2 h. ago John Woodvine's An American Werewolf in London role resurfaces after star's death aged 96

The English actor appeared in more than 70 theatre productions as well as plenty of films and TV shows.

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30 h. ago ‘An unkind film’: letters reveal rift between director and writer of The Wicker Man

Exclusive: Documents show ‘hostile’ director and ‘self-indulgent’ writer were at loggerheads during production of 1973 cult horror filmA screenplay by one of the UK’s foremost writers, Anthony Shaffer, and a cast headed by Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward should have been the stuff of dreams for the director Robin Hardy in filming The Wicker Man more than half a century ago.Although it is today revered as a cult horror masterpiece, the extent of the misery that it brought the film-makers has now been revealed in previously unpublished letters and script drafts. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Shocking red: behind the scenes on classic horror Don’t Look Now – in pictures

Released in 1973, Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now is regularly acclaimed as a high point of British cinema, with its macabre plotline, atmospheric setting and brilliantly original cinematography and editing. A new book, Don’t Look Now and Then, collects hundreds of images from the film’s production, many of them previously unseen, as well as archive interviews with Roeg and and the film’s stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie• Don’t Look Now and Then by Justin John Doherty is published on 9 October and is available at DontLookNowBook.com Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Australian film producers and experts call Trump tariff proposal ‘bizarre’ and impossible to enforce

US president threatens levy on all foreign-made films, but experts point out that the industry is global and Australia is intertwined with HollywoodFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government has vowed to fight a proposed 100% tariff on Australian-made films after the US president, Donald Trump, posted on his social media platform that he planned to go ahead with the huge levy “on any and all movies made outside the United States”.Industry experts have described the proposal as bizarre and virtually impossible to enforce, given the global nature of film, with production, financing and post-production often spread across several countries. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Josh Hartnett rushed to hospital with injuries after SUV crashes into police car

Pearl Harbour actor Josh Hartnett was taken to hospital with injuries after the SUV he was travelling in collided with a police car in Newfoundland while he was returning from filming a Netflix production

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1 week ago Michelle Obama and Steven Spielberg twin in matching outfits... before she puts on unified display with Barack

Michelle and Spielberg took their friendship to the next level as they twinned in matching denim outfits while aboard his $250 million superyacht on Tuesday.

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2 w. ago Mission Alarum review – dreadful Sylvester Stallone spy thriller shames cinema itself

Donald Trump’s ‘special ambassador to Hollywood’ plays a grizzled agent in this dismal action movie Back at the beginning of the second Trump administration (which feels like the Jurassic era now), the president named Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight “special ambassadors to a great but troubled place, Hollywood, California.” No one seems to be quite sure what these ambassadorships entail or if any of that troika of right-wing fellow travellers have fulfilled any official duties. But on the evidence of this, Stallone is already letting the side down – by making a film so bad it shames American cinema itself. And it wasn’t even made in Hollywood! Instead, it was shot in Ohio (pretending, deeply unconvincingly, to be Poland), making this what’s called a runaway production, the phenomenon that is undermining Hollywood’s film-making industry.However, this cheapola would-be spy thriller is bad all on its own, whatever its politics. The idea is that secret agents Joe (Scott Ea...

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2 w. ago Barack and Michelle Obama arrive apart on Spielberg's yacht after ex

After months of swirling speculation about the state of their marriage, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have put on a rare show of unity by jetting off on a lavish getaway together.

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2 w. ago 'Steven Spielberg's best ever movie' everyone's forgotten now streaming on Amazon Prime

Empire of the Sun was released in 1987 and is based on J.G Ballard's novel of the same name. It stars Christian Bale and is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video

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3 w. ago Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: ‘Artists are liars who just make things up – but we reveal a lot’

The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his homelandSidi Larbi Cherkaoui is almost offended when I suggest he’s a busy man. “When people tell me, ‘You do so much,’ I cringe,” says the artistic director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève – the largest stage in Switzerland, with its ballet and opera companies – who runs his own company Eastman in his native city of Antwerp. He is also the creator of contemporary dance-theatre productions and a choreographer for film (Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina and Cyrano), musicals (Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill), pop (Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Madonna) and plenty more.This autumn alone, nine different works of Cherkaoui’s are being performed around the world, including An Accident/A Life, a collaboration with performer Marc Brew, about the car accident that left Brew paralysed from the neck down – “It’s maybe t...

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3 w. ago Apple TV's The Studio breaks Emmy Awards record with staggering 12 wins

The Studio, satirical cringe comedy on Apple TV about floundering film production company Continental Studios, has been praised for its humour, direction and cinematography

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3 w. ago Apple TV's The Studio breaks Emmy Awards record with staggering 13 wins

The Studio, satirical cringe comedy on Apple TV about floundering film production company Continental Studios, has been praised for its humour, direction and cinematography

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3 w. ago Steven Spielberg 'movie magic' masterpiece finally streaming for free on ITVX

Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic Jurassic Park is now available to stream for free in the UK, with the film being dubbed a 'masterpiece' by fans and critics alike

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3 w. ago 'One of the greatest films ever made' and helmed by Steven Spielberg streaming for free now

Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic Jurassic Park is now available to stream for free in the UK, with the film being dubbed a 'masterpiece' by fans and critics alike

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3 w. ago Henry Cavill injury sees production for new Highlander film postponed

Production on the reboot will likely resume in 2026, PA understands.

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3 w. ago Steven Spielberg celebrates 'awesome' 50th anniversary 'Jaws' exhibition at Academy Museum

“Jaws” is the subject of the first ever large-scale exhibit devoted to a single film at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles

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3 w. ago ‘Hollywood has everthing to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine and toothache

As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to the ‘Hollywood machine’Charlie Kaufman is in a funk. The genius screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York, the devastating Buñuelian comedy of mortality that he also directed, can’t get a movie off the ground. “I’m having great difficulty,” he sighs. “I’m not a person that people want to trust with their money. It’s very frustrating.”Earlier this year, production of a film he was preparing to make – Later the War, starring Eddie Redmayne as a manufacturer of dreams who diversifies into nightmares – was shut down in Belgrade; he hopes it will resume. To make matters worse, he sorely needs some shut-eye. “Not to get into it, but I’m not a great sleeper,” he says, reaching out of frame for his coffee. The webcam is an...

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3 w. ago ‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine and toothache

As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to the ‘Hollywood machine’Charlie Kaufman is in a funk. The genius screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York, the devastating Buñuelian comedy of mortality that he also directed, can’t get a movie off the ground. “I’m having great difficulty,” he sighs. “I’m not a person that people want to trust with their money. It’s very frustrating.”Earlier this year, production of a film he was preparing to make – Later the War, starring Eddie Redmayne as a manufacturer of dreams who diversifies into nightmares – was shut down in Belgrade; he hopes it will resume. To make matters worse, he sorely needs some shut-eye. “Not to get into it, but I’m not a great sleeper,” he says, reaching out of frame for his coffee. The webcam is an...

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3 w. ago Steven Spielberg reflects on Jaws at 50: ‘I thought my career was over’

Director, marking new exhibition in LA, tells of chaotic filming – and says he’s ‘never seen so much vomit in my life’Before Jaws became a cinematic classic, and the very first American “summer blockbuster”, director Steven Spielberg thought the 1975 film would be the last one he would be allowed to make.Spielberg, who was just 26, had decided to shoot his second film, a thriller about a killer shark, on location on the east coast island of Martha’s Vineyard. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Steven Spielberg ‘thought his career was over’ halfway through film’s production

Director says he was told he would ‘never get hired again’

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