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An exhibition exploring Britain’s relationship with the Caribbean, and a new commission depicting key workers will go on show at Tate galleries.

Actor Mark Rylance, Chic star Nile Rodgers and Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant are among the creatives who have said that the rebuilding of the UK arts industry must be environmentally sustainable.

Actor Sir Mark Rylance, Chic star Nile Rodgers and Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant are among the creatives who have said that the rebuilding of the UK arts industry must be environmentally sustainable.

This year’s Turner Prize is being replaced by 10 bursaries to help artists through the coronavirus pandemic.

It looks like an unlikely alliance is set to form between Victoria Barton and Kim Tate in Emmerdale.

Earlier this month, I visited Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus sculptural installation at London’s Tate Modern. In the Tate’s photo book prepared for the show, British writer Zadie Smith penned an analytical essay about the artist, specifically on the complex and varied reactions spectators had and continue to have to Walker and her art.

On March 8, Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral celebrated its 26th anniversary. A massive commercial success, the extremely dark concept album dealt with ideas of death and morality. According to a 1997 interview with Rolling Stone, NIN’s Trent Reznor said that part of what inspired him was the unique location he was living while writing it: the home where star Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson acolytes in 1969.

LONDON -- Images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe’s lips are on display in a new Andy Warhol show at London’s Tate Modern — alongside several of the artist’s wigs.

Shout! Studios has nabbed the North American rights to Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth —a documentary feature from director Anthony DiMaria, 1010 Films and Halation — about the 1960s Hollywood trendsetter Jay Sebring. Sebring is mostly remembered as a faceless victim of the grisly Charles Manson cult murders of Roman Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and three others at the director's Benedict Canyon residence in August 1969.

They say that cats have nine lives, but Cats (the Tom Hooper film) is having less luck after receiving nine nominations at this year’s Golden Raspberry Awards for the worst films of 2020.The blockbuster musical has an all-star cast including Jennifer Hudson, Dame Judi Dench and Taylor Swift and is nominated in nine categories after receiving poor reviews earlier this year. Other films that are up for the Worst Picture award include The Haunting of Sharon Tate and Rambo: Last blood.

The live action remake of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical Cats led the nominees at the 2019 Golden Raspberry Awards.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ends on August 8, 1969, when Cliff (Brad Pitt) and Rick (Leonardo DiCaprio) return to the States from Italy at the same time as the Manson Family arrives in Rick’s neighborhood with the intention of murdering the actress Sharon Tate and her friends. But Tarantino gives this infamous night a twist: Rick has a confrontation with the Family in his driveway while they’re scoping out Sharon’s house, and he is a huge ass to them.

Margot Robbie is everywhere. This weekend at the cinema, somebody with a lot of time on his hands could see her in three separate films — “Once Upon a Time in . . . Hollywood,” “Bombshell” and her latest, “Birds of Prey” — like she’s some sort of blond Burt Reynolds.

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"I don't like that word starlet at all, because there's no such thing, actually," Sharon Tate said in 1966. "I feel, at least in my estimation, that every person, if they want to be an actress or they want to stay in the acting world—which is a pretty tough world—before you even make an appearance, it's very necessary to learn your craft first, and take as much time, and do as much as you can."

Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" was his love letter to Los Angeles of 1969, and it has won commercial success and critical acclaim all over the world. 

Filmmaker Daniel Farrands appears to enjoy giving film critics fodder for barbs and brickbats, while also wanting to hold claim to our most dreaded awards. One of our more cathartic annual duties consists of assembling a 10 worst films of the year list and crowning an ignominious winner.

Take a look at this very short teaser for a film coming your way in 2020. Respect is a biopic based on the remarkable life of Aretha Franklin and has already scored a release date deep in awards season next year.

It's a big night for Margot Robbie.