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Todd Haynes returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night with his latest, May December, playing in competition. The complex melodrama starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore scored an eight-minute standing ovation inside the Grand Theatre Lumière.

 got a boisterous 9-minute standing ovation after the three-hour epic premiered Saturday at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival.Leonardo DiCaprio, director Martin Scorsese and the rest of the cast soaked up every second of the ovation displayed at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.  posted a snippet of the thunderous applause, and outlet's co-editor-in-chief, Ramin Setoodeh, reports that the nine-minute standing ovation is «the biggest and loudest» of the film festival so far.According to, Scorsese took the mic after the ovation and addressed the excited crowd.«Thank you to the Osages,» he said. «Everyone connected with the picture.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In the experimental montage that opens “Persona,” a bare-chested teenage boy caresses a screen upon which the faces of two women slowly morph back and forth. It’s easy to imagine Todd Haynes being tempted to start his deep-as-you-want-to-go rabbit-hole drama “May December” the same way, seeing as how this endlessly fascinating movie focuses on the blurring of the lines between a Hollywood star (Natalie Portman) and her Heartland subject (Julianne Moore), who was caught in a sexual relationship with a 7th grader at the age of 36. The movie wants to know: Can playing this Mary Kay Letourneau-like tabloid sensation really answer what makes such a woman tick? A heady director whose entire oeuvre feels ripe for film-studies dissertations, Haynes makes movies not merely to be watched, but to be analyzed and deconstructed after the fact. From the rich Douglas Sirkian pastiche of “Far From Heaven” to the queer twist on classical “woman’s pictures” provided by “Carol,” his style can be chilly and distancing. Not so “May December.” As layered and infinitely open-to-interpretation as any of his films, it’s also the most generous and direct, beginning not with Ingmar Bergman references (those come later), but with footage of monarch butterflies. They’re symbols of transformation, too, but also something nice to look at (and listen to, underscored by a lush reworking of the piano theme from “The Go-Between”) before these two women meet.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Todd Haynes brought delicious psychodrama to the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, with the world premiere of his “May December” starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. Captivating the Cannes crowd the film earned a 6-minute standing ovation at the festival’s Grand Palais. “May December” stars Natalie Portman as Elizabeth, an actor who heads to Savannah to study the lives of Gracie (Moore) and Joe (“Riverdale” star Charles Melton). Years prior, Gracie and Joe’s scandalous cross-generational affair sparked a national controversy due to their age gap and the fact that Gracie was Joe’s boss at a local pet store. Twenty years later, Elizabeth is playing Gracie in a film version of the scandal, but her arrival puts a disruptive pressure on Gracie and Joe’s marriage.

It isn’t always easy stepping out on stage in front of thousands of people - as one nervous act found out the hard way on Saturday’s edition of Britain’s Got Talent when she accidentally walked into a wall. The flustered contestant was one half of C Lights, a double act that were hoping to impress the judges with a song and dance performance.Things got off to a good start despite the pair initially appearing nervous, until it emerged that the contestant needed to remove her shoes, something that prompted her to quickly run off stage with the lights dimmed.

Podcast presenter Vogue Williams has updated her followers on the “fun things going on at home” while her husband Spencer Matthews is in Spain celebrating Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo’s wedding. Vogue was invited to attend the wedding in Spain, however, she was unable to make it due to being on a live podcast tour with her co-star Joanne McNally.The duo co-host the hit podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me. Vogue posted a sweet snap with her eldest Son Theo hiding behind a plant as she captioned over the top: “Lots of fun things going on at home”.

The journey for Jin Wang in “American Born Chinese” couldn’t have begun at a more opportune time. The protagonist of Gene Luen Yang’s 2006 graphic novel — now a Disney’s eight-episode series from showrunner Kelvin Yu — springs forth when narratives with an Asian identity are stratospheric-high in demand and popularity.

Kim Zolciak rang in her 45th birthday with her loved ones this week, but one person was not welcomed to her birthday celebration – her estranged hubby Kroy Biermann!

Phillip Schofield was told that his contract at This Morning would not be renewed just minutes after coming off air on Thursday, it has been claimed.The 61-year-old announced on Saturday that would not be returning to the hit ITV1 daytime show after hosting it for over two decades. His announcement came after weeks of speculation that his friendship with co-presenter Holly Willoughby, 42, had ended after they hosted the show together for nearly 14 years.

Jay Leno is fueled with happiness. The 73-year-old comedian revealed his positive outlook on life with Fox News Digital months after suffering third-degree burns to his face from a gasoline fire at his Burbank garage. Two months later, Leno was involved in a motorcycle accident in Las Vegas where he broke multiple bones.

The Vanderpump Rules cast believes Tom Sandoval not only cheated on Ariana Madix with Raquel Leviss (and “Miami Girl”) but with former recurring cast member Billie Lee!

Lukasz Gottwald (Dr. Luke) has been named Pop Songwriter of the Year by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Todd Haynes has a way with female stars. I would even call him the new-age George Cukor in that regard. Whether in Carol with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, or his HBOlimited series Mildred Pierce with Kate Winslet, or his homage to the director of so many so-called “women’s pictures” of the ’50s Douglas Sirk in Far From Heaven with Julianne Moore, he seems to be in his comfort zone with women. That has never been more apparent than his latest, May December, a deliciously entertaining showcase for Natalie Portman and Moore (her and Haynes’ fourth film together), which just had its world premiere Saturday in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

Claire Holt is having another baby!

It’s hard to believe American Idol first premiered almost 21 years ago!

Kourtney Kardashian is switching up her look again!

Maroon 5 has a new song out!

The premiere of Love in Zion National: A National Park Romance is tonight on Hallmark Channel!

The stars of Killers of the Flower Moon are stepping out for their movie’s premiere!

Taylor Swift has revealed how she cut her left hand during a weekend stint performing at NRG Stadium in Houston as part of her Eras Tour.“Just got to play 3 insane shows in Houston and I’m waking up smiling reminiscing about how much fun we all had. Loving this tour so much because of the passion these crowds put into it all — seriously can’t wait for Atlanta,” Swift, 33, wrote this week on Twitter.She continued: “For those asking how I cut my hand, I’m totally fine and it was my fault completely — tripped on my dress hem and fell in the dark backstage while running to a quick change — braced my fall with my palm.”“It was all very Mercury in retrograde coded.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Driven by big releases from Morgan Wallen, Taylor Swift, Tomorrow X Together, Drake and others, Universal Music Group saw its revenues rise 11.5% year over year to $2.71 billion in the first quarter of 2023. But the company’s earnings call on Wednesday was just as newsworthy for the company doubling down on the strong remarks it has made about the fast-rising presence of — some would say threat from — AI in the music world, which hit UMG in the form of “Heart on My Sleeve,” a song using AI-generated soundalikes of two of the company’s biggest artists, Drake and the Weeknd.  “The recent explosive development in generative AI will, if left unchecked, both increase the flood of unwanted content hosted on platforms, and create rights issues with respect to existing copyright law, in the U.S. and other countries, as well as laws governing trademark, name and likeness, voice impersonation, and right of publicity,” chairman-CEO Lucian Grainge said on the call.