Andy Burnham faces off against Avanti boss as he accepts 'service has not been good enough'

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Roses are red, violets are blue, two new movies will open in theaters on Valentine’s Day, but neither are expected to break through. Paramount’s musical biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” is projected to collect $30 million to $35 million between Wednesday and President’s Day on Monday. Those ticket sales should be enough to lead over Sony’s comic book adventure “Madame Web,” which looks to generate $22 million to $25 million during the same six-day period.

“Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy rips into his 2005 movie “Red Eye” in GQ magazine’s latest March cover story.“I love Rachel McAdams and we had fun making it,” Murphy told GQ. “But I don’t think it’s a good movie. It’s a good B movie.”In the psychological thriller, directed by Wes Craven, Murphy plays Jackson Rippner, who’s seated next to Lisa Reisert (McAdams) on a red-eye flight from Dallas to Miami — and whose evil terrorist intentions are revealed once the plane takes off when he tells her he’s going to assassinate the US deputy head of Homeland Security.“When I was a younger actor, I was really, really hard on everything that I was in,” said Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”).

Andy Burnham has backed calls for a VAT cut for pubs, restaurants and clubs. The Greater Manchester mayor told an audience at the Night Time Economy Summit on Thursday (February 8) that he wants VAT to be reduced to 10 per cent for the hospitality industry.

Night buses will be rolled out in parts of Greater Manchester as part of a trial later this year. Andy Burnham revealed that plans for a pilot scheme are being prepared during the Night Time Economy Summit on Thursday (February 8).

Evening Standard, the 28-year-old Bridgerton star shared her experience of landing roles, stating that it is a “good time for older women” and “young men”, but not for young women.“There is such a space for male actors… There are so many of them. And they’re all great.

Snoop Dogg has said he has “nothing but love and respect” for Donald Trump.The US rapper – who previously blasted the former president for being “racist” and compared him to the devil – appeared to put their past feuds behind them in a new interview.Speaking to The Sunday Times, the ‘Gin And Juice’ rapper said: “Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me.”He referred specifically to Trump’s 2021 pardoning of Michael Harris, the co-founder of Snoop’s Death Row label, who spent more than three decades behind bars for drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit murder.

The NFL defending champion Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, as both teams emerged victorious from the league’s Championship Sunday.

First he shocked the world by proclaiming he was giving up smoking.

Leo Pearlman I am Leo Pearlman, born in Sunderland, living in London. I am a partner at production company Fulwell 73, where we make content including “Carpool Karaoke” and “Cinderella.” I am a husband, a father, a son and a brother. But I know that even today in some parts of the world there are those who would define me simply as: Jew.

National Holocaust Memorial Day is taking place today, January 27. First held in 2001, Holocaust Memorial Day serves to provide people across the world with an opportunity to learn about the Holocaust and what can be done to challenge prejudice today.

An inquiry into how women and girls in custody have been treated by Greater Manchester Police officers could be published in the spring.

Bicycles won't be allowed on board Metrolink trams unless it can be done safely, a key transport committee has heard.

Andy Burnham has shed more light on the agreement he signed with scandal-hit software firm Fujitsu. Japanese company Fujitsu has been at the centre of the Post Office scandal, with its faulty Horizon accounting software being used to convict more than 900 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses for years.

Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon has said it's 'not a good sign' after she sought her fans and followers' advice on a bit of a wardrobe dilemma. But it wasn't about her own wardrobe choices but that of her long-standing Weatherfield character Maria Windass.

People in Dumfries and Galloway are more than £8 million better off thanks to the region’s Citizens Advice Service.

Council tax will rise by £5 across Greater Manchester to avoid an ‘adverse impact on frontline fire cover’ and buy a new fire engine.

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BreAnna Bell FX has released the second official trailer for Ryan Murphy’s forthcoming “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” Tom Hollander, who plays Truman Capote in the series, faces off against the Swans in the trailer, which teases the story of the elite group of women that the “In Cold Blood” author surrounded himself with and the betrayal that led to their infamous falling out. The group included grande dame Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts), Slim Keith (Diane Lane), C.Z.

A trial of allowing bicycles on board Metrolink trams will take place over six weeks from next month, transport bosses have revealed.

MPs held a minute's silence in Parliament this morning (January 18) in memory of Sir Tony Lloyd. The Rochdale MP, who held several senior political roles in Greater Manchester, revealed last week that he had developed an 'aggressive and untreatable leukaemia'.