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In China, even an animated antihero could not be allowed to get away with his dastardly deeds - or so censors want moviegoers to believe. They have altered the ending of the Despicable Me franchise animated film Minions: The Rise ...

An 80-year-old widow wants to restart her acting career but finds the odds stacked against her. She then burns the marital bed that she'd shared with her late husband in an attempt to rid herself of painful memories and reclaim her ...

A jury in the United States on Wednesday found Amber Heard liable for defaming her ex-husband Johnny Depp, and the judge ordered she pay him $10.35 million (roughly €10 million) in damages. The jury had recommended $15 million. The jury ...

Tributes have been paid to one of the founding members of the British electronic band Depeche Mode. Fletcher, who was 60, helped define the sound of 1980s and 90s synth-pop and alternative rock.       Andy Fletcher, keyboardist ...

"Well, the time has come," proclaimed Barbara Streisand as she read the envelope containing the name of the 2010 Oscar Award for Best Director. For the first time in the then 81-year history of the Academy Awards, a woman had ...

Glenn Close is one of the most versatile actors in Hollywood. It seems she can play anything: unscrupulous, malicious and scheming women, women scarred by life, desperate, suffering women - or even, credibly, a man. While anti-heroines are her biggest strength, she ...

Born in 1993 into a family of prominent Indian filmmakers, Alia Bhatt started acting as a child and is now a superstar of Hindi-language films. Her films Highway (2014) and Gully Boy (2019) both premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival ...

"Spotify has become the home of life-threatening COVID misinformation. Lies being sold for money," wrote singer Neil Young. In a harshly worded statement on his website, Young has now had his songs removed from the streaming platform Spotify, despite the fact ...

Nearly three months after the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the western Rust, the film's armourer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, has sued the prop supplier, claiming that live ammunition had been provided to the film crew instead of ...

A US judge on Tuesday dismissed the case of a man who as a baby was photographed naked on the cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album. The man, who was just a few months old when the photo was taken, sued the American ...

Warner Chappell Music (WCM), the publishing arm of Warner Music Group, has acquired the rights to David Bowie's entire catalogue of songs in a deal worth at least $250 million (€221 million), according to anonymous sources speaking to show business trade ...

Betty White, a star of the American television sitcom "The Golden Girls" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," died at the age of 99 on Friday. The actress was born in 1922 and was set to celebrate her 100th birthday on January ...