If Lars von Trier's Melancholia wins at the Cannes film festival, he won't be able to accept the award — because he's "persona non grata" in the wake of his comments that he's a Nazi who can "understand" Hitler.
The festival — which awarded the filmmaker its top prize in 2000 for Dancer in the Dark — condemned his remarks, as did Jewish groups, which lauded the event organizers for their actions.
read moreBryce Dallas Howard is in talks to fill the hole left in the cast of Terminator Salvation The Future Begins by the recent departure of Charlotte GainsbourgAccording to the Hollywood Reporter Howard most recently seen in Spider-man 3 and Lady in the Water is negotiating to take the role of Kate Connor the wife of the films protagonist played by Christian Bale Gainsbourg left the production already shooting in New Mexico due to possible scheduling conflicts with the French comedy she plans to shoot in the future She feared if shooting stopped for an actors strike the work might resume during the time she is scheduled to shoot the French filmHoward will next appear in The Loss of a Teardrop a film based on a Tennessee Williams screenplay Adam BryantRelatedbull RapperActor Common Joins New Terminator Flickbull Christian Bales Terminator Targets a PG-13 Ratingread more