Michael Palin says John Cleese “couldn’t have done without” him in ongoing ‘Monty Python’ feud

Terry Gilliam hasn’t shot a movie since 2018’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” a film that took him nearly 30 years to make. So let’s call the seven years between that movie and Gilliam’s upcoming “The Carnival At The End Of Days” a well-deserved break.

Nicola Coughlan and Jessica Gunning are joining a fun new project!

Naman Ramachandran Nicola Coughlan, Nonso Anozie and Jessica Gunning have joined the cast of the upcoming adaptation of Enid Blyton‘s “The Magic Faraway Tree.” Coughlan (“Bridgerton”) will portray the woodland fairy Silky, joined by Anozie (“Ted Lasso”) as Moonface. Gunning (“Baby Reindeer”) takes on the role of Dame Washalot, with Dustin Demri-Burns (“Slow Horses”) as Saucepan Man. Mark Heap (“Friday Night Dinner”) will play Mr.

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls), Nonso Anozie (Sweet Tooth, Ted Lasso), and Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer) have signed on to star in The Magic Faraway Tree, the upcoming Enid Blyton adaptation from Neal Street Productions, Elysian Film Group and Ashland Hill Media Finance.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Kerry Washington, Olivia Wilde, Gabrielle Union, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dever, Alexandra Schipp, Marisa Tomei and Zoey Deutch gathered at Canter’s Deli in Los Angeles on Tuesday night to help Michael Kors celebrate his new store on Rodeo Drive. Guests were greeted at the door by tuxedoed waitstaff offering glasses of champagne. Hors d’oeuvres featured caviar while dinner began with a butter lettuce salad followed by a choice of Alaskan halibut, pan-roasted Jidori chicken or Westholme Australian wagyu.

Coleen Nolan and her boyfriend Michael Jones have returned home from an 'unforgettable trip' to Bali, hinting at a new addition to their family.The Loose Women star, 59, shared a bundle of snaps from their lavish getaway, one of which showed an adorable pooch which left fans asking if it came home with them. Accompanying her holiday snaps on Instagram, Coleen wrote the caption: "Just home from an unforgettable trip to Bali, the best time with the best people." During their Indonesia stay the couple could be seen riding in a bright pink open-top jeep, visiting the breathtaking waterfalls and admiring the beautiful temples.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Micheal Keaton recently told Empire magazine that watching his iconic character Beetlejuice go mainstream over the years through various merchandising has been “fucking weird.” In order to reprise the role in Tim Burton’s upcoming sequel, Keaton had to actively block out what the character’s popularity has turned him into over the years and return to the reasons why he accepted the role in the first place. “There’s been so much merchandising of it, I had to drop back to where it started,” Keaton explained. “I had to go, ‘What was my unusual imagination even thinking about when I was developing it in the first place?’ As opposed to seeing a coffee mug or a golf club cover [featuring Betelgeuse’s face].” “That was fucking weird,” Keaton added about the character’s popularity.

Michael Keaton has admitted that seeing his character from Beetlejuice being merchandised was “fucking weird”.The actor is due to return as the character Betelgeuse in upcoming sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, having originated the role in the 1988 Tim Burton classic.Speaking in a new interview about getting back into character, especially given his wider pop cultural recognition since the first film was released, Keaton explained that he went back to basics.“There’s been so much merchandising of it, I had to drop back to where it started,” he told Empire.“I had to go, ‘What was my unusual imagination even thinking about when I was developing it in the first place?’ As opposed to seeing a coffee mug or a golf-club cover [adorned with Betelgeuse’s face].”He elaborated: “That was fucking weird. To be honest with you – I’m being very frank – it was off-putting, to look and go, ‘I don’t want to look like all these little things, fuck that – what was the thing that started this?’”Teasing the sequel further, Keaton said of the film: “I love it.

Johnny Depp will be playing Satan in his next film, director Terry Gilliam has confirmed.Speaking to French publication Premiere, Gilliam – who has in the past directed films such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – spoke about his next him, The Carnival at the End of Days.Per Gilliam’s detailing of the upcoming film, it has been revealed that Depp will portray Satan, while Jeff Bridges plays God. Adam Driver and Jason Momoa have also been cast in the film, though details surrounding their roles are currently unknown.Gilliam explained to Premiere that The Carnival at the End of Days will be a “comedy where God decides to destroy Humanity.

Saturday Night Live‘s James Austin Johnson channeled former president and felon Donald Trump in a conviction day reprise of his most famous SNL impression.

After starting his career being best known as the hunky guy in the “Divergent” film series, Theo James has started to pick some really interesting roles as of late. With starring roles on TV series such as “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” “White Lotus,” and “The Gentlemen,” as well as a film like “Dual,” James has quickly turned into an actor worth keeping an eye on.

Michaela Zee Theo James is set to star alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the heist thriller “Fuze.” Directed by David Mackenzie (“Hell or High Water,” “Outlaw King”) from a script penned by Ben Hopkins (“Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie,” “Simon Magus”), “Fuze” “opens on the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb in a London construction site sparking a mass evacuation the perfect cover for a heist,” according to the film’s synopsis. Filming will begin in early July. “Fuze” is produced by Gillian Berrie (“Outlaw King,” “Tetris”) for Sigma Films, as well as Sebastien Raybaud (“The End We Start From,” “Greenland”) and Callum Grant (“Jackdaw,” “Cleaner”) for Anton.

John Swinney has said the SNP will stand against the “twin threats” of austerity and privatisation, as his party campaigns on public services. The SNP will seek to focus on investing in the NHS and other public services over the coming week of General Election campaigning.

Ummm… is this divorce secretly a cheating scandal??

Michael Richards is addressing his racist outburst 18 years after the incident.

Naman Ramachandran Indonesia’s KawanKawan Media has boarded Singaporean filmmaker Nelson Yeo‘s sophomore feature “The Drought,” it was announced at the Cannes Film Festival. Yeo’s debut feature “Dreaming & Dying” debuted at last year’s Locarno Film Festival where it won the Golden Leopard – Filmmakers of the Present and Best First Feature awards.

Naman Ramachandran Indonesia has unveiled the four film projects that will be the pilot recipients of the country’s first government-funded film grant, Film Matchfund, at the Cannes Film Festival. As revealed by Variety, the $13 million annual fund was launched at Cannes 2023 by Nadiem Makarim, Indonesia‘s minister of education, culture, research and technology.

Terry Gilliam has been to Cannes with three of his own films since 1983, but one of his favorite memories of the festival takes him back to that very first time, at the 36th edition, as the co-writer and co-star of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. Along with Graham Chapman and the film’s director Terry Jones, he’d emerged from the Carlton hotel’s iconic entrance, then bedecked with promotion for the upcoming Bond movie Octopussy, to encounter a camera crew. Jones started grabbing people at random, shouting, “WHO EES MONTY PYTHON???” in a ridiculous foreign accent, and got so carried away that, when they reached the hotel’s famous terrace, he accidentally did it to Gilliam too.

Director Richard Linklater rues that Hollywood has taken to creating sexless characters and superheroes without genitalia.

Michael Mosley has explained how one simple muscle exercise can be the key to reducing high blood pressure and ease off pain.