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Microsoft's Xbox One presents a big and complicated machine whose primary purpose is a menu layer for watching television. This in an age where living room television is irrelevant. Having bet the farm on this vision, the company looks so out of step as to almost be laughable and has built the digital equivalent of the Spruce Goose.
Aviva Drescher is back on for the sixth season of Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York City," a Bravo insider confirmed to TheWrap.
The housewife, who held the production hostage along with her cast mates for bigger paychecks earlier this month, broke the news on Twitter.
Hey @extratv ! U guys just aired that I am not signed on to #rhony season 6. 4r betr or worse signed on and filming! #masochist. Lolxoxo
— Aviva Drescher (@AvivaDrescher) May 23, 2013
Masochist, indeed. After Drescher and the other housewives failed to get raises from the network and she missed their deadline to finalize their agreements, the network resumed production with only four returning housewives: Ramona Singer, Heather Thompson, Carole Radziwill and Sonja Morgan.
A former New York cast member recently told TheWrap that Bravo was "holding out" on Drescher and LuAnn de Lesseps for missing their deadline.
Also read: Inside Bravo's 'Real Housewives of New York' Standoff: What Went Wrong?
This is, of course, the second time Drescher has agreed to come back to the show after previously accepting her offer in principle than going back on her word earlier.
That leaves de Lesseps still on the outs.
SATURDAY 11:30 AM, 8TH UPDATE: Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 opened day and date with the U.S. and Canada in 59 international territories and is breaking records. The studio says it opened #1 in every territory and is dominating the box office with 65% market share. Friday’s international gross is $36M at 8,583 dates for an early total of $90M. This is Universal’s highest grossing Friday of all time and will be Universal’s biggest overseas weekend by a large margin. The international total will be $169M though Sunday. Combined with the North American estimates of $96.2M, the three-day weekend worldwide total will be $265.2M.
SATURDAY 6:30 AM, 7TH UPDATE: Summer 2013 keeps sizzling as huge grosses for the Top 6 movies add up to the biggest Memorial Day weekend and the biggest 4-day holiday eve r(numbers below). That’s potentially $300+ million, easily beating 2011′s all-time Memorial Weekend record of $276M. Yowza! The easy #1 is Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 pulling ahead with $39M Friday (including Thursday late shows and Friday midnights) to target $121M for the holiday weekend from 3,658 domestic theaters. After 12 years, five films and more than $1.5 billion at the global box office, the sixth Fast & Furious installment successfully transitioned from street racing to heist action to terrorist plot and 
will be the franchise’s biggest opening by far. Audiences gave it an ‘A’ CinemaScore which will help word of ... Read More »
"The Missing Picture" by Rithy Panh has been named the best film in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film uses clay figures to recreate Panh's childhood under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
The jury was headed by Danish director Thomas Vinterberg and also included actresses Ludivine Sagnier and Zhang Ziyi.
Other prizes went to Hany Abu-Assad's "Omar," Alain Guiraudie's "Stranger by the Lake," Diego Quemada-Diez's "La Jaula de Oro" and Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station."
In a letter to Cannes' Thierry Fremaux and Gilles Jacob, Vinterberg wrote, "One of the finest achievements in filmmaking is to create unforgettable moments -- moments that stay with us -- as a collective memory -- as a collective mirror of our existence.
"Clay figures, extreme beauty, violence, homosexual blow jobs, systematic humiliation of the human kind, Léa Seydoux's legs, great Brando imitations are just some of the unique images that will follow us for a while.
"This selection was insistingly unsentimental, and still poetic. It was political, highly original, sometimes disturbing, diverse and first of all, very often -- unforgettable."
Other films in the sidebar included Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," Claire Denis' "Bastards" and James Franco's "As I Lay Dying."
The Palme d'Or, and other prizes for films in the main competition, will be announced on Sunday.
The Un Certain Regard jury awards:
Prize of Un Certain Regard: "The Missing Picture" by Rithy Panh
Jury Prize: "Omar" by Hany Abu-Assad
Directing Prize: Alain Guiraudie for "Stranger by the Lake"
A Certain Talent Prize: The ensemble cast of "La Jaula de Oro" by Diego Quemada-Diez
Avenir Prize: "Fruitvale Station" by Ryan Coogler
Frances Bean Cobain is not letting Kendall Jenner off the hook.
After the former slammed the latter as a self-absorbed idiot for Tweeting about the difficulty of her life, Jenner responded in fairly reasonable fashion.
She acknowledged her good fortune in life, but also took Cobain to task for judging her, essentially asking: Can't wealthy people have problems, too?
So, with the contentious ball in Frances' Twitter court, the 20-year old wrote back last night with a semi-apology ("I don't know you nor do I think ur a bad person"), followed by a bashing of both Kendall and many social media users in general:
"Publicly complaining about how hard your life is is completely self serving ... I believe that venting about ones problems via the Internet is a blatant cry for attention. "
Cobain concluded with words of wisdom/mockery:
"I try to deal w/ pain in a manner that pertains to my real life not in a way where strangers throw me a pity party."
Is Cobain out of line? Do you agree with her assessment of self-serving Tweets overall? Should Kendall just shut up already?
Choose a side in this feud:
The 2013 Un Certain Regard prizes were handed out by Thomas Vinterberg’s jury this evening in Cannes. Cambodian director Rithy Panh won the top award for his first-person story The Missing Picture. The Jury Prize was given to the well-liked 
Omar by Oscar nominee Hany Abu-Assad. Alain Guiraudie won the Directing Prize for the controversial but acclaimed erotic thriller Stranger By The Lake which Strand Releasing picked up this week. The Un Certain Talent award was given to the ensemble of actors from Spanish director Diego Quemada-Diez’ The Golden Cage. And Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station was honored with the Prize of the Future. His film, which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in Sundance, held a berth in UCR that’s usually reserved for movies that made a name in Park City. Eventual Oscar nominee Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts Of The Southern Wild ran in UCR last year.
Commenting on the selection, Vinterberg noted, “One of the finest achievements in filmmaking is to create unforgettable moments – moments that stay with us – as a collective memory – as a collective mirror of our existence. Clay figures, extreme beauty, violence, homosexual blow jobs, systematic humiliation of the human kind, Léa Seydoux’s legs, great Brando imitations are just ... Read More »
"Fast & Furious 6" put its pedal to the metal with a $38.1 million Friday that has the Memorial Day weekend box office on a blistering record pace.
The latest entry in Universal's muscle-car movie franchise could hit $120 million for the four-day weekend, and the overall box office is on track to top $300 million, which would easily outstrip the $276 million rung up in 2011, when "Hangover II" led the way with $85 million.
The follow-up to that film, "The Hangover Part III," was running second after bringing in $14.5 million Friday. The final installment in Warner Bros.' raunchy R-rated comedy series, which opened Thursday, is looking at four-day total of around $53 million, and should wind up at around $63 million for the long weekend.
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"Fast & Furious 6" was scoring overseas too. It debuted No. 1 in 59 foreign markets and took in $36 million Friday, which projects to more than $150 million from abroad this weekend. That will easily beat the studio's previous best, which was the $92.3 million "Fast Five" rolled up in 2011.
Combined with the huge domestic debut, it was the best-ever Friday at the box office for Universal, which could see a worldwide total of $265 million for "Fast & Furious 6" by the end of the weekend.
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The weekend's other wide opener, Fox's animated family film "Epic," debuted with $9.2 million and is on its way to around $43 million for the four days. Its project weekend gross places it just behind last week's No. 1 movie, Paramount's "Star Trek Into Darkness," which took in $10 million and is on pace for a $48 million four-day haul.
The next three days should stay busy at the box office, with both "Fast & Furious 6" and "Epic" receiving "A" CinemaScore grades from first-night audiences and driving word of mouth. "Hangover III" got a "B."
Also read: 6 Lessons Hollywood Needs to Learn From 'Fast & Furious'
Disney's Marvel superhero sequel "Iron Man 3" rolled up another $5.1 million Friday and should finish at around $26 million for the four days. That raises its domestic total to $351 million, and its worldwide haul to more than $1.1 billion.
Warner Bros. "The Great Gatsby," which topped $100 million domestically Thursday, followed with $3.9 million Friday and is looking at a $16.8 million four-day total. "Mud," "The Croods," "42" and "Oblivion" rounded out the top ten.
Also read: 'Fast & Furious 6' Review: Bypasses Logic and Drives Straight to the Pleasure Center
"Fast & Furious 6" dominated Friday, averaging $10,440 on its 3,658 screens. "The Hangover Part III" averaged $4,060 per-screen in 3,555 theaters.
"Fast and Furious 6" brings back Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson along with director Justin Lin, who has overseen four of the franchise's films. It also revives fan-favorite Michelle Rodriguez, who was killed off in an earlier segment.
The London-set terrorist plot is a long way from the franchise's street-racing roots. Since the first film 12 years ago the "Fast and Furious" movies have brought in more than $1.5 billion.
"Blue is the Warmest Color," Abdellatif Kechiche's three-hour coming-of-age drama about a teenage girl in a lesbian relationship, was named the best film in the main competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival by the Fipresci International Federation of Film Critics.
The film, titled "La Vie D'Adele – Chapitre 1 & 2" in French, received widespread attention for its lengthy, graphic sex scenes, but it also took many critics by surprise and became one of the best-reviewed films of the festival.
The winner was chosen by a jury of nine international film critics headed by Klaus Eder from Bayerischer Rundfunk in Germany. The main Cannes jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, will award the Palme d'Or on Sunday.
Mohammad Rasoulof's "Manuscripts Don't Burn" won the Fipresci award as the best film in the Un Certain Regard section, while Jeremy Saulnier's "Blue Ruin" was chosen tops in the Directors' Fortnight section.
Last year's winners were Sergi Loznitza's "In the Fog" in the main competition, Benh Zeitlin's Oscar-nominated "Beasts of the Southern Wild" from Un Certain Regard and Rachad Djaidani's "Hold Back" from Directors' Fortnight.
In another award announced on Saturday, Asghar Farhadi's "The Past" won the top prize from the Cannes Ecumenical Jury. Farhadi's last film, the Oscar-winning "A Separation," had won that same prize at Cannes two years ago.
The Ecumenical Jury gave special commendations to actress-turned-director Valeria Golino's "Miele" and Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Like Father, Like Son."
SATURDAY UPDATE, 10:48 AM: The union says that it will “vigorously respond in the appropriate forum in due course” to the suit filed Friday by former SAG president Ed Asner and others over $110 million in undistributed residuals and royalties. Claiming that they are “proud” and “confident” in their foreign royalties program, SAG-AFTRA admit they haven’t actually seen the filing itself. Still, based on previous correspondence with the plaintiffs, the union calls the claims “completely without merit.” Read statement here:
PREVIOUS FRIDAY PM: Actors Ed Asner, Clancy Brown, Dennis Hayden, and George Coe are among the 15 plaintiffs who ... Read More »We are very proud of, and confident in, our unclaimed residuals and foreign royalties programs which distribute millions of dollars to performers every year. The foreign royalties program has successfully distributed to performers more than $14 million — money that would otherwise go uncollected and be lost to them forever. The foreign royalties program was previously subject to a class action lawsuit that resulted in a resolution favorable to the union after intense scrutiny of the program. While we have not been provided with a copy of the current complaint, the claims as presented in the plaintiff’s earlier correspondence have been thoroughly reviewed and are completely without merit. We will vigorously respond in the appropriate forum in due course.
EXCLUSIVE: As the Cannes Film Festival announces the winners of the fest’s competing films, the big winner in the market portion of the festival is Harvey Weinstein, hands down. Weinstein has just closed two more acquisition deals, leaving Cannes with six films under his arm, and another two for his multi-platform arm Radius-TWC. The Weinstein Company has completed a deal for U.S. distribution rights to Carol, a film that shoots in the fall, directed by Far From Heaven helmer Todd Haynes for HanWay Films. TWC has also just completed the acquisition of U.S. rights to The Young And Prodigious Spivet, the 3D film that reunites Weinstein with Amelie helmer Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Carol stars Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska and is based on a Patricia Highsmith novella adapted by Phillis Nagy. It tells the dual stories of two women: a twenty-something woman working in a department store hoping for a better life; and a wife trapped in a loveless marriage, afraid for her daughter if she bolts. Helena Bonham Carter heads the cast of Jeunet’s 3D film, about a 12-year-old cartographer who secretly leaves his family’s ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, to travel across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute. CAA brokered the latter deal.
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Ahead of tonight’s Un Certain Regard prizes comes word that the International Federation of Film Critics has honored three films in three Cannes sections. Directors’ Fortnight title Blue Ruin, which Radius-TWC has Stateside, took the FIPRESCI prize for a film in a parallel section. Jeremy Saulnier directs. Abdellatif Kechiche’s hot Competition title Blue Is The Warmest Color was FIPRESCI’s pick from among that section. In the Un Certain Regard sidebar, banned Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s Manuscripts Don’t Burn was the FIPRESCI winner. Cineuropa reports that prizes were also handed out by the Ecumenical Jury today, with Asghar Farhadi’s The Past (Sony Pictures Classics) the main winner. Hirozaku Kore-Eda’s Competition title Like Father, Like Son and Valeria Golino’s Un certain Regard entry Miele each received a special mention.
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — neatly sidestepped the Yahoo Tumblr acquisition and segued into the wonderful world of messaging. As Facebook Home settles into a cot at the homeless shelter, Google is revving up for an all-out assault on the service suite. Google Glass is just the tip of the iceberg; below the waterline, the search giant is sucking image, location, traffic, and advertising data in realtime.
Google Buzz, the social service that Google launched way back in 2010 and then killed in 2011, reminded former users that their data still lives in and will be moved over to your Google Drive accounts in July. That's lovely.