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Posted: 17 May 2013 12:25 AM PDT

CANNES (AFP) - Harry Potter star Emma Watson abandons magic for pole-dancing and cat burglary in Sofia Coppola's latest movie, one of two Cannes contenders on Thursday with twists on the girls-gone-wild theme.

The Bling Ring is based on true events in fame-fixated Los Angeles where a gang of teenagers in 2009 broke into the mansions of celebrities including Orlando Bloom, Lindsay Lohan and Megan Fox.

Snatching millions of dollars' worth of jewellery and designer frocks, they sought to grab a piece of the A-list lifestyle, becoming minor social media stars themselves in the process.

"The story couldn't have happened 10 years ago and so I thought it was an interesting story for a movie that said so much about our culture today," Coppola told reporters.

The British Watson puts on a Valley Girl accent to play Nicki, the product of New Age home-schooling and flashy consumer culture who links up with a group that learns that globe-trotting stars often don't bother much with home security.

Watson said moving from her role as Hermione in one of cinema's biggest franchises to an unsympathetic mall rat required her to take in hours of reality television.

"I watched a lot of the Kardashians, I watched a lot of Paris Hilton, I watched a lot of The Hills," she said.

"It would be very easy for Nicki to feel like a parody, not real, and somehow I had to understand and empathise with her and that was really my biggest challenge, second to getting the accent down -- it's a very specific dialect."

Paris Hilton, who leaves her house keys under her doormat, is an early victim and Coppola's camera ogles her wardrobe of slinky dresses and hip-hop-calibre baubles, and a private nightclub festooned with animal prints.

It is there that Nicki gives Hilton's dance pole a spin, prepping for nights out clubbing when she hopes to get noticed by a producer and be cast in a music video.

Watson said Coppola allowed her to ad-lib and let her hair down on set, which she described as a welcome change.

"It was nice to work with someone that's really spontaneous as well and I could work in a way that was a lot more loose than I was really used to -- I'm used to really having to stick to my lines," she said.

When the ring is finally caught thanks to grainy security video at another star's home and their own selfies (photographs of oneself taken with mobile phones) on Facebook, Nicki proves a master at media spin.

Opening Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar section for edgy new cinema, The Bling Ring drew polite applause at a packed press screening ahead of its red-carpet premiere. Hilton, who lent Coppola her home for the filming, has said she plans to attend.

Britain's daily Guardian called it "an interesting surprise".

"It puts you inside the unwholesome opium den of celeb-worship, and when the gang infiltrate Hilton's bizarre home, a Tutankhamun's tomb of kitsch, there is a real frisson," it said.

Meanwhile in the main competition, France's Francois Ozon unveiled Young And Beautiful set among Paris' gilded youth with their own ennui-driven lives on the edge.

Seventeen-year-old Isabelle spends a sun-kissed family vacation in southern France where she loses her virginity to a sweet German fellow tourist.

Once back at school, Isabelle -- played by Marine Vacth -- inexplicably begins turning tricks, promoting herself online.

One regular john is a Viagra-popping married man in his 70s. When he has a fatal heart attack during one of their trysts, Isabelle is questioned by the police and her double life comes to light.

No one, least of all Isabelle, can articulate why she turned to prostitution but the sly smile that crosses her rosebud lips when clients flood her phone with text messages provides a vague clue.

"In all the films, French and others, I had the impression that youth was idealised while I have a painful memory of my own adolescence," Ozon said after a well-received screening.

"The idea was to create a portrait of a young girl today rooted in a certain reality but not to give all the answers, sharing the mystery (of Isabelle) with the audience."

Young And Beautiful is one of 20 films in competition for the coveted Palme d'Or top prize at Cannes which wraps up on May 26.

Scarlett Johansson to direct 'Summer Crossing'

Posted: 16 May 2013 09:21 PM PDT

Scarlett Johansson is finalizing plans to adapt Truman Capote's long-lost first novel, Summer Crossing, the starlet announced at the Film Market during the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Johansson (pic) began working on the Summer Crossing project in 2011. This will be the 28-year-old actress's first shot at directing a feature-length film.

She has made one short already, called These Vagabond Shoes, which came out in 2009.

Truman Capote started writing 'Summer Crossing' in 1943 and trashed the unpolished manuscript about 10 years later, feeling it was "thin, clever, unfelt."

But his house-sitter in Brooklyn Heights rescued the manuscript from the trash and the house-sitter's nephew discovered it among Capote's old papers 50 years later, tried unsuccessfully to auction it off through Sotheby's and eventually sold the papers to the New York Public Library.

The novel was finally published in 2005 with the permission of Capote's publisher. It tells the story of doomed love between a 17-year-old New York high-society debutante and a Jewish parking lot attendant in the summer of 1945.

Scarlett Johansson and her partners plan to start shooting in 2014.

(Relaxnews)

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt back in jail

Posted: 16 May 2013 08:25 PM PDT

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Actor Sanjay Dutt, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, has returned to prison to serve the remainder of a five-year sentence for firearms offences during the Mumbai bombings 20 years ago, forcing at least one film onto the back burner.

Dutt, popular for his role as a do-good gangster in the Munnabhai films, was sentenced to six years jail in 2007 for acquiring illegal weapons from men convicted for the 1993 attacks that killed 257 people.

He served 18 months but then was out on bail, fighting the conviction until a court in March ordered him back to jail.

Projects worth up to 2.5 billion rupees and the fate of several Bollywood movies hung in the balance after the March ruling, but the actor was said to have wrapped up filming for most pending projects in the last few weeks.

But at least one film, the third Munnabhai comedy in which Dutt (pic) was to reprise his role, has been put on the back burner.

Dutt returned to prison late on Thursday night. He was later expected to be moved to a jail in the western city of Pune.

Clad in white kurta pyjamas and sporting a traditional Hindu "tilak" mark on his forehead, Dutt waved at waiting reporters before leaving his house amid heavy security. The actor was accompanied by his wife and sister.

Television showed Dutt being taken to a Mumbai court. He was swamped by media at the court complex and had to beg reporters to move back so that he could get out of his car.

"I have to surrender," the actor said, gesturing with folded hands. "Please move back! I need to go upstairs."

The beefy action hero was the most high profile of 100 people involved in the Mumbai bombings trial, which ended in 12 people receiving the death penalty and lifetime sentences for others.

In 2007, Dutt was cleared of conspiracy charges in the attacks but found guilty of illegal possession of an AK-56 rifle and a pistol, which he claimed he required to protect himself and his family during a period of rioting in Mumbai.

In March, the Supreme Court reduced the 53-year-old actor's sentence to five years and ordered him back to jail, but in April it gave the actor four extra weeks of freedom to finish some of his Bollywood films. A last-ditch petition was dismissed by the court on Tuesday.

Dutt is best known for his turn in Lage Raho Munnabhai, a comedy about a gangster espousing Gandhian values that won the popular film prize at the National Film Awards for 2006.

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Jumaat, 17 Mei 2013

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