54 h. ago Rivals stars Emily Atack and Alexander Hassell lead cast paying tribute to 'wonderful and divine Queen' Jilly Cooper following her death aged 88 after her racy novels inspired the hit Disney+ show

The novellist, whose book of the same name inspired the hit Disney+ series, died after a fall, her family announced on Monday.

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55 h. ago Rivals stars Danny Dyer and Victoria Smurfit lead cast paying tribute to 'divine Queen' Jilly Cooper following her death aged 88 after her racy novels inspired the hit Disney+ show

The novellist, whose book of the same name inspired the hit Disney+ series, died after a fall, her family announced on Monday.

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61 h. ago I Swear: Scot with Tourettes whose life inspired hit film visits cinema for first time in 40 years

John Davidson’s life inspired film I Swear

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5 d. ago A new Halloween outdoor cinema is bringing iconic spooky movies to London

A new Halloween outdoor cinema is bringing iconic spooky movies to London  Time Out Worldwide

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6 d. ago Why you should visit the Yorkshire village that feels like stepping into a film set

With cobbled streets and old, characterful stone buildings, there's a Yorkshire village that feels just like stepping into a film set. 

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2 w. ago Wigtown Book Festival: Visitors will get chance to feature in brand new film, as Nicola Sturgeon attends

The Wigtown Book Festival will start on Friday.

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2 w. ago From chronic pain to the catwalk — how Jean Campbell became the darling of London Fashion Week

At one point the model couldn’t walk, let alone strut down a catwalk — now she balances superstardom with a chronic condition and, through her hit podcast I’m Fine, inspires others to face their fears too

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3 w. ago Robert Redford: the incandescently handsome star who changed Hollywood forever

Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89, began as a blond bombshell at a time when American cinema favoured grit, then turned into a supremely assured director and unlikely keeper of the indie flameRobert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89 – newsRobert Redford – a life in picturesTributes paid to Robert Redford – latest updatesAs the 1960s turned into the 1970s, it wasn’t cool for star actors to be good-looking. The style was more a scuffed, grizzled, bleary, sweaty, paunchy and shlubby realness. The fashion was for leading men like Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen. Even a very beautiful man like Paul Newman had a kind of rugged, daylit quality. But Robert Redford was very different. Here was a supremely beautiful movie star who went on to direct, produce and then be the guardian and gatekeeper of commercial-indie US cinema at his Sundance Institute. And he was always an outlier.When movie audiences thrilled to George Roy Hill’s western Butch Cassidy and ...

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3 w. ago Tinseltown takeover: how Harry Potter fanfic has become Hollywood’s hottest property

What once seemed a pretty fringe subculture of hobbyists riffing on stories that got them privately hot is now bringing mainstream cinema to a rolling boilThere was a time when fan fiction meant furtive scribbles uploaded to shadowy corners of the internet, in which Mr Darcy was recast as a moody vampire flatmate, Captain Kirk discovered his inner romantic, or Gandalf finally got around to opening an artisanal shop in the Shire. It was an underground hobby that could never trouble Tinseltown’s accountants. And yet here we are in 2025, with the news in the Hollywood Reporter that Legendary Pictures has just paid at least $3m – (£2.2m) – an unprecedented amount – for the screen rights to a forthcoming novel called Alchemised that began life as an unauthorised and kinky Harry Potter spin-off.The backstory behind Alchemised, by SenLinYu, sounds pretty freaky. SenLinYu’s original book, titled Manacled, inhabited a strange sub-niche of Potterverse named “Dramione” in which Hermione Grange...

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last month Cillian Murphy has perfect response to playing part in inspiring hit Hozier song

Cillian Murphy has been confirmed as the inspiration behind one of Hozier's biggest songs, but the Peaky Blinders star didn't seem all that fussed about his hand in the song

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last month Noel Gallagher's mystery woman who inspired hit song surprises him on Oasis tour

Photographer, Melissa Lim, is credited with persuading Noel Gallagher to stay with Oasis after the star had a major fallout with his brother, Liam, in 1994

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