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Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Bill Nighy and “Jojo Rabbit” breakout Roman Griffin Davis are lined up to star in “500 Miles,” directed by BAFTA winner Morgan Matthews. Beta Cinema has acquired international sales rights to the film, and will launch sales at next week’s European Film Market.

Academy Award nominee Bill Nighy and rising teen actor Roman Griffin Davis are set to co-star in road movie 500 Miles from BAFTA Award-winning director Morgan Matthews.

Angela Griffin has been a familiar face to TV viewers since she first made her name on Coronation Street in the early 90s. The talented star spent six years playing hairdresser Fiona Middleton and, post-cobbles, has carved out an impressive career on the small screen.

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Channel 4 is merging several commissioning departments including TV drama and film and leaving its Horseferry Road premises as the network sets out its layoffs plan and five-year strategy.

A main road in Oldham was cordoned off on Sunday evening (January 28) amid reports of a person being struck by a car.

here – applications close March 15.Recent successes from the studio includes an alumnus who received a Grammy for her contribution to Sam Smith and Kim Petras’ ‘Unholy’. Current scholarship recipient Leah Morris has worked with Mahalia and Stormzy alongside her participation in the course.A post shared by Abbey Road Studios (@abbeyroadstudios)“Abbey Road strongly values the importance of creating opportunities that encourage greater diversity within the recording and music industries,” said Sally Davies, managing director at Abbey Road Studios.

Just as a reinvigorated Justin Timberlake has a new album and world tour in his sites, a blast from his past is complicating things at least a little bit.

Traffic came to a stop on a busy Scots road this morning after a horror two-vehicle car crash.

Multiple people were left hurt after a crash between a bus and a bin lorry in Tyldesley in the early hours of this morning.

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The trailer for the remake of the classic film Road House, starring Jake Gyllenhaal in the starring role, has arrived.

Antiques Road Trip viewers have been hooked on the BBC show since it started in 2010. The programme sees experts compete to snap up items to sell at auction later while sticking to a strict budget.

The Traitors star Andrew Jenkins has opened up about being given a "second chance at life" following a devastating road accident which left him in a coma. The 45 year insurance broker spoke about the accident in Wednesday's (24 January) episode of The Traitors, saying he's been on a "huge journey" which has made him "determined" and "competitive".

Jake Gyllenhaal‘s new movie Road House is scheduled to debut on Amazon’s Prime Video on March 21 and the film is set to have its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, but don’t expect to see director Doug Liman there.

The premise of the documentary “Will & Harper” is so simple that it almost seems presentational, self-serving, or stunt-y. The idea is, after 30 years of friendship, comedian Will Ferrell learns, through a personal email, that an old friend and former “Saturday Night Live” writer, then Adam Steele (yes, the dead name is used at first), is coming out as a trans woman.

A damaged elephant that was bought for £8 became one of the most memorable auction sales on Antiques Roadshow after bringing in a staggering profit. Back in 2012, BBC experts Charlie Ross and James Braxton broke records when they were given a budget of just £200 to buy a selection of second-hand collectables in the hopes of making money.

Firefighters have begun a second day at the scene of a blaze at a former hotel in Wigan. Crews were called out to Bolton Road, in Ashton-in-Makerfield, shortly before 7pm last night (January 23) after a fire broke out at the derelict former Rockleigh Hotel.

Fire crews were called to a main road in Wigan after a derelict hotel went up in flames. Emergency services rushed to Bolton Road following reports of a building fire on Tuesday evening (January 23).

Pending Woody Allen’s final and absolute cancellation, few directors have emerged to take his place as an erudite and literary artist whose work combines snappy wordplay, base sex jokes and a philosophical willingness to stare into the abyss. Jesse Eisenberg staked a tentative claim to that throne with his 2022 debut When You Finish Saving the World, an amiable but scrappy political satire about a left-wing mother and son, but his follow-up makes a stronger case, being much more adult, less broadly scripted, and as depressing as Woody Allen circa Stardust Memories (which his sophomore film as director obliquely resembles, with its talk of chance, fate and irony).

A road in Oldham town centre is closed after the front of a building collapsed onto the street in strong winds brought by Storm Isha.

Naman Ramachandran Indonesian film star Arifin Putra (“The Raid 2”) and emerging actor Eloise Lovell Anderson (“Villain”) have wrapped principal photography on Sean Cronin’s vampire road movie “Bogieville.” Written by Henry P. Gravelle (“The Over Easy Courthouse Cafe”), the film follows a couple on the run who come across a derelict trailer park, Bogieville. Convinced to stay by the sinister caretaker, they soon learn that he is a guardian to the residents of Bogieville, a pack of vampires.

EXCLUSIVE: The dealmaking has begun. Searchlight Pictures closed the first major deal on the ground at the Sundance Film Festival — $10 million for WW rights for A Real Pain, directed and written by Jesse Eisenberg. He stars with freshly minted Emmy winning Succession star Kieran Culkin as mismatched cousins David and Benji. They reunite for a tour of Poland to honor their grandmother, but older tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family’s history. The film will get a big theatrical release later this year.

An 'utterly stupid' drug dealer drove at 100mph in a 30mph zone while trying to escape from the police. Abdulmalik Sayid, 25, passed through 'numerous' red lights and even drove on the wrong side of the road before eventually crashing into two other cars, at the junction of Alan Turing Way and Ashton Old Road, close to the Etihad Stadium in east Manchester.

In a first for Antiques Road Trip, Paul Laidlaw found an item in an antique store that ended up selling for a whopping £20,000. In an episode which aired in 2021, the auctioneer discovered a rare old camera for just £60, and was shocked when it sold for such a high price at a Bury St. Edmunds auction in Suffolk, alongside fellow expert Kate Bliss.

ACF Investment Bank, which helped with the sale of Pilgrim Studios to Lionsgate and Charlie Brooker’s Broke & Bones to Netflix, has a new majority owner.

A decade-long campaign to bring in safety measures on a road in Oldham where parents 'live in fear or their kids' has finally succeeded. Under Lane, which connects the Saddleworth village of Grotton to Mossley via Lees road, has long caused anxiety because of daily speeding incidents.

Passengers rushed to help an injured child after they were hit by a bus on a busy man road in Stockport on Monday afternoon (January 15).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Liam Neeson is to reprise his role as a truck driver turned rescue worker from 2021 indie hit “The Ice Road.” With director Jonathan Hensleigh (writer of “Die Hard with a Vengeance,” “Armageddon” and “Jumanji”) again on board, “The Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky” relocates its story from Canada in the original to Nepal in the sequel. Film production is set to shift from North America to Australia’s Victoria State. Filming will begin this month using Gippsland town of Walhalla as the backdrop for some of the picture’s action scenes.

A biker was rushed to hospital with serious injuries following a crash involving a car and motorcycle on a busy road in Cheshire.