EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lloyd, director of the Broadway-bound Sunset Boulevard musical led by an incandescent Nicole Scherzinger center stage as Norma Desmond, is making a move into the world of movies and reveals to Deadline that his London-based Jamie Lloyd Company “will set up a separate film division and…

SUNDAY UPDATE: Alien: Romulus has chomped into a $108.2M global opening, including $41.5M from domestic and $66.7M at the international box office. The Fede Alvarez-directed sci-fi horror came in well ahead of expectations, aided, as we noted yesterday (see below), by an over-performance in China. The…

When HM Queen Elizabeth apparently leapt out of a helicopter and unfolding a Union Jack flag to mark the beginning of the London Olympics in 2012, she brought the watching world to their feet in surprise.  Now, author Craig Brown reveals that the moment, created by English film director Danny Boyle (S…

Alexander Payne touched down at the Sarajevo Film Festival on Sunday where he shed some light on his next project – a Western which will reunite the writer-director with The Holdovers scribe David Hemingson.  Speaking at a masterclass at the Bosnian Cultural Center, Payne, whose last project The Holdo…

Record-breaking author J.K. Rowling has remembered the moment she first realised that, in her schoolboy wizard Harry Potter, she had created a phenomenon.  Rowling's series of seven books telling the trials and triumphs of Harry and his friends at Hogwarts School for Wizards has now sold more than…

France's president Emanuel Macron has led tributes to titan of French cinema Alain Delon following his death aged 88.  Macron posted on X: Monsieur Klein ou Rocco, le Guépard ou le Samouraï, Alain Delon a incarné des rôles légendaires, et fait rêver le monde. Prêtant son visage inoubliable pour…

French acting star Alain Delon, whose many iconic roles included Le Samouraï, Plein Soleil and The Leopard, has died in France at the age of 88. The actor's children said in a statement that their father had passed away in the early hours of Sunday, surrounded by his family and beloved Belgian…

"There are so many people who talk bollocks about film," actor Brian Cox furiously concluded this afternoon at the Edinburgh Film Festival.  The veteran Scottish actor, now best known for his leading role in HBO's Succession, was the surprise addition to an industry talk at the revamped Scottish fest…

Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė has clinched the Golden Leopard in the main international competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival with her debut feature Toxic. Directed by Bliuvaitė from a screenplay she also wrote, the film follows two 13-year-olds, Marija and Kristina, who form a unique…

A comedian's show has been cancelled by a theatre, following an accusation that his act included a joke that was anti-Semitic.  Reginald D Hunter is one of the highest profile comedians performing at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, UK. The Eastwood Theatre has dropped his show a…

Taylor Swift gave her London audience a special surprise gift at her Friday evening concert, debuting her song London Boy in front of the 92,000-strong crowd in Wembley Stadium. The song, sung here for the first time on Swift's Eras tour, is reportedly inspired by her long relationship with English…

BBC former star news anchor Huw Edwards was convicted of making indecent images of children just over a fortnight ago, and now another man has claimed Edwards assaulted him in a public place.  The unnamed man has given an interview to The Daily Mail newspaper in which he claims:  The man, then…