Jurors Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Richid Bouchareb, Natalie Portman, Marjane Satrapi, Jeanne Balibar, Sean Penn, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sergio Castellitto and Alfonso Cuaron  at a photocall today.

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Sean Penn played the Pied Piper of activism at the Coachella Festival on Monday when he set off on a protest trip to New Orleans, Louisiana with buses loaded with event revellers.

The actor/director took the stage at the festival on Sunday to recruit activists for his Dirty Hands Caravan venture.

He called on Coachella festival-goers to “take action” and join him on a cross-country bio-diesel bus caravan. The trip began on Monday morning.

Speaking just before My Morning Jacket’s set on the main stage at Coachella, Penn told music fans, “This is about volunteerism. Revolution is a young man’s job and you can be the revolution.”

He revealed that singer/songwriter Ben Harper and rockers Everlast would be joining him for the trip to the New Orleans Jazz + Heritage Festival.

The volunteers will help build houses for the homeless, while protesting the Iraq war with Penn.

Penn was hoping to recruit 300 Coachella revellers to join him on the bus tour to New Orleans and back to Los Angeles.

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Sean Penn’s divorce to Robin Wright Penn has been called off.

Court officials confirm to Extra that a dismissal was filed and granted on Tuesday.

The same day, Extra reported the pair hit an Eddie Vedder concert in San Francisco, where Penn, 47 — who flirted with Petra Nemcova at the Oscars — dedicated a song to his wife, 42, on stage for her birthday.

He originally filed divorce papers in Marin County December 7, his attorney Mindy Ross told Usmagazine.com, but the petition was dismissed December 18.

On December 21, she filed her own request for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Penn’s divorce papers listed November 30 as the date of their separation; she listed the split date as December 1.

The couple, who have been married for over 11 years, have two kids: Dylan Francis, 16, and Hopper Jack, 14.

“It was bound to happen,” a source told Us at the time of their split. “He always seemed like a bachelor at heart and the kind of guy who just couldn’t be married for long.”

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Less than two months after he announced his separation from his wife of 11 years, Sean Penn hit Sunday night’s Oscar party circuit with a new blonde beauty on his arm: model Petra Nemcova.

The two arrived together (or, at least, simultaneously) at the Elton John AIDS Foundation screening party. Although they separated briefly – he did an interview while she posed for pictures – they eventually reunited for the cameras, as Penn wrapped his arm around her for a few photos.

So, are they dating? The actor, 47, and model, 28, avoided any clear-cut PDA. And when asked about her escort, Nemcova, wearing a custom-designed Roberto Cavalli dress, would only tell PEOPLE, “Yes, we are friends. He is on the advisory board of my charity.”

Friends who’ve been spending quite a bit of time together: A source confirms that the two also hit L.A. hotspot Villa the night before.

Penn announced his separation from actress Robin Wright Penn just after Christmas. In the divorce papers, both cite “irreconcilable differences” and ask for joint legal and physical custody of their two teenagers, Hopper Jack, 14, and Dylan Frances, 16.

Last year, Nemcova made the Oscar party rounds with then-boyfriend James Blunt. But she and the “You’re Beautiful” singer split shortly afterward.

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Though Sean Penn and soon-to-be ex-wife Robin Wright remain tight-lipped about the events leading to their breakup, Star Magazine reveals the sordid details of their last weekend together.

It all started innocently enough, according to the magazine, with an intended romantic getaway in Lake Tahoe, Calif. The couple checked in to the Squaw Valley resort just days before Christmas, but sources said Sean didn’t request couple-friendly accommodations.

“Sean didn’t spend much time with his wife — he booked her a separate suite — and when Robin got fed up with being alone, she went over to his suite,” an insider revealed. There, she “found him drunk with two Russian girls!”

Allegedly the actor continued to party the night away, while Robin was nowhere to be seen. “When asked where his wife was, he answered, ‘Who cares?’”

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Sean Penn will say “bonjour” to Cannes this summer, the film festival’s organizers announced Thursday.

The 47-year-old actor/director – whose separation from his wife, Robin Wright Penn, 41, was confirmed to People on Dec. 27 – has accepted the presidency of the festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or competition.

“The Cannes Film Festival has long been in the center of discovering the new waves of filmmakers,” Penn said in a statement. “I look forward very much to participating.” As president, he’ll help select the jury and oversee the judging at the annual movie fest, running this year from May 14 to 25.

Also Thursday, the festival’s artistic director Thierry Fremaux said, “Penn represents the independent American cinema as well as a vision of America that we like.”

After three nominations, the actor finally won his best actor Oscar in 2004 for Mystic River. He also directed 2007’s critically acclaimed Into the Wild.

The self-styled Hollywood maverick (who was once married to Madonna) has never lacked for controversy. He famously paid a pre-war visit to Iraq, toured Iran in 2005 and, last year, courted controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

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It’s over for Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn — but is the actor, 47, already moving on?

Four days before she filed divorce papers in Marin County, California, on December 21, he was spotted dining on Christmas with a “very young, very attractive” brunette at San Francisco’s Café de la Presse restaurant.

“He seemed nervous and on edge,” fellow diner Rob Seide told Usmagazine.com of the actor. “He didn’t seem very happy.”

Penn originally filed divorce papers in Marin County December 7, his attorney Mindy Ross told Us, but the petition was dismissed December 18.

On December 21, Robin Wright Penn, 41, filed her own request for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Penn’s divorce papers listed November 30 as the date of their separation; she listed the split date as December 1.

The couple, who have been married for over 11 years, have two kids: Dylan Francis, 16, and Hopper Jack, 14.

“It was bound to happen,” added a source of their split. “He always seemed like a bachelor at heart and the kind of guy who just couldn’t be married for long.”

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