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PARIS — New films by Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Todd Haynes and Wim Wenders will compete for the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted top honor, the Palme d’Or, as will a record number of films directed by women.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The sexual abuse trial of a “Dances With Wolves” actor charged in Nevada with abusing Indigenous women and girls for more than a decade is on hold indefinitely, a state judge announced Wednesday.

Celine Dion is making her musical comeback timed with her acting debut in a new romantic comedy. The Quebec chanteuse released "Love Again" today, the title track from an upcoming film where she plays a supporting role.

MONTREAL — Ali Wong and Jonathan Van Ness are among the performers headed to this year's edition of Just For Laughs in Montreal.

NEW YORK (AP) — Colman Domingo believes in paying it forward, literally — so he joined the producer team of the Broadway play, “Fat Ham.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country artist HARDY drove the success of his hit song “Wait in the Truck” with Lainey Wilson all the way to the Academy of Country Music Awards , where he is the leading nominee.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — This winter's been a hard one in Southern California. Highways flood and the rain keeps coming. Pedestrians pick their way across fallen cypress trees, around puddles on sidewalks roped off with caution tape.

TOKYO (AP) — Haruki Murakami wrote a story of a walled city when he was fresh off his debut. More than four decades later, as a seasoned and acclaimed novelist, he gave it a new life as “The City and Its Uncertain Walls.

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry will attend his father’s coronation , Buckingham Palace said Wednesday, ending months of speculation about whether the prince would be welcome after leveling charges of racism and media manipulation at the royal family.

TORONTO — “Canada's Drag Race” trounced most of its reality TV show rivals at the Canadian Screen Awards on Wednesday when it claimed six prizes, but lost the best reality/competition category to “The Amazing Race Canada.