84 m. ago Johnny Depp finally speaks out about Fantastic Beasts recasting

The Hollywood actor was replaced by Mads Mikkelsen for the franchise’s third film after he was asked to resign

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95 m. ago Tadej Pogacar seals century of wins with thrilling sprint victory on stage four of the Tour de France

The world champion launched a flawless attack on the uphill sprint finish to surge clear of Mathieu van der Poel

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2 h. ago Grantchester fans 'in tears' as ITV confirms final season in shock update

Filming for Grantchester's final season is underway.

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2 h. ago Edinburgh International Film Festival Red Carpets: 34 pictures of the stars at the festival

With excitement growing ahead of this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, we’re taking a trip down memory lane.

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2 h. ago Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd uncovers major film secret in Hollywood near

The actor is famed playing David Platt in the ITV soap but things could have been very different

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2 h. ago Brit stunned to see holidaymakers reserve beach spots at 'ridiculous' time

Michelle Cranston filmed three tourists setting out a long line of deck chairs and beach brollies right in front of the shore in Benidorm, Spain at the crack of dawn

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2 h. ago Michael Douglas ‘no real intentions’ of going back to acting

The 80-year old was speaking at the Karlovy Vary international film festival for the 50th anniversary of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

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3 h. ago When was Liam Payne Netflix series filmed as heartbreaking details of new show released

Liam Payne's final TV project, Building the Band, will air on Netflix tomorrow (Wednesday 9th July) nine months after the One Direction star's tragic death in Argentina

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3 h. ago Police officer filmed kicking a suspect in the head during Manchester Airport brawl was being 'professional', court hears

Firearms officer Zachary Marsden has admitted kicking suspect Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, in the head during the fracas.

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3 h. ago Is Possession about a harrowing divorce or a woman with an octopus kink? Why not both?

Sam Neill barely made it out alive. Isabelle Adjani was left ‘bruised, inside out’. It might be puzzling, it might be brilliant, and it will never leave youGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAndrzej Żuławski’s Possession is genuinely unhinged and utterly unforgettable. Żuławski called it “a very true-to-life autobiographical story”, which it is: when he made it in 1981, his own marriage had just collapsed, and as portraits of divorce go, Possession is a pretty spectacular one. But Żuławski also once described Possession as a film about a woman who “fucks with an octopus”, which it is too.A co-production between France and West Germany that was shot in West Berlin by a Polish director, Possession opens as Mark (Sam Neill), a spy, returns home and finds that his wife, Anna (Isabelle Adjani), wants a divorce. She’s having an affair, she reveals, ostensibly with Heinrich (Heinz Bennent) – exactly the kind of lofty weirdo you’d hate your wife to dump you for. Mark reluctantly tur...

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3 h. ago Hit ITV drama axed after 11 years with fans devastated as filming starts on final series

ITV has announced hit drama series Grantchester is set to end after 11 years. Star Robson Green has spoken out over the shock decision and to thank the team behind it

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3 h. ago Man stands up to sing with pianist in park and then people notice who he is

A man was filmed performing with a pianist at a park and, while onlookers were enjoying the performance, it took them a little while to realise who started singing

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3 h. ago Camp vampires! Frisky throuples! How Stephanie Rothman became queen of the B

The director’s mastery of trashy, low-budget exploitation films like It’s a Bikini World and Group Marriage turned her into a cult icon. Now, aged 88, she’s finding out they’re more relevant than everStephanie Rothman first came across the term “exploitation” in a review of one of her own films. It was 1970, and her second solo-directed feature, The Student Nurses, a small-budget indie about trainees at an inner-city hospital, set against Los Angeles’s bubbling counterculture, was doing well at the US box office. (It eventually made more than $1m from a $150,000 budget.) Rothman was pleased but the review took her aback. It called it an “exploitation film” with “surprising depth”.Fifty-five years on and Rothman is a cult legend who fully embraces the label. “I started out with a very snobbish attitude,” she says on a video call from California. “I was shocked that’s what I was making! But as time went on, I began to appreciate what I was able to do, which was to take elements of pop...

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3 h. ago Moment British gang backed by Russian terrorists Wagner Group film themselves setting fire to London warehouse in bid to destroy vital equipment bound for Ukraine

This is the moment a gang of British men recruited as guns for hire by Russia's Wagner mercenary group firebombed a warehouse in London as part of a chilling sabotage campaign

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4 h. ago Grantchester axed after 11 years as ITV drama films emotional final series

Grantchester - starring Robson Green - has been axed after 11 years and will air one more final series as a nod to the fans, with filming already having begun

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4 h. ago 'I tried Breakfast at Tiffany's just like film but one thing was disappointing'

The 1960s classic film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, starring Audrey Hepburn, inspired one food lover to visit the flagship Tiffany store in New York City to find out what eating there is actually like

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4 h. ago Next James Bond Latest Odds: 13 leading 007 candidates as Aaron Taylor

We have a James Bond director, so now we just need a lead actor to play the iconic role.

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4 h. ago Coronation Street star Farrel Hegarty 'in tears' after 'baby joy' news gets hilariously out of hand

The actress has recently jetting off to join her partner in Australia, seemingly after wrapping up filming for the ITV soap as Lou Michaelis

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4 h. ago King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington

The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problemsI have long had mixed feelings about King Lear. I admire its cosmic grandeur and sublime poetry but balk at its structural unwieldiness and dramatic implausibility: like Coleridge, I find the spectacle of Gloucester’s suffering “unendurable” and there is something gratuitously cruel about Edgar’s refusal to reveal his identity to his father. I’ve never regretted omitting it from my book The 101 Greatest Plays yet I still remember a shocked head of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford greeting me with the words: “I hear you’ve dropped Lear.”Whatever my personal doubts, the play has a mythic quality that has appealed to dramatists, composers and film-makers including our own Peter Brook, the Russian Grigori Kozintsev and the Japanese Akira Kurosawa whose Ran is enjoying a rerelease to mark its 40th anniversary. Seeing Ran again after ...

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5 h. ago EastEnders star begged bosses to let her film during cancer battle for heartbreaking reason

EastEnders actress Heather Peace was diagnosed with breast cancer just days before filming the big scenes which saw her character Eve Unwin marry Suki Panesar

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