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Catherine Deneuve Catherine Deneuve, 68, will be the recipient of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 39th Chaplin Award. The annual fundraising gala benefiting Lincoln Center programs will be held on Monday, April 2, at the Alice Tully Hall in New York. The evening will include films clips and a party. [Full list of Film Society of Lincoln Center (Fslc) Chaplin Award Honorees.] Catherine Deneuve's career spans more than five decades, from André Hunebelle's Les collégiennes / The Schoolgirls (1957), Jacques-Gérard Cornu's L'homme à femmes / Ladies Man (1960), and Michel Fermaud and Jacques Poitrenaud's Les Portes claquent / The Door Slams 1960) to her latest efforts: Christophe Honoré's Les Biens-aimés / The Beloved, shown at last year's Cannes Film Festival; Thierry Klifa's Les Yeux de sa mère / His Mother's Eyes; and Laurent Tirard's upcoming Astérix et Obélix: Au Service de Sa Majesté / Astérix et Obélix: On Her Majesty's Secret Service, as Cordelia, the Queen of England, opposite frequent co-star Gérard Depardieu and Edouard Baer.

Britain's Pathe and Germany's Falcom Media have acquired domestic distribution rights to Three Bad Men, starring Simon Pegg, Woody Harrelson and Brendan Fraser, Australian sales outfit Arclight Films announced Thursday. ... The Berlin International Film Festival will stay put in its mid-February slot, with the 56th edition of the German event set to run Feb. 9-19, 2006, festival organizers announced Thursday.... The Festival de Cannes announced Thursday that the 2005 edition of the Un Certain Regard sidebar will be dedicated to the memory of French director Jacques Poitrenaud, who died Tuesday at age 82.