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The prestigious Edinburgh International Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world, but after spending a week there we can say that it is one of the coolest, charming and most pleasant film festivals around.   151 features from 46 countries screened at this year’s edition of the festival, between featrures, shorts and documentaries, with God’s Own Country , written and directed by actor Francis Lee, opening the event on June 21.

In a heated domestic race this weekend newcomer Despicable Me 3 proved to be totally magnetic, while Transformers managed to turn itself into a major disappointment. In Universal’s fourth Despicable film, after the summer 2015 spinoff Minions, Steve Carell returns as the loveable anti-hero Felonius Gru and also voices his twin brother, Dru.

Tom Holland is the young 15-year-old Spider-Man in the new reboot of the beloved Marvel super-hero. A former ballet dancer, he grew up with music in his veins, so we asked him how music helps him in his new acting career.

Three members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were recognized for their achievements at the 59th Southern California Journalism Awards at the Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles Sunday night. Adam Tanswell won second place in the Entertainment News or Feature category for his story The X-Files Reborn.

Continuing this year’s trend of sequel fatigue in the US market, Transformers: The Last Knight opened to a series domestic low $69 million. Its $45 million three-day take is less than half of Age of Extinction’s $100 million opening in 2014 and still $25 million off of the 2007 original Transformers.

In the upcoming third installment of the Planets of the Apes trilogy, War for the Planet of the Apes, four time Golden Globe nominee Woody Harrelson plays The Colonel, the ferocious commander bent into exterminating the Apes  We met at the Soho Hotel in London where the cool actor surprised us by sharing his enthusiasm for the new unreleased U2 album. “Bono played me half a dozen tracks and I can tell you, the album is amazing.

“I felt more experienced and more correct for the job than many people before me. ” Notes Patty Jenkins, the director of Wonder Woman, which has already garnered $573 million world wide and established itself as benchmark for female driven blockbusters.

Season Two of Queen Sugar, the series created and produced by Golden Globe-nominee Ava DuVernay – part I of the premiere aired yesterday, with part II coming up today – was shot in New Orleans where the story of the Bordelon family takes place. In May they were filming the midseason finale - and what a day to be on the set! One rarely gets to see such highly emotional scenes being filmed, much less reading the sides (pages being shot on a particular day), but in the interest of the unwritten ‘no spoilers, please!’-rule, we will not divulge details.

After a slight hiccup with Pirates earlier this month, Disney is back at the head of the pack with Pixar produced Cars 3. Lightning McQueen, the series’ anthropomorphic racecar voiced by Owen Wilson, rocketed into first place on the domestic chart with $53.

Golden Globe winner Sofia Coppola met the HFPA after her Cannes triumph – winning the  Best Director for her latest movie, The Beguiled. Her husband, Thomas Mars, leader of the French band Phoenix, collaborated with the soundtrack, so we asked Sofia how important music is in this movie.