The Libertines’ Pete Doherty says he was “healthier when he was on heroin”

EXCLUSIVE: UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has said the 40% indie film tax relief will bring balance to a movie sector that has swung too far towards big-budget fare in recent years.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Guy Ritchie’s limited Netflix series adaptation of his movie of the same name shot at the Duke of Beaufort’s Badminton Estate in Gloucestershire, England. “The family was there looking very disapprovingly at us running around in chicken suits and saying ‘cunt’ a lot,” star Theo James told Variety at a special screening of the show at the Tudum Theatre in Hollywood. “They were not impressed.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Reviews for Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s action comedy “The Fall Guy” are still under embargo, but Gosling has already gotten all the praise he needs thanks to Steven Spielberg. The two ran into each other earlier this year at the Golden Globes, and Spielberg apparently made it a priority to let Gosling known that he’s a big “Fall Guy” fan. Gosling was a best supporting actor nominee at the Golden Globes for “Barbie.” “I saw Steven Spielberg walking in my direction,” Gosling told Variety.

The Libertines have shared a rowdy new single titled ‘Oh Shit’ – check it out below.Released today (March 6), the track comes as the latest single to be released from the indie veterans’ upcoming album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ – following on from ‘Run, Run, Run’, ‘Night Of The Hunter’ and ‘Shiver’.Written by Carl Barat and Pete Doherty, the song is quintessentially The Libertines from start to end and sees the members create an earworm anthem, which pumps a much-needed dose of energy into increasingly difficult times.Made to be played live, the track kicks in with an upbeat, high-energy guitar riff, before the frontman opens with the line “Imo loves the feeling of rolling in the sun/ Rolling in the oceans/ she rolls until she’s numb.”“And she went/ Oh shit, oh shit/ Let’s make some money/ Just enough to get us by,” he sings in the anthemic chorus. “I want you when you smile/ You got the dollars in your eyes.”Set for release on April 5, The Libertines first announced news of their new album – which is the long-mooted follow-up to 2015’s ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth’ – back in October by dropping the lead single ‘Run, Run, Run’.

did not enjoy working with author E.L. James on the In a new interview with , Johnson compared James's deep involvement with the Fifty Shades movies to the hands-off approach taken by other authors, and guess which one she prefers.“In The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal really absorbed that novel and then regurgitated her vision of it, and it was received so well by the author,” Johnson said. “Then with something like 50 Shades, the author was extremely precious about words, clothing, anything, everything.

Paul Dano, who starred in The Batman as the villain Riddler, is weighing in on superhero fatigue and has a positive outlook on it.

Harvey Guillén, who voices Gabo in Disney‘s Wish, is giving his take on the studio’s inclusivity efforts on their animated films.

The cast of Modern Family reunited onstage at the 2024 SAG Awards a week ago, and we’re still not over it!

Shannen Doherty‘s cancer treatment has ruined her sex drive. “When you’re feeling not great about yourself, that’s going to kill your libido,” Doherty, 52, said on the most recent episode of her “Lets Be Clear” podcast.“But then when it actually impacts your libido, when meds take your libido away, or it makes things not as pleasant, sex doesn’t feel as good,” the “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum continued. Doherty was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, and underwent a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation at the time.

. In 2024, Dune: Part Two said, “hold my beer" (or whatever they imbibe on Arrakis).Now that the movie is coming out and the promo cycle is wrapping up, let's look back at the absolute fashion feast that it was.The main course that was served was the ever-serving , paired with a wine to enhance all the flavors, a refreshing Lea Seydoux side salad, a Florence Pugh dessert, and just when you think the meal is over, a delicious chocolate truffle shaped like Rebecca Ferguson comes with the bill.

Pete Doherty, singer and guitarist of The Libertines, has revealed he's battling Type 2 Diabetes and says he fears 'death is lurking'.The 44-year-old musician has often spoken openly about his struggles with alcohol and drug misuse, admitting they ruled his life for years before a calming lifestyle change. Speaking to the BBC's Louis Theroux in a documentary last year, Pete said his past had left him unwell and doubtful that we would live a long life. Now, he's announced his diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes.

Flavor Flav is recalling a funny encounter he once had with Miley Cyrus!

The O.C. fans, prepare yourselves for a bombshell confession from Mischa Barton!

Naman Ramachandran A key audience participation segment of the London West End adaptation of Henrik Ibsen‘s 1882 play “An Enemy of the People” left people in tears, star Matt Smith told the BBC. In “An Enemy of the People,” when Dr. Stockmann (Smith) makes an unbelievable discovery about the healing waters in his local baths, he holds the future of the town in his hands, but those with everything to lose refuse to accept his word.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Austin Butler was hospitalized after he wrapped filming on Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” and it appears it was something of a miracle he avoided a similar fate on the set of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two.” The Oscar nominee joins the epic franchise as Feyd-Rautha, the cruel and sadistic younger nephew of and heir to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård). Butler told Entertainment Weekly that heat stroke impacted several people on set during his first week of shooting. How’s that for a welcome? “It was 110 degrees and so hot,” Butler said.

Manchester United moved closer to the top four with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Luton Town at Kenilworth Road on Sunday.

“Bobi has inspired our generation and the nation at large,” Bobi Wine: The People’s President co-director Moses Bwayo said of the famed Uganda performer now politician seeking to preserve his country’s waning democracy.

“It’s been really interesting to talk about the film in this personal way, because it really was never meant to be so personal,” Elemental director Peter Sohn said at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees panel Saturday.

Joey King is keeping in touch with Gypsy Rose Blanchard!

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Joey King says she and Gypsy Rose Blanchard have recently been in touch. “She and I have privately talked a little bit, which has been really nice,” King told Variety on an upcoming episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. King portrayed Blanchard, a woman sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for the death mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard in Hulu’s limited series “The Act.” Blanchard was recently released from prison on parole in late December after serving eight years for the 2015 crime.