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Nicole Kidman is the chameleon of Cannes.

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:

La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui.

A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers."

The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens.

The line between "cute" and "cutesy" is violated, repeatedly, in the sometimes funny, often cloying comedy "The English Teacher." We're treated to the rare talents of Julianne Moore in a gently predictable "dark" comedy sprinkled with the most adorably heavy handed flourishes.

The movie with the Nazi martial-arts fight and drag queens dressed as clowns had just ended when Nicolas Winding Refn, giddy with excitement, or as giddy as droll Danish film directors get, leaned forward in his seat and initiated a rousing round of applause.

French actor Gerard Depardieu will star in a drama about a Chechen man who seeks revenge for the killing of his son.

DETROIT - What did the stars of "The Hangover Part III" do with their free time on the set? Just your average sarcasm-driven male bonding, according to Zach Galifianakis.

Joel and Ethan Coen had almost given up on casting the lead for their film "Inside Llewyn Davis." The part, a folk musician in early 1960s Greenwich Village, demanded the elusive combination of someone who could both carry a movie and perform the songs central to the film.

LOS ANGELES - Now that Seth MacFarlane has tweeted that he simply can't find the time to host the Oscars again, is it too early to say: "Tina Fey, come on down!"

Hollywood is hell.

"Star Trek: Into Darkness" didn't warp past its predecessor.

Antonio Banderas will star in a movie as one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for more than two months in 2010, and the charismatic survivor he's playing couldn't be happier.

Seth MacFarlane is too busy to host the Oscars in 2014.

Indian cinema is being feted in Cannes on its 100th birthday. But amid the celebrations, the B-word - "Bollywood" - remains controversial.

"Stories come to me," says Asghar Farhadi, his sharp eyes focused, intense. "This one came to me, and I decided to follow it."

In close to three decades of filmmaking, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have shared a lot of looks. But with "Inside Llewyn Davis," which had its premiere in Festival de Cannes competition Sunday, one particular glance said it all.

LOS ANGELES - There was the spectacle, the runaway budget, the fights with the studio. But almost everyone thinks about the 1963 movie "Cleopatra" for one thing: Liz and Dick.

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:

What is the statute of limitations on "Planet of the Apes?"

ORLANDO, Fla. - Normally, you work your way into the off-the-wall questions with movie stars. But with Josh Hutcherson, the big one is just hanging there, demanding to be asked:

LOS ANGELES - The idea came screeching into director Justin Lin's fuel-injected imagination in 2009: a fiery escape scene featuring a muscle car that crashes out of an airplane during takeoff.

Steven Soderbergh is working on a new currency.

Director Takashi Miike says shooting an action movie in Japan is a lot harder than it looks.

Playing a Freudian analyst helped Mathieu Amalric overcome his fear and loathing of psychotherapy.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" opened atop the U.S. box office, though its debut didn't quite make the jump to warp speed that Paramount Pictures executives expected.

"Star Trek: Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's expectations.

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:

The Coen brothers' resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village serenaded Cannes with its period music and melancholy tale of a self-destructive, feline-toting musician.