"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson abandons magic for pole-dancing and cat burglary in Sofia Coppola's latest movie, one of two Cannes contenders on Thursday with twists on the girls-gone-wild theme. "The Bling Ring" is based on true events in fame-fixated Los Angeles where a gang of teenagers in 2009 broke into the mansions of celebrities including Orlando Bloom, Lindsay Lohan and Megan Fox.

Robert Rodriguez is working on a TV version of "From Dusk Till Dawn" for El Rey, an English-language network targeting Latino viewers, which the Mexican-American director plans to start up in December 2013 in the US. Helmed by Rodriguez, the adaptation of the utterly off-the-wall 1996 crime/gory horror flick will take up the storyline penned by Quentin Tarantino, which follows two brothers on the lam who are wanted by the FBI for bank robbery and multiple counts of homicide and are heading for Mexico.

Robert Rodriguez is working on a TV version of "From Dusk Till Dawn" for El Rey, an English-language network targeting Latino viewers, which the Mexican-American director plans to start up in December 2013 in the US. Helmed by Rodriguez, the adaptation of the utterly off-the-wall 1996 crime/gory horror flick will take up the storyline penned by Quentin Tarantino, which follows two brothers on the lam who are wanted by the FBI for bank robbery and multiple counts of homicide and are heading for Mexico.

Behind the scenes at the Cannes Film Festival, which begins its annual 12-day extravaganza on Wednesday: MUSHY PEAS? Steven Spielberg's career in movies was celebrated in food on Tuesday night as the Riviera resort's top restaurant hosted the head of the festival jury and his colleagues. At the Palme d'Or restaurant in the Hotel Martinez -- where for normal mortals a steak for two costs 280 euros ($361) -- the jury's three-course dinner referenced key moments in Spielberg's 40 years behind the camera.