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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Johnny Depp was 40 minutes late to the press conference for “Jeanne du Barry,” the period drama that opened the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night. Depp was stuck in traffic, according to a source close to his team, forcing the event to start 27 minutes behind schedule and without him. He also missed the earlier photo call with director and star Maïwenn and the rest of the cast of “Jeanne du Barry” due to the gridlock along the Croisette. Photographers were told that Depp would return to take pictures later in the afternoon. When he arrived at 12:41 p.m. (the conference was called for noon), everyone seated at the presser was able to hear cheers and applause before he walked into the room. When he got there, he expressed his appreciation for last night’s premiere of “Jeanne du Barry.” A night earlier, the embattled actor held back tears as the audience embraced the film, starring Depp as King Louis XV, with a seven-minute standing ovation.

Refresh for updates…A humbled and defensive Johnny Depp spoke up at the Cannes press conference this AM for the fest’s opening night film Jeanne du Barry. Not only was he moved by the standing ovation in the Grand Theatre Lumiere, but he also referred to the wake of the Amber Heard trial headlines (without pointing to it), exclaiming, “In regards to me and my life, the majority of what you’ve read is fantastically horrifically written fiction.”

She’s won an Academy Award and dealt with toxic, misogynist fans over the $1 billion success of “Ms. Marvel.” Still, we’re not 100% sure Brie Larson knew what she was getting into when she was asked to join the Cannes Film Festival Jury.

What famous musician just had a talking to with his mother about her blabbing to the press about his new pop star girlfriend?

George Santos is a “dead man walking.” That’s how Brendan Buck, former press secretary to Republican House Speaker John Boehner and current political analyst, described the U.S. representative while on Tuesday night’s episode of “Alex Wagner Tonight.”“The problem is George Santos, as we have seen, is not a stable person,” Buck said.Buck emphasized that most representatives who get into situations where they know they will likely be convicted and “have no future” step down. “I just don’t know that we can trust George Santos is going to see that that clearly.

The royal family may have been in for a surprise when Prince Harry chose to attend his father’s coronation ceremony.

Dish Network execs said the company has fully overcome last February’s cyberattack, describing press reports about the severity of the episode as “exaggerated.”

The on-air auditions to be Tucker Carlson’s replacement now are drawing from Donald Trump’s White House.

Oscars win in 1999, describing the reaction by British press as being “so horrible”.Paltrow won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in 1998 film Shakespeare In Love when she was 26-years-old. When accepting the award, she famously broke down in tears while thanking her parents, Blythe Danner and Bruce Paltrow, who were sitting next to her.Speaking on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Paltrow said she could feel a “real turn” against her following the win: “I felt a real pivot on that night because I felt like up until that moment everybody was kind of rooting for me in a way.“And then when I won, it was like too much, and I could feel a real turn.”When Paltrow was criticised by the media following the public outpour, it was unknown at the time that her father, Bruce, was ill with cancer.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Gwyneth Paltrow said on a recent episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that her 1999 best actress Oscar win for “Shakespeare in Love” led to an unhealthy identity crisis. Paltrow was only 26 years old at the time when she won the Academy Award against the likes of Cate Blanchett (“Elizabeth”) and Meryl Streep (“One True King”). “Once I won the Oscar, it put me into a bit of an identity crisis, because if you win the biggest prize, like what are you supposed to do? And where are you supposed to go?” Paltrow said. “It was hard the amount of attention that you receive on a night like that and the weeks following, it’s so disorienting. And frankly, really unhealthy. I was like, ‘This is crazy. I don’t know what to do, I don’t know which way is up.’ It was a lot. Not that I would give it back or anything, it was an amazing experience, but it kind of called a lot of things into question for me.”

This summer’s TCA Press Tour, which was set to kick off on July 28, will not happen if the WGA strike extends into July, officials from the organization Tuesday. “Now that the WGA has gone on strike, there are obvious questions about summer press tour, and we wanted to share everything we know right now.

The Television Critics Association will cancel its upcoming in-person summer tour if the WGA and the AMPTP have not reached an agreement “in a timely manner.” The tour was tentatively set to kick off on July 28 and running until August 11 with the TCA Awards on August 5.

Prince Harry is expected to depart the UK within a couple of hours of his father being crowned king, the British press report this weekend. 

Michael Beale admits Rangers can’t afford to put a foot wrong if they are to sidestep Celtic and salvage their season.

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner will draw loads of attention for the celebrities who show, the jokes that Joe Biden tells and the shtick that Roy Wood Jr. uses in his routine.

It's been 12 months since Celtic lost to Rangers but Ange Postecoglou isn't falling into the "trap" of getting complacent.

Brittney Griner spoke in her first press conference since being released in December after a 10-month detainment in Russia.

Ilene Chaiken and cast members of The L Word: Generation Q appeared at the White House daily briefing on Tuesday to speak out on attacks on the LGBTQI community.

Priyanka Chopra is looking gorgeous in green for the latest red carpet premiere for her Prime Video series Citadel.

Netflix officially sent out a press release confirming the season 6 release date for Selling Sunset.

2018 World’s Strongest Man Hafthor Bjornsson has suffered a horrific injury while going for his bench press personal record this week.The 34-year-old, who was the World’s Strongest Man in 2018 as well as runner up three-times and third-place getter another four times, was on the return to powerlifting after a two-year hiatus to pursue boxing.Bjornsson, who holds the world deadlift record of 1,104lbs, announced he was making a comeback to strongman competitions in order to break a number of records.But he’ll have to wait after reportedly tearing his pectoral muscle off the bone while bench pressing 556lbs.At his Thor Power Gym, the man known for portraying The Mountain in the hit HBO series had lifted some huge weights — starting 507lb, doing 529lb and an attempt at his all-time PB of 116lb.However, it all went wrong as Bjornsson lowered the weight to his chest as he screamed out in pain after a noise viewers believe was the sound of the muscle tearing off the bone.Bjornsson’s spotters quickly came to the strongman’s aid and it was clear something was very wrong.One person said: “Saw this live, absolutely devastating. Wishing him a fast recovery.”While another added: “Unfortunately this stuff can happen when you put on so much muscle and increase the weights so quickly.”As a third commented: “Hoping for a speedy recovery for Thor.

Promo for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has officially begun!

Jennifer Garner doesn’t really like to read articles about her ex-husband, Ben Affleck.

Jennifer Garner refuses to pay attention to any of the media buzz surrounding her ex-husband, Ben Affleck!

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Shaw has left the building. The Oscar-nominated British news executive is calling it quits after an on-off love affair with news producer ITN that has spanned 40 years, affording him a front-row seat to the biggest stories of his generation. Semi-retirement beckons, but not before a valedictory interview.

Nadine Coyle has finally shown up to support her friend and former Girls Aloud bandmate Cheryl, 39, in her West End play 2:22 A Ghost Story. Fans have noticed for weeks that Nadine still hadn't appeared to get tickets to the popular horror story, a theatre production that has showcased mum-of-one Cheryl's acting talents.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The last day of filming “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” brought an end to a nearly 10-year franchise for writer-director James Gunn and his cast and crew, including Chris Pratt. The actor headlined the trilogy as Peter Quill/Star Lord, and he decided to mark the last day of filming on “Vol. 3” by going back to the very beginning with a speech that called out all of the original “Guardians” haters. “I’m not a vindictive person…but I happened to have in my notes file several press clippings saved from the first movie when everyone predicted that ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ was going to be Marvel’s first flop,” Pratt recently told Fandango about the speech he gave on the last day of the “Guardians Vol. 3” set. “That was the consensus critically. Everyone was saying all of these negative things. At the time, we were insecure and nervous about the prospects….they’re saying it’s a title no one has never heard of, we don’t have any A-list stars, [it will be] Marvel’s first failure. I remember all of that.”

Ange Postecoglou says Celtic captain Callum McGregor's last-ditch Scotland lung buster just about sums him up - although he was confused as to why he had to make it.

Kate Hudson is opening up about her early days of fame. During a recent appearance on SiriusXM's  podcast, the 43-year-old actress told host Kelly Ripa how the early 2000s media impacted her body image and relationships.«They were so mean to women,» Hudson said of the early aughts press.

Australian punk band Private Function have announced that they are releasing the “world’s first piss-filled record”. This is what you all wanted when you made the vinyl revival happen, isn’t it?The band announced in a video on Instagram this week that the 50 limited edition ‘gold’ pressings of their new album ‘370HSSV 0773H’ – already sold out on their Bandcamp profile by that point – were in fact a short run of records all filled with the band’s own urine. Nice.Liquid-filled vinyl is not new.

from.It was a tragic twist of irony that brought Beasley to this press conference in the first place. She’d been on her way to lunch with friend Shaundelle Brooks, a fellow mother and advocate whose son was killed in a Waffle House mass shooting in 2018, when Brooks called her in a panic, she tells Glamour. Brooks had gotten a call from her surviving son that his high school, just blocks from The Covenant School, was on lockdown.

Ethan Shanfeld Jeremy Renner will appear in person at the “Rennervations” world premiere, taking place April 11 at Los Angeles’ Regency Village Theater, Variety has confirmed. The event will mark Renner’s first press event since the actor’s Jan. 1 snow plow accident, which landed him in the hospital for blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries. In trying to help his nephew out of the snow near his Lake Tahoe home, Renner was run over by his Sno-Cat, which weighs over 14,000 pounds. All four episodes of “Rennervations,” the actor’s new vehicle renovation show, begin streaming April 12 on Disney+.

UK media bosses are toasting a 'huge victory' for press freedom after police chiefs ruled that people charged with a crime do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Naman Ramachandran Channel 4’s “Derry Girls” and the BBC’s “This is Going to Hurt” and “The Traitors” have won the top honors at the U.K.’s annual Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards. “Derry Girls” won best comedy and best writer for Lisa McGee and the stars of “This is Going to Hurt,” Ben Whishaw and Ambika Mod won best actor and best actress. The most popular new reality show on British television, “The Traitors,” won best entertainment title. Other BBC shows among the awards were “Sherwood,” which won best drama, “The Real Mo Farah” best documentary mini series and “Frozen Planet II” best documentary.

Ben Whishaw and Ambika Mod, the stars of This is Going to Hurt, have scooped the top acting prizes at this year’s Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, while Derry Girls picked up a double.

Mahfouz Doss, an award-winning Egyptian journalist who was a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and nine-time board member, has died. No details on the cause, date of death, or location were provided.