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X-Men: Days of Future Past out in China today
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The new X-men film has hit Chinese theatres today.
"X-men: Days of Future Past" tells the story of out of control robots designed to take on the mutants, but who soon turn on all of man kind.
Unable to combat them in the present, the X-men find a way of sending Wolverine 50-years into the past to unite the X-men in two times zones to fight their common enemy.
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" is widely-expected to dominate the weekend box office here in China.
The film stars Hugh Jackman, Peter Dinklage and Fan Bingbing, all of whom were here in Beijing recently to promote the film.
Chinese actress Yao Chen visits Lebanese refugees
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Yao Chen, a popular Chinese actress who serves as goodwill ambassador to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, has visited Lebanon to raise awareness of refugees.
She has met with a refugee family who were forced from their home amid the fighting in Syria.
Yao Chen also travelled to a school the UN refugee agency built for Syrian refugees, where she presented stationery specially prepared for the children.
Yao has 68 million followers on Weibo.
Ryan Gosling first film 'Lost River' dubuts at Cannes
Canadian actor Ryan Gosling has premiered his first film at the Cannes Film Festival.
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"Lost River," which the 33-year-old also wrote, is one of 19 competing in the "Un Certain Regard" category for emerging directors.
The film tells the story of a young man, who along with his mother and little brother, who are one of a handful of families that hasn't cleared out of a down trodden neighborhood in Detroit.
Gosling says the film seemed to develop sponaniously.
"You know this was an idea that had a life of its own. It was something that immediately, once I sort of verbalized it, it had momentum. It was something that I became an employee of it. It was moving past and people were working on it and suddenly there were actors, we were shooting or editing, now we are here and I still feel like I am trying to catch up."
"Lost River" has been directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.
Gosling worked with him previously in the films "Drive" and "Only God Forgives."
The Danish director is also on this year's jury.
"Jimmy's Hall"premieres at Cannes
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British director Ken Loach has premiered his film about 1930s Ireland at the Cannes Film Festival.
Written by regular Loach collaborator Paul Laverty, "Jimmy's Hall" is inspired by local legend Jimmy Gralton.
Barry Ward stars as the communist activist, whose initiative to host dances, art lessons, book clubs and singing classes, caused clashes with the clergy and Irish authorities.
"Jimmy's Hall" is set to hit British theatres on May 30th.
Justin Bieber, Sharon Stone, Jane Fonda and more at amfAR gala
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Pop star Justin Bieber is among a sea of celebrities who have turned out for the 21st annual amfAR Gala, an event that works to raise money for AIDS research.
Sharon Stone, who's been involved with the charity foundation for years, says it's a fight that has been paying off.
"Well you know, it's something that I've done for the majority of my adult life and it's so satisfying now that we are here with a cure in pediatric AIDS and we are working for a cure and a vaccine for adults. You know we really are aiming to do that by 2020 and with all of our friends coming back and being so generous and so supportive. We feel really good about that."
This year, one of the centerpieces of the annual auction is a gilded mammoth skeleton donated by British artist Damien Hirst.
Actress Kathleen Turner talks about starring in new play in the West End
American actress Kathleen Turner has returned to London's West End after an eight year absence.
In a new comedy-drama called "Bakersfield Mist," Turner plays Maude - a 50-something bartender who is convinced her thrift store artwork find is a Jackson Pollock original worth millions.
Tony-award winner Ian McDiarmid plays an art expert who arrives at Maude's trailer park home to inspect the artwork and determine its authenticity.
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"We are in Maude Gutman's home. Now this is a trailer in a trailer park in Bakersfield Mist and, as Maude describes herself, she is a scavenger and a pack rat and everything you see before you she has scrounged out of thrift stores and junk shops and Salvation Army. It's all things other people have decided to throw away."
In speaking about the role, Kathleen Turner says she loves art, but has no idea how much money her personal collection is worth.
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