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Shawn Mendes released his first-ever Spanish single on Wednesday, in collaboration with Colombian star Camilo.

Australian actress Margot Robbie is a superfan of popular dating on an island reality show, Love Island—and has revealed her favorite contestant on the newest season. The Harley Quinn star has also admitted her love for the show on other occasions.

Playing the clown prince of crime’s ex-girlfriend takes a lot out of an actor.

A live-action studio “Barbie” movie has been in the works for years, as actresses such as Amy Schumer and Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway had been attached at different points. That was until Oscar-nominee Margot Robbie (“The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood“) was tapped to star.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig has officially signed on to direct the highly-anticipated Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie.

Greta Gerwig has officially signed on to direct the upcoming Barbie movie!

A live-action studio “Barbie” movie has been in the works for years, as actresses such as Amy Schumer and Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway had been attached at different points. That was until Oscar-nominee Margot Robbie (“The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood“) was tapped to star.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has swooped on world rights to horror film CURS>R out of the Cannes virtual market, we can reveal.

During the filming of Suicide Squad, it was rumoured that actor Jared Leto who was playing the role of Joker, decided to get deep into his character and to establish the needed rapport between his and Harley Quinn's character sent a creepy gift to Margot Robbie.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran UK sales agent Anthony Buckner, former Head of Sales at Icon, is launching Buckstop Films to coincide with the Cannes Marché.

Suicide Squad, despite the star denying it.Davis confirmed the bizarre gift in a new interview with British Vogue, after starring as Squad boss Amanda Waller in the 2016 DC Comics movie.“I was saying loudly, ‘Don’t open the box!’ I was halfway out the door when [Robbie] opened the box,” Davis told the magazine. “And saw the biggest black rat you could imagine.

Margot Robbie adorns on the cover of British Vogue, where she discusses the empowering feeling up picking up Harley Quinn’s signature Louisville Slugger for high-octane action scenes in the upcoming “The Suicide Squad”.

Antonia Campbell-Hughes thriller gets sales deal

EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment Group has picked up North American rights to The Gateway, the crime thriller starring Shea Whigham, Olivia Munn, Frank Grillo, Bruce Dern, Taryn Manning, Keith David, and Mark Boone Junior.

Nicolas Cage has been set to star in Butcher’s Crossing, an adventure adapted from John Williams’ seminal 1960 novel about the rugged frontier of the American West. Gabe Polsky (Red Army, Red Penguins) is set to direct. Altitude Film Group, which is producing and financing, has landed UK and Irish distribution rights and also will handle selling international at the Cannes Virtual Market that kicked off today. Shooting is set to begin in October in the U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel star Penelope Wilton is joining Oscar winner Jim Broadbent (Iris) in Hettie Macdonald’s (Normal People) upcoming feature The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl), singer-actor Matt Willis (Allies) and Rupert Graves (Sherlock) have been set to star in WWII action-thriller Wolves Of War, which began filming today in the UK.