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Ever since the screenplay’s leak on the internet, the ensuing lawsuit and blustery cancellation of the film by Quentin Tarantino, the director’s new western Hateful Eight, has generated more buzz than perhaps any other movie project in Hollywood. It’s no surprise therefore that Saturday’s live read of the script staged as a fundraiser by LACMA and Film Independent took place before an eager sold-out audience.

As we gear up for Cannes, the HFPA’s Elisabeth Sereda takes a look at previous festival misbehaviour and expects more to come. The line-up was announced by festival programmer Thierry Fremaux and Cannes president Gilles Jacob With Berlin and Sundance over and as we gear up for Cannes, the talk among the international press is not so much what films are going to be shown (we can look that up) as to who is going to misbehave in the most entertaining way.

Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in1982, died in Mexico City at the age of 87. The Colombian writer, best known for his hallucinatory masterpiece 100 Years of Solitiude, is one of the giants of South American and World literature, credited with perfecting the magic-realist style that influenced generations and inspired filmmakers worldwide.

The Tribeca festival, founded by Robert De Niro 13 years ago, is underway in New York. Our partners at Studio System News choose the 10 films not to miss at this year's edition: CLICK HERE to check them out.

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The Galapagos Islands are famous for their remote and unique ecosystem and for their historic role in inspiring Charles Darwin’s theory of natural evolution. What is surely less known is how, in the 1930s, this idyllic archipelago far off the coast of Ecuador fired the imaginations of a group of Eurpoean eccetrics.

Thomas Sean Connery, born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 25, 1930, was named Thomas after his paternal grandfather, nicknamed “Tommy” as a child, then “Big Tam” as a grown-up 6’2” athlete. Even after becoming the biggest movie star in the world with the success of the James Bond movies (1962-1971), he would remain proud of his humble beginnings on Fountainbridge Street, where he worked as a milk delivery boy on a horse drawn cart, in the mornings from age 9 and full-time from age 13, when he quit school during World War II.

Julian Fellowes gives her the best lines in Downton Abbey, she was J. R.

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Captain America fended off Rio 2’s plucky parrots at the global box office as Winter Soldier retained the top spot for the second week in a row. Disney and Marvel Studios’ action flick once again claimed the domestic throne with $41.