global total of $218 million.

Television shows binge-watched -- and even filmed -- during the coronavirus pandemic will vie for coveted Emmy nominations Tuesday, with Netflix's The Crown tipped to reign over a unique year for the small screen.

Queen Elizabeth and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sent good luck messages to the England team ahead of Sunday's Euro 2020 final against Italy at Wembley.

National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) chief David Israelite announced the copyright suit at an annual meeting at which he stressed that the trade group has the video game industry in its sights.

After making one of the most successful adult animated films of all time in Waltz With Bashir, Israeli director Ari Folman vowed never to tackle the mind-bending complexity of such projects again.

Veteran film provocateur Paul Verhoeven hit back Saturday at Catholics who have condemned his lesbian nun movie Benedetta as blasphemous over scenes in which a statue of the Virgin Mary is used as a sex toy.

Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday visited the set of the world's longest-running television soap opera, Coronation Street, praising the popular show's cast as "marvellous" for keeping going through the pandemic.

A sealed cartridge of The Legend of Zelda for the old Nintendo NES console has sold for a world record sum of $870,000, auction house Heritage Auctions said in a statement Friday.

Its grimy glamour and dazzling light have captivated directors from Alfred Hitchcock to Steven Spielberg, and now Marseille is the setting for no less than three films at the Cannes film festival, including Matt Damon's latest drama.

"Masks are the rule, the law, and the guarantee that the festival can reach the finish," Cannes director Thierry Fremaux told reporters. 

After 10 years of commercial success and critical adoration, Raisa decided not to play it safe and instead, experimenting with different sounds and emotional layer with her latest EP It’s Personal.

Val Kilmer has made an intriguing and bittersweet return to the big screen at the Cannes film festival in a new documentary charting his stratospheric rise and later fall in Hollywood through his own home recordings.

Africa took centre stage at the Cannes festival on Thursday with a film celebrating Chadian women who navigate religious dogma and male domination with courage, ruses and female solidarity.

The splintered remains of a Fender Precision Bass smashed by The Clash’s Paul Simonon at a gig in 1979 will be on permanent display at the Museum of London starting July 23.

Addressing a large crowd of mostly young festival-goers in near-fluent French, she encouraged budding women filmmakers to seek their own truth and not try to please others.

Surprising items include former US President Bill Clinton's saxophone, and the doors from New York's Hotel Chelsea where Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia once lived.

Two years ago, after a blistering and unprecedented streak of billion-dollar-grossing movies, the Marvel superhero films took what was meant to be a short hiatus.

Six decades after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth, earning Moscow a key win in the Cold War, Russia is again in a space race with Washington.

Dilip Kumar, who died on Wednesday aged 98, was a shy Muslim fruit seller who fought early failure and family disapproval to become one of Bollywood's most accomplished and respected film stars.

Netflix and the other streaming giants have yet to discover one great director, the head of the Cannes film festival said Monday.

Donner's other credits include the 1976 horror classic "The Omen," the "Lethal Weapon" cop franchise with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover starting in 1987,  "Scrooged" (1988) and his final movie in 2006, "16 Blocks."

With his brother Riri Muktamar, Tulus enters his next decade in the music industry by launching TigaDuaSatu: A home for the next generation of promising talents.

With just four women among the directors behind the 24 films in competition for the Palme d'Or, a familiar script is playing out at Cannes.

Radio stations are also asked to censor lyrics that are not in accordance with Indonesian norms before playing the 42 songs.

The 39-year-old told the court she has been heavily medicated, barred from making decisions on friendships or finances, and prevented from having a contraceptive implant removed despite wanting more children.

After years of rapid expansion to boost diversity among its members, Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences slashed its new intake by more than half this year, the Oscar-awarding body said Thursday.

The battle for after-party invites was always fierce at the world's most glamorous festival, but thanks to social distancing rules it will be even harder than usual to get past the doorman in Cannes this year.

If their plan falls into place, the Russians are expected to beat Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise and Hollywood director Doug Liman, who were first to announce their project together with NASA and Space X, the company of billionaire Elon Musk.