56 h. ago ALISON BOSHOFF: Cinematic Beatles extravaganza should have fans screaming. Just one problem: the actors may be the hottest on the planet, but none is exactly a dead ringer for the star they play

The Beatles - as we all know - were the biggest and bestselling band in history. From the minute they burst on to the scene in 1962, with Love Me Do, they changed the face of music for ever.

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58 h. ago John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison deserve their own biopics. But not Ringo Starr, he isn't on the same creative level, says PHILIP NORMAN

It's often wearing to be the Beatles ' biographer. Such is the enduring fascination of the Fab Four that at parties, rather like a doctor, I try to keep my occupation a secret, writes PHILIP NORMAN.

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58 h. ago ALISON BOSHOFF: Cinematic Beatles extravaganza should have fans screaming. Just one problem: the actors may be the hottest on the planet, but none is exactly a dead ringer for the star they play  

The Beatles - as we all know - were the biggest and bestselling band in history. From the minute they burst on to the scene in 1962, with Love Me Do, they changed the face of music for ever.

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69 h. ago Next James Bond Odds April 2025: The 13 actors tipped to play 007

The superman star has become favourite years after first being tipped to take on the iconic role.

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2 d. ago The Beatles: everything you need to know about the actors as Fab Four cast unveiled for biopics

British director Sam Mendes has announced the cast for his upcoming series of Beatles biopics due to be released in 2028 - but who are the actors?

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3 d. ago The actors who will play The Beatles: Inside the new Fab Four

The films will have an April 2028 release date.

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3 d. ago Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan confirmed as among four stars of Beatles movies

British actor Harris Dickinson will play John Lennon while Mescal’s Gladiator II co-star Joseph Quinn portrays George Harrison.

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3 d. ago Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan confirmed among four stars of Beatles movies

British actor Harris Dickinson will play John Lennon while Mescal’s Gladiator II co-star Joseph Quinn portrays George Harrison.

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3 d. ago The Beatles: Fab Four actors revealed for Sam Mendes biopic movies

Each film will focus on a different member of the Fab Four

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3 d. ago The Beatles: actors playing the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’ biopics announced

All four Beatles biopics, focusing on each member of the band, will be released in cinemas in April 2028The cast of Sam Mendes’ four upcoming Beatles biopics has been officially announced, with Harris Dickinson playing John Lennon, Paul Mescal playing Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan playing Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn playing George Harrison.Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of films including American Beauty, 1917 and Skyfall, made a surprise appearance on stage with his Fab Four at CinemaCon, an annual industry event for Hollywood, in Las Vegas on Monday night. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago ‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

The actor and director on why The Return took 30 years to make, their joy at persuading Juliette Binoche to join them – and the punishing regime that earned Fiennes his battle-scarred physiqueUberto Pasolini likes to say he has been thinking about adapting The Odyssey for 30 years – 10 years longer than it took Odysseus to win the Trojan war. A nephew of the director Luchino Visconti, the 67-year-old Italian film-maker has lived in London for 50 years. Pasolini, who won a Bafta for producing The Full Monty, first approached Ralph Fiennes to play Odysseus in 2011, after the actor had made his directorial debut with Coriolanus, believing Fiennes might also be able to direct the film.They got as far as a location scout in Turkey, where Fiennes, then about to play Prospero in a Trevor Nunn production of The Tempest, practised his “Such stuff as dreams are made on” speech in an abandoned outdoor amphitheatre at dusk. “It was me and two goats,” recalls Pasolini over a video chat. “I get t...

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8 d. ago Long lost 1962 Beatles demo that led to Fab 4 being turned down

Jack Herschorn said he got the tape in London in 1968 or 1969 but hadn’t listened to it.

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9 d. ago Harry Potter fans react to Hagrid casting after panic over 'god awful' choices

The forthcoming Harry Potter HBO series has found the actor who will play half-giant Rubeus Hagrid.

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9 d. ago Harry Potter TV series casts Hagrid after fans spot clues to actor's identity

The forthcoming Harry Potter HBO series has found the actor who will play half-giant Rubeus Hagrid.

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9 d. ago Ambika Mod to play porn addict in ‘funny, unsettling and honest’ play at the Royal Court

The One Day actor will star in Sophia Chetin-Leuner’s Porn Play, one of four new premieres announced by the London theatreAmbika Mod is to star as an academic addicted to violent pornography in a new play at the Royal Court in London. Mod, best known for her screen performances in One Day and This Is Going to Hurt, will take on her highest profile theatre role to date in Porn Play, written by Sophia Chetin-Leuner and directed by Josie Rourke.Billed as “funny, unsettling and honest”, it opens in November at the Royal Court’s smaller Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. Chetin-Leuner, whose play This Might Not Be It was set in a mental health unit and staged at the Bush last year, said: “Ever since I was a teenager, going to see plays at the Royal Court has shaped my ideals and purpose of who I want to be as a writer – so it’s a terrifying privilege to have Porn Play debuting here.” The play was shortlisted for Soho theatre’s Verity Bargate award in 2022. Chetin-Leuner said she began writing it ...

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1 week ago Ryan Thomas nearly cried after being welcomed ‘home’ by Corrie security man

The 40-year-old British actor has returned to the ITV soap to play builder Jason Grimshaw after nearly a decade off the cobbles.

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2 w. ago Joni Mitchell streams surge after Amanda Seyfried’s viral ‘California’ cover on Jimmy Fallon

Actor recently debunked reports that she was ‘auditioning’ to play the legendary Canadian artist in Cameron Crowe’s forthcoming biopic

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2 w. ago Who is in the cast of Virdee? BBC actors and who they play in crime drama

Virdee features Game of Thrones actors and plenty of other recognisable names 📺

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3 w. ago ‘I demand to have some booze!’: how do actors fake being drunk or on drugs?

From The White Lotus to Industry, hedonism is everywhere on TV at the moment. Actors, and the ‘wellbeing facilitators’ tasked with keeping them safe, reveal the trick to acting under the influence“Iam not a big drinker, I don’t do drugs, I don’t smoke,” says Sagar Radia, best known as the ruthless, potty-mouthed trader Rishi Ramdani in the HBO/BBC banking saga Industry. “But when friends and family watch, they’re like: ‘You look like you do know what you’re doing.’”Nowhere was this more the case than in season three’s White Mischief, an episode focused entirely on the character’s grim descent into gambling addiction, inflamed by booze and cocaine. Previously described by a colleague as “the ghost of Margaret Thatcher in a handsome Asian kid”, here Rishi starts to look more like a disgraced Tory MP in the 90s, as he binges on shots and coke in a seedy casino. At first he’s euphoric – dancing like a drunk uncle at a wedding – but soon his behaviour becomes erratic, his movements ...

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3 w. ago Harry Potter fans point out a major problem with casting Paapa Essiedu as Snape after coming to his defence following racist backlash

British actor Paapa Essiedu, 34, has reportedly been 'offered to play Severus Snape' in the new TV series adaption of Harry Potter - but fans have pointed out a huge problem with the casting.

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