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Evangeline Lilly reveals concern over Hobbit role

22.09.11
Evangeline Lilly is worried about how die-hard fans will react to her role in The Hobbit... more

Dame Edna Everage to take on role of goblin in Hobbit movie

20.06.11
Dame Edna Everage is taking on a new persona - an ugly goblin in the Hobbit movie ... more

Autistic man was illegally held by council for 12 months

09.06.11
Council is found to have unlawfully detained a 21-year-old autistic man it refused to return home for a year... more

Travelex goes shopping in Brazil with a £140m deal

27.05.11
Travelex, the foreign currency supplier, is buying Brazil's largest foreign exchange business in a deal believed to be worth up to £140 million... more

Jonathan Sands is star of his own movie set

18.03.11
Three years ago Jonathan Sands opened the London Film Museum with no public funding and a truckload of movie props. Now, he tells Louise Jury, the scene is set for him to expand into the old Theatre Museum in Covent Garden... more

Clubbers won’t be prosecuted if they put their drugs in the bin

03.12.10
Clubbers caught with drugs will be able to escape prosecution by dropping them in 'amnesty bins'... more

New Zealand stands to lose £1bn from Hobbit exodus

22.10.10
New Zealand could lose as much as £1 billion if Warner Bros relocates its production of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, economists say... more

New Zealand ‘will lose Lord of Rings prequel’

21.10.10
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson threatens to move filming of the prequel away from New Zealand because of an actors’ strike... more

TfL’s Candy brothers jam at One Hyde Park has sour taste

15.09.10
City Spy: “How much longer can Candy & Candy continue to disrupt traffic in Knightsbridge with One Hyde Park?” So said City Spy in February...... more

'He was a real nice man' says taxi driver's boss

02.06.10
With two grown-up sons and a scuba diving hobby, Derrick Bird was regarded as an ordinary neighbour by those who knew him... more

Guillermo del Toro quits The Hobbit in frustration over delays

01.06.10
Guillermo del Toro has stepped down from directing two films based on The Hobbit after two years on the project amid studio delays and schedule conflicts... more

A piece of Reece Ritchie

28.05.10
We'll all be seeing a lot more of the sparkling Reece Ritchie, an actor so charismatic he starts Mexican waves wherever he goes, says Hermione Eyre... more

Heaven? It's hell in The Lovely Bones

19.02.10
Peter Jackson’s take on Alice Sebold’s bestselling novel The Lovely Bones, about a murdered girl looking back on her life, is too fantastic. ... more

Travelex poaches Lloyds boss Peter Jackson

13.01.10
Travelex has poaches Peter Jackson from Lloyds Banking Group as its chief executive... more

Celebs and royals get wet and windswept at Lovely Bones premiere

25.11.09
Video: Stars of Lovely Bones wore overcoats and used umbrellas on the red carpet at the premiere in Leicester Square.... more

Lincoln 'gamble' on giving Chris Sutton first managerial role

28.09.09
Chris Sutton was named manager of Lincoln City, with the League Two club admitting they had taken a "calculated gamble" on the former Blackburn and Chelsea striker... more

Hobbit movie is on as studio pays up to Tolkien estate

09.09.09
A film version of The Hobbit will go ahead after its producers settled a multi million-pound lawsuit with the heirs of JRR Tolkien’s estate... more

Peter Jackson does sci-fi with shellfish

04.09.09
District 9 has been marketed as Jackson’s return to his roots. And it is, in the sense that it is science fiction, and often quite bad.... more

All hell is let loose

21.08.08
Guillermo del Toro's imagination runs wild in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, a terrific summer superhero movie full of humour and invention... more

£500,000 Mr Spielberg? Sorry, I've got a date with the Beeb, says the new Dr Who writer

19.07.08
The new man in charge of Doctor Who turned down a £500,000 movie deal with Steven Spielberg so he could take the job.... more

Wizard time in Waterloo

02.05.08
With 12,000 watts of digital surround sound, the BFI Imax presents its second all-night screening of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy. ... more

Sir Ian McKellen returning to role of Gandalf

30.04.08
Sir Ian McKellen has said he will reprise his role as Gandalf in the two-film adaptation of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit ... more

South London sixth-former scores dream role as Spielberg's Tintin in multimillion dollar trilogy

28.03.08
A south London sixth-former has landed the role of Tintin in a major movie adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg. Thomas Sangster, 17, was chosen by the Oscar-winning director to star in his forthcoming film bringing the boy reporter of Belgian author Herge's comic books to life... more

Blue blistering Barnacles, it's the new Tintin

28.03.08
A south London sixth-former has landed the role of Tintin in a major movie adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg... more

Scare your children into silence

19.02.08
Can a 1000-word epic be reduced to 3 hours? Yes - provided there's a £12.5 million budget.... more

Hobbit deal is a double treat for Rings fans

19.12.07
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will make TWO movies out of JRR Tolkien's book The Hobbit, it has been confirmed.... more

Baa, baa bad sheep

19.07.07
A horror movie about a flesh-eating flock is set to be an unlikely hit. 'We were serious about making the best silly film we could,' says director Jonathan King.... more

Weisz to star in Lovely Bones film adaption

14.06.07
Rachel Weisz is to star in the film adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones.... more

Rabbit made of miraculous stuff

29.03.07
The Last Mimzy is choppily made, as if several different hands got at the editing, with two or three themes that aren't worked out properly. One to set the kids in front of and miss yourself.... more

Madonna is music's No.1 earner

29.09.06
Madonna is the highest-earning female singer in the world, figures have revealed. The mother-of-two, who turned 48 last month, is making some £26.6million a year.... more


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