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STXfilms has acquired the North American and UK distribution rights to “Songbird,” the film that was shot in Los Angeles during lockdown and was produced by Michael Bay, Adam Goodman and Andrew Sugerman’s Invisible Narratives and Catchlight Films, STX and Invisible Narratives announced jointly Thursday.“Songbird” was one of the first features to film in Los Angeles since productions shut down in mid-March, and recently wrapped production.

referendum row after suggesting Scots-born voters in the rest of the UK might have a say in a second independence referendum. The senior Tory said giving people outside Scotland a say in the country’s future was an "interesting" idea.

The Dynamite has been lit and ready to explode this weekend! BTS dropped the colourful teaser of their upcoming English song Dynamite a few hours ago. RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and J-Hope looked nothing less than rockstars in the teaser.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterGlasgow-based Synchronicity Films, which has credits including ABC/BBC miniseries The Cry, is opening Melbourne-based offshoot Synchronicity Australia.Former BBC Drama Development Producer Ruth Underwood has been hired to head up the new outfit, which has locked its debut project as a TV adaptation of The Cry writer Helen FitzGerald’s upcoming noir thriller Ash Mountain.

Celebrity Snoop Dogs? Replaying all of Downton Abbey from the start? The Luminaries? Compared to some of what’s been served up lately, Derren Brown: 20 Years of Mind Control is a rich imaginative feast. The live trick at the start and the repeated vintage trick at the end weren’t available to previewers, but the clip show that makes up the meat of the evening was a 90-minute celebration of Britain’s preeminent mind control jockey.

Here’s an interesting one with a semi-interesting story. Like Netflix back in the day, HBO Max has to fill its content coffers and one way the streaming service is doing that—just like Netflix and Amazon did originally—is license previously made content and repackage it as something relatively new.

George Michael is set to be unveiled in the London borough of Brent next month, in the neighbourhood where the late singer grew up.British artist Dawn Mellor has been commissioned to create a permanent painting of the singer in Kingsbury, which is set to celebrate his iconic life and career.It will be unveiled during Brent Borough of Culture 2020, accompanied by a programme of activities and learning programmes taking place at the local schools Michael attended.The painting will form part of

Meghan Markle believed Princess Michael of Kent’s decision to wear an offensive brooch was no accident. The claim is being made in the bombshell book “Finding Freedom,” written by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand.

Nicola Sturgeon to attend UK cabinet meetings. The idea was floated by cabinet office minister Michael Gove as a way of dampening support for Scottish independence by showing that Holyrood was being listened to at Westminster on issues regarding Scotland.

NEW YORK -- An English-language edition of “Le Consentement,” a French publisher's jarring memoir about her abusive relationship as a teenager with a prominent writer in his 50s, will come out next year. HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Monday that Vanessa Springora's “Consent” will be released in the U.S.

British singer Mika, who was born in Lebanon, is sharing his thoughts on the deadly blast in Beirut that killed at least 157 people and injured thousands more.

Jamie Dornan made a virtual appearance on the British television show This Morning and gave an extensive interview!

Jamie Dornan always wanted to act in comedies. Unfortunately for the Northern Irish star, his casting as a psychopathic killer in the TV drama “The Fall” made it impossible.

Jamie Dornan doesn’t agree he’s been typecast due to his role as Christian Grey in erotic romance movie Fifty Shades Of Grey.The actor appeared on Britain’s This Morning show to promote the release of his new film Endings, Beginnings, a comedy in which he stars alongside Bridesmaids star Kristen Wiig, when he was asked by host Eamonn Holmes whether he felt typecast because of the Fifty Shades franchise.“What’s sort of great about those movies and the success they had is that they’re so unique,”

Michael Bublé is taking centre ice.