M. Night Shyamalan's Daughter Ishana To Make Feature Film Directorial Debut

Sharon Horgan has said her daughter wants Paul Mescal to beat Colin Farrell for the best actor Oscar at the 95th annual awards next week.The Irish actress and director said she could not pick between the two men, who she knows well, but that her daughter “loves Paul very much”. Mescal and Farrell will face off for the coveted award on March 12 after receiving wide acclaim for their performances. Farrell, 46, is nominated for his role in Martin McDonagh’s dark Irish comedy The Banshees Of Inisherin, in which he stars alongside Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon.

The family and friends of three women and two men are appealing for help to find them after they went missing following a night out in the early hours of Saturday (March 4).

David Beckham has given a glimpse into his rowdy trip to Dublin to celebrate Cruz’s 18th birthday. The two of them jetted off to Ireland for 24 hours with a couple friends and managed to cram in trips to plenty of iconic tourist locations, including a tour of the Guinness Storehouse and pints at Temple Bar. Cruz is the youngest son of Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and the football legend, who are also parents to Brooklyn, 23, Romeo, 20 and 11-year-old Harper.

The Northern Lights have returned to skies above large swathes of Scotland tonight (Monday, Fenbruary 27), for the second night running.

Love Island viewers have been left fuming with Shaq Muhammad for apologising to Tanya Manhenga after the chaos caused by Movie Night. It comes after Shaq watched a video of Tanya, 23, kissing Nigerian-Irish bombshell Martin Akinola during one of the clips chosen by the boys to play in front of everyone.

Julia MacCary editor An Irish Goodbye Inspiration for the black comedy came from co-director Tom Berkeley at soccer match where two brothers were “at each other’s throats,” although where one was caring for the other who had Down syndrome. In “An Irish Goodbye,” estranged brothers Lorcan and Turlough are brought back together following their mother’s death, and Turlough must take care of his younger brother, who has Down syndrome. Lorcan will not leave their farm until they complete all 100 items on their mother’s bucket list. Co-director Ross White tapped into his observations from working in a special education school. “There can be this lack of cynicism with people with Down syndrome, a sort of openness and an honesty and purity about the way they see the world,” he says. The film depicts the brothers’ respective responses to death: “You’ve got this one character who is coping with this in a very emotionally open way, and then you’ve got his brother who is a bit more of a typical masculine response,” says White. 

Alec Baldwin’s daughter Ireland stripped down in her latest pregnancy photo.  The 27-year-old posted a nude mirror selfie on Instagram Tuesday, showcasing her baby bump. "bb on board," Ireland captioned her post.  In the racy snap, she’s seen showing off her body tattoos and wearing nothing but a towel on her head. Ireland stood in front of a shower and covered up her chest with her hand, as her phone blocked her face in the naked shot.

Bankrupt Regal parent Cineworld said it had multiple bids for all or some of its assets in initial expressions of interest due last week. Its business includes Regal in the U.S.; Cineworld and Picturehouse in the U.K. and Ireland; and “rest of world” cinemas in Central and Eastern Europe, and Israel.

A huge festival of 90s music is heading to the Manchester City Airport at Barton this summer.

Deadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Film: The Nominees awards-season event, which took place on Saturday and highlighted the cast and creatives behind 12 films that have been Oscar-nominated this year.

All Quiet on the Western Front became the big winner tonight at BAFTA, taking not just the awards for Best Film and Best Director, but a total of 7 prizes out of its 14 nominations.

Refresh for latest…: It’s BAFTA Sunday here in London with the annual BAFTA Film Awards ceremony about to kick off at the Royal Festival Hall on an improbably clement evening. Richard E Grant is hosting the ceremony tonight, taking the baton from last year’s emcee Rebel Wilson, and we will be updating the list of winners live, so check back for updates.

Colm Bairéad’s appearance at Deadline’s Contenders: The Nominees event marks a year since his film The Quiet Girl first debuted at the Berlin Film Festival. A dual release in the UK and Ireland followed in May, and a slow international rollout has kept the director busy ever since. Indeed, as the film’s Oscar campaign enters the final stretch, The Quiet Girl is only now going wide across America: not bad going for a film with no stars that’s shot almost entirely in Irish, a language spoken by fewer than 2 million people worldwide.

SAG-AFTRA has extended the contract of Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the guild’s national executive director. The guild’s national board, meeting today via videoconference, voted overwhelmingly to extend his contract through June 20, 2028. The vote to approve his new deal was 87.68% in favor and 12.32% opposed.

Getting the band back together? Niall Horan‘s upcoming third studio album has fans talking — and some wondering whether a One Direction reunion may be in the works.

's season 48 is returning on Feb. 25 with three new shows back-to-back, and a whole slate of A-list hosts and musical guests.This season the cast looks quite a bit different, with four fresh new faces after a surprising exodus of long-time cast members — including veteran castmember Cecily Strong, who departed the show mid-season during the last episode of 2022.Check out the full list of the hosts and musical guests who have lent their talent to Season 48, and who are set to take the stage in the weeks to come. Check back as the season progresses, as the list will be updated regularly as new hosts and musical guests are announced.

EXCLUSIVE: Homeland and Death of Stalin actor Rupert Friend is set to star alongside Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch in James and Lucia, a biopic of celebrated author James Joyce which will focus on the Irish writer’s relationship with his daughter.

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that New Line has landed The Watchers, a project from Ishana Night Shyamalan which will mark her feature directorial debut and which she adapted from the A.M. Shine novel of the same name. There’s a lot of excitement around the thriller which is being fast-tracked for a June 7, 2024 global theatrical release; cameras rolling later this year. New Line beat out other studios with a competitive bid.

BBC Drama Director Lindsay Salt has assembled her commissioning team with a triple hire including the EP on Candice Carty-Williams’ Champion and a former Doctor Who script editor.

Alec Baldwin's daughter Ireland Baldwin showed off her growing baby bump Sunday via social media. Ireland, 27, is now six months pregnant.The model posed in a bikini on Instagram to celebrate the milestone. "Time for a Super Bowl of vanilla ice cream with hot sauce in it.