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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) awarded Help Refugees, a nonprofit organization which provides humanitarian aid to, and advocacy for, refugees around the world, a $500,000 grant at the 2019 Festival de Cannes at their annual philanthropic celebration at Nikki Beach, held in association with Participant Media, located at the center of the Croisette. Helen Mirren presented the grant to Help Refugees on behalf of the HFPA, which will go toward the organization’s pioneering mission of providing humanitarian aid with minimal overhead and maximum impact.

It's hard to throw around superlatives with a two-and-a-half billion-dollar movie still parked on the global charts, but John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum had a fine weekend by its own standards and landed first in the US with $57. 1 million.

Mature women dominated the carpet, while new stars blended in with, for the most part, an all-white wardrobe.

“I never felt like I couldn’t do anything because of my gender,” says Nadine Labaki, one of the women featured in Kering’s annual Women in Motion series at the Cannes Film Festival. The series highlights women’s achievements in entertainment and fosters discussions in order to examine what needs to be done to create diversity and equity in the entertainment industry.

The weather in Cannes is abysmal, which plays havoc with the hair. Women continued to choose controlled hair that would not fall apart in drizzle.

Monfermeil, a few miles outside Paris, is one of the historical locations in Victor Hugo’s  “Les Misérables”. In its current incarnation, a banlieue (suburb) of the capital city, it gives the title to French director Ladj Ly’s first feature.

Ken Loach is one of the most decorated Cannes directors ever. The British helmer has won two Palmes d’Or (The Wind That Shakes the Barley in 2006 and I, Daniel Blake in 2016) and three Jury Prizes to boot.

It was a Rocketman kind of night. Accessories dominated and Elton got a three-minute standing ovation.

When the lights came back up in the cavernous Grand Theatre Lumière after the world premiere of Rocketman, applause was thunderous and emotions ran high – especially in the central seats reserved for dignitaries and the film’s cast, gathered around its subjects: Bernie Taupin and Elton John. The thunder was commensurate with the spectacle which had just concluded on the GTL’s widescreen which was augmented by the unique feeling of having absorbed a biographical celebration of someone actually present right there in the theater.

Women wore flounces and chiffon. Trends: detailed construction to create soft shapes, while hair, for the most part.