5 h. ago 15 terrible movies directed by great actors, from Jodie Foster’s The Beaver to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ

Remember the time Chris Evans spent his Marvel hiatus directing a romantic comedy? Of course you don’t – because it was one in a long lineage of speedily forgotten flops directed by overly indulged movie stars, writes Tom Fordy

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26 h. ago ‘He threatened my career’: 22 actors who didn’t get along with their directors

Adam White lists just some of the times actors and directors couldn’t stand each other

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43 h. ago Harvey Fierstein, on eve of Tony honor, looks back on his career

Last year, Broadway actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein handed director Jack O’Brien the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

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4 d. ago Clint Eastwood calls viral interview a fabrication: ‘Completely phony’

The actor and director claims that an Austrian newspaper invented a recent interview with himClint Eastwood has released a statement to claim a recent interview with him is a fabrication.Quotes from an alleged interview with the Oscar-winning actor and director had gone viral over the weekend and were picked up by a number of sites. Yet Eastwood has now said that he never spoke to anyone from German-language Austrian newspaper Kurier. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Clint Eastwood calls viral interview a fabrication: ‘Entirely phony’

The actor and director claims that an Austrian newspaper invented a recent interview with himClint Eastwood has released a statement to claim a recent interview with him is a fabrication.Quotes from an alleged interview with the Oscar-winning actor and director had gone viral over the weekend and were picked up by a number of sites. Yet Eastwood has now said that he never spoke to anyone from German-language Austrian newspaper Kurier. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Director and footy legend among celebs in Sudan plea over 'largest humanitarian crisis'

Director Steve McQueen, actor Will Poulter and England footballer Lucy Bronze are among the celebs to have signed a letter urging the government to take greater action to combat the ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’

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9 d. ago Stylist testifies that ‘frightened’ Cassie Ventura wanted to jump off hotel balcony to escape Diddy

Deonte Nash told jurors about how the music mogul threatened, abused and controlled Ventura’s life and career

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1 week ago The Salt Path review – Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs hike from ruin to renewal

Marianne Elliott directs this affecting drama, based on Raynor Winn’s memoir, which builds steadily as the couple journey towards redemptionThis film gives cinema one of the most nail-biting scenes of the year so far: an edge-of-the-seat moment as Gillian Anderson puts her bank card into a cash machine. Is there enough money in the account? Everything is at stake. This impressive, intelligent drama is an adaptation of Raynor Winn’s memoir about walking the South West Coast Path from Somerset to Dorset, with her husband, Moth. Unlike other hikers, the couple were not walking for pleasure – at least not to begin with. They had nowhere else to go after losing their farm. From theatre director Marianne Elliott, it stars two fancy actors – Anderson and Jason Isaacs – both giving lovely, emotional, low-key performances.In flashback we see the bailiffs banging at the door, evicting the couple, who are in their 50s, from the home in which they raised their kids, now flown the nest to univer...

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1 week ago Kevin Costner and Horizon producers sued by stunt performer over ‘violent unscripted’ rape scene

Devyn LaBella is suing the actor-director and the producers of his film Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 alleging breach of contract, with Costner denying all allegationsA stunt performer is suing Kevin Costner and the producers of his film Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2, alleging that she was made to perform in a “violent” unscripted rape scene without the required notice, consent or a mandatory intimacy coordinator present.Devyn LaBella was the lead stunt double for Ella Hunt, who plays Juliette in the Horizon films, a four-part western anthology written, directed by and starring Costner. LaBella’s lawsuit, filed in California on Tuesday, alleges that on 2 May 2023 Costner improvised a scene in which Juliette would be raped, one day after Hunt and LaBella filmed a scripted scene in which Juliette was raped by a different character. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six’: Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom

Best known as Hawkeye in the TV series M*A*S*H, the 89-year-old actor, director and writer has another hit on his hands with a revamp of his 1981 movie The Four Seasons. He talks about his Parkinson’s disease, Woody Allen – and what he really thinks of Donald TrumpAlan Alda never expected this. The 89-year-old is back topping the charts with an update of his film The Four Seasons. In 1981, Alda wrote, directed and starred in the movie about three inseparable couples who holiday together every quarter until divorce, envy and angst intervene.Now the film has been turned into a TV series by Tina Fey, with Alda as a producer and, at the time of writing, it is the fourth most watched show on Netflix. “It’s really interesting to have my work appeal to a new generation of very smart writers,” he tells me on a video call from New York. What gave him even more pleasure was watching a screening of the original movie a couple of weeks ago. “The people were laughing at the same things they were...

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2 w. ago Jeff Margolis dead: Oscar and Emmy award director who worked with Frank Sinatra dies

Award-winning TV producer Jeff Margolis, who was also the director of the Oscars, Emmys and Screen Actors Guild Awards, has died at the age of 78

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2 w. ago Spike Lee says Highest 2 Lowest is his last film with Denzel Washington

Director says his fifth movie with the actor will probably be their last project together as Washington ‘has been talking about retirement’The collaboration between Spike Lee and Denzel Washington has spanned four decades and tackled many aspects of African American life. But Lee feels their latest venture, the kidnap drama Highest 2 Lowest, will probably be the duo’s swansong.“This is the fifth one we’ve done together,” Lee said after the picture’s premiere at the Cannes film festival. “It has been a blessing, this body of work between us, doing films that people love. And I think this is it. He’s been talking about retirement. But five films together: that’s good, they stand up.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Wes Anderson says Gene Hackman was ‘furious’ about his Royal Tenenbaums salary: ‘We had friction’

Director admitted he and the late actor had a tense relationship while filming the 2001 comedy drama

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2 w. ago ‘Fight back and don’t let them win’: actor Pedro Pascal decries Trump’s attacks on artists

Comments at Cannes come after US president’s social media posts against Bruce Springsteen and Taylor SwiftPedro Pascal has sharply criticised Donald Trump’s attacks against artists, as the director of a conspiracy theory satire starring the actor said he feared the political messages of films could be weaponised by US border guards.“Fuck the people that try to make you scared,” the Game of Thrones and The Last of Us actor said at a press conference at the Cannes film festival, promoting Ari Aster’s new film Eddington. “And fight back. And don’t let them win.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Julia Stiles reveals she had a ‘hard time’ with controversial director David O Russell

George Clooney is among those to have spoken out against the director, who was previously caught on camera berating actor Lily Tomlin

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3 w. ago Giro d’Italia: Ayuso pounces for first Grand Tour stage as Roglic takes pink

Spanish rider wins stage seven after first summit finishRoglic has pink jersey after late charge to take fourth spotPrimoz Roglic pulled on the pink jersey after stage seven of the Giro d’Italia but Juan Ayuso underlined his credentials as his main challenger by snatching victory in Tagliacozzo.Ayuso (UAE-Team Emirates) had the power to break clear from a select group of favourites in the final few hundred metres of the 12km climb to the finish. His teammate, Mexican rider Isaac Del Toro, came second. The 2021 Giro winner, Egan Bernal (Ineos), took a hugely encouraging third place after an attacking ride three years on from a career-threatening crash. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Kristen Stewart says Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry is ‘terrifying’

The actor who is making her directorial debut with The Chronology of Water at the Cannes film festival says ‘we should expect the worst and fight for the best’ Kristen Stewart has described President Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry as “terrifying” and said that “we should expect the worst”.In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter as her feature directing debut The Chronology of Water screened at the Cannes film festival, Stewart said: “We’re living in a world that’s folding in on itself by the split second we’re all looking over our shoulders going: ‘Holy shit.’ The slippage is just terrifying.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Clint Eastwood turns 95 this month...see how Hollywood's ultimate tough guy looks now

Legendary tough guy actor and director Clint Eastwood is waging the one battle even he can't win.

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3 w. ago Gérard Depardieu found guilty of sexually assaulting two women

French actor, 76, convicted of assaulting set dresser and assistant director during film shoot in Paris in 2021Gérard Depardieu has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two women during a film shoot in 2021 and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence.Depardieu, France’s biggest film star who has made more than 200 films and TV series, is the highest-profile figure in the French film industry to be convicted of sexual assault since the #MeToo movement. His name will be added to the sex offender register in France, the judge ruled. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Actor who starred in Leonardo DiCaprio film dies aged 45 as cause of death revealed

Samuel French, who starred in the hit movie Killers of the Flower Moon, has died at the age of 45 as his close friend and director of his final film paid tribute to the actor

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