How Holt McCallany Hit the Gym and Learned to Wrestle for His Role as ‘Iron Claw’s’ Von Erich Patriarch

When the weather is a bit rubbish like it is this week it can be easy to scrap your plans and not leave the house - but there’s still plenty of places you can visit across Greater Manchester where you won’t be exposed to the elements. There’s something warm and cosy about visiting old houses and grand halls during the winter time, and there’s several to choose from across the city region.

Mark Ruffalo cemented himself in Hollywood with his role in 2000′s You Can Count on Me. However, it turns out that he wasn’t the first choice for the part.

Eva Mendes is over the moon after her husband Ryan Gosling receives an Oscar nomination for his role as Ken in “Barbie.” The film, which is the highest-grossing movie of 2023, received eight Oscar nominations. In addition to praising the father of her daughters for his nomination for Best Supporting Actor, the former actress also called out the people who criticized Gosling’s casting as Ken.Mendes shared a screenshot of a published opinion story on Instagram, which described Ryan as a “major cringe” in the movie.

Scotland captain Andy Robertson is in line to end his three-and-a-half month injury hell against Norwich this weekend. The Liverpool left-back is in contention to start Sunday’s FA Cup clash at Anfield - 15 weeks after after he was crocked against Spain.

Angelique Jackson We’re living in the age of “Barbie,” and nowhere has that been more evident than the custom fashions Margot Robbie and stylist Andrew Mukamal curated for the billion-dollar grossing movie’s press tour. Since debuting the first look at “Barbie” at CinemaCon in April 2022, Robbie has rocked Barbiecore styles on nearly every red carpet and press appearance (most recently stunning in custom Armani inspired by 1977’s Superstar Barbie at the Golden Globes), all of which will now be commemorated in the fashion photo book “Barbie: The World Tour.” “This book was an idea I had in my living room when I started dreaming about Margot’s wardrobe for the ‘Barbie’ press tour in March 2023,” Mukamal wrote in an Instagram post revealing the book cover — which features a Barbie-fied Robbie clad in a pink Chanel suit.

Alkaline Trio have spoken to NME about their “apocalyptic” 10th album ‘Blood, Hair And Eyeballs’. Check out our interview with Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano below.‘Blood, Hair And Eyeballs’ is the first album Alkaline Trio have released since 2018’s ‘Is This Thing Cursed?’ – and finally arrives this Friday (January 26).“Trio took a bit of a backseat for a while,” admitted Skiba, who joined Blink-182 in 2015 and released two albums with the pop-punk icons (2016’s ‘California’ and 2019’s ‘Nine’) before leaving to make way for the returning Tom DeLonge in 2022. “It’s been the longest break Alkaline Trio has taken from putting out a new album, so I felt like we owed our fans the best record we could make,” he said.“If we’re going to album 10, let’s make it fucking awesome,” continued Andriano.

Renée Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion performed their collaborative song from the new Mean Girls reboot live on Saturday Night Live this weekend (January 20) – check out the moment below.Rapp reprised her Broadway role as Regina George in the new Mean Girls reboot-musical and last night appeared on the long-running comedy show to perform the song with Stallion from the film, ‘Not My Fault’.Stallion took to the stage with Rap later in the evening; before that, Rapp performed ‘Snow Angel‘ – the title track from her 2023 debut album.Stallion later appeared half-way through the song as a surprise guest. Before that, another surprise appearance came when Rap was introduced by Rachel McAdams who played Regina in the original outing of the Mean Girls movie.Check out the moment here:The new Mean Girls movie has been described as a “lively musical update” by critics, although reviews have generally been mixed.In a four-star review of the film, Empire described it as “sharp, funny and strongest when it stands on its own two perfectly manicured feet,” adding: “This snappy musical successfully updates the original Mean Girls template for a fresh audience.”The Hollywood Reporter meanwhile described the “regurgitated musical” as a “tuneless mess”.

Renée Rap and Megan Thee Stallion performed their collaborative song from the new Mean Girls reboot live on Saturday Night Live this weekend (January 20) – check out the moment below.Rap reprised her Broadway role as Regina George in the new Mean Girls reboot-musical and last night appeared on the long-running comedy show to perform the song with Stallion from the film, ‘Not My Fault’.Stallion took to the stage with Rap later in the evening; before that, Rap performed ‘Snow Angel‘ – the title track from her 2023 debut album.Stallion later appeared half-way through the song as a surprise guest. Before that, another surprise appearance came when Rap was introduced by Rachel McAdams who played Regina in the original outing of the Mean Girls movie.Check out the moment here:The new Mean Girls movie has been described as a “lively musical update” by critics, although reviews have generally been mixed.In a four-star review of the film, Empire described it as “sharp, funny and strongest when it stands on its own two perfectly manicured feet,” adding: “This snappy musical successfully updates the original Mean Girls template for a fresh audience.”The Hollywood Reporter meanwhile described the “regurgitated musical” as a “tuneless mess”.

Storm Isha is set to batter Greater Manchester and the rest of the UK this weekend.

Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, have announced their debut album to mark what would have been his 60th birthday.Rourke died last May after “a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer”, as confirmed in a statement from ex-bandmate Johnny Marr. He was 59 years old.Today (January 17) would have been Rourke’s 60th birthday, and Blitz Vega have marked the occasion by revealing that their debut album ‘Northern Gentleman’ will see the light of day on April 26.“The album is a diary of the last seven years of the journey that Andy, the band and I went on recording this music as Blitz Vega,” the band’s Kav Sandhu said in a statement of the record, which features guitar from Marr and is something he said he “promised” Rourke he would release.“Every song tells a story and personally takes me back to a memory of recording that song.

Daisy Jones & The Six band were set to perform live shows before the writer’s strike.Keough took to her official Instagram account to share a clip of her and her fellow castmate Sam Claflin – who portrayed the role of Billy Dune in the series – at band practice singing a live version of ‘Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)’ from the show.“In honor of the Emmys, here’s a video of the last time Sammy, the band and I rehearsed together. We were rehearsing to perform live for our lovely Daisy fans and it sadly never happened because of the strike,” began the caption on the post.A post shared by Riley Keough (@rileykeough)She continued: “I have so much love for everyone in this band and on this show.

Annika Pham Paris-based The Party Film Sales has boarded renowned Icelandic auteur Rúnar Rúnarsson’s fourth pic, “When the Light Breaks,” which is selected for Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market’s works in progress session.Rúnarsson serves as producer together with Heather Millard of Iceland’s Compass Films, in co-production with local banner Halibut, Holland’s Revolver, France’s Eaux Vives/Jour2Fête and Croatia’s MP Film. Lauded for his coming-of age tales set against Iceland’s majestic scenery, Rúnarsson saw his international breakthrough in 2008 with his Oscar-nominated short “Two Birds.” Since then, he has delivered equally poetic fare in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2011 entry “Volcano,” San Sebastian 2015 winner “Sparrows “ and 2019 Valladolid and Lübeck fest winner “Echo.” As in his earlier works, Rúnarsson was inspired by a personal event for “When the Light Breaks”.

Karen Idelson Though there are still those who view animation primarily as a kids or family form of entertainment, over the last year many of the most challenging, risky stories have been told by the modern masters of animation. Films like “Suzume,” “The Peasants” and “The Boy and the Heron” have all been lauded for taking on compelling stories that often attract more adult audiences or even becoming crossover hits that draw diverse viewers. Makoto Shinkai’s “Suzume” earned well over $300 million in international box office.

Max Martin had written that song for TLC. He wrote it as, like, an R&B record,” Barry Weiss — who was then president of Spears’ label, Jive Records — told The Post.

Morrissey has claimed that he has been “deleted” from the “essence” and history of The Smiths in a new post.Taking to his official website Morrissey Central yesterday (January 11), the singer-songwriter defended his role in his former band amid numerous reports that – according to him – have downplayed his contributions.“There is also an obvious media shift to delete me from being the central essence of The Smiths,” he began, “but this cannot work because I invented the group name, the song-titles, the album titles, the artwork, the vocal melodies, and all of the lyrical sentiments came from my heart.“And so it’s a bit like saying Mick Jagger had nothing to do with the Stones.”Morrissey continued: “Several news sites now claim that the initial meeting at Rough Trade Records was with ‘Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke,’ even though Andy wasn’t even a committed band member at that point. The meeting, of course, was Morrissey and Marr.“Even Geoff Travis [Rough Trade founder] has now suddenly decided that he ‘can’t remember who was with Johnny,’ even though Geoff looked me squarely in the eye on that very day and said ‘we’d like to release [The Smiths’ 1983 debut single] ‘Hand In Glove’ immediately,’ and he then more importantly said to me that his name was Geoff with a G, not Jeff with a J.

Ed Sheeran, The Killers, Hozier, Megan The Stallion and more have been announced to play Boston Calling 2024.The huge lineup as been unveiled today (January 9), where acts will play from May 24 to May 26 in Allston, MA. Tickets will go on sale this Thursday (January 11) at 10:00am ET – you can get yours here.On the first day, Ed Sheeran is slated to appear as a headliner; he’ll be joined by the likes of Leon Bridges, Reneé Rapp, Young the Giant, Luke Hemmings, Cannons, Ric Wilson, Madi Diaz and more.Then, country singer Tyler Childers will lead the second day.

Fat Dog have released their latest energetic single ‘All The Same’ and have shared new tour dates in the US.The track marks the band’s second release under their new label, Domino. Co-produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Geese, Shame, Blur) and the band’s frontman Joe Love, ‘All The Same’ features a retro beat reminiscent of old 80s-90s video games.

For Zac Efron, A24‘s The Iron Claw was the most challenging project in a career of more than two decades, but “in the best ways possible.”

Stuart Miller Da’Vine Joy Randolph had grown weary of scripts that offered her shallow or one-dimensional characters. “I’ve felt like I had to fight for fully realized characters with complexities or even start writing or producing myself,” she says. Then she was sent David Hemingson’s script for “The Holdovers,” for the role of Mary Lamb, who works in the cafeteria of a prep school for the wealthy, soldiering on even as she mourns the death of her sonin Vietnam. “I was so overjoyed to read this character, someone who was really struggling, but also trying to persevere in spite of her situation,” says Randolph, who was nominated for a Tony Award in 2012 for her performance in “Ghost: The Musical.” She has since appeared in everything from “Dolemite Is My Name,” “High Fidelity” and “Only Murders in the Building” to “The United States vs.

Kate Garraway's husband, Derek Draper, has sadly passed away at the age of 56. Derek battled the long-lasting effects of Covid-19, leaving behind a grieving wife and their two children, Darcey and William. Kate expressed her deep sorrow over the loss, acknowledging her "luck" in sharing her life with him and holding his hand through his final hours.