PARIS (Reuters) - Bill Murray fighting off zombies and an Elton John biopic tracking the singer's early days will be among the highlights at this year's Cannes Film Festival, though Quentin Tarantino's hotly-anticipated latest outing looked set to miss out.

PARIS, April 18 (Reuters) - Bill Murray fighting off zombies and an Elton John biopic tracking the singer's early days will be among the highlights at this year's Cannes Film Festival, though Quentin Tarantino's hotly-anticipated latest outing looked set to miss out.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - There simply aren't enough modern romantic comedies that cherish the merits of female friendship in the aftermath of a romantic breakup. There are even fewer that feel like a personal, lived-in experience. Female-driven raunchcoms (like "Girls Trip") have explored this territory to a certain extent, though many stop short of delivering genuine poignancy (like "Rough Night").

PARIS, April 18 (Reuters) - Bill Murray fighting off zombies and an Elton John biopic tracking the singer's early days will be among the highlights at this year's Cannes Film Festival, though Quentin Tarantino's hotly-anticipated latest outing is set to miss out.

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Wire" creator David Simon, seven other writers, and the Writers Guild of America sued the four major Hollywood talent agencies on Wednesday for getting paid in such a way that the agencies' financial interests prevail over those of their clients.

(Reuters) - The White House has told two U.S. House Democrats it will not turn over documents that could show whether Republican President Donald Trump sought to intervene in the regulatory review of AT&T Inc’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "Chambers," Netflix's new horror series, doesn't have much going for it -- it's a grody, nasty piece of work, a story that would at least be endurable if it were the under-ninety-minute movie it seems to want to be.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From gossipy housewives to lovelorn bachelors and lip-syncing drag queens, reality television is getting its own fan event.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - While a song that begins with a cha-cha count-in and the lyric "I took a pill" sounds like it should be a dancefloor rager, it's actually the unexpectedly low-key return of Madonna, who today dropped "Medellin," the first single from her forthcoming album "Madame X."

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Like many people watching the Coachella livestream from home over the weekend, Madonna was quite busy on social media, posting a series of cryptic teasers for her forthcoming 14 the studio album "Madame X."

(Reuters) - Shares of Spotify Technology SA fell 4 percent on Monday after a report said Amazon.com Inc was in talks to launch a free ad-supported music service, which is expected to intensify competition for the music streaming leader.

(Reuters Health) - Most teens and young adults with cancer want a voice in how their tumors are treated, but almost one in four express regret about the initial treatment decisions made, a small study suggests.

April 18 (Reuters) - Shares of Pinterest Inc surged 25 percent in their debut on Thursday, giving the online scrapbook company a market capitalization of $15.8 billion and signaling increased investor appetite for new tech listings.

REIMS, France/PARIS, April 18 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron might have hoped he was striking a note for modernity and openness in announcing an international competition to design a new spire for Notre-Dame cathedral, but he may have opened a can of worms instead.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Users of Android devices in Europe will be able to choose rival browsers and search engines from five options starting on Thursday, a senior Google executive said, as the company tries to quell EU antitrust concerns and stave off fresh penalties.