Kim Cattrall on this morning’s The Today Show. Meredith Vieria asks Kim about her role as Samantha Jones in the new Sex and the City movie, some of the gossip that emerged during filming, her personal life and the relationship with a man 23-years her junior.

Every May the Cannes Film Festival rolls around and celebrities, directors and industry insiders love to hop on a jet and fly to the French Riviera.

In the past, those who could not attend basically missed out on all the press opportunities, publicity and involvement of the prestigious festival. However, times have changed and thanks to Skype’s live video calling, those who stayed home can still get in on the action.

Via Skype video calling, those not physically in Cannes can be both seen and heard as they take part in discussions and interviews hosted at the renowned American Pavilion, the business and hospitality center for American media, filmmakers, celebrities and industry professionals working in Cannes. Skype also supplied the American Pavilion’s wireless cafe with internet equipment so that all visitors to the film festival could make free voice and video calls anywhere around the world.

Titanic’s James Cameron, as well as cinematographer Vince Pace, executive producer of the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour movie, will be among those unable to attend the event and will utilize the live video calling.

The 2008 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 14th -25th.

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Angelina Jolie, Lily Allen and Jack Black at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

Although the women of Sex and the City looked as though they had possibly gotten over their differences at the London premiere, insiders say that wasn’t the case.

Sunday, when arriving at her hotel (Claridge’s), Kim Cattrall, who has had a longstanding feud with Sarah Jessica Parker, asked her driver to let her use the staff entrance so she wouldn’t run into SJP - who would be using the ballroom entrance.

At the premiere Monday night Cattrall left the event early to have dinner with Mario Cantone, who plays ‘Anthony’ in the film. When Daily Mail told the film’s publicists about Kim leaving the event, one of them was heard muttering, “They’ve got pictures of Kim going out for dinner. What are we going to do?” However, one of the publicists, Ruth Dallatt, did the clean-up work and explained, “The reason that Kim and Mario did not watch the film is that they promised their families that they would watch it for the first time together at the premiere in New York.”

Also partaking in a little cattiness was Cynthia Nixon who was overheard talking about SJP’s outlandish pea-green mess of a hat. “What was SJP wearing on her head?,” she said. “What was going on there?”

Last March I told you about the film Lindsay Lohan had reportedly signed on for about Charles Manson and his cult followers called, The Manson Girls.

Lohan was to be paid $75,000 for the role, extremely low for industry standards.  Well, as it turns out,  she won’t be starring in the film after all.  Why, you say?  Because nobody wants to work with her!

The film was set to start filming in Los Angeles in early July, and Lohan was to play Nancy Pitman, a surfer girl who was fascinated by Manson.  However, when casting for the film, agents couldn’t find a single actress who would share the bill with Lohan!  Even some of the  guys refused to work with her.

Ouch.  Kind of shows you where she is at in her career, and it’s not a good place..

So, in order to get more big name actors/actresses for the film, producers have booted the bitch from the movie!  Sorry about your luck, Lindzs.   You’re box-office poison!

The 2008 MTV Movie Awards will take place at Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City on June 1. Mark Burnett (Survivor) will be the be returning for a second year as executive producer of the show.

“I’m looking forward to incorporating the viewers more than ever before, because I consider the MTV Movie Awards to be the most relevant movie award show in America today,” Burnett said. “This show honors the movies that millions of young Americans go to see. We will again highlight the interactive culture that is young America.”

Fun? Yeah, sure. Most relevant? Don’t get too excited there, Mark.

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
· Ellen Page- Juno
· Keira Knightley - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
· Katherine Heigl - Knocked Up
· Amy Adams- Enchanted
· Jessica Biel- I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

BEST VILLAIN
· Johnny Depp- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
· Denzel Washington- American Gangster
· Angelina Jolie- Beowulf
· Topher Grace- Spider-Man 3
· Javier Bardem- No Country For Old Men

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
· Johnny Depp- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
· Adam Sandler- I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
· Jonah Hill- Superbad
· Seth Rogen- Knocked Up
· Amy Adams- Enchanted

BEST FIGHT
· Matt Damon vs. Joey Ansah- The Bourne Ultimatum
· Tobey Maguire vs. James Franco- Spider-Man 3
· Hayden Christensen vs. Jamie Bell- Jumper
· Sean Faris vs. Cam Gigandet- Never Back Down
· Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan vs. Sun Ming Ming- Rush Hour 3
· Alien vs. Predator- Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem

BEST KISS
· Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer- Disturbia
· Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey- Enchanted
· Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
· Ellen Page and Michael Cera- Juno
· Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman- Step Up 2 The Streets

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
· Zac Efron- Hairspray
· Seth Rogen- Knocked Up
· Jonah Hill- Superbad
· Michael Cera- Superbad
· Chris Brown- This Christmas
· Nikki Blonsky- Hairspray
· Megan Fox- Transformers
· Christopher Mintz-Plasse- Superbad

BEST SUMMER MOVIE SO FAR
· Iron Man
· Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
· Sex and the City: The Movie
· Speed Racer
· The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian

“I never expected to be paid what Sarah was being paid. But I felt that the offer was not worthy of what the three of us had contributed. And I spoke up about it. I feel like I stuck my neck out. I fought. I don’t ever want to be on a set where I feel undervalued.”

- Kim Cattrall defends herself for holding out for more money before agreeing to shoot the new Sex and the City movie.