Five Animated Features From Stan Lee Universe In Development At Kartoon Studios & GFM Animation

The 1% Club presenter Lee Mack is over the moon as his BBC sitcom 'Not Going Out' is set to return for a fabulous 14th season in 2025, and he can't help but express his gratitude for the show's longevity. After an incredible 18 years since its debut, Lee still finds working on the series a "dream come true." He shared his excitement, saying: "Once again I'm very grateful that the BBC have trusted in us to keep alive the studio sitcom." Lee reminisced about his own experiences watching BBC sitcoms and feels honoured to contribute to the genre: "I grew up watching this genre of sitcom on the BBC, and to be part of it myself is still a dream come true, even after 18 years of doing it.

The infamous "Wagatha Christie" case is due to return to court for a hearing regarding legal costs. Rebekah Vardy, 42, lost her high-profile libel claim against Coleen Rooney, 38, in July 2022 when Mrs Justice Steyn ruled that Coleen's viral social media post accusing Rebekah of leaking her private information to the press was "substantially true".

Lady Gaga has revealed that she came down with COVID during five shows on her ‘Chromatica Ball’ tour in 2022.The singer-songwriter, who attended the fan premiere of her upcoming concert film Gaga Chromatica Ball in Los Angeles last night (May 23), said she was ill on the tour during a Q&A with Access Hollywood‘s Scott Evans ahead of the screening.She said: “I shared it with everyone on my team. I said, ‘I don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable at work and you don’t have to perform and you don’t have to work that day, but I’m going to do the show’ because I just didn’t want to let all the fans down.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Actor Lee Jung-jae will attend the Monte-Carlo Television Festival next month for the French press launch of Lucasfilm’s latest live-action series “Star Wars: The Acolyte,” which streams on Disney+. In the show, Lee plays a Jedi Master. It was his role in the globally successful Netflix series “Squid Game” that first catapulted Lee’s career to an international level.

Nigel Farage has announced he is not standing as a Reform UK candidate in the July 4 General Election, but will “do my bit to help” the party in the campaign.

With Coleen and Wayne Rooney ’s teenage son already lifting football trophies, the couple are allegedly at odds over the talented youngster’s next steps. Fourteen-year-old Kai Rooney, the eldest of the couple’s four boys, has been tipped to follow in his father’s legendary footsteps after scoring his own “wonder goal” against Millwall last week, securing his Manchester United Under 14 team the Albert Phelan National Cup.

Selena Kuznikov Rupert Evans and Ewan Horrocks will lead the cast of a new four-part limited series, “Truth & Conviction,” for “Sound of Freedom” producer Angel Studios. Based on a true story, the follows Helmuth Hübener, a teenager who led a resistance group with his two friends during World War II in Hamburg, Germany. Evans will play Erwin Mussener, the SS Agent.

Kate Winslet‘s Lee finally has a debut teaser trailer.

EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Chris Jenkins‘ animated family comedy 10 Lives, in partnership with GFM Animation. World premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the film featuring the voices of singer-songwriter Zayn Malik, Bill Nighy (Living) and more will be released wide in theaters on October 11.

For the first time ever, McDonald's has removed the smile from millions of its Happy Meal boxes in restaurants across the country. The move aims to communicate to children it is okay not to be happy all the time, helping spark family conversations about emotions during Mental Health Awareness Week (May 13 to 19).

Naman Ramachandran Indian streamer SonyLIV has unveiled the actors playing Pakistani leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah and his sister Fatima in its magnum opus series “Freedom at Midnight.” Based on the 1975 non-fiction book of the same name by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, the political drama delves into India’s independence movement, weaving together untold tales and critical moments from the era when the country’s then British colonial rulers partitioned the country into India and Pakistan in 1947. Formerly a member of the Congress party that the leaders of India’s independence movement, including Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru also belonged to, Mohammed Ali Jinnah became the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the formation of Pakistan.

Naman Ramachandran After the well-received “Joyland” in 2022 and “In Flames” last year, Pakistan is debuting a central hub at the Cannes Film Festival this year. The Pakistan Crescent Collective, set up by Modoxy Media, will represent the country’s official presence at the festival, with a mission to “discover and nurture the next generation of talent, preserve film, andpromote Pakistani and diaspora films globally, thereby advancing Pakistan’s visual culture.” The collective consists of a global team of film industry professionals based in London, Karachi, New York and Los Angeles.

NBC has announced that they are developing a follow-up series to the US version of hit sitcom The Office, with the new show set to stream on Peacock in the US. It was announced on Wednesday 8 May that Peacock had placed a formal series order for the untitled series, which is set in the same universe as NBC's former Emmy-winning Steve Carell comedy.The new TV series is set to introduce a new cast of characters "in a fresh setting ripe for comedic storytelling: a daily newspaper," according to NBCUniversal Entertainment's Lisa Katz.This will be another addition to the massive The Office universe, reports the Mirror US.

Prince Harry‘s medals are getting a lot of attention.

EXCLUSIVE: The grades are in and the film and TV studios taking part in BAFTA albert’s climate assessment have upped their game in the past year.

Alex Ritman With vibrant green carpets no doubt already having been sourced for its various global premieres, “Wicked” is expected to be one of the biggest movie events this winter. It certainly ticks all the necessary boxes — a major musical adaptation of one of the world’s most successful stage shows and featuring an all-star cast led by the almost-EGOT Cynthia Erivo and, in her first feature-film lead role, pop princess Ariana Grande.

EastEnders actress Lorraine Stanley has officially unveiled her latest career plans after leaving the BBC soap earlier this year. As regular viewers will know, Lorraine announced her character Karen Taylor’s departure last August, with the character last seen on screen in February 2024.

Fleetwood Mac‘s ‘Rumours’ has been named as the best-selling vinyl of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.The seminal record by the band, which was originally released in 1977, was revealed to have sold just under 280,000 copes on vinyl in this millennium alone. Pink Floyd‘s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ made it into the top five of the best-selling vinyl records, along with Nirvana‘s ‘Nevermind’ and Oasis‘s ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’.

EXCLUSIVE: Blackwater Pictures, the British indie production company behind the buzzy biopic about the life of veteran Snooker player Jimmy White, has set up what they describe as a “multi-million-pound” fund to support commercially-minded independent British films.

Kate Winslet‘s Lee finally has a debut teaser trailer.