Rare playing cards depicting Watford sell for £15k at Sotheby’s in London 4:10pm Tuesday 12th November 2013 in News By Frazer Ansell Watford is featured on the Hertfordshire card, which was issued as the eight of hearts. A rare deck of 337-year-old playing cards, including one of the first playing cards to mention Watford, sold […]
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South Coast date for Susan Boyle
South Coast date for Susan Boyle 11:18am Friday 15th November 2013 in News By Lorelei Reddin, Entertainments Editor Susan Boyle GLOBAL singing sensation Susan Boyle has a South Coast stop on her very first nationwide live tour next year. Tickets go on sale this morning for the Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre date on April 15. Susan […]
Filmmaker’s Christmas movie disappointment
Clacton: Filmmaker’s Christmas movie disappointment 7:30am Tuesday 12th November 2013 in News Filmmaker’s Christmas movie disappointment A FILMMAKER has been left disappointed after his footage of the Christmas Day swim in Clacton missed the cut for a major motion picture. Richard Nettleingham created a short film of the famous sea-swim event last year. And the […]
‘Best Man Holiday’ Stuns ‘Thor’ With $10.7M Friday Box-Office Upset
By Todd CunninghamTheWrap Suppose you threw a giant reunion party and ended up topping the box office? That’s what fans of Universal’s “The Best Man Holiday” did Friday, lifting the sequel to a $10.7 million opening night and knocking off the reigning No. 1 movie, “Thor: The Dark World” in the process. The African-American skewing […]
Jolie, Lansbury, Martin, Tosi to accept Oscars
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For Angelina Jolie, Steve Martin, Angela Lansbury and costume designer Piero Tosi, Saturday night is Oscar night. Bing: Who are early Oscar favorites? The four will accept Oscar statuettes at the film academy’s Governors Awards ceremony Saturday night in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood Highland Center in Los Angeles. Jolie […]
Hollywood loves Batkid: Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, more express support
By Greg GilmanTheWrap Miles Scott took a break from fighting cancer on Friday to fight crime in San Francisco, which the Make-A-Wish Foundation transformed into Gotham in Scott’s honor — a spectacle that even Hollywood was impressed by. Bing: How Batkid saved Gotham While thousands of citizens rallied behind the young boy in the northern California […]
Bridget Jones film director Beeban Kidron: closure of Cambridge’s Arts …
A leading film director has called on the Government to help save Cambridge’s closure-threatened Arts Picturehouse cinema. Baroness Kidron, who directed the second Bridget Jones movie, said it was crucial to keep cinemas outside London open to rebalance the growing divide in arts spending between the capital and the rest of the country. Cineworld has […]
iPad Air Goes Nuclear in Australian Mobile Phone Store, Busts Into Flames
Initial reports suggest a brand new iPad Air suddenly caught fire in an Australian mobile phone store, prompting the brick-and-mortar establishment to summon the fire brigade. The new iPad Air was being used as a demo model when it started sparking and ultimately burst into flames, filling the store with smoke and forcing an evacuation. […]
‘This Is the End’ was Blockbuster’s all-too-fitting final rental
By Tony MaglioTheWrap This is the end for Blockbuster, and how fitting that the final rented film was 2013Â�’s comedy of the same name, starring Seth Rogen, James Franco and Jonah Hill. The remaining 300 Blockbuster Videos are in the process of closing their doors, and employees of United States’ furthest-west store in Hawaii posed […]
Kate Upton eyed for female lead in ‘Entourage’ movie
By Jeff SneiderTheWrap Kate Upton is being eyed for the female lead in the “Entourage” movie, multiple individuals familiar with the Warner Bros. project have told TheWrap. Though Upton has not been formally offered the role yet, she is in early discussions to join the cast, according to sources. While a representative for the swimsuit […]