Who says Sean Penn isn’t popular? Three separate bidders paid $128,000 each to spend three days with the actor-activist in Haiti. The bids came at a star-studded auction at the Cannes Film Festival that raised $2 million for the beleaguered island, the organizers announced on Sunday.

What else made money? One bidder paid $215,000 paid for Bono’s guitar. Another paid $115,000 to go to lunch with a Victoria’s Secret model.  

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The auction included a day with Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk, but it wasn’t clear if it sold. None of the names of the bidders were revealed.

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Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Gilles Bourdos' "Renoir," a love story about painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his son, film director Jean Renoir, and the young woman who inspired them both.

The film was acquired at Cannes, where it will screen as the closing-night attraction in the Un Certain Regard section.

Goldwyn plans a spring 2013 release.

“I was captivated by the script from the first page and cannot wait to bring this film to American audiences," said Goldwyn's senior vice president of acquisitions, Peter Goldwyn, in a press release announcing the deal. "Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s work speaks for itself – he is one of the most gifted painters the...

When you really love someone for a lifetime, it transcends every other kind of love.  Romantic love comes nowhere near it. It is a bond so strong, in fact, that nothing can deter you from doing whatever needs to be done for the one you love. You will endure any test put in front of you, gladly, for a few minutes with your beloved.

But the simple fact is that life ends. We are born dying, and the time we have now is everything. We prepare to say goodbye to those we love most deeply, and that is where the agony of life lies. The agony of something so exquisitely beautiful -- a thing that flies in your window like a tiny miracle but can't last, isn't even meant to. How do we make it through all of this loss? We make it through because of the connections we have to others.

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It’s 10 p.m. along the Croisette at the afterparty for “Lawless,” and a new side of Cannes is revealing itself.

It’s not the star-studded Armani-Chopard-Haiti benefit on Friday night, where $100,000 at auction bought you three days in Haiti with Sean Penn. 

And it’s not the exclusive A-list gathering at the Hotel du Cap down the coast, where Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair is having his annual affair.

It’s a different kind of party and a different kind of exclusive, where a new blend of filmmakers, stars and high net worth producers is gathering to celebrate the premiere of John Hillcoat’s “Lawless.”

Who’s here? The people up to their elbows in making the movies that you’re likely to care about. Most are barely over 30. Everybody's smoking, and very good looking.

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