'Gleeful' pursuit of benefit fraudsters slammed by SNP politician

The Crown chronicles Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign on the Netflix series, but some of the late monarch’s loved ones are not fans of the fictionalized drama.

Jennifer Lopez’s social media blackout has been lifted with the performer-actress-producer announcing a new music project called This Is Me…Now.

Producer Fernando Corona – best known as Murcof – has announced new project Twin Color, which sees him moving into post-punk, new wave and synth wave sounds.“I started working on Twin Color during the first wave of the pandemic, back in early/mid-2020”, he explains. “I was playing around in the studio trying to come up with some ideas for a possible new Murcof album.

Finally a (happy?) ending to probably one of the wildest cases we’ve ever heard!

Conservative media firm The Daily Wire has optioned exclusive film and TV series rights to develop and produce an adaptation of Arthurian legend novels The Pendragon Cycle.

Judy Woodruff will step down as anchor of PBS NewsHour on Dec. 30 and will begin a two-year project on Americans political divisions and whether they can be healed.

Studio Ghibli took to Twitter on Thursday to hint at a collaboration with Lucasfilm.

Standing by her man. Kelly Stafford opened up about husband Matthew Stafford being put on concussion protocol — and the dangers that come with playing professional football. 

EXCLUSIVE: The ensemble for Greg Berlanti’s mysterious Apple Original Project Artemis has continued to expand, with the addition of up-and-comer Donald Elise Watkins (Emergency). The anticipated film scripted by Rose Gilroy will have Watkins star alongside the previously announced quintet of Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Jim Rash, Ray Romano and Anna Garcia.

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Garcia (Hacks) will make her feature film debut with a sizable role alongside Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in Project Artemis, the anticipated 1960s space race pic that Greg Berlanti is directing for Apple. While details as to her role are under wraps, her audition was reportedly impressive enough that it helped her secure one of the most coveted jobs in town, even in competition with a number of offer-only actresses. 

A month before Aaron Carter’s sudden death on Saturday, the rapper, singer, actor had wrapped filming on an independent sitcom pilot titled Group. With the blessing of Carter’s management, the filmmakers intend to complete the project in his honor. Currently in post-production, Group will be shopped to networks when finished, and it will be dedicated in Carter’s memory.

Israel’s Sam Spiegel International Film Lab has appointed a new director and unveiled the projects selected for its 11th edition, running from now until the early summer.

Against her initial wishes, Dolly Parton was inducted into the US Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on Saturday night. She also performed at the event, including playing a new song called ‘Rockin’ and her best known song ‘Jolene’, for which she was joined by Pink, Brandi Carlile and fellow inductees Pat Benatar, Duran Duran’s Simon LeBon, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart, and – most surprisingly – Rob Halford of Judas Priest.Parton originally asked to be removed from the running for this year’s inductees, saying that – as a country artist – she didn’t feel she had “earned” the right to be included in a Hall Of Fame with a rock n roll remit.

Has it really been almost a decade since Wong Kar-wai‘s last film, “The Grandmaster“? Indeed it has, as next February marks the ten-year anniversary of that film’s world premiere at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival. But now, the Hong Kong auteur returns with “Blossoms Shanghai,” which Wong says is the third part of the story he started in “In The Mood For Love” and “2046.”   READ MORE: Wong-Kari Wai Will Also Direct Episodes Of His ‘Blossoms Shanghai’ Series Which Is Finally Confirmed Based on Jin Yucheng‘s 2013 novel “Blossoms,” Wong’s upcoming film follows three Shanghai residents in the early 1960s, at the end of China’s Cultural Revolution, through to the 1990s.

One last flip! Christina Hall (née Haack) and ex-husband Tarek El Moussa are teaming up for one final renovation project together.

EXCLUSIVE: The attempt by Atlanta Braves slugger Henry Aaron to break Babe Ruth’s hallowed record of 714 career home runs, and the armed guard from the Atlanta police department assigned to keep him safe 24/7 amidst racist hate mail and death threats, will be turned into a feature film.

EXCLUSIVE: Director Greg Berlanti has tapped Ray Romano to join the cast of Project Artemis, the Apple Original Films production that stars Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum and Jim Rash. The ‘60s space race pic is scripted by Rose Gilroy. Berlanti producing with Johansson and her These Pictures cohorts Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn. Apple won the package in a big auction.