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Cannes kicks into high gear with 'Mad Max' film

“Mad Max: Fury Road”, a demented sci-fi road battle movie starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, gave a jolt of adrenaline and glitz to the Riviera event, which leans heavily to arthouse fare. The previous day’s opening was by comparison low-key, with a small-scale French social drama starring Catherine Deneuve, “Standing Tall”, as the red-carpet event. Although largely Australian, “Fury Road” threw a bit of Hollywood glitter over the festival,

Portman to star as Jackie Kennedy in new film: Variety

Natalie Portman will star in a biopic of former US first lady Jackie Kennedy that covers the four days after her husband’s assassination, trade magazine Variety reported on Thursday. The film, “Jackie”, starts at the point when US president John F. Kennedy was shot dead in November 1963. “” ‘Jackie’ talks about the days when Jackie Kennedy becomes an icon but has lost everything,” Vincent Maraval, of production company Wild