 | A blood-soaked vengeance tale from Japan drew the biggest boos in the race for the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize Monday, with critics savaging a ‘risible’ parade of cliches. |
 | ‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ the newest installment in the classic intergalactic franchise, blasted to the top of movie box office charts with $70.6 million in weekend ticket sales at theaters in the United States and Canada. |
 | When your enemy is sworn to exterminate every one of you, can you — should you — try to cut a deal with him to at least save some lives knowing that others are doomed? |
 | A decades-old rivalry between a Bollywood wannabe and a brutal police chief shines a light on Mumbai’s dark side, in Indian director Anurag Kashyap’s fast-moving psychological thriller “Ugly” about the kidnapping of a young girl. |
 | Fans from around the world have descended on the Swedish city of Malmoe for Saturday’s final of the Eurovision Song Contest, with ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Bjoern Ulvaeus expected to appear. |
 | Disgusted by corrupt local leaders, an angry miner picks up a shotgun. A migrant worker returning home looks to armed robbery to escape a life of relentless bleakness. |
 | Sony has won the global distribution rights to an animated film based on the hit game ‘Angry Birds,’ to be released in 2016, the entertainment giant announced Wednesday. |
 | Pop singer Christina Aguilera is in discussions to return as a judge on NBC television singing competition ‘The Voice’ next season, sources with knowledge of the talks said on Tuesday. |
 | Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. |
 | US three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone has received a lifetime achievement award at a film festival in Croatia that hosts debate on social issues. |
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