Bestseller ‘The Last Animal’ Acquired by Walden Media and Big Beach for Film Adaptation; Ry Russo-Young to Direct (EXCLUSIVE)

EXCLUSIVE: MSNBC Films has unveiled its spring and summer slate including a Dave Eggers documentary about book-banning.

The War On Drugs have added more shows to their upcoming UK and European tour. Find ticket details below.News of the live shows broke last month, when the Grammy Award-winning Philadelphia band confirmed that they would be heading across the pond for some 2024 tour dates.Now, due to high demand, frontman Adam Granduciel and co.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent In the early 1970s, Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan wrote and recorded songs for the English version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s film “Brother Sun, Sister Moon,” about the early years of St. Francis of Assisi, that evoked the “flower power” hippie movement and developed a cult following. Half a century later, Donovan traveled to Italy last week to watch a freshly restored version of the film in two celebratory events.

BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend 2024, with RAYE, Charli XCX and The Last Dinner Party leading the way.This year’s edition of the festival is set to run between Friday, May 24 and Sunday, May 26, and will be held at Stockwood Park in Luton.Yesterday (March 18), the first run of artists, set to perform on the opening night, was revealed, and now organisers have also shared those lined up for the Saturday slots.RAYE has been announced as headlining the Main Stage on the night – following on from her record-breaking number of wins at the BRITs earlier this month – while pop icon Charli XCX will be headlining the New Music Stage. The slot comes ahead of her announcing details of her new album ‘Brat’, and dropping the huge lead single ‘Von Dutch’.Others set to perform on the Main Stage on Saturday include Aitch, Griff, Rag ‘N’ Bone Man, Mabel and Joel Corry, while BRIT Rising Star winners and former NME cover stars The Last Dinner Party will be performing at the New Music Stage.Both The Last Dinner Party and Charli XCX will be joined by Alfie Templeman, Caity Baser, Cat Burns, Dylan, Tems and Shygirl,Saturday at #BigWeekend Luton is gonna be veRAYE special ♥️For more details and info on tickets, visit https://t.co/BGPOsfilea pic.twitter.com/OB6xc2VFAC— BBC Radio 1 (@BBCR1) March 19, 2024Tickets, priced at £29.50 (plus a £4.50 booking fee per ticket), will go on sale at 5pm GMT on Thursday (March 21) and can be purchased here.

Nominations are out for the 21st Irish Film & Television Awards with Lisa Mulcahy’s thriller Lies We Tell leading the pack on the feature side at 13, and crime drama Kin heading up the TV fields with 11 (scroll down for the ful list of nominees). The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) will hand out its prizes on April 20 in Dublin.

Louis Walsh is currently a housemate in the latest edition of Celebrity Big Brother. Before heading into the house, the 71 year old's appearance on the show quickly made headlines. Especially because it was widely reported that he'd be reuniting on TV with his old X Factor co star, Sharon Osbourne, for the first time in seven years.

Liam Gallagher revealed the last time he spoke to brother Noel while on The Jonathan Ross Show this weekend, followed by a performance of ‘Mars To Liverpool’ with John Squire.The former Oasis frontman appeared on the talk show Saturday (March 9) with the Stone Roses guitarist following the release of their new collaborative album, ‘Liam Gallagher John Squire’.Towards the end of the interview, Ross began introducing a question he said Gallagher knew would be coming, before he recalled reading that the now solo artist had recently been speaking to his estranged brother.“I haven’t spoken to him,” Gallagher interjected. “I haven’t spoken to him in about 10 years.”The musician said he hadn’t spoken to Noel since 2009, the same year the band split up after a backstage argument at Rock en Seine festival in Paris.When the studio audience responded with a sympathetic “aww”, Gallagher wagged his finger and responded: “Don’t start that.”After the Ross suggested that Liam might be “missing out” following the split, the artist insisted that he’s “having a great time”, adding: “Don’t worry about me.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events The cast and crew of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” are still waiting to hear what their creative team has in store for Seasons 2 and 3. “We have no idea,” Dallas Liu, who stars as Prince Zuko in Netflix‘s live-action adaptation of the Nickelodeon animated series of the same name, told me Wednesday night at Vanity Fair and Instagram’s pre-Oscars party, Vanities: A Night for Young Hollywood, at Bar Marmont. “We have literally zero details.

For over two decades, Channel 4's hit show A Place In The Sun has been transforming dreams into reality for countless Britons seeking their perfect overseas abode. From sun-soaked shores to majestic mountains, the show has ventured far and wide to match eager buyers with their ultimate sanctuary.

untimely death of Thomas Kingston, the husband of Lady Gabriella Windsor, 56th in line to the British throneThe financier, 45, was found dead Sunday evening at an estate in the Cotswolds, England, with a gunshot wound to the head. The death is “not being treated as suspicious.”Kingston wed Lady Gabriella — who is the second cousin of King Charles — in 2019 following a six-year courtship.

The best fish and chips takeaways and restaurants in the UK have been crowned at a prestigious award ceremony, and a number of Scottish chippies were recognised.

EXCLUSIVE: Wondery has lined up its latest drama podcast and it stars Rhea Seehorn.

It’s been 20 years since Simon Cowell set out on a mission to put together his own popular version of The Three Tenors and “operatic boy band” Il Divo were the result. His team at what was then Syco Music scoured music halls around the world before bringing together California native David Miller, Frenchman Sébastien Izambard, Urs Bühler from Sweden, and the late Carlos Marin, from Spain. As the original Il Divo, the foursome pioneered a new classical-meets-pop sound, earning a No1 in the UK charts with their first release, followed by a further 30 million album sales worldwide.

The Star Wars franchise is coming to shoot in California for the first time with The Mandalorian & Grogu movie, and the Golden State is paying out its weight in tax incentive gold to have the bounty hunter saga made within state lines.

The auditions for Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender (which premiered today on the streamer) were very cloak and dagger.

Imagine a movie akin to a sad David Bowie song about an astronaut drifting alone into the dark abyss of space, contemplating his life, his lost love, his past, and an uncertain, perhaps soon-to-be-shortly doomed future. Sing the wistfully estranged and reflective “Space Odyssey” tune and the lamenting iconic line, “Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows!” That’s Swedish filmmaker Johan Renck’s “Spaceman” in a nutshell, which makes for possibly the weirdest, most existentially lonely movie Adam Sandler has ever starred in.

Tom Sandoval is getting some heat for what he said in a new interview.

“Bobi has inspired our generation and the nation at large,” Bobi Wine: The People’s President co-director Moses Bwayo said of the famed Uganda performer now politician seeking to preserve his country’s waning democracy.

Five international-themed films are competing for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards this year, stories set in Uganda, Chile, Tunisia, Ukraine, and India. To Kill a Tiger, which has brought director Nisha Pahuja the first Oscar nomination of her career, centers on a poor couple in the Indian state Jharkhand who bravely fought for justice after their teenage daughter became the victim of a brutal sexual assault.

Paul Giamatti is our real-life Brad Pitt,” declares actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Giamatti’s Oscar-nominated co-star from “The Holdovers.” And she’s not joking. After all, as Randolph points out, “We can’t all be Brad Pitt, and I mean that in the most positive way.” The actor argues that Giamatti, in roles ranging from Revolutionary War heroes and Depression era boxing coaches to, in “The Holdovers,” a cranky New England boarding schoolteacher, has displayed a talent for always seeming natural on screen. Just as Pitt blazes on screen, Giamatti draws audiences in.