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Things are finally on the way in Cannes with Croisette theaters beginning in earnest to churn screenings of actual films (remember, those works that we are actually all here to see among the attending hoopla). Opening night of course belonged to Emmanuelle Bercot’s, La Tête Haute (Standing Tall) and the general consensus is that it was a less than stellar inaugural.

The festival got its kick-off with the opening night premiere of La Tête Haute (Standing Tall), a film by Emmanuelle Bercot that has been criticized as everything from “the perfect story of social injustice”, “a film that flies in the face of conservatism” to “a really bad TV-movie”. It tells the story of a troubled teenager who gets dumped on the judicial system by his mother.

A general view of atmosphere during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2015 in Cannes, France.

A general view of atmosphere during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2015 in Cannes, France.

Opening night with a female director, french film-makers dominate Critic’s Week and a very diverse jury. The Cannes Film Festival gets underway today on the Riviera.

Los Angeles. If someone had been given the mission to find something negative to say about the commercial performance of Avengers: Age of Ultron he or she could point out that the Disney/Marvel property dropped 60% in its second weekend in the U.

Nordic welfare countries are complex.  They are often named as the happiest countries on Earth but there is a darker side to the coin; their people are one of the top ranked consumers of antidepressants.

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The HFPA announced a $2 million endowment to the Los Angeles City College Foundation for the college’s Cinema and Television Department. This is the largest donation ever awarded by the Associations, which over the years, has given grants totaling more than $20 million to entertainment related charities and scholarship programs.

A Commitment for Years to Come The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is to donate $2 million to the Los Angeles City College's Cinema and Television Department. Funds from the donation will be used to upgrade all studio, post production and theater facilities and will also finance numerous annual scholarships.