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British director Ridley Scott's new film Robin Hood, starring Russell%20Crowe, has been selected to open the annual Cannes Film Festival in May.
The film, about the birth of the Robin Hood legend, also stars Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian, and William Hurt.

The film, which was originally touted to feature Sienna Miller as Maid Marian, has undergone several rewrites, with Crowe at one point mooted to play both Robin and his nemesis the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Johnny Depp's latest movie Alice In Wonderland is still at the top of the US box office.

The movie - directed by Tim Burton and starring Depp as the Mad Hatter - easily remained the No 1 weekend draw with 62 million dollars.

The Disney fantasy has climbed to a 208.6 million dollar total in America, becoming the first 200 million hit released this year.

Matt Damon's Iraq War thriller Green Zone debuted at No 2 with 14.5 million dollars, while Jay Baruchel's romantic comedy She's Out Of My League opened in third place with 9.6 million.

In Team America: World Police, the first Hollywood-financed movie inspired by the U.S. invasion of Iraq and its attendant political controversy, South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone dispatched a squad of U.S. guerrillas all in marionette form to take down an Axis of Evil dictator and, in the process, slaughter the real villains of the piece: a bunch of self-important celebrities who had publicly opposed the U.S. policy. One of these stars is Matt Damon, who's portrayed as such an idiot that all his dialogue consists of his grinning stupidly and saying, "Matt Damon!" The puppet Damon ends up dead, his head snapped by a Team America

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - By the time "The Hurt Locker" won the best picture Oscar Sunday, it seemed almost a foregone conclusion since it previously earned honors from the Producers Guild, BAFTA, Broadcast Film Critics, the National Society of Film Critics and critics groups in New York, L.A. and elsewhere.

But "Hurt Locker" was anything but a sure thing. In a historical context, its win is surprising. After all, it is the lowest-grossing best picture winner of all time; it was never on more than 535 screens; and it beat the highest-grossing movie in modern history, one that has been playing on thousands of screens for nearly three months. In the era of blockbusters, "Locker" cost a mere $11 million to make compared with the more than $230 million cost of "Avatar."

SANDRA BULLOCK was named Best Actress at the 82nd Academy Awards last night for her role in The Blind Side, while Jeff Bridges took home the Best Actor prize for Crazy Heart (just beating our prized English nominee, Colin Firth, who was up for Best Actor for his lead role in Tom Ford's A Single Man).

AS THE nominees take to the red carpet on Sunday their minds will be on one thing; taking home the little gold statue, whilst ours will be on something different: their dresses.

Throughout the years, fashion watchers have been variously delighted and appalled by the gowns taking to the stage on the biggest night of the awards season, so to avoid sartorial slip ups, we have cast an eye over the nominees and the latest designer collections to give them some kindly advice for what could be the biggest night of their life.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director James Cameron's long-awaited "Avatar" wowed critics at its London premiere on Thursday, with some early reviewers calling it "jaw-dropping," "mind-blowing" and a game-changer in Hollywood for its digital effects.

The 3D epic adventure by the director of 1997 blockbuster "Titanic" is one of the most expensive films ever at a cost of about $400 million to make and market. It begins its worldwide launch next week, hitting U.S. theaters on December 18.

If initial reviews and Twitter buzz are any indication, it may be money well spent for film studio 20th Century Fox.

"James Cameron has proven his point: He is king of the world," raved showbiz newspaper The Hollywood Reporter.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film box offices were poised on Wednesday to eclipse 2007's record $9.68 billion in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales with Hollywood eyeing more than $10 billion this year as audiences flocked to theaters during the recession.

Movie studios began the year with January crossing the $1 billion mark for the first time ever, and box offices this month are counting on help from highly anticipated films such as "Avatar," "Sherlock Holmes" and "It's Complicated."

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Penelope Cruz feels uncomfortable talking about nude scenes and says she has "an allergy to labels," but she becomes effusive when discussing her "dream year" with two special films about to hit theaters.

The first is Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces," her fourth collaboration with the filmmaker who helped make her a star, and the second is musical "Nine" from director Rob Marshall, which challenged her voice and her previously little-known dancing skills.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnny Depp was named People magazine's "sexiest man alive" for a second time on Wednesday, joining an elite club of double honorees that includes George Clooney and Brad Pitt.

People magazine described the swashbuckling "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie star as "the king of cool with the killer cheekbones". Depp, who also took the title in 2003, succeeded 2008 winner Hugh Jackman.