‘In Restless Dreams’ Director Alex Gibney On Paul Simon’s Extraordinary Music: “It Gets In Your Lungs And Suddenly You’re Breathing It”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Fresh off Britney Spears‘ reveal in her upcoming memoir, “The Woman in Me,” that she made it to the final round of auditions to play Allie opposite Ryan Gosling in “The Notebook, the Daily Mail has exclusively shared the pop singer’s emotional casting tape. In the video, Spears is brought to the egd of tears while reading a scene opposite Gosling, who is off camera during the audition. The singer, who had previously only acted in the film “Crossroads” at the time of this audition, was tasked with reading a scene in which Allie tells Gosling’s Noah she is going to marry another man.

Manchester United are reportedly considering appointing former Monaco sporting director Paul Mitchell.

This week, American fried chicken restaurant, Popeyes, officially opens the doors to its first restaurant in Manchester. The chicken spot, which is known to attract massive queues will be located at One Piccadilly Gardens and launches at 11am on Thursday (26 October)

Montana Brown has credited Celebrity SAS for getting her pregnant and even joked that her co-star Jermaine Pennant is her son's real dad.The star, 28, who found fame on Love Island, had struggled to conceive for months but got pregnant days after she came back from being on SAS and saw her partner Mark O'Connor again. Speaking to The Sun, Montana explained: "I was trying to have a baby for so long before SAS and literally in the few days that I got back I conceived.

Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman and late filmmaker Nancy Buirski will be honored at the Hamptons Doc Fest in New York next month.

UPDATED, 10:30 AM: RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Shangela won a round in court Wednesday as a judge dismissed two of the claims in a man’s lawsuit accusing of the We’re Here co-host of rape in 2020 in Louisiana.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A group of A-list actors is adding pressure on SAG-AFTRA leadership to find a way to resolve the actors strike, which has now lasted 97 days. George Clooney, Tyler Perry, Scarlett Johansson, and others held a Zoom meeting on Tuesday afternoon with Fran Drescher, the president of SAG-AFTRA, and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union’s executive director. Though the tone has been described as “supportive,” the actors did not call the meeting merely to express support.

Katie Price has proudly shown off her new '3D lips' as she got yet more filler and declared 'I love them'. The 45 year old mum of five is known for her love of plastic surgery, and she recently took to Instagram to show off the results of her latest lip filler procedure. On her Instagram stories, Katie, the ex-wife of Peter Andre, reposted her aesthetics company's post, where she could be seen sitting on a sofa wearing a pink hoody, with her dark hair tied back.

Lise Pedersen Two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Alexander Payne shared his passion for film and his thoughts on contemporary American cinema with the audience at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon where he is premiering his eighth feature film, “The Holdovers,” under the French title “Winter Break,” on October 15th. In a conversation skilfully led and translated by Los Angeles-based French film journalist Didier Allouch, Payne drew laughs from the Lumière crowd when he explained that the secret to making good films was “keeping your budgets low.” “John Huston approached Luis Buñuel one day and asked him, ‘How is it that you make these wonderful films, like “Viridiana” and “The Exterminating Angel”?’ And Buñuel replied, ‘How much money do you make and how much money do you think I make?’” said Payne with a smile.

Panto fans are sure to be hooked when pop icon Boy George takes to the Scottish stage in Peter Pan.

Barry Manilow is back by popular demand with an exclusive arena show for the UK in 2024 at Manchester’s Co-Op Live arena on Sunday, May 19, 2024 - and tickets are on sale now.

Frank Rizzo As backers’ auditions go, “Gutenberg! The Musical!” — a wildly delusional conceit so full of itself that it boasts two exclamation points — doesn’t stand a chance of making it to Broadway. That is, unless it can convince an audience of potential producers that it is witnessing the greatest creation since, well, the printing press.

Kyle Walker has returned to full England training after missing sessions earlier this week.

Dolly Parton is sharing the inspiration behind her fashion choices.

If you're tired, feel achey and not sleeping well, it might be signs of a vitamin D deficiency.

Michaela Zee On Thursday’s episode of the “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast, “Dicks: The Musical” director Larry Charles opened up about why he steers clear of working on big-budget movies. “I try to make things like ‘Dangerous Comedy’ or this movie [‘Dicks: The Musical’] — this movie’s a very low-budget movie,” Charles said of the raunchy A24 musical.

Moorgate Primary School, in Bolton, is the most oversubscribed primary school in all of Greater Manchester - with less than half of the parents and guardians who put it down as first choice securing a place.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Universal Pictures Content Group has acquired international rights to Elon Musk documentary “Musk,” directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. It was announced during Cannes earlier this year that HBO Documentary Films had come on board to join the production and will release the film in North America.

U2 is headed to Sin City to kick off their ‘U2/UV Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere’ Las Vegas residency at the MSG Sphere starting Friday, Sept. 29.Over the course of the year, Bono, The Edge and the band will play 25 huge shows at the brand new, state of the art venue.“Sphere is completely unprecedented,” the band’s creative director shared on Instagram.

As the weather begins to get cooler there will again likely be a rise in respiratory viruses - including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The virus, which is a common childhood illness, usually spreads in the UK each year from October and last for around five months - with infections peaking in December.