The week in film - in pictures

John Cusack is the latest recipient of that ultimate Hollywood honour: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard. Big sister Joan gets into the spirit of things Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

The CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas is primarily aimed at cinema owners, but the studios' anxiety to impress the chief funnellers of its product has turned it into a starry, awards laden event. Here's comedy guru Judd Apatow with his Excellence in Filmmaking award, and his wife, actor Leslie Mann Photograph: Steve Marcus/Reuters

Also getting in on the CinemaCon act was Kermit the Frog, who did double duty for Walt Disney. First, he drew attention to the Muppets sequel, announced during the convention, and here he is promoting next year's Lone Ranger blockbuster for the studio. After the debacle of John Carter, they're right to be nervously pressing every marketing button they can think of Photograph: Chris Pizzello/AP

Not Charles Foster Kane after gender reassignment therapy, but Charlize Theron accepting CinemaCon's Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film award Photograph: Ryan Miller/Getty Images

A slightly more orthodox movie-star appearance: Chinese actor Zhang Ziyi arrives for the opening ceremony of the Beijing film festival. She'll no doubt be coming to Cannes too, with the Chinese remake of Dangerous Liaisons Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA

Back in rainy London, authentic screen legend Robert Redford bowled up to the O2 centre to spearhead the first overseas outpost of his cutting edge indie-mav Sundance festival. Nice films, shame about the venue, seems to be the general conclusion Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

Another day, another award show. Anil Kapoor and Bipasha Basu turn up at the Indian Film Academy's Weekend and Awards media conference in Singapore Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP

Film isn't always frivolous: a gay film festival in Moscow is greeted with protests from the Orthodox church – only to be met by a counter-demonstration Photograph: EPA

The Tribeca film festival in New York staged the world premiere of Burn, a documentary about Detroit firefighters battling blazes in the rundown Michigan city. Here's a bunch of them who showed up for the screening Photograph: Jemal Countess/Getty Images

Hugh Grant on the promotional treadmill in New York, for the imminent US release of the latest Aardman film, The Pirates! Photograph: Andres Otero/FilmMagic

What is it about fan conventions that encourages photographers to take exactly the same pictures year in and year out? Here we are in Vancouver and, honestly, these two could be trying a bit harder Photograph: Sergei Bachlakov/Xinhua Press/Corbis

The royals have always loved a visit to the cinema; though probably not when it's raining that hard. Here's Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge on their way to see African Cats. Film biz insiders will know that ushering them in, wearing the green jacket, is BFI director Amanda Nevill Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Did you know there's a Hollywood Wax Museum in Tennesee? Me neither. It's not actually open yet, so you're forgiven. Here, dedicated wax operatives winch King Kong's head into place Photograph: Curt Habraken/AP