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		<title>ACMs 2026 Livestream: How to Watch the Country Music Awards Show Online for Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 18:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shania Twain hosts and Lainey Wilson, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves and Little Big Town are among the performers for tonight&#8217;s Academy of Country Music Awards ceremony, taking place live from Las Vegas. As with previous years, the 2026 ACMs air live on Prime Video, Amazon&#8217;s subscriber-based streaming service. Viewers can sign into their Amazon Prime [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Barbra Streisand Unable to Attend Cannes Closing Ceremony to Accept Honorary Palme d&#8217;Or After Knee Injury</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellise Shafer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 17:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Barbra Streisand is unable to attend the Cannes Film Festival closing ceremony to accept her honorary Palme d&#8217;Or after suffering a knee injury. &#8220;On the advice of my doctors, as I continue recovering from a knee injury, I am sadly unable to attend the Festival de Cannes this year,&#8221; Streisand said in a statement on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ryan Gosling Was Fired From &#8216;Lovely Bones&#8217; After Gaining 60 Pounds. Peter Jackson Now Speaks Out: &#8216;Anytime We Recast an Actor, It&#8217;s Actually Our Fault&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Zack Sharf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 17:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Peter Jackson is finally weighing in on Ryan Gosling&#8217;s infamous recasting in &#8220;The Lonely Bones,&#8221; the director&#8217;s 2009 adaptation of Alice Sebold&#8217;s novel. Gosling was originally cast as the father of Saoirse Ronan&#8217;s lead character, but revealed to THR in 2010 that he was fired from the movie after he gained 60 pounds for the role without [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Oscars&#8217; New Inclusion Rules Wouldn&#8217;t Disqualify Any Best Picture Nominee in History. So Why Is Elon Musk Melting Down Over &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217;?</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/academy-diversity-standards-best-picture-elon-musk-odyssey-1236751219/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clayton Davis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Andy Samberg answered this one for us back in 2020. Here’s the short version (because we&#8217;ve gone over this). Every best picture winner in the Academy&#8217;s 98-year history — from the silent-era film “Wings” in 1929 through the most recent political action epic “One Battle After Another” this past March — clears the Academy’s Representation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Laalo&#8217; Producers Soul Sutra Unveil 12-Film Gujarati Slate at Cannes Film Market, Eye Global Co-Productions (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Indian production company Soul Sutra is presenting a 12-film Gujarati-language development and production slate at the Cannes Film Market this week. The banner is led by Indian National Film Award-winning actor-producer Manasi Parekh and singer-producer Parthiv Gohil, who co-produced &#8220;Laalo – Krishna Sada Sahaayate&#8221; – the Ankit Sakhiya-directed devotional drama that became the highest-grossing Gujarati-language [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy 60th Birthday, &#8216;Pet Sounds&#8217;: Beach Boys Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston Recall the Making and Aftermath of One of Rock&#8217;s Greatest Albums</title>
		<link>https://variety.com/2026/music/news/pet-sounds-beach-boys-60th-classic-album-interviews-1236751617/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Willman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, &#8220;Pet Sounds&#8221; seemed like the runt of the Beach Boys&#8217; litter, at least on the record company ledger, if hardly by artistic reputation. But as the album turns 60 years old this weekend, it&#8217;s thought of less of a cult record, as it was considered for years or even decades after [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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			<media:title type="html">LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 11: (L-R) Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Resnikoff and Bruce Johnston attend the Beach Boys 60th Anniversary of &#034;Pet Sounds&#034; at Capitol Records Building on May 11, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for UMe)</media:title>
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		<title>French Tech Entrepreneur Adrien Nussenbaum Launches Palatio Films With Daniel Auteuil’s Cannes Movie &#8216;When Night Falls&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elskes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Adrien Nussenbaum, the French tech entrepreneur who co-founded e-commerce powerhouse Mirakl, is stepping into the movie business with the launch of Palatio Films, a new production company making its Cannes debut with Daniel Auteuil’s WWII drama “When Night Falls.” Bowing at Cannes Premiere, the film marks a major career pivot for Nussenbaum, who recently stepped [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8216;Michael&#8217; Surpasses $700 Million Globally, &#8216;Devil Wears Prada 2&#8217; Nears $550 Million Milestone</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Rubin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t stop the King of Pop. &#8220;Michael,&#8221; a biopic about the musical icon, has cleared a major box office milestone with more than $700 million globally. Over the weekend, the film returned to No. 1 at the international box office with $57.7 million from 83 foreign markets. The crowd-pleaser &#8212; distributed by Universal internationally and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Daniel Hong Thriller &#8216;Dead End&#8217; Lands at EST N8 for Cannes Film Market Launch (EXCLUSIVE)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Naman Ramachandran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[International sales and financing outfit EST N8 has secured worldwide rights to &#8220;Dead End,&#8221; a Taiwanese action crime thriller from director Chan Chun-hao, and has launched the title to global buyers at the Cannes Film Market. The film centers on Lin Sheng-yi, a former baseball star whose career collapsed under a game-fixing scandal. Returning to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Blood, Blasphemy and Boning: Ken Russell&#8217;s &#8216;The Devils&#8217; Turns 55, and It&#8217;s Still the Freshest, Wildest Film at Cannes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guy Lodge]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Typically, the Cannes Classics section is not one of the festival&#8217;s major noise-makers. Mostly comprising restorations of classic titles and new documentaries about film history, it is, for most attendees who don&#8217;t specifically work in repertory cinema, a place to take a breather, to dip into the pleasures of the old amid the whirling rush [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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