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The 66th Festival de Cannes will close on 26th May with a screening of the thriller Zulu, shot entirely on location in South Africa by Jérôme Salle and adapted from the novel of the same name by Caryl Férey.
The action takes place in Cape Town, in a South Africa still overshadowed by apartheid, where destitute townships rubs shoulders with affluent neighbourhoods. Two cops on the beat, Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Caribbean by Gore Verbinski, Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland by Kevin McDonald, Ghost Dog, La Voie du Samouraï by Jim Jarmush) are caught up in a suspenseful search which combines elements of political film noir and social study (…).
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Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron will be awarded the Honorary Chair of this year’s Cinema for Peace Gala on February 9th at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Berlin.
The South African actress and United Nations Messenger of Peace is the founder of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP), which calls for medical education and battles against the spread of HIV. Charlize Theron will receive the Cinema for Peace Honorary Award for her commitment against the spread of the disease among young South Africans. More than 300,000 people die each year of AIDS in South Africa alone; an estimated 5.6 million people are infected with HIV or AIDS in South Africa and 34 million worldwide.
“As a South African, Charlize Theron cares deeply about the human suffering of those infected, their families and friends due to HIV and AIDS. Every day thousands of people die of this disease. Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project contributes tremendously in the concerned areas, helping to educate children and minors about HIV and AIDS as well as to support affected persons,” Cinema for Peace founder Jaka Bizilj explains and mentions that “since the FIFA World Cup and a premiere with Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu in 2010, the Cinema for Peace Foundation has been fighting AIDS by presenting cinema screenings of the movie ‘Themba’ to young people in rural areas.”
This year, Africa plays a major role in various program acts of the gala. Fatou Bensouda from Gambia, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, will present the “Cinema for Peace Justice Award.” This category features movies such as “Class Dismissed” with Malala Yousafzai, who barely survived an assassination attempt last October after having refused to accept the Taliban decision not to go to school anymore. Other nominations in this category are “Invisible Children – Kony 2012,” “The Act of Killing,” “The Central Park Five” and “No.” Inspired by the portrait of a campaign leader, who triggered off the fall of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet by using creativity and a 15 minute advertising film, and will tell the story of how one of the most brutal and notorious dictators of the 20th century has been removed by peaceful means.
The “International Human Rights Film Award” category, presented by Amnesty International, the Human Rights Film Network and the Cinema for Peace Foundation, will award the movie “Call Me Kuchu,” the late founder of Sexual Minorities [...]

HollywoodNews.com: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart will hopefully have their relationship smoothed out by the end of October as they are all set to promote the final ‘Twilight’ film at that time.
The two will allegedly begin a press junket with their castmates on October 28th which will run until November 3rd, states UsMagazine.com. The film will also have an international tour going through Australia, Japan, Brazil, South Africa, Scotland, Ireland, England, Spain, Germany, Denmark and Norway but it is unknown if those two will be involved in all the stops.
It is rumored that they are currently together, but it is allegedly hard as the cheating scandal is so fresh.
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HollywoodNews.com: While most celebrities admit that onscreen sex scenes are awkward, Charlize Theron doesn’t completely agree.
The actress recently opened up about being comfortable filming sex scenes for her movies, states RadarOnline. “It depends on who you’re doing the sex scene with. I don’t have issues being naked,” Theron commented.
“I’m not hung up on my body, and I’ve been lucky to work with people I’ve been really comfortable with,” Theron continued to explain why the situation doesn’t bother her.
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HollywoodNews.com: Charlize Theron is a new mother as it has been announced that she has adopted a baby boy which makes this her first child.
It has been confirmed by her rep that she is the new mom of the adopted boy whose name is Jackson, although no further details are being released at this time, states People.
Theron is currently single as she split from longtime beau Stuart Townsend.
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HollywoodNews.com: ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ star Kim Zolciak recently missed out on a trip to South Africa with the other women on the show because of her newborn, but she is still getting mixed into the drama.
While the other women visited an orphanage while they were there, Zolciak is still the talk of the trip for one part as some of them try to imagine her there, states RadarOnline.com. As some of the women claimed they couldn’t imagine her at the orphanage holding black babies, Zolciak gets upset with Kandi Burress as fingers are pointed at her.
“What did you say about me Kandi, and an orphanage?” Zolciak confronts Burruss, who then explains that she said she didn’t see her going to Africa, not the orphanage.
However, the fight doesn’t end there, but viewers will have to tune in to the next episode for more.
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HollywoodNews.com: As it seemed like a pretty far-fetched rumor, it comes as no surprise to hear that Oprah is not the godmother of Beyonce’s new daughter with husband Jay-Z.
Oprah’s good friend, Gayle King, hit up ‘The Early Show’ to deny the claims that seemed a little unexpected to start, states UsMagazine.com. “It’s absolutely not true that she’s the godmother. She’s friends with them, of course, and likes them both very much,” King commented.
However, King did admit that if there was any truth to it, it would also be a surprise to Oprah: “Let me just say, if (that report is) true, it is news to her. It is news to her. You know, she was heading to South Africa when the baby was born.”
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HollywoodNews.com: Fans everywhere are looking forward to seeing Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron in ‘Snow White and the Huntsman,’ and from how it all started, it sounds like there is definitely something to look forward to with it.
Theron recently opened up about the instant and effortless chemistry the two stars had upon meeting, states E! News. “We met on a plane going to Comic-Con. You know when you meet someone and it’s effortless? It was instantly amazing,” Theron commented.
“We couldn’t shut up. The plane landed and they were like, ‘Get off the plane’ and we were going on and on,” Theron added about the two stars bonding instantly.
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HollywoodNews.com: Charlize Theron is pretty open-minded, but that doesn’t mean she understands everything that people are into.
Theron recently revealed that she doesn’t understand adult women who are hooked on Hello Kitty, states Hollyscoop.
“I see so many women in their 30s walking around in Hello Kitty sh-t and nobody is concerned for them. It’s the one iconic teenage symbol that seems okay for women in their 30s? The world seems to not have an issue with it,” Theron said about her confusion.
Do you agree with her or is it not that weird?
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HollywoodNews.com: It came as a surprise to many when Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend split after nine years together, and while it seemed sudden, it really wasn’t.
Theron is now opening up to ‘Vogue’ about splitting with her longtime beau and trying to save the relationship, states UsMagazine.com.
“It was sinking, and I had to give it a fight. I really wanted to try and make it work. That was the priority. I wouldn’t do it any different way,” Theron said about the relationship coming to an end.
However, now she is enjoying being single for the first time in a very long time: “This is the first time in my life. From the time I was 19, I’ve been in relationships.”
Who do you think she should date next?
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