The prosecution has rested in a case that should never have been brought: the ghastly soap opera better known as the criminal trial of John Edwards . The testimony has been salacious, mesmerizing and revolting. Edwards has been proved to be what everyone already knew beyond a reasonable doubt: an egocentric cad . How big a cad? His daughter is set to testify about his love for her late mother. Read full article > >

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Is John Edwards a criminal?

The Festival de Cannes (Cannes Film Festival to the rest of us) gets underway on Wednesday, and as of this posting I’ll be packing my bags for the 10-day marathon of five-movie days, black-tie nights and rushed baguettes-et-fromage in between. Read full article > >

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Cannes Film Festival: let the movie marathon begin

Superhero movie The Avengers becomes the first film in Hollywood history to make more than $100m in its second week.

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Avengers sets box office record

JOHNNY DEPP’s alabaster-vampire skin and comic bite could do nothing to slow down the Hulk’s green. “The Avengers” set another record Sunday, grossing $103.2-million in its second weekend of domestic release, according to studio estimates. That tops “Avatar’s” second-weekend mark of $75.6-million. (“Dark Shadows,” the eighth Depp/Tim Burton teaming, debuted with a disappointing $28.8-million.) Read full article > >

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‘AVENGERS’ WINS 2nd RECORD WEEKEND: Marvel film tops $1B globally

Boston University mourned three study-abroad students killed in New Zealand while visiting locations where “The Lord of the Rings” movies were filmed.

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3 Boston University students die in New Zealand

Following the death of Vidal Sassoon this week, the director who made a film about the hair stylist shares his memories with the BBC.

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VIDEO: Sassoon film-maker recalls icon

Trivia question: Name this forgotten man, the subject of Ross Melnick’s eye-poppingly informative new book, “ American Showman ”: He was the most creative and most popular independent exhibitor of silent films at a series of movie palaces (seating up to 6,000 people) in New York during the 1920s. Read full article > >

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Book World: ‘American Showman’ by Ross Melnick

Trivia question: Name this forgotten man, the subject of Ross Melnick’s eye-poppingly informative new book, “ American Showman ”: He was the most creative and most popular independent exhibitor of silent films at a series of movie palaces (seating up to 6,000 people) in New York during the 1920s. Read full article > >

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Book World: ‘American Showman’ by Ross Melnick

In an unusual move by a studio executive, Universal Pictures chairman Adam Fogelson recently introduced his risky $211 million film, “Battleship” to film exhibitors by emblazoning in bold letters on screen some of the negative zingers the press has already slung at the board-game-inspired action movie. Read full article > >

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Press-scorned ‘Battleship’ hopes to avoid death in choppy U.S. waters

Russell Brand — brash British comedian, star of films like “Get Him to the Greek,” former husband of Katy Perry and alleged iPhone smasher — has been tapped to host the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, to be held June 3. This is Brand’s first time hosting the Movie Awards, but his third time emceeing an MTV trophy show — he handled ceremonial duties at the MTV Video Music Awards in both 2008 and 2009. Read full article > >

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Russell Brand will host the MTV Movie Awards

Like a lot of Americans, Brandon L. Millett and his wife, Army Reserve Maj. Laura Law-Millett, are movie fans. But some years ago, they decided that something wasn’t quite right with Hollywood’s accounts of the military. Read full article > >

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D.C. film festival portrays soldiers in a better light

Johnny Depp talks to the BBC’s Lizo Mzimba at the premiere of his new film, Dark Shadows.

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VIDEO: Depp takes on vampire genre

As Facebook tours the country with its pitch to investors for the social network’s initial public offering, at least one hole in the company’s plan for the future that has come up repeatedly: What is Facebook going to do about mobile? Read full article > >

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Facebook IPO: Addressing the mobile problem

As Facebook tours the country with its pitch to investors for the social network’s initial public offering, at least one hole in the company’s plan for the future that has come up repeatedly: What is Facebook going to do about mobile? Read full article > >

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Facebook IPO: Addressing the mobile problem

As Facebook tours the country with its pitch to investors for the social network’s initial public offering, at least one hole in the company’s plan for the future that has come up repeatedly: What is Facebook going to do about mobile? Read full article > >

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Facebook IPO: Addressing the mobile problem