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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.

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.

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.

It had to go against the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather, the “Fight of the century”, a major event all over the planet that generated over $400 million of pay-per-view sales.

The Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival promised to surprise, reveal, awake everyone’s creativity and reinvent a love affair with the audience and the city. As a first time BAFICI attendee my love affair with the city couldn’t be reinvented but it began: The combination of the city’s European architecture and Argentine friendliness certainly stole my heart.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau portrays the brutal Jaime Lannister in HBO’s series Game of Thrones but he tells the HFPA it’s really all out of love. You wouldn’t exactly call Jaime Lannister a role model and the 44-year-old Danish actor who portrays him in the hit series Game of Thrones agrees with that.

Avengers: Age of Ultron kicked off what will undoubtedly be a gargantuan run with an already massive $202. 2 million opening in Europe and Asia.