Deadly Isle of Man Motorcycle Race Gets Film and Docuseries From Brad Pitt, Channing Tatum, Mediawan and More

The director of Interview With a Vampire opened up about the initial blowback he received after casting Tom Cruise in the classic movie.

Neil Jordan‘s “Interview With the Vampire” film adaptation released in 1994, Tom Cruise was already a worldwide star. He had led the highly successful “Risky Business” and “Top Gun” and received an Oscar nomination for “Born on the Fourth of July.” But, not everyone was convinced he could play the titular vampire, Lestat de Lioncourt, and his casting caused a considerable amount of backlash among fans of Anne Rice’s original book. In an excerpt from his new memoir published in The Telegraph, director Jordan reflected on his decision to cast Cruise opposite Brad Pitt and the outrage that followed, recalling how he originally offered the role to Daniel Day-Lewis.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s kids have sided with their mother. Over the past couple of months, Shiloh, Zahara, and Vivienne have publicly used the surname Jolie, resulting in people speculating over the state of the relationship with their father.

Ricky Martin during CAA’s seventh annual Amplify summit on Tuesday where the Grammy-winning entertainer took the stage to discuss his storied career with Bruno Del Granado, the head of CAA’s global Latin music touring division. Martin discussed his role in Apple TV+‘s (newly-renewed for Season 2) “Palm Royale,” and opened up about his major career milestones, including his impact on Latin American music in the United States, and LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream spaces.

Phil Jones has questioned whether England are better prepared for Euro 2024 without Marcus Rashford. Gareth Southgate omitted the Manchester United forward from the Three Lions squad following a disappointing campaign.

Harry Maguire says he is "devastated" to be left out of England's squad for this summer's European Championships after he was one of seven players axed by Gareth Southgate.

News broke on Tuesday evening that Manchester City are set to sue the Premier League over ‘unlawful’ financial regulations in what is a separate case to their battle against the 115 allegations of financial wrongdoing.

Last week, on her 18th birthday, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie‘s daughter Shiloh filed court documents to remove “Pitt” from her last name.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie‘s daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt has petitioned to drop Pitt from her surname.Shiloh, who is the third-eldest child of the former Hollywood couple, filed the petition last Monday (May 27) at the Los Angeles County Superior Court as she turned 18.According to the petition (via The Los Angeles Times), she wants to be known as Shiloh Nouvel Jolie.It comes after two of Pitt and Jolie’s other children appear to have distanced themselves from Pitt’s name, with eldest daughter Zahara introducing herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie” in an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority video (via Essence).Daughter Vivienne has also recently dropped the name Pitt from a credit in Playbill for Broadway’s The Outsiders, according to People.It comes amid Pitt and Jolie’s ongoing divorce proceedings – with Jolie filing for divorce in 2016 following an alleged physical altercation on a private plane, with one of their children, Maddix, allegedly involved in the incident.Pitt was subject to a “child abuse investigation” in relation to the alleged incident, with the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services later clearing the actor of wrongdoing.Details of the alleged altercation came to light further in 2022 after Jolie was revealed to be the plaintiff in an anonymous complaint against the FBI, which had closed an investigation into Pitt’s alleged domestic assault.

More details are being revealed following news that Angelina Jolie‘s daughter Shiloh is dropping her dad Brad Pitt‘s last name.

Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid are set to play their final Champions League match under the current format tonight, as UEFA's controversial "Swiss model" is due to start from the next season.

A man was tragically found dead in the Manchester ship canal, with police now attempting to trace his loved ones.

England manager Gareth Southgate has confirmed that Manchester United duo Harry Maguire and Luke Shaw have linked up with the national team early to work with the medical staff ahead of the European Championship.

Free Association, Plan B Entertainment, Jason Keller, Entertainment 360’s Guymon Casady, and Box To Box Films are on board to produce a docuseries and feature film centered on the famed Isle of Man Tourist Trophy (TT) motorcycle races. They will take these projects out as a package later this year. Mediawan, the leading independent European studios for high-end audiovisual content and majority stakeholder of Plan B, will be the studio of the docuseries and handle international sales.

Arsenal sporting director Edu has followed the lead of former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp in choosing to praise Pep Guardiola rather than comment on Manchester City's outstanding 115 charges from the Premier League.

role as assistant and co-producer as “Vivienne Jolie,” rather than the hyphenated “Vivienne Jolie-Pitt,” People reported.It’s unclear if Vivienne has legally changed her name — though she’s not the first of the Jolie-Pitt children to appear to drop their father’s surname.The couple’s eldest daughter Zahara, 19, introduced herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie” when joining the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College, according to a video shared by Essence in November.Some eagle-eyed fans also noticed that, in a video shared by choreographer Lil Kelaan Carter, their 18-year-old daughter Shihloh was tagged — and the name on the private account is simply “Shi Jolie.”The subtle name changes come amidst years of reports that Pitt, 60, has a fraught relationship with his six children he shares with Jolie, 48 — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.Pax, 20, once went on a social media rant against Pitt, bashing his estranged father on Father’s Day 2020.“Happy Father’s Day to this world class a–hole!! You time and time again prove yourself to be a terrible and despicable person,” the caption said, per the Daily Mail. “You have no consideration or empathy toward your 4 youngest children who tremble in fear when in your presence.”“You have made the lives of those closest to me a constant hell.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Vivienne‘s name is getting attention.

A 32-year-old man has been convicted of multiple violent and sexual offences on women and girls.

A British man who tragically died following a suspected heart attack on board a plane has been named as Geoffrey Ralph Kitchen.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Swedish director Ruben Östlund, who won Cannes Film Festival‘s Palme d’Or for “The Square” and “Triangle of Sadness,” was among the guests at the German Films and Medienboard Reception on May 18 in the garden of the Mondrian Hotel in Cannes. Östlund, who is in the Riviera resort to promote his latest production, “The Entertainment System Is Down,” was accompanied by Philippe Bober of Coproduction Office, one of the film’s producers, and Erik Hemmendorf of Plattform Produktion, Östlund’s Swedish producer. (They are pictured above.) German Films, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, was represented at the event by managing director Simone Baumann, and Medienboard, which is a film fund for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, was represented by its CEO Kirsten Niehuus.