An appropriately European sign-off, ahead of a weekend of entertainment shenanigans dominated by the Cannes Film Festival and the Eurovision Song Contest. 

For fans of the latter, Eurovision kicks off on BBC One at 20:00 BST on Saturday, with Graham Norton providing some much-needed light relief between stirring ballads and outlandish operatics. The UK's Joe and Jake are the penultimate performers, so the patriotic among you will have to grin and bear it!

Russia are the current favourites to win, while Norton himself has tipped Australia - read what he had to say about this year's performers in our Eurovision diary earlier today. 

With our reporters giving you all the latest from Stockholm and Cannes - and a special Eurovision live page kicking off tomorrow at 19:30 BST, you're spoiled for choice! 

Hasta la vista.

Blake Lively is starring in a shark attack thriller, so she naturally took questions from journalists at Cannes in front of fake shark fins. 

The Shallows sees her play a surfer who gets stranded just off a deserted shoreline and must summon all her strength to reach safety. 

The tagline for the movie is: "What was once in the deep is now in the shallows" - hence the film's name. 

By the sounds of it, it's going to make another generation fear the sea (or even the bathtub) just like Jaws did it in its day.

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Lady Gaga's publicist has issued a statement, saying the singer will not be playing Cilla Black in a biopic about Dionne Warwick.

“Lady Gaga is not attached to this project,” her publicist told Variety, external.

Earlier, at a press conference in Cannes, Dionne Warwick, who announced the casting of Gaga, said "it was an easy choice and she wanted to do it".

Journalists were even shown a promotional poster with Gaga’s name on it.

So is this a double bluff? Is Gaga just looking for more money #pokerface?!

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Lily-Rose Depp is following in her father Johnny's footsteps with a slate of films due out this year.

The 16-year-old was facing the camera in Cannes today to promote La Danseuse (The Dancer), in which she plays celebrated dancer Isadora Duncan. 

American star Duncan, who was born in 1877, lived in London and Paris during her colourful career and was credited with creating a new art of free-form ballet. 

The film focuses on the difficult relationship between fellow American dancer Loie Fuller and her protegee Duncan. 

Ben Affleck as a maths genius? Well if best bud Matt Damon can pull it off, and people are fooled by Russell Crowe (in A Beautiful Mind), then why not? 

The Accountant sees Affleck play a numbers genius with a double life.

It's mid-May - but in La-La land it's almost Oscar season again, so here's a trailer for the film being released in October. Accountancy just got thrilling...

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Earlier, we brought you the surprising news earlier that Lady Gaga is going to portray Cilla Black on the big screen. 

Representatives of Black's estate have now responded, and it's safe to safe they are delighted.

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An exclusive first look for you now on the Entertainment Live page at a new art exhibition opening next week in London.

A Catalogue of Errors is a collection of works by the British/French artist Stephane Graff, who's chosen to focus on the world of art auctions.

Each work in the exhibition is split in half - with some text from an auction catalogue printed on the left, and an existing famous artwork that Graff has recreated in paint on the right.

Just one problem - the text from the auction house doesn't actually have anything to do with the artwork next to it.

Don't worry, it's deliberate.

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Graff is questioning the way auctions houses standardise masterpieces – reducing them to a monetary value or a famous name.

Artists are often unhappy with the way auction houses value or describe their work, as they sometimes print simplified explanations of artworks and miss deeper meanings intended by the artist.

By mixing the up the paintings and the explanations, Graff is essentially suggesting that the text that auctioneers write about artworks are easily interchangeable.

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A Catalogue of Errors opens at the Almine Rech gallery on 19 May.

Last week they told us it was coming, and today Super Furry Animals have released their first new music in seven years. Their new single Bing Bong is their un-official anthem for Wales' journey to Euro 2016 (the Manics have recorded the official one, watch the video on yesterday's Music News LIVE page).

The band had announced the single with the words: "Let's come together this summer, in song and let that song be BING BONG. Please await further transmissions." 

You can watch the video on The Guardian website, external. 

And you can also hear a taster below, during 6 Music's Matt Everitt amusing chat with frontman Gruff Rhys all about the band's return:

Meanwhile Super Furry Animals have been confirmed as headliners for this year's By The Sea festival, external in Margate this Autumn, along with Wild Beasts.

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The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye reports, external an 800-seat theatre is being built in London's Kings Cross to house the David Bowie musical, Lazarus, with a mooted start date for this autumn, or next Spring.

It follows the appearance of a website, external, touting the show's forthcoming appearance in London.

The musical, co-written by Irish playwright Enda Walsh, premiered off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop last December, with Dexter star Michael C Hall in the lead role. 

The surreal show includes several of Bowie's best-loved songs including Absolute Beginners and Changes. It was playing in New York when the singer died in early January.

No word yet as to whether Hall will be available to return to the role for the London run.

You'd better believe it - Richard Wilson has put up a defence of the BBC following publication of the White Paper into its future. 

The One Foot in the Grave star recorded a video essay for The Week, saying he was willing to march in the streets to protect the corporation. 

A tortoise also takes a starring role.

An exhibition dedicated to punk's impact on music, fashion and design across the UK between 1976 and 1978 has opened at the British Library.

The exhibition is to explore punk's roots in the French Situationist movement and New York City art-rock scene.

Arts correspondent Marilyn Rust has been along to have a look.

The Ramsays are definitely keeping up with the Olivers. Gordon Ramsay has just announced and his wife Tana are expecting their fifth child. 

He revealed the news on James Corden's Late Late Show last night.

His youngest child is 14-year-old Tilly, who has her own show on CBBC.

Fellow celebrity chef Jamie and wife Jools are expecting their fifth child in August. 

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Things are looking up for fans of The Good Wife. Reports suggest US network CBS is in final negotiations to create a spin-off show focusing on Christine Baranski's character, Diane Lockhart.

British actress Cush Jumbo, who joined The Good Wife in the drama's final season, is also expected to star in the spin-off.

The final episdoe of The Good Wife was broadcast in the US on 8 May, and is due to conclude in the UK (where it screens on More 4) shortly. 

Variety reports, external that the series closer "generated much discussion about the fate of its central characters and the denouement between Baranski’s Lockhart and Julianna Margulies’ Alicia Florrick" paving the way for a spin-off.

If it goes ahead, the new series will air on CBS All Access, bolstering subscriptions to the network's On Demand service. 

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Andrew Lloyd Webber is "furious" Nicole Scherzinger has pulled out of performing in Cats on Broadway, and has pretty much confirmed she will return to the X Factor. 

Lord Lloyd-Webber was speaking on The Economist radio, external about her decision to quit the role which she played to great effect in the West End.

Not one to hold back, the musical impresario continued: 

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Another TV show that will not be returning is Marvel's Agent Carter, which lasted two seasons on ABC.

Brit actress Hayley Atwell played the post-World War spy Peggy Carter in the Marvel spin-off, having first appeared as the character in Captain America: The First Avenger. 

Atwell won't be out of work for long however, having already signed up to star in Conviction, in which she plays a lawyer and former First Daughter who avoids jail time by agreeing to work on wrongful conviction cases. 

Meghan Trainor took a tumble on Jimmy Fallon's show - and didn't ask for them to edit it out. 

She was appearing to promote her latest single, Thank You, when she turned to face the audience, and went over on her ankle. 

She later responded to fans' concern, saying she was fine. She even retweeted a video of the incident.

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Gareth Malone and The Choir for the Invictus Games have released their charity single Flesh and Blood - after performing it at the opening ceremony in Orlando. 

The choir of wounded, injured or sick ex-servicemen and women formed on Gareth’s latest TV show, a two-part BBC documentary which you can watch on iPlayer. 

The show followed their journey writing and recording the single, using the singers' personal experiences of injury and recovery to shape the lyrics.

Soprano Laura Wright also features on the track and her own song Invincible, also written for and inspired by the Invictus Games, forms a double A side.

Two former Doctor Who alumni are returning to the London stage this summer.

Billie Piper will make her debut at the Young Vic, playing the lead in a new production based on Federico Lorca's Yerma, about a woman whose inability to have a child tears her life apart.

Matt Smith will return to the Royal Court in a new play by Anthony Neilson, which will be created in the rehearsal room. The story, which will be documented online as it evolves, will centre around an obsessive film director.

Both plays will open in July.

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Dionne Warwick wafted into Cannes this morning to announce a film is to be made about her life. 

LeToya Luckett, an original member of Destiny's Child, will play the singer in the biopic - in which Lady Gaga will also appear as Cilla Black.

Warwick and Black had quite the rivalry back in the day, particularly when Cilla's version of Anyone Who Had a Heart eclipsed Dionne's original.

Asked on Friday why she regarded Black as her nemesis, Warwick said it was "because she stole my music".

Danny Glover will play Dionne Warwick's father in the film.

Homer Simpson will appear live for the first time, in a fan phone-in this weekend. 

At the end of Sunday's episode, Simprovised, Homer will answer fan phone calls live on air during both the East Coast and West Coast broadcasts.

It will be made possible by motion capture technology, which will track the head and arm movements of actor Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer, and immediately animate them for broadcast.

Al Jean, executive producer said there would be a seven second delay, to avoid any inappropriate questions.

The Simpsons is coming to the end of its 27th season this month, making it the longest-running primetime scripted programme on US TV.

The live phone in was plugged on Instagram earlier this week.