Kristen Stewart leaves “Twilight” far behind in a sexy, adventurous performance in “On The Road,” based on the iconic Jack Kerouac novel, where she “pushed herself” hard, she told the media at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.

In the film directed by Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”) Stewart appears topless and close to fully naked in several scenes. She plays Marylou, the wife of one of the writers who joins them on their road adventures.

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As part of a new pact with Lionsgate, StudioCanal will distribute "Catching Fire," the next installment of "The Hunger Games" franchise, in all German-speaking countries. 

Under the deal, Lionsgate will distribute StudioCanal's library of more than 2,000 titles.

The two partners made the announcement from the Cannes Film Festival. 

Lionsgate is riding high with its recent acquisition of Summit, the studio behind "Twilight." "The Hunger Games" is nearing $650 million at the worldwide box office. 

The company is also known for its ability to successfully mine film libraries...

Andrew Dominik's gangster movie "Killing Them Softly" has been interpreted by Cannes reviewers as being about the failures of capitalism, an attack on America and a slap at the failed promise of Barack Obama's presidency -- but at a Cannes press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Brad Pitt insisted that only part of that is true.

Viewers are wrong to read anti-Obama sentiment into the movie because of the way it juxtaposes his optimistic Democratic National Convention speech of 2008 with a landscape of greed and violence, he said. 

The footage, he said, was used not "as a cynical look back at a statement of failure, but as a real expression of hope."

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In the first few scenes of Andrew Dominik’s masterful "Killing Them Softly," you think you are in the presence of two idiots who have no idea what they’re doing. They’re being ordered to pull off a robbery. They’re the kind of guys who never figured out how stupid they were, and those kind of guys don’t last long in crime novels. You know they’re marked men for their stupidity alone.

This is a film that peels open slowly like an onion – stylized violence, piercing dialogue, the occasional blood spatter set to a familiar tune, a la Scorsese. But it was never meant to be a Scorsese film, nor a Tarantino film, though it makes you think it is from the first few scenes.

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