Spock reduces Star Trek fans to tears
Wednesday, April 8. Veteran actor Leonard Nimoy (pictured) reduced Texan Trekkies to tears on Monday when he interrupted a screening of the classic Star Trek movie The Wrath of Khan to introduce a… [continued]

Depp begins filming of The Rum Diary
Wednesday, April 8. After eight years in the planning, filming on Johnny Depp's latest pet project - an adaptation of Hunter S Thompson's first
novel The Rum Diary - has finally begun.… [continued]
People: Sadie Frost plans Withnail gift for Kate Moss ![]()
Hollywood signals the death of the star system ![]()

Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ to premiere at Cannes
Monday, April 6: Director Quentin Tarantino marks his return to the big screen with a typically ultra-violent new film due to premiere at next month's Cannes Film
Festival. How is the 46-year-old pushing the envelope… [continued]
People: Brad Pitt moves to Berlin while he shoot’s Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ ![]()
People: will Academy voters plump for Winslet’s holocaust film? ![]()

Hollywood A-listers hit by recession
Friday, April 3. Hollywood actors are starting to feel the pinch as struggling film studios cut costs by reigning in the excessive pay packets they offer to even the hottest stars.
In a… [continued]
Death of the Hollywood star system ![]()
Hollywood turns to unknowns as talent fails to deliver ![]()

Final show as ‘ER’ heads for the mortuary
Thursday, April 2. It has been nominated for a record 122 Emmy awards, shown in 195 countries, subtitled in 22 languages and at its peak held the attention of almost 50m viewers. But
tonight, after… [continued]
How Jay Leno changed the face of primetime television ![]()

Liam Neeson finishes film after wife’s death
Tuesday, March 31. The film Liam Neeson was shooting in Toronto when the news came through that his wife Natasha Richardson (pictured with Neeson)
had suffered a brain injury in a skiing accident… [continued]
Questions over missing helicopter as Natasha Richardson is buried ![]()
In pictures: Natasha and the Redgrave dynasty ![]()
Vanessa Redgrave joins Robin Hood ![]()

Rosamund Pike may play Charles’s assistant
Tuesday, March 31. Clarence House, the London headquarters of Prince Charles, had its nose put out of joint in 2006 by the publication of The Palace
Diaries, the memoirs of the prince's former… [continued]
People: Gordon Brown plots a Palace revolution ![]()

Record weekend for 3D ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’
Monday, March 30. DreamWorks Animation's new film, Monsters vs. Aliens, enjoyed a record-breaking opening weekend in the US, raking in $58.2m. That is the biggest opening
weekend gross this year and the best ever for… [continued]
The First Post film reviews page ![]()
Dream Over: Spielberg and Katzenberg’s DreamWorks studio on the rocks ![]()

The Wire finally gets a slot at the Beeb
Monday, March 30: The BBC has at last caught up with popular taste and tonight begins screening all 60 episodes of The Wire, the US cop show that those in the know have been
claiming… [continued]
The Wire: When TV goes underground ![]()
Full glossary at the Independent on Sunday ![]()

Freida Pinto tops Indian pay league
Friday, March 27: The real life rags-to-riches story of actress Freida Pinto (pictured) continues to unfold: she has just been unveiled as India’s highest
paid actress. The 24-year-old, who was an unknown model… [continued]
People: Jennifer Aniston tops sexiest women poll ![]()











