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Four Beatles, four biopics: How director Sam Mendes secured the rights to tell their stories

Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are each set to get their very own film from Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes.
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The Beatles at Abbey Road

Why Hugo Weaving likes making indie movies in Australia rather than blockbusters overseas

In The Rooster, written and directed by Mark Leonard Winter, Weaving stars as a recluse who forges a friendship with a young man grieving his friend's death.
A film still of Hugo Weaving. He is wearing a beanie, has a full beard, and looks disheveled.

We unpack Zendaya and Anya's Dune looks and try to understand this Hemsworth's Met Gala role

All the (Taylor Swift-free) entertainment news you might have missed now the Eras tour frenzy has abated, from Beyoncé talking the legacy of Black hair to Eminem's new Stan documentary.
Zendaya, left, wears robotic couture and smizes with Anya, centre in a flowing white headpiece, and Chris, right, in a grey suit

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Barbie win People's Choice Awards. Here are the key moments

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce win People's Choice Awards while Barbie gets the love it missed out on at the BAFTAs, Kylie Minogue performs and icons Adam Sandler and Lenny Kravitz give two vastly different speeches.
America Ferrera pictured from shoulders up, short bob, smiling

Kylie Minogue, Billie Eilish and G Flip hit the Peoples Choice Awards red carpet

The awards which brings together the biggest names in movies, television, music and pop culture in general. Here's some of the looks we've seen so far. 
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Billie Eilish, Sydney Sweeney, and America Ferrera at the Peoples Choice Awards red carpet in their outfits

Here are all the People's Choice Awards winners, updated live

Here are the winners from the People's Choice Awards, where Barbie beat Oppenheimer and Taylor Swift, before Swift bounced back in a host of other categories.
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A composite image of Taylow Swift on stage and Travis Kelce in his NFL uniform.

BAFTAs red carpet features pretty in peach, statement trains, and classic monochrome styles

The awards season has crossed the pond and arrived in the UK, with the stars gathering for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.
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Three actresses standing on the red carpet in their gowns

When Jennifer Lopez dance-montages her way through three failed marriages, it's breathtaking

Jennifer Lopez reclaims her wild rollercoaster of a love life from our judgmental gaze in new musical This Is Me … Now.
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Jennifer Lopez wears a flower garland and carries a bouquet as she walks down an aisle surrounded by dances forming an arch.

Oppenheimer, Poor Things dominate BAFTAs as Barbie shut out. Here is the full winners list

Here are the winners from the BAFTA film awards, where Oppenheimer led the field and Barbie was one of many high profile films completely overlooked.
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Ryan Gosling winks at Emma Stone as she walks past to accept her BAFTA, as Margot Robbie looks on

Oppenheimer, Poor Things dominate BAFTAs as Barbie goes home empty handed — as it happened

Oppenheimer and Poor Things take out the top awards at the BAFTAs, with all Australian nominees going home empty-handed.
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Emma Stone, as main character Bella Baxter, holds a hardcover book and looks worrying to the side.

Original draft of Star Wars script left in London apartment by Harrison Ford fetches $20,821 at auction

The actor was said to have formed a genuine friendship with his landlords, leaving behind scripts, schedules and letters from his time filming Star Wars.
Composite of Harrison Ford as Han Solo holding a gun, and a printed movie script.

If corporate team-building exercises aren't enough of a nightmare, what happens when someone disappears into the forest on one?

In Force of Nature: The Dry 2 a group of women on a corporate team-building exercise battle the elements in the dense Victorian rainforest. 
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A group of five women hiking together with backpacks and warm clothes on in the Australian bush.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor celebrates resurgence as she prepares to headline Mardi Gras

The 'Murder on the Dancefloor' singer joins News Breakfast to chat about her newfound popularity and her upcoming gig headlining Sydney's Mardi Gras.
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The Fantastic Four franchise has had a chequered history. It's back with Pedro Pascal at the helm

The Fantastic Four franchise has met with some speed bumps in the past. But it's back, with Marvel announcing who will star in the new film due out in July 2025.
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Pedro Pascall dressed casually in a black jacket with white shirt, curly brown hair, moustache, beard

Dakota Johnson has charisma to burn, but even she can't save this abysmal superhero movie

The new Spider-Man spin-off starring Dakota Johnson is not about to reverse the downward spiral of the superhero industrial complex.
A brunette woman in a paramedic uniform looks up in shock in an action shot from Madame Web.

This heartwarming rom-com about finding love in the hellscape of capitalism won the Cannes Jury prize

This Cannes Prize winning Finnish film focuses on finding love amid the hellscape of capitalism — and it's surprisingly heartwarming. 
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A film still of Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen, sitting in a cinema. Vatanen is looking at Pöysti who is looking at the screen.

'I wanted to showcase the Asian Australian experience': A new Aussie rom-com hits streaming

Five Blind Dates, the first Aussie Amazon Original movie, sees Shuang Lu as Lia change her approach to dating after meeting a fortune teller.
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Richard (left) peers lovingly at Lia as they embrace wearing wedding finery in a park.

ICYMI: An Aus red carpet reunion, P!nk fan goes into labour at gig and Moana is back to save us all

All the entertainment and pop culture news you might've missed, from Kanye’s new album to Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl.
A composite image of three woman in ballgowns, a woman singing into a mic and Disney character Moana

Here are the main winners from the AACTA Awards, with Margot Robbie recognised as trailblazer, Talk to Me and The Newsreader win big

Here are the 2024 AACTA Awards winners, where Talk To Me, The Newsreader and Deadloch have dominated. 
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Anna Torv in an orange dress holding an award.

All the stylish looks at Australia's night of nights, the 2024 AACTA Awards

The best and brightest of Australian film and television grace the red carpet for the 2024 AACTA Awards on the Gold Coast.
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Three actresses standing on the red carpet

Here's everything you need to know about today's AACTA Awards

It's been billed as Australia's answer to the Golden Globes — or even the Oscars, depending on who you ask — and the stars are gathering for the ceremony on the Gold Coast.
A composite image of Margot Robbie, Rebel Wilson and Cate Blanchett

The Oscars will (finally) start awarding Best Casting, so here are five films that should have won

The Oscars have added a new category for the first time in more than two decades, with casting set to be honoured alongside acting, writing and directing. Here are five films we wish were honoured at the time.
Meryl, as Miranda, sits at her desk and looked pointedly down her nose in a judgmental way, with her hand on her hip

Woody Harrelson plays a pro-life protester in this new right to die, coming-of-age film

Suncoast is a semi-autobiographical story from director/writer Laura Chinn but the juxtaposition of a coming-of-age tale with the right-to-die debate feels uneasy.
A teen girl and a mid-50s man sit in a diner together

'We cast five incredible women': Eric Bana on the powerful actors who make The Dry 2 great

Eric Bana stars as detective Aaron Falk in the second movie in The Dry series, adapted from Jane Harper's distinctly Australian murder mystery series.
Eric Bana stands looking out over a wild mountain range

Crew member dies on Marvel's upcoming Wonder Man set

The 41-year-old rigger fell from a catwalk onto a studio stage on Tuesday. 
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