Category: Entertainment

The film Taxi by a dissident Iranian director has won the top prize at the 65th Berlin Film Festival.

An Oscar-nominated British animator is celebrating after winning a Bafta and raising enough money to fund her next film.

Steve Strange, lead singer of 1980s pop band Visage, has died aged 55 following a heart attack, his record label says.

First reviews of mummy-porn romance Fifty Shades of Grey say the film is better than the book it is based on.

Australia is to compete at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

In 2012 it took an elite team of superheroes to save earth from an alien army planning to enslave humanity.

Pop’s biggest stars are gearing up for the Grammy Awards later, with performances due from Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry and AC/DC.

The Oscar-nominated Russian film Leviathan is going on general release in Russian cinemas, but with silence blanking out the many swear words.

More plays were staged by the UK’s most-subsidised theatre companies in 2014 compared with five years earlier, despite fears about funding cuts, BBC research suggests.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of late singer Whitney Houston, is “fighting for her life” after being found unconscious, her family says.

The daughter of late American singer Whitney Houston has been found unresponsive in a bathtub in a home in Georgia, US police say.

Marion “Suge” Knight has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with a “fatal traffic incident”, the Los Angeles County Sheriff says.

Australian author Colleen McCullough, whose best-selling novel The Thorn Birds became a hit TV series, has died at the age of 77.

David Oyelowo has defended fellow British actor and friend, Benedict Cumberbatch, for using the term “coloured” during an interview.

Joan Rivers’ daughter has filed a malpractice claim against the New York medical clinic that treated her mother days before she died.

Michael Keaton’s film Birdman has been given a boost in the run-up to the Oscars after winning the Producers Guild of America’s top award.

Edgar Froese, the founding member of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream, has died in Vienna, aged 70.

Three-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is to play the Elephant Man in London following the critical acclaim he has received for the role on Broadway.

Singer Rihanna has won a legal battle against high street store Topshop over a T-shirt bearing her image.

An Israeli man has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the computers of pop stars including Madonna and selling unreleased songs online.

The cast of Coronation Street have led tributes to actress Anne Kirkbride, who played one of the soap’s best-loved characters Deirdre Barlow for 42 years.

A local Chinese newspaper has apologised after secretly photographing late singer Yao Beina during surgery to donate her corneas following her death.