Tag: Stars

Albert Maysles, whose 1970 film Gimme Shelter followed the Rolling Stones on their US tour, has died aged 88.

A man who normally performs as a Mick Jagger tribute act will compete for the UK in May’s Eurovision Song Contest.

The doctor who pulled Harrison Ford from the wreck of a plane crash has described how he feared a fireball from the aircraft’s leaking fuel.

US actor Harrison Ford has been injured in a small plane crash in Los Angeles. The 72-year-old star of the Indiana Jones and Star Wars films reported engine failure and crash-landed his vintage plane on a Venice golf course. He…

James Bond star Daniel Craig will appear in a “special one-off sketch” for Comic Relief, to be broadcast as part of Red Nose Day on 13 March.

Will Smith’s crime caper Focus has debuted at number one on the North American box office chart, knocking Fifty Shades of Grey off the top spot.

One of Turkey’s best-known writers, Yasar Kemal, 92, has died in an Istanbul hospital following respiratory and organ failure.

US actor Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr Spock in the cult sci-fi series Star Trek, has died at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, his family has said.

A Los Angeles judge has told Lindsay Lohan to do 125 more hours of community service after decreeing that activities she performed while appearing in a West End play last year did not count.

Pop star Madonna has fallen off the stage during her performance at the 2015 Brit Awards.

The US TV broadcast of this year’s Oscars ceremony on Sunday scored the event’s lowest ratings in six years, averaging 36.6 million.

Rolf Harris has been stripped of his Australian honours after his conviction last year for child sex offences.

British actor Eddie Redmayne has won the best actor Oscar for The Theory of Everything, while Julianne Moore picked up best actress for Still Alice.

The campaigning is over. The red carpet is rolled out. And Hollywood is braced for its starriest night of the year.

Kristen Stewart has become the first US actress to win a Cesar award, the French equivalent of the Oscars.

EastEnders’ latest murder mystery storyline has reached its climax, with viewers of the BBC One soap finally learning who killed Lucy Beale.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall joined Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith on the orange carpet at the royal premiere of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on Tuesday.

Erotic film adaptation Fifty Shades of Grey sizzled at North American box offices this weekend, taking an estimated $81.7m(£53m).

The French actor Louis Jourdan, best known for his role in the multi-Oscar winning 1958 musical Gigi, has died in California aged 93.

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.