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Strange but true: The Beatles’ American record company decided not to release their albums. Instead, Capitol chopped them up to generate more product. Nobody at the label had any idea that future generations would revere these records as sacred artistic units. No, Capitol just wanted to squeeze more funny paper out of the moptops before the bubble burst. So they doled out 12 songs per LP instead of 14, and rushed out seven albums in a year. American fans got different versions than the rest of the world. The U.S. albums have been forgotten by history,...

En ella, Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw y Bill Nighy ponen sus voces a los personajes en su versión original. © Netflix

Netflix ha lanzado el tráiler de Aquella Navidad, la película de animación basada en la entrañable trilogía de libros infantiles del aclamado y multipremiado guionista y director Richard Curtis.

Aquella Navidad cuenta varias historias entrelazadas sobre la familia y los amigos, el amor y la soledad, y sobre Papá Noel, que ha metido la pata… ¡por no hablar de un montonazo de pavos!

La película cuenta en su versión original con un elenco de voces destacado en el que figuran Brian Cox (Succession), Fiona Shaw (Amigos imaginarios) y Bill Nighy (Robot salvaje).

Aquella Navidad se estrena el 4 de diciembre en Netflix.

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‘The Pearl Comb’, written and directed by Ali Cook, marks his directorial debut and continues Ali Cook’s creative journey as a film maker.

It follows the film festival success of ‘The Cunning Man’, written by Ali Cook.

‘The Cunning Man’ earned significant acclaim, winning 33 awards and screening at over 88 international film festivals, including FrightFest, the Oscar-qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival, the Oscar-qualifying Cinequest, the BAFTA & BIFA-qualifying Norwich Film Festival, the BAFTA-qualifying Underwire Festival, Morbido, the BAFTA- qualifying Aesthetica Festival, the Oscar-qualifying In The Palace International Film Festival, and the BAFTA-qualifying Carmarthen Bay International Film Festival.

In 2019, ‘The Cunning Man’ was also BAFTA long listed and was the runner-up for the prestigious Méliès d’Argent award at the Abertoir Horror Festival.

Set in Victorian Cornwall, ‘The Pearl Comb’ follows a humble fisherman’s wife who becomes the first person ever to cure someone of tuberculosis, catching the attention of the medical profession.

Maria Bakalova, who last played Ivana Trump in “The Apprentice,” will star opposite Peter Mullan in “No Way Off,” a suspense thriller which Altitude is presenting to international buyers at the American Film Market this week in Las Vegas.

The movie is written by Gaby Hull and will be directed by Brian Kelly. Matthew James Wilkinson (“Yesterday”) is producing for his Stigma Films banner.

Inspired by single-location thrillers such as “The Shallows,” “Buried” and “Crawl,” the movie is set on Christmas Eve and revolves around Laura, a young mother who waits at a bus stop with her infant son. “When the bus pulls up, its driver is wearing a latex Santa mask. Laura climbs aboard, collapsing into her seat. Exhausted and stressed, she soon fall asleep. When Laura wakes, night has fallen. The bus is now hurtling along a motorway, miles off its usual route. Apart from the sleeping baby,...

Glee stars Jenna Ushkowitz and Kevin McHale opened up about returning to set after losing costar Cory Monteith.

The actor, who brought Finn Hudson to life in the hit series, passed away at the age of 31 in July 2013. The following month, the cast returned to set to work on the fifth season.

In a new episode of their And That’s What You Really Missed podcast, Jenna and Kevin recalled the challenge of being in a spot where they spent so much time with Cory. They explained how they handled the heartbreak and also reflected on the “strength” that Lea Michele (who dated Cory and was the main star of the show) displayed in the aftermath.

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Kevin noted that the cast was “all very much in the early stages of grieving” when they got back to set, via EW. “And then we’re back...

Brian Cox’s Santa Claus is coming to town in the first trailer for Netflix’s animated holiday comedy That Christmas.

In the film’s first trailer, the Succession actor is sporting Kris Kringle’s standard uniform — a beard, red suit with a white fur trim and boots — as he delivers presents to children on the busiest night of the year, Christmas Eve.

That Christmas is based on a trilogy of children’s books by award-winning writer-director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually and Yesterday) and marks his first leap into animation. The film features entwined stories about family and friends, love and loneliness and Santa Claus making a big mistake.

In her review, The Hollywood Reporter‘s Lovia Gyarkye praised the “charming animation” while adding that the movie “slyly avoids the usual mawkishness by grounding its whimsical story in the real and prickly emotions of life.

"Everything was about to get a lot more complicated..."...

Brian Cox is coming down the chimney.

In the first trailer for Netflix’s animated holiday comedy “That Christmas,” the “Succession” alum suits up as Santa Claus as he tells the story of one of the most challenging nights in his career.

Based on the charming trilogy of children’s books by beloved multi award-winning writer/director Richard Curtis, “That Christmas” follows a series of entwined tales about family and friends, love, loneliness and Santa Claus making a big mistake — not to mention an enormous number of turkeys.

The ensemble cast includes Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker, Lolly Adefope, Alex Macqueen, Katherine Parkinson, Sindhu Vee, India Brown, Zazie Hayhurst, Sienna Sayer, Jack Wisniewski, Rosie Cavaliero, Paul Kaye, Guz Khan, Andy Nyman, Kuhu Agarwal, Bronte Smith, Freddie Spry and Ava Talbot with Bill Nighy and Rhys Darby.

Curtis makes his first foray into animation as the Locksmith Animation comedy’s writer and executive producer.

Netflix revealed the official That Christmas trailer, which comes from Locksmith Animation (Ron’s Gone Wrong) and director Simon Otto (How to Train Your Dragon trilogy). Debuting on December 4, the film has been rated PG for thematic elements, some language, and rude humor.

That Christmas is an adaptation of the beloved children’s book series written by acclaimed BAFTA Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated writer and director Richard Curtis.

That Christmas follows a series of entwined tales about family and friends, love and loneliness, and Santa Claus making a big mistake, not to mention an enormous number of turkeys! A film of firsts, it marks Curtis’s first animation project and the directorial debut of animation veteran Otto.

The film stars Brian Cox as Santa, Fiona Shaw (Ms. Trapper), Jodie Whittaker (Mrs. Williams), and Bill Nighy (Bill) as the residents of a charming seaside town where things turn upside down one Christmas.

Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band live in the shadow of The Beatles. In an interview, the “Back Off Boogaloo” singer explained the difference between the two groups. He only told half the story.

Ringo Starr said The Beatles and the All-Starr Band were centered on different things

During a 2021 interview with Vulture, the “You’re Sixteen” singer discussed the difference between the Fab Four and the All-Starr Band. “The Beatles were definitely a different part in my life,” he said. “I was in bands before The Beatles and then I was just there. Then it went mad, but we were making good music.

“That’s the four of us — and I can speak on behalf of the four of us on this. It was always about the music,” the “Photograph” singer added. “We were serious about the music and it still shows to this day. You can still listen to...

Sometimes, classic rock stars don’t understand their own work. Ringo Starr said some things about The Beatles’ “Love Me Do” that are just plain wrong. His comments don’t make sense in light of The Beatles’ career or Ringo’s career as a solo artist.

Ringo Starr said The Beatles’ ‘Love Me Do’ is his defining song

During a 2023 interview with Vulture, Ringo was asked to name the defining song of his career. “Because it was the first song, my answer is ‘Love Me Do,'” he said. “We were on vinyl. We made a record.

“Even though when I got to the studio, George Martin had a session guy for the drums, Andy White, but I played on it anyway,” the “Photograph” singer added. “He played it, I played it — he’s on the album, I think, and I’m on the single, so go figure. We were...

Danny Boyle is the Oscar-winning director who has brought his boundless energy, visual aplomb and wicked sense of humor to a number of genres, excelling at science fiction, horror, romance and comedy. He most recently achieved box office success with the musical fantasy “Yesterday” (2019). But how does it stand up to the rest of his filmography? Let’s take a look back at all 13 of his films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1956 in Manchester, England, Boyle got his start in theater and television before making his movie debut with with the macabre thriller “Shallow Grave” (1994), made when he was 38-years-old. He became an art house darling with his second feature, “Trainspotting” (1996), a comedic drama about a group of Edinburg heroin addicts. With films as diverse as the zombie chiller “28 Days Later” (2003), the children’s fantasy “Millions” (2004) and the sci-fi epic “Sunshine” (2007), he established his distinctive style of bright colors,...

In the upcoming episode of Bangers and Cash, titled “Mathewsons Uncovered,” viewers are invited to explore the fascinating world of classic car auctions. Set to air at 8:00 Pm on Thursday, 17 October 2024, this episode takes the audience behind the scenes at Mathewsons, a family-run car auction business located in Thornton-le-Dale, North Yorkshire.

The episode highlights the thrill of discovering rare vehicles, showcasing how Mathewsons has become a hotspot for classic car buyers from all over the country. As the team digs into the unique stories behind these cars, viewers will gain insight into the meticulous process of appraising and auctioning these prized automobiles.

From stunning restorations to intriguing finds, the episode promises a blend of excitement and nostalgia, capturing the passion of car enthusiasts and collectors alike. As the auction day approaches, the atmosphere buzzes with anticipation, and viewers will be on the edge of their seats to see which...

Entries for the 2025 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

The 97th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 2, 2025 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between November 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 2, 2024.

A shortlist of 15 finalists is scheduled to...

The Beatles defined classic rock in the 1960s, and The Eagles helped define classic rock in the 1970s. One of The Eagles felt his band included America’s equivalent of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership. Here’s why he’s wrong on multiple levels.

1 of The Eagles said his band wrote songs just as well as The Beatles

During a 2013 interview with SongFacts, The Eagles’ Don Felder discussed the magic of The Eagles’ songwriting. “Everybody brought their particular talent to each recording,” he recalled. “And it was really an unusual circumstance to have five people in a band that every one of us wrote, sang, and played. And any one of us could have and had previously fronted their own band.”

Felder compared The Eagles to another famous group. “It was an unusual amount of talent that we had five singers, five songwriters, and five musicians,” he said. “And so what...

It takes more than a village to make a movie; it’s more like a small army. And in the case of “The Franchise,” that army has a lot of faces you’ll recognize.

Streaming on Max and airing on HBO on Sundays, the comedy series tells the story of a film crew working to put together the next installment in a major (fictional) superhero franchise. Along the way, they run into the many hurdles of Hollywood, with the show lovingly poking fun at how real superhero films seem to be made.

Like we said, you’re going to see a lot of familiar actors, some of whom have actually starred in real-life franchises. We’ve rounded them up for you below.

Here’s who’s who in “The Franchise.”

Colin Hutton/HBO Daniel (Himesh Patel)

Daniel is the First Ad on the fictional movie “Tecto,” and he basically keeps things afloat in the series.

Prime Video has unveiled the official trailer for the second season of the psychological thriller, ‘The Devil’s Hour.’

Season Two sees Lucy (Jessica Raine) and Gideon (Peter Capaldi) forming an uneasy alliance in order to prevent a recurring tragedy and hunt down an elusive monster. Lucy’s double life sees her torn between family and duty as she finds herself in the crosshairs of her past-life husband, Di Ravi Dhillon (Nikesh Patel).

Assisting Dhillon in his investigation is DS Sam Boyd (Saffron Hocking) who was mentored by Di Lucy Chambers in a previous life. Meanwhile, Isaac (Benjamin Chivers) is discovering new emotions every day and struggling to keep his balance in a reality that rejects his existence. Fresh mysteries unfold as our stories converge on one explosive moment that will change the fate of our characters for the rest of their ever-recurring lives.

Prime Video has unveiled the official trailer...

Fans of ‘The Voice’ are complaining the show is rigged after a controversial decision. Let’s dive into the controversy and see why they think so.

The Voice – Controversy In ‘The Voice’ Franchise

A wave of controversy is currently enveloping the Voice franchise, particularly the Australian iteration that is captivating audiences. While NBC’s The Voice is just embarking on its new season, international viewers are expressing their discontent.

The most recent episode of The Voice Australia, featuring the illustrious Adam Lambert and the talented LeAnn Rimes as coaches, witnessed an elimination that has left many fans questioning its fairness.

According to reports from Yahoo News, contestants Eden and Skÿe engaged in a fierce battle, performing a rendition of The Beatles’ timeless classic “Yesterday.” Despite the coaches’ acknowledgment of Skÿe’s lackluster performance, he was advanced to the next stage as the choice for Guy Sebastian’s team, an Australian...

The future is now, old man. When director Danny Boyle's horror classic "28 Days Later" first released in the United States back in June of 2003, the now-ubiquitous piece of tech known as the iPhone still remained almost exactly four years away from debuting. In the decades since, artists have found some unique ways to put these phones through their paces -- everything from music videos to feature-length movies have now been touted as being shot entirely on iPhones. The appeal is rather self-explanatory, with the idea being that storytellers of this tech-savvy generation need little more than ambition, creativity, and an iPhone to become genuine filmmakers in their own right. Forget all those stuffy (and exclusive) film schools or nepo-baby connections, because now anyone can shoot a movie with the most common smartphone of all.

That's the feel-good story associated with the news that the long-awaited zombie sequel, "28 Years Later,...

Joanna Scanlan and Tamsin Greig have been confirmed to star in Sally Wainwright’s new BBC and Britbox drama “Riot Women.”

“Riot Women” is the new drama from “Happy Valley” creator Wainwright, about a group of middle-aged women who decide to enter a talent contest by forming a punk-rock band. After writing their first song, however, they realize they have plenty to say and now, the means to say it.

Scanlan, who is currently appearing in “Slow Horses” and “A Very Royal Scandal,” will play Beth while Greig, who’s known for “Black Books” and “Sexy Beast,” plays Holly. Joining them will be Rosalie Craig (“Moonflower Murders”) as Kitty, Lorraine Ashbourne (“Sherwood”) as Jess and Amelia Bullmore (“The Buccaneers”) as Yvonne.

The six-part series is produced by Drama Republic, the Mediawan-owned banner behind “One Day,” and has been commissioned by the BBC and BritBox. The project was originally announced...

Jackrabbit Media has acquired worldwide sales rights excluding Scandinavia to Finnish thriller Delivery Run and will commence sales at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) later this week.

Joey Palmroos, who co-directed Jackrabbit sales title The Outlaws (formerly 5 Outlaws) starring Eric Roberts, directed the story about a food delivery driver caught in a game of cat-and-mouse with a snowplough truck driver in the Minnesota backcountry.

Alexander Arnold from shark attack thriller The Last Breath and Yesterday stars alongside Liam James Collins, Nadine Higgin, Arthur Sylense, and Thom Chacon.

Produced by Arctic Renegades, Delivery Run is currently in post-production and will...

Prime Video has unveiled the first look at the second season of the mind-bending thriller The Devil’s Hour, which will launch exclusively on Prime Video globally on October 18.

The Devil’s Hour Season 2 sees Lucy (Jessica Raine) and Gideon (Peter Capaldi) forming an uneasy alliance to prevent a recurring tragedy and hunt down an elusive monster.

Lucy’s double life sees her torn between family and duty as she finds herself in the crosshairs of her past-life husband, Di Ravi Dhillon (Nikesh Patel). Assisting Dhillon in his investigation is DS Sam Boyd (Saffron Hocking), who Di Lucy Chambers mentored in a previous life.

Meanwhile, Isaac (Benjamin Chivers) is discovering new emotions daily and struggling to keep his balance in a reality that rejects his existence. Fresh mysteries unfold as our stories converge on one explosive moment that will change the fate of our characters for the rest of their ever-recurring lives.

Prime Video has unveiled the first look at season two of the mind-bending thriller, ‘The Devil’s Hour,’ which will launch exclusively on Prime Video globally on 18th October.

The series stars Jessica Raine (Patrick Melrose, Informer), Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who, The Thick of It), Nikesh Patel (Starstruck), Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso) and Meera Syal. Saffron Hocking (Top Boy) also joins the cast for season two.

Season two sees Lucy (Jessica Raine) and Gideon (Peter Capaldi) forming an uneasy alliance to prevent a recurring tragedy and hunt down an elusive monster. Lucy’s double life sees her torn between family and duty as she finds herself in the crosshairs of her past-life husband, Di Ravi Dhillon (Nikesh Patel). Assisting Dhillon in his investigation is DS Sam Boyd (Saffron Hocking) who was mentored by Di Lucy Chambers in a previous life.

Phil Dunster as Mike

Meanwhile, Isaac (Benjamin Chivers) discovers new emotions...

The Edinburgh International Film Festival unveiled the winners of its new prize for feature filmmaking and award for short filmmaking late Wednesday night at the city’s Cameo Cinema.

The Ceremony, directed by Jack King, was awarded The Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, decided on by an audience vote and funded by The Connery Foundation. King beats nine others to win a substantial £50,000 ($64,000) prize to fund his future projects.

The Ceremony, shot entirely in black and white, follows two migrant workers forced to bury a colleague in the Yorkshire hills. When one demands to perform the dead man his rightful Islamic burial, nerves begin to fray and a righteous power struggle emerges.

King is a self-taught writer/director & film-maker from Bradford, Yorkshire. He started out making music videos for independent and major record labels, and his work has racked up repeated Vimeo staff picks and millions of views online.

“Don’t kill anybody unless you have to,” a rookie cop is told on his first day on the job in Greedy People. Not long afterward, he accidentally does just that, setting off a spiral of lethal events that give the the darkly comic thriller an impressive body count. Unfortunately, the proceedings become increasingly tiresome the more the characters are killed off, with the result that despite an impressive cast, the film comes to feel like a Coen brothers rip-off.

Set on a small island town rather than the snowy Midwest, this Fargo-like tale includes a wide array of characters, nearly all of whom prove either gleefully immoral or just plain dumb. The convoluted plot is set in motion when the aforementioned cop, Will (Himesh Patel), responds to an emergency call and nearly shoots a woman (Traci Lords, giving you an idea of the film’s irreverence) simply going about her business in her kitchen.

“I would like it to become an irrelevant documentary in five years’ time,” says Blair Young, whose film with fellow Scot Carla J. Easton will close the Edinburgh International Film Festival Wednesday night.

Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands was selected as the fest’s closing night feature. It is, quite simply, a love letter to music made by Scottish women. From the ’60s until the present day, the doc follows visionary artists — many whose tales are lost to history — who emerged through Scotland’s music scene and attempted to break the glass ceiling.

The doc is vibrant and celebratory, but is often also a bleak look at how men have continued to dominate the industry and the blasé nature in which they harassed women for much of the 20th century.

Young hopes the film will one day serve as a reminder of how things used to be.

The August heat and rain are sweltering and boiling up outside, and Ed Sheeran is thinking about Christmas. The artist announced Wednesday that he’ll provide a new song, “Under the Tree,” for Netflix’s upcoming animated feature, That Christmas, which is based on the children’s book series by Richard Curtis (screenwriter for Love Actually, About Time). The movie, directed by Simon Otto (How to Train Your Dragon), will premiere on the streaming platform on Dec. 6. Curtis is the movie’s co-writer alongside Peter Souter.

“I’ve been mates with Richard Curtis for years,...

Long-time anime song performer Sayuri announced on her X account today that she has to take an indefinite hiatus due to functional dysphonia, a condition that causes her vocal cords to involuntary sound strained due to increased muscle tension in the voice box. Sayuri wrote on X that she“need[s] to concentrate on rehabilitation to get better, so I have decided to take a break from singing for a while.” Sayuri is best known for performing the ending theme songs “Tower of Flower” for Lycoris Recoil , “About a Voyage” for My Hero Academia season 4, “Sore wa Chiisana Hikari no Youna” for Erased and many more. Statement Translation: “For some time now, I have been having trouble with my voice, finding it difficult to produce the sounds I want. I went to see a doctor, who diagnosed me with functional dysphonia. My voice shakes, goes flat, and gets hoarse. My muscles...

In 2001, when The Cure released their Greatest Hits album, the band also returned to the studio to record new acoustic versions of 18 of their songs. Now, those recordings will finally become available on streaming services for the first time.

Dubbed Acoustic Hits, the album will arrive on streaming platforms on August 9th, per posts the band made on social media In anticipation of the release, they shared black and white videos of unplugged studio performances of several tracks. The first was “A Forest,” followed by “The Lovecats,” and, just yesterday, “Close To Me.” Watch the videos below.

Other songs on Acoustic Hits include “Just Like Heaven,” “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Friday I’m in Love,” and more. Check out the original artwork and tracklist below. Acoustic Hits is also available to purchase on vinyl here.

The Cure embarked on the celebrated “Shows of a Lost World Tour” last year, which became...

Three further high-profile industry speakers have joined Screen International’s ‘The Future of UK Film’ summit, to be held on September 24, 2024, in London at BFI Southbank.

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They are Julia Stuart, director of original film at UK pay-tv company Sky, who oversees a production slate that includes upcoming UK films Euros Lyn’s vampire thriller The Radleys starring Damian Lewis, Sébastien Raybaud, founder of UK-based production, financing and sales outfit Anton, which recently secured over €100m in financing to expand it genre film slate, and prolific UK producer Matthew James Wilkinson of Stigma Films, whose credits include Romola Garai...

Richard Curtis brought Christmas cheer to an unseasonably drizzly day at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Tuesday as he presented his first animated feature That Christmas in a Work in Progress session.

“I really adore Christmas. Whenever I’m kind of thinking of stories, that’s the first place that my mind goes to,” the screenwriter and director told the audience of animation professionals and students.

Having made one of the definitive Christmas movies of all time with live action hit Love Actually, the Bridget Jones Diary and Notting Hill rom-com king has his sights on realizing a similar achievement in animation.

His Netflix-backed animation debut is directed by How To Train Your Dragon animator Simon Otto and produced by Nicole P. Hearon and Adam Tandy For Locksmith Animation.

“It’s the best time of the year,...

British drama series Lost Boys & Fairies has won the Seriencamp Official Competition Award here in Cologne.

The BBC series, which is from Duck Soup Films and sold internationally by All3Media International, is billed as “tender, glittering story of gay couple Gabriel and Andy’s journey to adoption, filled with humour, music, redemption and love.”

Starring Sion Daniel Young (Slow Horses) and Fra Fee (Rebel Moon), it follows Gabriel and Andy, who long to adopt a child and to do so they must convince their social worker Jackie (Elizabeth Berrington) that they’re up to the task. However, Gabe masks demons: the effects of decades of shame having grown up in a society that overwhelmingly treated being gay as a sin.

Welsh playwright Daf James was on the ground to collect the award, which was part of the Seriencamp Conference and Festival Awards Ceremony earlier today. Lost Boys and Fairies was his debut TV project.

Exclusive: Kate McKinnon and Andy Samberg have joined the cast of Jay Roach’s The Roses, starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Ncuti Gatwa, Sunita Mani, Zoë Chao, Jamie Demetriou and Belinda Bromilow also are rounding out the cast of the film, which starts production this month. Written by Tony McNamara, The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.

The story revolves around Ivy (Colman) and Theo (Cumberbatch), the picture-perfect couple who have successful careers, great kids and an enviable sex life. But underneath the façade of the perfect family is a tinderbox of competition and resentments that’s ignited when Theo’s professional dreams come crashing down. Producers are Cumberbatch under his SunnyMarch banner with Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke, Colman under the South of the River banner with Ed Sinclair and Tom Carver, along with Roach and Michelle Graham.

In 1967, The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein died unexpectedly. His death shocked the band and forced them to accept further responsibility for the group’s management. According to those around The Beatles, this was not a good thing. After Epstein’s death, they began making a series of terrible decisions that felt incredibly “juvenile.”

The Beatles made a series of bad decisions after Brian Epstein died

David Puttnam worked as a photographer’s agent when he met The Beatles. He was friendly with the band, but he recalled feeling disappointed with their decisions in the period after Epstein’s death.

“I remember the moment that Brian died,” Puttnam said in the book All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words by Steven Gaines and Peter Brown. “Oh God, they seemed to begin to be entirely self-destructive, entirely.”

The Beatles and Brian Epstein | Keystone/Getty Images

As they tried to run their own affairs,...

Following the anime's eighth episode broadcast last night in Japan, the official Twitter account for Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night today unveiled a brand-new visual captioned with the word "Yakusoku" ("Promise") and teasing the original series' forthcoming climax. Visual Related: Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night Anime Shares Creditless Opening, Ending Theme Videos With an original story by Jelee and character drafts by popman3580, Ryohei Takeshita ( Eromanga Sensei ) directs Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night at studio Doga Kobo, with scripts by Yuki Yaku ( Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki author) and character designs adapted for animation by Junichiro Taniguchi ( Sing "Yesterday" For Me ). Hidive is streaming the series and describes the story: Four young women—an artist who quit drawing, a retired idol wishing to prove her worth, a hotheaded V-tuber, and a mysterious composer—band together on the late-night streets of Shibuya to form an anonymous artist group called "Jelee...

The Beatles are undoubtedly one of the most influential bands of all time, ushering in a new age of rock and all in the 60s. While their tenure may have only lasted 10 years, their rich discography has impacted fans to this day, Their songs are still a large part of the zeitgeist, especially in the evolution of the genre and modern artists being inspired by them.

The Beatles performing Paperback Writer

Another big name in the genre that made a sensation in the 90s was Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. Like many others, he was also inspired by The Beatles and their contribution to the genre. While expressing his love and admiration for John Lennon, the singer threw shade at Paul McCartney, indicating how he considers him inferior to Lennon.

Kurt Cobain Calls Paul McCartney an Embarrassment While Praising John Lennon Kurt Cobain in the music video for Nirvana’s Smells...

The second episode of the newly relaunched Doctor Who is a haunting, contemplative story about what might happen if the world was robbed of its love of music. Like all good Who sci-fi premises, “The Devil’s Chord” takes something that is a given about human nature, and suggests our experience of life might be totally different without that thing. Just like “Blink” made us worry about trying to control our inherent reflex to bat our eyes, “The Devil’s Chord” makes us worried about how depressing and dystopian things would become without being able to hear a tune.

The episode also features a bootleg version of The Beatles, which should be a slam-dunk for Doctor Who, but isn’t. Instead, in creating a timey-wimey story about the death of music in a bizarro timeline, Who makes some blunders about why The Beatles became The Beatles.

Spoilers ahead.

While some...

Exclusive: With just over two months to go before the kick-off of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris this July, South Africa’s Distant Horizon will be touching down in Cannes with two documentaries celebrating France’s historic links with the games.

The films Pierre de Coubertin: An Olympic Life and Paris 1924 are both in the final stages of post-production.

Pierre de Coubertin: An Olympic Life follows the life of the French educator and historian who resurrected the ancient Olympic Games in 1896 and is widely acknowledged as the founder of the Modern Olympics.

He was President of the International Olympic Committee (Ioc) until the end of the Paris 1924 Olympic Games. The film is told through the eyes of Lauren Rembi, the Olympic Fencing Champion who is likely to participate in Paris 2024.

Distant Horizon says the film will shed light on the story of de Courbertin which is relatively unknown around the world,...

The Top 12 artists perform live for the first time in front of coaches Chance the Rapper, Dan + Shay, John Legend and Reba McEntire for their spot in the live semi-final. Viewers will have the chance to vote for their favorite artist overnight, with the live results show taking place Tuesday, May 7.

The four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series “The Voice” returns with the strongest vocalists from across the country invited to compete in the show’s newest season, which premiered February 26 on NBC (8pm Pt/Et). The show’s innovative format features five stages of competition: Blind Auditions, Battle Rounds, Knockouts, Playoffs and Live Performance Shows.

See Everything to know about ‘The Voice’ Season 25: Coaches, mentors and finale date …

Below, read our minute-by-minute “The Voice” recap of Season 25, Episode 16 to find out what happened Monday, May 6 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Then be sure to sound off...

The cast is coming together for Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, with Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes and Aaron Taylor-Johnson among its ensemble.

28 Years Later is an apt title for a film that has been teased for decades. Information about 28 Years Later has been drip fed over the last few months, though, and now we finally have some concrete details.

Firstly, Boyle is back in the director’s chair, with Garland writing the script. Original producer Andrew Macdonald is back, and Cillian Murphy, who starred in 28 Days Later, is also on board as an executive producer.

According to Deadline, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes will lead the cast.

Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland brought the zombie movie into the 21st century with 2002’s 28 Days Later. 2007 sequel 28 Weeks Later, which was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo from a script he co-wrote with Rowan Joffe,...

Hollywood star Cillian Murphy has portrayed a diverse array of characters on-screen, including his acclaimed performance in the Oscar-winning biographical thriller Oppenheimer. While Murphy received widespread praise for his role, particular attention was drawn to a sensual nude scene in the film. However, this was not the actor’s first experience with nude scenes.

Cillian Murphy in and as Oppenheimer

Murphy previously filmed a nude scene for his breakout role in 28 Days Later. Despite his openness in discussing his scenes in Oppenheimer and even arguing against its criticism, Danny Boyle has revealed that Murphy had reservations about filming the naked scene in the 2002 horror sci-fi film.

Cillian Murphy Was Concerned About Naked Scene in 28 Days Later

While discussing his nude scenes in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy admitted that filming such scenes is “the most awkward” part of the job. However, he also shared that it was something that was...

It almost seems like a common phenomenon that audiences see scenes in a movie trailer that don’t actually appear in the final movie. Sometimes, in the case of CGI-laden blockbusters, they can alter the location of a scene from a trailer to another location in the final cut of the film. Sometimes, even a hint of a subplot from a trailer can be cut from the movie altogether. This is what has seemingly happened with the Beatles-themed comedy Yesterday from Danny Boyle. The trailer for Yesterday featured a scene where Ana De Armas was presumably making a cameo, as she does not appear on the cast list for the movie.

Universal was sued by Peter Michael Rosza and Conor Woulfe, viewers who had seen De Armas in the trailer and thought she would be a prominent part of the film, except her appearance winded up getting cut from the movie.

A lawsuit between Universal and two men who rented Yesterday and accused the studio of tricking fans into watching the film by featuring Ana de Armas in trailers when she didn’t actually appear in the movie has settled.

Attorneys for both sides on Friday informed the court of a settlement to resolve the case. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

The lawsuit, filed in 2022, revolved around accusations from Peter Michael Rosza and Conor Woulfe that they watched the trailer for Yesterday and thought that de Armas played a substantial role in the romantic comedy about an artist who rockets to fame after discovering that he’s the only person in the world to remember The Beatles, which allows him to pass their songs off as his own. But upon renting it, they learned that she doesn’t appear in the movie. They brought claims for false advertisement, unjust enrichment and unfair competition.

Chrisley Knows Best alum, Grayson Chrisley isn’t a small boy with braces anymore and he just celebrated a special event, but sadly, without his mom and dad there. Of course, USA Network fans are well aware that they are currently serving time in prison for tax and fraud-related offenses. Certainly, it’s been tough on their youngest son, who feels their separation deeply.

Grayson Chrisley Was Playing Little League Just Yesterday, Right?

Fans of the Chrisley Knows Best show always had a soft spot for Chase and Savannah Chrisley’s little brother. His smile, his quiet humor, and his obvious love for his mom and dad endeared a lot of people. While lots of people condemn Todd and Julie for their crimes, not as many people slam their boy. He’s grown up so fast, that people couldn’t believe their eyes when he celebrated a special event recently.

Yesterday, all their troubles seemed so far away.

In 2022, Peter Rosza and Conor Woulfe sued Universal Pictures after they rented the 2019 movie “Yesterday” on Amazon Prime Video and subsequently felt they had been bamboozled by the trailer. The film, directed by Danny Boyle and written by Richard Curtis, is a zany musical fantasy in which Himesh Patel, a struggling musician, is bonked on the head and wakes up in a world in which The Beatles Never Happened. As such, he starts playing their songs as if they are his own and the movie follows the expected Preston Sturges-like tropes you might expect.

The trailer for the movie featured quite a few glimpses of the alluring Cuban-born actress Ana de Armas, later Oscar-nominated for her leading turn in “Blonde,” who ended up not being in the movie at all. An early cut included her character, but that storyline was shaved down after the movie tested poorly.

Two fans of Ana de Armas finally settled their lawsuit over the Yesterday debacle.

Peter Rosza and Conor Woulfe rented the 2019 movie Yesterday on Amazon Prime after seeing the 35-year-old actress in the trailer, however, she did not appear in the final cut of the movie.

The two men then sued Universal Pictures for false advertisement, claiming that they were each cheated out of $3.99.

Keep reading to find out more…At first, a federal judge sided with the fans, ruling that studios can be sued over false advertising in movie trailers. In August 2023, the lawsuit was dismissed after a judge said that the fans “can’t pursue the proposed class action because they didn’t rely on alleged misrepresentations from the studio when making the decision to watch the film.”

This then left the fans owing $126,705 in legal fees incurred by Universal.

Variety now reports on Friday (April 12) the fans...

Two men have settled their lawsuit with Universal Pictures following a two-year legal battle after they claimed they were misled into believing Ana de Armas would be in Yesterday because the actress was initially featured in a trailer for the film.

The two men — Peter Michael Rosza and Conor Woulfe — accepted a settlement on Friday, though the terms of the of lawsuit were not disclosed, according to Variety.

The suit, originally filed for false advertisement, unjust enrichment, and violation of unfair competition, noted that “such consumers were not provided with...

Two men who rented “Yesterday” on Amazon Prime after seeing Ana de Armas in the trailer, only to discover that her role was removed in the final cut of the film, have settled their false advertising lawsuit.

Peter Rosza and Conor Woulfe sued Universal in 2022, alleging that they were each cheated out of $3.99. A federal judge initially sided with them, finding that movie trailers are not immune from false advertising claims. But various setbacks followed, leaving the men on the hook for $126,705 in Universal legal fees.

On Friday, they accepted a settlement that will resolve the case. The terms were not disclosed and neither side responded to a request for comment. On April 18, the parties revealed that both sides will get nothing.

From the evidence of court filings, nobody is happy with the outcome. Universal believes it was forced to spend two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars defending a patently frivolous lawsuit.

Aglow with inspiration, friendship and character animation, creditless versions of Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night 's opening and ending theme sequences featuring "Irodori" by KanoeRana ( Tearmoon Empire Ed) and "1-nichi wa 25-jikan" by Anna Tsurushima, respectively, are now available to watch below. Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night Opening Theme Video Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night Ending Theme Video Related: Sound! Euphonium Anime Travels Through the Year in Season 3 Creditless Opening, Ending With an original story by Jelee and character drafts by popman3580, Ryohei Takeshita ( Eromanga Sensei ) directs Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night at studio Doga Kobo, with scripts by Yuki Yaku ( Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki author) and character designs adapted for animation by Junichiro Taniguchi ( Sing "Yesterday" For Me ). Hidive is streaming the series and describes the story: Four young women—an artist who quit drawing, a retired idol wishing to prove her worth, a hotheaded V-tuber,...

Here comes another time-traveling fantasy, but with a twist. As the kids on Bandstand used to say to Dick Clark, “It’s a gotta’ good beat. You can dance to it”. Maybe you could even do the twist. That’s because the force to send this story back through the decades isn’t a big machine, like the one H.G. Welles conjured or even the beloved DeLorean that Doc Brown modified. Nor is it hypnosis ala’ Somewhere In Time, though the brain is involved along with…the ears. You see the gimmick here is music, specifically certain pop tunes that propel a twenty-something woman into the past. And just what is she doing six or seven years ago? Making “sure bet” investments perhaps? No, she’s trying to save a “lost love”, so this is really a romantic fantasy with a soundtrack that’s this couple’s take on...