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Black comedy Promising Young Woman, one of the frontrunners for this year’s Oscars, is the story of a woman avenging the rape of her best friend. But as well as being part of the awards conversation – along with five Academy Award nods it has six BAFTA nominations and a heap of gongs already won

Promising Young Woman, Sound Of Metal, Nomadland – no doubt you’ve heard a lot of buzz about these films as Hollywood’s biggest night of the year approaches. However, with cinemas closed for the majority of the last 12 months due to the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, many release dates have been pushed back – so a

Britney Spears has officially asked a judge to permanently end her father’s control over her finances and personal life. The singer, 39, has been subject to a court-ordered conservatorship since 2008 after suffering two mental breakdowns. This means her father Jamie Spears, 68, has been in charge of all her financial and personal affairs ever

For most theatres, their auditoriums have not seen an audience since March 2020. Online shows, such as Rent, A Christmas Carol and Mischief Movie Night, have brought delight to theatre fans during the lockdown, showing off the diversity of the sector as it attempted to navigate the pandemic. And while online performances have kept us

Johnny Depp has been refused permission to appeal a High Court ruling that he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard and made her fear for her life. In November, three months after the end of a high-profile trial, the judge rejected Depp‘s claim that The Sun newspaper had libelled the actor in a 2018 article calling

The debut of new film Death on the Nile has been pushed back to 2022, Disney says, amid more changes to the company’s release schedule. Cruella, Marvel’s Black Panther and Pixar’s Luca have also seen their release dates move, as the company continues to navigate the pandemic and shift more of its content online. The

Actor George Segal, best known for starring in US sitcom The Goldbergs, has died at the age of 87. Segal, who was Oscar-nominated for 1966 black comedy-drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, died on Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California. His wife Sonia Segal said: “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal

A Banksy original offering an “image of hope” during the pandemic has sold for a record £16.8m, auction house Christie’s has said – with the proceeds going to health charities. The anonymous artist’s Game Changer work appeared at Southampton Hospital as a thank you to staff during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis. While

Actress Rebel Wilson has said she injured her ankle on a bike ride in London after a dog ran into her path. The Australian star of Pitch Perfect, 41, shared a picture to her Instagram story showing her ankle propped up with ice on it. She captioned it: “F*** people who don’t have their dogs

Britons Emerald Fennell and Sacha Baron Cohen were among the winners at the Writers Guild Awards, in a major boost to their Oscars hopes. Fennell walked away with the prize for best original screenplay for her film, Promising Young Woman – her directorial debut. She won over the likes of Aaron Sorkin, who wrote The

Made In Chelsea star Ollie Locke has revealed he is planning on having a baby via a surrogate with his husband Gareth. The couple married at London’s Natural History Museum last year, just days before England’s second coronavirus lockdown began. Locke, 33, made the announcement on Instagram, along with a picture by Mexican pop artist

Proposals have been submitted for a concert at the Glastonbury festival site this autumn. The news comes after it was announced in January that the festival had been cancelled for a second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic. But festival organiser Emily Eavis said in a post on Instagram that an application

There will be no Zoom calls at the Oscars, organisers have said, telling nominees they will accept any awards won by artists who don’t make it to the ceremony, while hoodies are definitely out. In a letter sent to nominees and published by US showbiz website Deadline, the show’s producers said: “For those of you

Police in Los Angeles have launched an investigation into an allegation of rape made against Hollywood actor Armie Hammer. The US star has denied any wrongdoing. The confirmation from detectives came moments after a 24-year-old woman appeared at a news conference and alleged she had been raped and assaulted by the star in 2017. The

Johnny Depp’s libel case has been back in court once again – with the star applying for permission to appeal the High Court ruling that he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard. Depp had sued The Sun’s publishers NGN Newspapers over a 2018 column calling him a “wife beater” in relation to allegations made by Heard,

Amber Heard told a “calculated and manipulative lie” when she claimed she donated her $7m (£5.5m) divorce settlement to charity, Johnny Depp’s lawyers have told the Court of Appeal. Depp, 57, is trying to overturn a damning High Court libel case ruling that he assaulted his ex-wife and put her in fear for her life,