Newport Beach Film Festival Returns to London for U.K. Honors in 2025

Taylor Swift might be done with the London boys, but she’s still getting the royal treatment.

Prince William celebrated his birthday by taking his three children to watch Taylor Swift perform to a packed stadium in London on Friday as part of her Eras Tour.

Prince William reportedly celebrated his birthday at Taylor Swift's Eras Tour with his children.The royal is said to have visited the sell-out Wembley concert for his 42nd birthday, alongside Prince George, 10, nine-year-old Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, six. Zara and Mike Tindall were also among guests at the record-breaking Eras Tour, as well a celebrities including Taylor's American footballer boyfriend Travis Kelce.

Even the British royals got into the Taylor Swift spirit on Friday at the traditional Changing of the Guard ceremony, where soldiers performed a brass band version of Swift’s hit Shake It Off outside Buckingham Palace.

The Eras Tour is a family affair on night one in London!

Peaky Blinders star Sam Claflin has been spotted filming scenes in the city centre for an upcoming drama for Amazon Prime.

Film London Predicts $12B Film & TV Boost To UK Capital

Luke Newton was photographed for the first time with his rumored girlfriend Antonia Roumelioti amid rumors that linked him to his Bridgerton costar and onscreen love interest Nicola Coughlan.

press tour last night with a toast—to her costar , to her best friend from childhood, and to her Derry Girls family, who all made the journey to London to see Coughlan get her in the titillating period drama that has got the world humming along to rousing orchestral covers of Pitbull.Voice-noting post red carpet, Coughlan was both overwhelmed and full of adrenaline, but every inch of her radiates Hollywood star. Championing bridal “mermaid” glamour, Coughlan and her longtime stylist, Aimée Croysdill, worked with Rodarte to create a custom champagne-colored gown that had Botticelli connotations and felt perfect for a celebration of a fabulously OTT show about high society.Nicola Coughlan attends the special screening of Bridgerton Season 3, Part 2 at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on June 12, 2024, in London.“Instead of method dressing, we’re going in the opposite direction,” shared Coughlan, who has worn no fewer than 68 looks on this year’s Bridgerton promo trail.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a big one in the European M&A world. Beta Film has taken a stake in Number 9 TV, a new small screen subsidiary of Carol and Living producer Number 9 Films.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s Hilda director is creating a 2D animated preschool series that intends to inspire children to love and respect nature.

Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton, aka Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton, have arrived at a special screening of Bridgerton season three part two on Wednesday (June 12) at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London, England.

EXCLUSIVE: A key principle underpinning DreamWorks Animation‘s The Wild Robot — directed and written by Chris Sanders, produced by Jeff Hermann and starring Lupita Nyong’o as the voice of Roz the robot — is that kindness matters, say the filmmakers.

Nicola Coughlan is clapping back at people calling her “brave” for doing steamy scenes on the Netflix television series Bridgerton.

Russell Crowe has spoken about Ridley Scott‘s Gladiator 2, revealing that he’s “slightly uncomfortable” that a sequel is being made.Speaking to Kyle Meredith, Crowe said: “I’m slightly uncomfortable with the fact they’re making another one — because, of course, I’m dead and I have no say in what gets done. But a couple of the things I’ve heard I’m like ‘No, no, no, that’s not in the moral journey of that particular character’.

Stars including Keira Knightley, Emerald Fennell and Gemma Chan have called for extra funding so that the UK’s new bullying and harassment reporting body for the film and TV industries can launch on time.

The first Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF) ended this weekend in London with Amjad Al Rasheed’s debut feature Inshallah A Boy taking the best feature gong while veteran documentarian Asif Kapadia picked up the festival’s honorary Trailblazer Award. 

Paul Mescal is stepping out for the day.

CMAT has spoken to NME about the impressive cultural footprint of her native Ireland, as well as plans for her next album – which could arrive sooner than you think.Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson was speaking to us on the red carpet of the Ivor Novellos in London this week (Thursday May 23), where she was nominated for Best Album for the acclaimed ‘Crazymad, For Me‘ – but was already convinced that she wouldn’t win due to the competition she faced. The award was later picked up by Yussef Dayes.“Lankum are nominated for the award, who’ve already beat me for Irish album of the year – also RAYE, who won 75million awards at the BRITs and I just sat through that, twiddling my thumbs, not winning anything,” Thompson told NME.

Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or.Baker accepted the prize with his movie’s star, Mikey Madison, watching in the audience at the Cannes closing ceremony Saturday. The win for “Anora” marks a new high point for Baker, the director of “The Florida Project.” It’s also, remarkably, the fifth straight Palme d’Or won by indie distributor Neon, following “Parasite,” “Titane,” “Triangle of Sadness” and last year’s winner, “Anatomy of a Fall.”“I don’t really know what’s happening right now,” said Baker.While “Anora” was arguably the most acclaimed film of the festival, its win was a slight surprise.