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21 May 2012 9:54 AM, PDT | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »

The 2012 Billboard Music Awards (TV) were held on Sunday night, as music's biggest stars gathered at The MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas to celebrate the year's chart-topping achievements and pay tribute to some of their own. The show opened with a performance by electro-pop duo Lmfao and was hosted by Modern Family (TV)'s Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen. Adele was the top winner of the evening, scoring a total of 12 awards including Top Female Artist - though you'd never know it by watching the telecast. As is becoming more and more common, the majority of awards are not even handed out during the show in an effort to make room for more live performances. Lmfao ended up winning the second-highest amount of awards with six, and Lil Wayne and Cold Play each earned four. After a moment of silence to honor the passing of Bee Gees' singer Robin Gibb, »

- jmaurer@corp.popstar.com (Jennifer Maurer)

14 May 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

If Brave doesn't hit the target, a reborn Bourne just might. Here we look at this year's big-budget crowd-pleasers

Absorbed at a glance, the list of coming summer blockbusters always seems exciting. That's the point: these are not the year's subtlest or most profound films but they're the loudest, brashest, costliest pulse-quickeners on the annual programme. Trouble is, despite a level of anticipation carefully nurtured by the big studios during winter and spring (posters, billboards, teasers, trailers, tie-ins, tweets, featurettes, adverts, apps – everything but Will Smith himself coming round to scream taglines through the letterbox) the end result is so rarely a good summer's cinema.

There have been magical years. Oh, to go back to '96, with its headlining Independence Day and Mission: Impossible, backed by serviceable romps Twister and The Rock. Or to resummon 1982, when filmgoers must have wandered, happy and bewildered and increasingly hungry, in a never-ending circuit of screens showing E.T., »

- Tom Lamont

2 items from 2012