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New york (Reuters) - An Iranian film about college friends reuniting for a weekend by the Caspian Sea and a U.S. documentary about teenage go-kart racers won the top prizes at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday.

Comic book movie 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' slashed its rivals at box offices over the weekend with a $160 million worldwide debut, leaping to No. 1 on ticket charts in a solid start to Hollywood's summer.

John McCain will be the host of AMC cable network's Memorial Day weekend marathon of movies celebrating war heroes.

Singer Kelis has filed for divorce from her rapper husband Nas, according to recent reports from People. After three years of good old fashioned dating, Kelis, 29, and Nas, 35,...

Emily Mann is returning to the New Statesman, where she was previously chief subeditor, as deputy editorThe New Statesman has hired Emily Mann from the Guardian to be its new deputy editor.Mann - a former chief subeditor of the New Statesman and currently a subeditor on the Saturday Guardian's Review section - replaces Sue Matthias, who has switched from the leftwing political magazine to the Guardian.Matthias, the New Statesman's deputy and managing editor, was appointed acting editor of the Guardian's Weekend magazine earlier this month. She was appointed for six months to cover the maternity leave of Weekend editor Merope Mills.In a separate appointment, Mehdi Hasan, a commissioning editor in Channel 4's news and current affairs department, has been recruited by the New Statesman in the new position of senior editor (politics).Hasan was previously a deputy executive producer at Sky News and producer on ITV1's Jonathan Dimbleby programme.Mann said: 'It is a privilege to return to th

Following are the top 10 films at the North American box office for the three-day weekend beginning on May 1....

TLA Releasing has acquired worldwide entertainment rights for MAKE THE YULETIDE GAY (USA, 2009), an effervescent, holiday comedy from director Rob Williams (3-Day Weekend, Back Soon). The film will make its world premiere at the 19th Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival on May 17th.

US singer Britney Spears extends her European concert tour to cities including Paris and Moscow, according to her website.

A man was convicted today of stalking Tyra Banks after a trial in which the supermodel testified that she had feared for her safety. A judge in new york convicted Brady Green, 39, of Dublin, GA, of stalking, harassment, criminal trespass and attempted aggravated harassment, according to the Associated Press. Green faces up to 90 days in jail when he is sentenced on June 18, but his lawyer plans to appeal.Authorities said Green repeatedly called Banks' studio, showed up there, and sent the talk show host flowers and letters. The man was arrested in March 2008 at a McDonald's restaurant near the studio and told officers at the time that he and Banks "had a thing together," police said.

With only three new episodes of "Bones" left -- the season finale airs Thursday May 14 -- there are not a whole lot of episodes left in which Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Booth (David Boreanaz) can hook-up, but hook-up they will by that date. "It's not surprising for people to know that it's happening, but the way it happens is surprising, I guess," Emily says. "It's something that everyone has been waiting for, for a long time." According to Emily, no one wanted the two to jump in bed together until Hart Hanson, the creator of "Bones," found a clever way to put Booth and Brennan together that wouldn't forever taint their working relationship.