28 h. ago Actor playing Dumbledore in HBO Harry Potter remake breaks silence after fan backlash

John Lithgow is set to play Albus Dumbledore in the upcoming HBO TV show Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix and he has spoken about the backlash he has faced

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3 d. ago Revealed: Taylor Swift is set to play Whitney Houston role in The Bodyguard remake... as insiders reveal hopes for Hollywood's biggest star to be her love interest

It spawned the best-selling soundtrack album of all time and cemented Whitney Houston's reputation as a global icon. 

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4 d. ago The Wedding Banquet review – muddled gay comedy remake plays it too straight

Fire Island director Andrew Ahn’s update of Ang Lee’s seminal 1993 film works hard to differentiate itself but it’s awkwardly stuck between serious and sillyMany remakes are utterly pointless, whether they’re disregarding what made a movie good or interesting in the first place, or paying such slavish homage that a second version becomes redundant, rather than a worthy variation. If nothing else, the contemporary reconfiguration of The Wedding Banquet passes the remake test handily. Ang Lee’s original 1993 film is about a bisexual Taiwanese immigrant, living happily with his male partner, who hastily arranges a lavish (and, emotionally speaking, fake) wedding to a woman to please his visiting parents; director/co-writer Andrew Ahn, who shares screenplay credit with original co-writer James Schamus, relocates the story from 1993 Manhattan to 2025 Seattle, and contends with a whole different set of social rules and actual laws in the process.Ahn is so acutely aware of how times have c...

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5 d. ago In 'The Wedding Banquet,' a queer landmark is reborn for today

Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet” is the most personal of remakes

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5 d. ago A sultan’s banquet, Holy Week and Welsh gold: photos of the day – Wednesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Green Day at Coachella review – fun but muddled set pokes fun at American Idiots

Empire Polo Club, Indio, CaliforniaThe weekend’s legacy headliner offered some cathartic punk pop rebellion but the awkward setlist lacked coherence and thoughtCoachella, for the most part, presents a welcome escape from the world – 10-plus hours of live music a day in a corporate-lite fantasy land, time delineated only by set lists and tents. But if there was one band who could speak to our political moment, as they unfortunately but necessarily say – who could bring the feeling of resistance, if not actual change, to the desert – it would be Green Day, the American punk band whose seminal record American Idiot stuck a middle finger to the Bush administration in 2004. Though the album is in fact more rock opera of sweeping adolescent feeling than political commentary, the opportunity for concert catharsis, if not actual change, is high; it’s a historically excellent time to scream along to “don’t want to be an American Idiot.”Catharsis was intermittently on hand during Green Day’s ...

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1 week ago King hails ‘truly special’ wedding anniversary meal at state banquet

Charles noted Rome’s considerable influence on British history.

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1 week ago Charles meets premier Giorgia Meloni on third day of state visit to Italy

Later the King and Queen will spend their 20th wedding anniversary evening as guests of honour at a state banquet in Rome.

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1 week ago King and Queen to spend 20th wedding anniversary at state banquet in Rome

Charles and Camilla first met in 1970, but were not married until 2005.

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2 w. ago Italian state banquet marks King Charles and Queen Camilla’s wedding anniversary

The event is part of the couple’s four-day state visit to the country

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2 w. ago Charles and Camilla to enjoy Italian state banquet on wedding anniversary

The head of state and his consort wed in a civil ceremony at Windsor Guildhall on April 9 2005.

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