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Creature is worst-performing movie ever

15.09.11
Horror film Creature opened in 1,507 US cinemas over the weekend, but each screening was seen by an average of just three people... more

The law-abiding masses look on in quiet despair

09.08.11
Shortly before he died Mark Duggan sent a message to his girlfriend: "The Feds are following me." This piece of urban slang presumably derives from the American FBI... more

City Spy: Peter Mandelson in muddle over Kazakh cash

09.12.10
Lord Mandelson is fully entitled to tout his services on the after-dinner circuit, but his obsequious praise for his hosts at a dinner held by Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund has raised a few eyebrows... more

Screen icon Tony Curtis dies, aged 85

30.09.10
Tony Curtis, the Hollywood idol whose star turn with Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot became the stuff of screen legend, has died at 85... more

Boris Johnson has wizard plan for a London Harry Potter park

07.06.10
Flying broomsticks, dragons and magic spells could soon come to London if Boris Johnson's wishes for a Harry Potter theme park in the capital are granted... more

John Barrowman 'humbled' by trip to Desperate Housewives set

11.05.10
Desperate Housewives star John Barrowman said he had a "humbling moment" the first time he walked down the street where the hit show is filmed.... more

Russell Crowe, Russell Crowe, riding through the glen

30.04.10
The script for a new film about Robin Hood was such a hot property that it sparked a bidding war between three studios. Lee Marshall reports on an everyday Hollywood story.... more

Nanny McPhee invites public behind scenes at film studios

09.03.10
Film-lovers can explore the studios where the St Trinian’s and James Bond movies are made as part of the first London Film Day.... more

Universal fretting about Bruno's wet weekend

13.07.09
Hollywood executives at Universal Pictures were fretting this morning as weekend box-office sales figures for Sacha Baron Cohen's movie Bruno disappointed expectations in the all-important US market ... more

Hollywood shout is 'cut' on pay for stars

02.04.09
Even Hollywood’s hottest stars are being hit by the credit crunch... more

£69m Mamma Mia! razes Titanic

16.12.08
Mamma Mia! has beaten Titanic to become the highest grossing film ever released in the UK.... more

Gordon Ramsay: 'Posh and I are opening an LA restaurant together'

05.09.08
It is the most unlikely of culinary partnerships, a stick-thin Spice Girl who loves edamame beans and a short-fused chef who hates 'food snobs'.... more

Posh's A-list pals give little Romeo Beckham a party fit for a Hollywood hero

05.09.08
Hollywood's next generation turned out to celebrate Romeo Beckham's 6th birthday in LA yesterday.... more

Top Ten Retail DVDs

29.08.08
This week's most rented DVD is Never Back Down ... more

Has Robbie Coltrane healed his broken heart?

20.08.08
Slave that he is to his Celtic genes, Robbie Coltrane returned from his holidays this week with little evidence to show for three weeks in sun-soaked California.... more

Flipping Shrek! Robbie Coltrane has no trouble morphing into another enormous role

13.08.08
He is most famous for playing the giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films. But Robbie Coltrane has slipped into the role of another generously proportioned screen character.... more

DVDs of the week

01.07.08
Be Kind Rewind has a lot of heart, Mad Men is a pitch that's hard to refuse and The Other Boleyn Girl is not what you'd expect.... more

Lindsay Lohan wins most embarrassing wardrobe malfunction as Young Hollywood turn out at MTV Movie Awards

02.06.08
Lindsay Lohan led the Young Hollywood charge on the red carpet at the MTV Movie Awards last night, only to collect the unofficial award for most embarrassing wardrobe malfunction after being caught off guard by a gust of wind.... more

DVDs of the week

29.04.08
World War II-era spy thriller Lust, Caution is exquisite on every level, St Trinian's is a surprisingly jolly comedy and Out Of The Blue lives up to the title.... more

DVDs of the week

01.04.08
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, starring Brad Pitt, The Nines and Black Sheep are amongst the DVDs out this week.... more

DVDs of the week

18.03.08
Catch the outstanding Into The Wild and a CGI Ray Winstone slaying beasts and bedding women in Beowulf, among this week's top DVDs.... more

DVDs of the week

05.02.08
World War II romance in Atonement, Jamie Bell as a creepy misfit in Hallam Foe and Richard Gere stars in The Hoax.... more

DVDs of the week

29.01.08
Pistol-packing performances in 3.10 To Yuma, gross-out comedy in The Heartbreak Kid, and super-charged action in The Kingdom.... more

DVDs of the week

27.11.07
Marion Cotillard is the star turn in La Vie En Rose, dandyesque comic Russell Brand plays Hackney and a documentary on T.Rex's Marc Bolan.... more

DVDs of the week

20.11.07
John Travolta squeezes into a fat suit in Hairspray and Mark Thomas relights your political ire in the DVDs of the week.... more

DVDs of the week

28.02.07
This week's top releases include Oscar winner Andrea Arnold's first feature, a French and Saunders series, and a bonkers Japanese exploitation flick.... more

DVDs of the week

20.02.07
This week's DVD releases include the Oscar nominated The Departed, the sequel to 1994 nerd-a-thon Clerks, and 'cult gem' Hawk The Slayer.... more

Crowe to play Sheriff of Nottingham

02.02.07
Hollywood star Russell Crowe is set to play the Sheriff of Nottingham in a new Robin Hood film. The movie, called Nottingham, will be a "revisionist" take on the age-old story.... more

DVDs of the week

16.01.07
Gritty sc-fi Children of Men, audience-dividing fantasy Lady In The Water and the definitive version of Rocky are among the week's best DVD releases.... more

Ecological with the truth

02.01.07
Al Gore uses his skills and clout to try to stop global warming in An Inconvenient Truth, Adrift proves to be one of 2006's finest psychological nail-biters and Crank is Speed without the bus.... more


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