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Independence Day director Roland Emmerich calls James Cameron ‘overbearing’

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Emmerich was initially attached to reboot the sci-fi classic in the 1990s

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Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power stars tease romance between Galadriel and ‘Hot Sauron’ in season 2

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Morfydd Clark and Charlie Vickers answered fan questions about their characters at Comic-Con

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Francis Ford Coppola seen kissing Megalopolis extras in newly surfaced footage

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Director Coppola has been accused of inappropriate on-set behavior while filming his self-funded passion project

Celine Dion leaves fans teary-eyed with comeback performance at Olympic opening ceremony

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Dion performed Edith Piaf’s ‘L’Hymne à l’amour’ atop the Eiffel Tower during the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony

2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony review: Interminable Seine procession is a washout

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The river Seine procession was battered by driving rains. Despite some silver linings, including a hotly-anticipated Celine Dion comeback, the cloudy ceremony was too much filler, too little killer, writes Nick Hilton

Billy Joel’s daughters steal show as he ends MSG residency after 10 years

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Billy Joel's daughters joined him on stage for his final show of his Madison Square Garden residency on Thursday, 25 July.

Friday, Jul 26

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New Doctor Who spin-off starring Russell Tovey announced at Comic-Con

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‘Doctor Who’ showrunner Russell T Davies has created the new series

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Rob McElhenney says Deadpool & Wolverine cameo was cut: ‘I know Ryan wouldn’t do me like that’

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‘It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ star said he traveled ‘6,000 miles’ to shoot cameo

The Boys announces return of major character for season 5

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A Supe from season three is returning for the show’s final outing as well as a new prequel series: ‘Vought Rising’

Antony Starr reacts to child crying at The Boys panel: ‘Is this the right place for that baby to be?’

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Starr plays Homelander in the famously explicit Prime Video superhero series

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Maryam Moshiri leaves BBC News viewers in hysterics with Snoop Dogg reference

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‘No rapping included for the rest of the day,’ the presenter assured viewers

Ryan Reynolds reveals ‘horrible’ original plan for Deadpool & Wolverine

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Reynolds said he was ‘shocked’ they managed to get through filming the movie without some of their biggest surprises getting leaked

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Sabrina Carpenter fans ‘appalled’ by ‘greedy’ ticket prices for 2025 tour

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‘Anyone who pays those prices is an absolute mug,’ one person fumed

TikToker finds clue in Interstellar that changes meaning of the whole movie

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‘I just cannot unsee this’ said @Stark_Verse in the now viral video

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Interpol grateful they said yes to their song being used in Friends

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‘It was a pretty hardcore moment,’ says band of the scene that used their music

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Why Presumed Innocent didn’t set up season 2 in its finale

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Gyllenhaal stars in the show he helped produce

Deadpool & Wolverine’s surprise cameo stars attend ComicCon’s Marvel panel

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The surprise guests confirmed their cameos in the film after months of speculation

Josh Hartnett shares ‘unhelpful’ advice Matt Damon gave him on Oppenheimer set

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Hartnett and Damon starred alongside each other in the Oscar-winning biopic

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Bruce Springsteen review, Wembley Stadium: Rock legend’s curfew-defying set bends a whole stadium to his will

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The 74-year-old music veteran proves once again that time is impotent in the face of ‘Gramps Power’

Deadpool & Wolverine review round-up: Critics divided over new Marvel movie

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Reviews have ranged from ‘tedious and annoying’ to proof that the Marvel franchise still has life in it

Logan director James Mangold makes dig at multiverses: ‘The death of storytelling’

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Mangold’s remarks come after Hugh Jackman made his return as Wolverine in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ despite his superhero having died in 2017’s ‘Logan’

Does Deadpool & Wolverine have any post-credits scenes?

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Film releases in theatres on 25 July, and fans already want to know whether they need to stick around until after the credits

Deadpool & Wolverine review: A tedious and annoying corporate merger of a film

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Hugh Jackman’s return as Wolverine is appropriately intense – but shortchanged by the fact that the character went through the exact same emotional beats in 2017’s ‘Logan’

Peaky Blinders fans react to Rebecca Ferguson’s casting in new movie

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Fans have a theory over who the ‘Dune’ star might play

Missing portrait of Henry VIII discovered after historian spots it in background of post on X

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Art historian Adam Busiakiewicz noticed the barely visible portrait in the background of a picture posted by the Warwickshire Lieutenancy

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Ice Spice review, Y2K!: Wickedly infectious energy, wit and filth

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Following a wave of overlong albums, the cool, TikTokable concision of Ice Spice’s first full-length record feels effortlessly in control

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Jon Voight condemns daughter Angelina Jolie’s stance on Israel-Palestine: ‘These people are not refugees’

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The ‘Midnight Cowboy’ star claimed Jolie has been ‘influenced by antisemitic people’