Cannes Film Festival Sparks Controversy

ABC’s The Rookie continues to defy its age, posting a year-to-year viewership bump with its Season 8 finale. The action-packed May 5 closer, which delivered an epic Chenford proposal years in the making followed by a shocking twist, delivered 9.25 million total viewers in Nielsen National Live

Monday night belonged to Nicolas Winding Refn at Cannes and though his trippy psychedelic female ensemble pic, Her Private Hell, is playing out of competition, it spiced up the Grand Theatre Lumiere with a 12-minute standing ovation, the second of the night after Fjord. The movie stars Sophie Thatch