Penn brings Australian aid film to Cannes
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The director of a powerful film about the final days of Bobby Sands says he has not made a hero of the IRA prisoner, whose death in a 1981 hunger strike made him one of the most prominent symbols of opposition to British rule in Northern Ireland.
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Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson won cheers at the Cannes Film Festival late on Friday (local time) after the red-carpet premiere of a moving documentary on his turbulent life.
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United States comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres plans to marry her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, after a California court ruling allowing gay marriage.
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The South Australian Film Corporation is to get a new home, with a $43 million facility to be built at the redeveloped Glenside Hospital site.
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A man has been sentenced to five years' jail for his part in one of Australia's most notorious art heists.
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Former basketballer Dennis Rodman has been charged with spousal battery.
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Television and radio personality Todd McKenney has pleaded not guilty to a drug charge.
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The role Aboriginal people play in the shearing industry in the Bourke district, in north-west New South Wales, is about to be documented in a film.
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Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights from Scholastic Media to adapt RL Stine's best-selling Goosebumps book series for the big screen.





