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After the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled by the pandemic and the 2021 edition was scaled back — even kisses were forbade on the red carpet — the lavish French Riviera cinema soiree is set to return with a festival that promises to be something like normal.

At Canes Film Festival, British-born actress Jodie Turner-Smith scolded Hollywood power brokers for engaging in tokenism instead of truly diversifying the film industry.

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.

Actor and activist Sean Penn declared the Trump administration’s coronavirus policies were no better than “gunning down” vulnerable communities “from a turret at the White House” at the Cannes Film Festival.

There is no statistical basis for the claim Spike Lee made that black people are being “hunted” with impunity by the police. Indded, 93 percent of black murders are committed by black civilians against black victims, not by police officers gunning for black citizens.

Left-wing Hollywood director and activist Spike Lee believes the world is “run by gangsters” like “Agent Orange” — former President Trump —  and Russian President Vladimir Putin, making the assertion during an interview alongside the full jury of the 74th Cannes Film Festival.

The Cannes Film Festival, which took a hiatus last year due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, is returning next week with Spike Lee assuming the spotlight as jury president. In addition to numerous COVID precautions — no French-style bises on the cheeks — festival organizers have reportedly imposed a host of environmental measures, including a ban on plastic and a red carpet made from recycled material.

NEW YORK — France’s Cannes Film Festival, arguably the world’s most prestigious film festival and cinema’s largest annual gathering, has postponed its 73rd edition due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore went after President Donald Trump during his appearance at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival Awards ceremony.

Basically, the New York Times told the whole world that Robbie failed to do her job, failed to leave a mark, to make an impression, to turn her small but pivotal role into a memorable one.

Director Quentin Tarantino unloaded on a female reporter after she asked why Margot Robbie, the female star in his new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, does not have a larger role.

I’m all for artistic freedom, but you can bet your life that, all things being equal, if this movie featured Obama’s severed head instead of the Trump’s, THR and the rest of the leftist rags that cover the entertainment industry would be ignoring/blasting/blacklisting this filmmaker and his film before the hour was out.

CANNES, France (AP) — Ahead of Saturday’s premiere of an Argentine documentary on abortion, dozens of women demonstrated for abortion rights on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

Some of the most celebrated Hollywood stars, many of whom loudly support gun control and rail against President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, have descended upon the 72nd Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southeastern France, protected by security walls, French soldiers with machine guns, and other armed guards.

CANNES, France (AP) — As the red carpet unfurled Tuesday at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival and Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy “The Dead Don’t Die” was set to premiere, jury president Alejandro Inarritu criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for a Mexican border wall and lamented his tweets as “bricks of isolation.”

Detectives from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department intend to contact actor James Bennett following a New York Times report that actress Asia Argento settled a complaint with him after he claimed that she sexually assaulted him when he was 17-years-old and she was 37.

Prolific Hollywood writer, director, and super-producer Luc Besson has been accused of sexual assault by actress Sand Van Roy.

During an expletive-laden rant at the Cannes film festival where the director is promoting his latest movie, Spike Lee lied about President Trump not denouncing racists in Charlottesville.

The Palestinian flag will be raised next week at the Cannes film festival, which will host their first ever national pavilion.

PARIS (AP) — Participants at the Cannes Film Festival will be given fliers warning “Proper Behavior Required” as part of an anti-sexual harassment campaign at the May 8-19 event.

Disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein and his former indie film firm The Weinstein Company have been accused of sex trafficking at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, court documents have revealed.

A planned fireworks show at the Cannes Film Festival has been cancelled and the festival has been placed on high alert following the terrorist bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, U.K. on Monday night that claimed the lives of at least 22 people and injured dozens more.

Filmmaker Spike Lee unleashed a flurry of personal insults at President Donald Trump and revealed why Hillary Clinton was wrong to think she was “entitled” to the presidency in an interview this week.

CANNES, France (AP) — A bomb scare has caused the Cannes Film Festival to briefly evacuate the Debussy theater before the first screening of director Michel Hazanavicius’ movie “Redoubtable,” a film in competition for the Palme d’Or prize.

Netflix film Okja was plagued by technical difficulties during its screening at the Cannes Film Festival, shortly after the festival announced a ban on all streaming films for next year’s entries. Deadline Hollywood reports that Netflix’s film Okja was plagued with technical

Taking a stand against Netflix and other video streaming services, the Cannes Film Festival will ban any films that are solely digitally distributed from entering the festival starting next year.

Phil Robertson discussed the cultural issues of the day in a wide-ranging interview from the Cannes Film Festival before his new film Torchbearer’s premiere.

Phil Robertson — entrepeneur and patriarch of the Robinson family featured in the reality TV show Duck Dynasty and now the star of a Citizens United documentary, Torchbearer — discussed the film’s prophetic call for cultural repentance before its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Susan Sarandon has slammed Woody Allen at the Cannes Film Festival where allegations of sexual assault have been renewed against the director.

The Times of Israel reports: The umbrella group of French Jewish communities objected to the planned marketing at Cannes of a film it said falsely blames German security forces for the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes held hostage by Palestinian

MSNBC previews the documentary version of Clinton Cash before its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, saying the movie adaptation of Peter Schweizer’s book packs a “mainstream punch” and “powerfully connects the dots” in its case against the Clinton Foundation.

The Cannes film festival opens this week with the authorities in the French Riviera resort torn between the need for tight security and wrecking the party of a particularly starry year. France is still officially under a state of emergency

A shocking new report from the Hollywood Reporter on Friday reveals that the site of the Cannes Film Festival in France sits just 600 meters from a mosque linked to Islamic jihadi terrorism.

The 2015 Cannes Film Festival has been named the “Year of the Women” for its focus on women-driven films.

Officials at the Cannes Film Festival denied allegations this week that security had turned women away from red carpet screenings because they were not wearing high heels.

In what is now being referred to as “flatgate,” the Cannes Film Festival has come under fire for allegedly shunning women, even the elderly or those with medical conditions, from red carpet screenings because they opted to wear flat shoes over high heels.