THE Rolling Stones signed up stunning Sydney Sweeney to star in the music video for their hit new song Angry. Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood invited The Sun to be among the first to hear the explosive track and watch the video – with Euphoria star Sydney making a surprise appearance on Wednesday afternoon at the Hackney […]

A WILKO rival has made a "disgraceful" joke about the takeover of the company and shoppers are threatening to boycott the chain. B&M has sparked backlash with a social media post joking about its takeover of a number of Wilko stores. In the now-deleted Facebook post, B&M left shoppers fuming with its out-of-touch attempt a humour. The post read: "Popped […]

JODIE Prenger has announced an X-rated new job away from Coronation Street. The actress, 44, joined Coronation Street last year as Rovers Return barmaid Glenda Shuttleworth. But this Christmas Jodie will launch "rude" and "very camp" theatre show A Very, Very Bad Cinderella. Jodie wrote the play with pal and fellow actor Neil Hurst and it's described on social media […]

EXCLUSIVE: Critical Content, the production company behind Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia and Sylvester Stallone doc Sly, has made some hires and promotions in its creative team. The SK Global-backed company, which is run by President Jenny Daly, has hired Dorsey Pictures’ Katie Hash as SVP, Development and promoted Matthew Pickel to SVP, Development and Current. Elsewhere, it has hired Ryan Lash as Director […]

Not so much beginners as people who never get a fair go, the mixed bag of gay men and women in Australian-Macedonian filmmaker Goran Stolevski’s Housekeeping For Beginners, showing in Venice’s Horizons section, lives on a knife’s edge. Dita (Anamaria Marinca) owns the house where they jostle along together. Her Roma partner Suada (Alina Serban) has a teenage daughter Vanesa […]

Ava DuVernay is making history today. In Venice with Origin, which world premieres in the Sala Grande this evening, she is the first African American female filmmaker to ever have been selected in competition at the world’s oldest festival. DuVernay earlier told Deadline’s Dominic Patten, “Venice was a big goal. It feels like a real full-circle moment.” Based on Isabel […]

Ahead of its ambitious release scheme, Shudder has granted Variety exclusive access to the lurid trailer for Argentine genre-phenom Demián Rugna’s second feature “When Evil Lurks” (“Cuando Acecha La Maldad”). With Paris-based prestige sales agent Charades (“Little Girl Blue”) handling global sales, the film debuts at the Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness screenings on Sept. 13.  Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service […]

Home and Away star Emily Symons revealed what she misses most about Emmerdale more than a decade after her exit. The actress, 54, is best known for playing Marilyn Chambers on the Aussie soap, making her debut back in 1989. She remained on the soap for three years before heading to the UK, but she couldn't stay away for long […]