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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Frears (left) will direct Quiz, based on the ‘coughing scandal’ involving former army Major Charles Ingram (right) Stephen Frears is to direct a forthcoming adaptation of James Graham’s Quiz for ITV, the BBC understands. The acclaimed director has been approached by independent television production company Left Bank Pictures. Twice […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption David V. Picker began his film career in 1956 with United Artists Studio exec David V. Picker, who gave The Beatles their big screen debut, has died aged 87. Picker, who served as the head of United Artists, Paramount and Columbia for more than half a century, died at

Image copyright Facebook A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of T2 Trainspotting actor Bradley Welsh outside his Edinburgh home. Mr Welsh, 48, died after being shot on the steps of his basement apartment in Chester Street on Wednesday in a “targeted attack”. Police said Mr Welsh had been returning home from

Image copyright EPA Image caption John Singleton became the first African-American nominated for a best director Oscar Oscar-nominated director John Singleton – known for films including Boyz n The Hood and his remake of detective movie Shaft – is in intensive care after suffering a stroke. A family statement confirmed the influential film-maker fell ill

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Brie Larson and fan at the Avengers: Endgame premiere The purple carpet was rolled out for the star-studded Avengers cast in Los Angeles on Monday at the premiere of Endgame. The latest Marvel movie is the last in their epic 22 film series; the industry’s highest-grossing franchise of all

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The star rarely spoke about his childhood or motivations for making music in his lifetime The Beautiful Ones, an unfinished memoir by the pop star Prince, is due to be released in October. Fifty handwritten pages, which Prince submitted a month before his death, will form the basis of

A giant 22ft high (6.7m) baby which stands taller than a double-decker bus has been installed at Halifax Piece Hall ahead of an outdoor production about a mother’s fight for her child. The mechanical puppet, which takes nine people to operate, is set to be the centrepiece of a show which will feature a cast

Image copyright Universal Image caption Moretz as the warm-hearted yet naive Frances in Greta US actress Chloë Grace Moretz knows a thing or two about LGBT education. Growing up in the conservative Christian town of Rome, Georgia, two of her brothers felt they had to “pray the gay away” before coming out. That led to

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Sophie Gradon was crowned Miss Newcastle and Miss Great Britain in 2009 A former beauty queen and Love Island star took cocaine and alcohol and then killed herself, an inquest has found. Star of the ITV2 dating show Sophie Gradon hanged herself at her family home in Medburn, Ponteland

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ken Loach has previously won the festival’s Palme d’Or prize British filmmaker Ken Loach’s new movie will premiere at Cannes next month, in what the film festival’s director Thierry Fremaux has described as a “highly political” year. Loach, 82, who won the Palme d’Or prize in 2016 with I,