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Giant Lego Star Wars X-Wing lands on NY's Times Square

A massive Star Wars X-Wing spaceship has landed on New York's Times Square. Well, not quite. It's actually a replica of one flown in the famed movie franchise and represents the largest model ever made by Danish toy company Lego. Unveiled Thursday, the spectacular structure consists of more than 5.3 million of the company's multi-colored plastic bricks, weighs almost 46,000 pounds (20,865 kilograms) and took 32 builders about 17,000 hours to put together.

Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age. After a raft of films at this year's festival gorging on wealth and splendour such "The Great Gatsby" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring", "Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern in what director Alexander Payne called a film for the modern "depression era".

Leonardo DiCaprio to team up with Dennis Lehane again for crime film

Dennis Lehane, a best-selling American novelist, will be scripting "Travis McGee," a big movie project Leonardo DiCaprio has been dying to mount since 2010, announces Variety. Lehane, author of the screenplays for "Mystic River," "Gone Baby Gone" and "Shutter Island," will adapt John D. Macdonald's detective novel "The Deep Blue Good-by" for the screen.

Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age. After a raft of films at this year's festival gorging on wealth and splendour such "The Great Gatsby" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring", "Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern in what director Alexander Payne called a film for the modern "depression era".

Leonardo DiCaprio to team up with Dennis Lehane again for crime film

Dennis Lehane, a best-selling American novelist, will be scripting "Travis McGee," a big movie project Leonardo DiCaprio has been dying to mount since 2010, announces Variety. Lehane, author of the screenplays for "Mystic River," "Gone Baby Gone" and "Shutter Island," will adapt John D. Macdonald's detective novel "The Deep Blue Good-by" for the screen.

Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age. After a raft of films at this year's festival gorging on wealth and splendour such "The Great Gatsby" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring", "Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern in what director Alexander Payne called a film for the modern "depression era".

Leonardo DiCaprio to team up with Dennis Lehane again for crime film

Dennis Lehane, a best-selling American novelist, will be scripting "Travis McGee," a big movie project Leonardo DiCaprio has been dying to mount since 2010, announces Variety. Lehane, author of the screenplays for "Mystic River," "Gone Baby Gone" and "Shutter Island," will adapt John D. Macdonald's detective novel "The Deep Blue Good-by" for the screen.

Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age. After a raft of films at this year's festival gorging on wealth and splendour such "The Great Gatsby" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring", "Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern in what director Alexander Payne called a film for the modern "depression era".

Leonardo DiCaprio to team up with Dennis Lehane again for crime film

Dennis Lehane, a best-selling American novelist, will be scripting "Travis McGee," a big movie project Leonardo DiCaprio has been dying to mount since 2010, announces Variety. Lehane, author of the screenplays for "Mystic River," "Gone Baby Gone" and "Shutter Island," will adapt John D. Macdonald's detective novel "The Deep Blue Good-by" for the screen.

From the Croisette: Thiago Stivaletti, Brazilian critic and jury member

At 34, Brazilian journalist/critic Thiago Stivaletti, covering Cannes for the sixth time to date, will also be serving this year as a jury member for the France 4 Visionary Award as part of the 52nd International Critics' Week. He talked to Relaxnews about his experience midway through this year's festival.
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