Films with “authentic inclusive representation” make more money, study claims

Read more: Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy 'Wagatha Christie' libel trial - live updates Mrs Vardy, who is married to Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, denies the accusations and is suing Mrs Rooney for libel. Under English defamation law, the burden of proof now will be on Mrs Rooney to prove that her post was “substantially true”.

Four years, two films, and one near-fatal experience after his last feature, writer-director Gaspar Noé has a lot to share. The experimental Argentinian filmmaker – who’s built his career in France over the past 25 years – had a brain hemorrhage in between the 2019 Cannes midnight premiere of “Lux Aeterna,” his assaulting, intellectual 52-minute strobe light thriller about a witch shoot from hell, and the making of his next film “Vortex,” a patient, heartrending, nearly two-and-a-half-hour dementia drama.

A former Wetherspoons barmaid has shared a secret about working at the chain - and it might have made you spend more money. The pub worker revealed the sneaky trick as part of a new documentary about Wetherspoons on Channel 5.

Actor Mike Hagerty, who had roles in "Friends" and "Somebody Somewhere" has died. He was 67. Hagerty's co-star, Bridget Everett, shared the news on social media Friday.

The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival announced its 2022 lineup including Disney’s documentary Mija and the Warner Bros. Pictures/HBO Max film Father of the Bride bookending the celebration. LALIFF will run from June 1 to 5 at the TCL Chinese Theater and TCL Chinese 6 in Hollywood.

Fox News. “Let’s just say a piece of material were to come across my desk, which has happened plenty of times over the last 22 years, that I don’t necessarily feel is what I believe or what I’m selling — then that’s not for me.”The “Cinderella Story” actor went on, “I don’t want to step in something that I don’t believe in any way because it’s going to destroy it for everybody else involved.”“If you don’t fully love and embrace the character that you are inhabiting, it will show on screen. I always want to give the people that I’m working with and the people who are going to watch the movie, the most of me,” he said.Murray added that he likes to keep his Christian faith close to him by putting on his “spiritual armor” every morning.

Chad Michael Murray doesn't back down from his religious beliefs. Murray, 40, admitted he's turned down projects that he didn't feel were compatible with his beliefs in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

Changing her POV. Pregnant Sophie Turner has seen a big shift in her acting performances since becoming a mother.

Bill Murray had a lot to say about those “inappropriate behavior” allegations on the set of Being Mortal.

Elon Musk has an agreement to buy Twitter. But no one can agree on what that means, and Bill Maher’s HBO show Real Time spent a good portion of Friday’s run trying to make sense of it.

If you've watched season five of Selling Sunset, you likely have some opinions on Christine Quinn. New mother Quinn has upset basically every other cast member from the luxury real estate reality TV show, and is not afraid to share her opinion on everything, no matter how biting it may be.

She’s been with him since he was a 16-year-old player, so Coleen Rooney is used to playing second fiddle to husband Wayne’s footballing career. Twenty years on and with Wayne now a manager, she was hoping things might have changed – but as his team Derby County was relegated last week, it seems she’s still not his priority.

While most couples look forward to tucking into dinners together, Mike Tindall has revealed that he and wife Zara no longer eat meals together. Former rugby ace Mike, 43, opened up about how he and Zara, 40, opt to have separate meals, after she gave up red meat following the births of their three children - Mia, eight, Lena, three, and one year old Lucas. Now Zara, who is the Queen's granddaughter, eats her meals without her husband, who simply orders a food delivery each day in order to avoid cooking.

Chad Michael Murray is giving us hope of a “One Tree Hill” revival.

new film being shut down for an investigation into his alleged “inappropriate behavior” is taking on a darker tone amid a resurfaced on-set horror story that’s kept Hollywood whispering for decades.Disney was allegedly forced to hire bodyguards to protect the cast and crew of 1991’s “What About Bob?” after the actor hurled a glass ashtray at co-star Richard Dreyfuss and threatened to “throw” the film’s female producer “across a parking lot.”The bombshell accusation was dropped Thursday night by Dreyfuss’ son, Ben, just hours after Murray’s latest movie, “Being Mortal,” was suspended following a complaint about his conduct. Despite his enduring status as a beloved Hollywood bad boy, Murray has repeatedly been accused of violently clashing with co-stars — from alleged head-butting to “inexcusable and unacceptable” language — on numerous sets stretching all the way back to the 1970s. After this week’s new Murray mayhem, Ben, 35, took to Twitter to reveal that professional muscle had to be deployed to the Virginia set of the cult classic “What About Bob?” following Murray’s alleged violent outburst.

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The line-up for the 54th Directors’ Fortnight selection was announced this morning by General Delegate Paolo Moretti and his selection committee. On top of the previously announced opening night film, Pietro Marcello‘s “Scarlet,” he being the director of the well-regarded “Martin Eden” festival film, highlights from the films announced include Alex Garland‘s much-anticipated psychological horror “Men,” starring Jessie Buckley, a woman who retreats to the English countryside following the death of her husband.