Mark Rydell, who received a best director nomination for the Oscar-winning “On Golden Pond” and directed Bette Midler in “The Rose” and “For the Boys,” died Friday. He was 97.
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Ewan McGregor‘s back in Scotland celebrating Trainspotting‘s 30th birthday.
The Hollywood star, famed for roles in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Moulin Rouge!, Black Hawk Down, Down With Love, and who is currently in theaters with The End of Oak Street, spoke at an Edinburgh International Film Festival session on Friday afternoon, shortly before a party celebrating the anniversary of Danny Boyle’s 1996 film, which launched McGregor to stardom. The live event is set to host McGregor and his Trainspotting castmate Ewan Bremner, as well as producer Andrew Macdonald, screenwriter John Hodge and author Irvine Welsh for an in-depth conversation about the cult film, centered on drug addiction and urban poverty.
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) conducts U.S. blockade operations related to the Strait of Hormuz. (Handout Photo by the U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
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Footage for the next Spider-Man movie has leaked online, and co-writer and producer Christopher Miller isn’t pleased.
Four-and-a-half-minutes of footage from Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse — the final film in the hit animated Spider-Verse trilogy — is making the rounds.
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It was hard not to get excited last year when news broke that Porsche had registered the names "Flachbau" and "Flachbau RS" with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. At the time, we didn't know exactly what Porsche planned to do with those names, but maybe the 77-unit slantnose 935 that Porsche brought back (above, on the left) would get a new generation that wasn't quite as limited? Turns out, Porsche had something much rarer in mind. Meet the one-off customer-ordered Flachbau RS that Porsche says exists "in the slipstream of Moby Dick."
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Sydney Sweeney’s 2021 erotic thriller is finding a new audience nearly five years after its original streaming debut
Former Wales captain Jonathan Davies has called for the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) board to step down.
Calls for the governing body's board to resign have come from Welsh business leaders while local Swansea politicians have demanded that chief executive Abi Tierney leave her role.
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