Taking on a well-known film character and playing him at a different age is something Ewan McGregor is very familiar with. The actor famous for portraying a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Star Wars" prequels is preparing to take on the role of the now-grown Danny Torrance , who was introduced in 1980's "The Shining" as Jack Nicholson's son.
Variety brings word that Zahn McClarnon will be joining Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson as Crow Daddy in the adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep . Carl Lumbly and Alex Essoe have also been cast in the Warner Bros.
Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg are joining together to produce a new TV drama about the spirited battle by American women to win the right to vote. The program, to be either a TV movie or a limited series, will be based on "The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote," the acclaimed book by Elaine Weiss, published by Viking.
There's a lot of excitement surrounding the upcoming Halloween movie, so any piece of news or info that arises is at the very least worthy of interest. Such is the case with today's news that not only is Halloween rated R, but the MPAA has designated it as such due to "horror violence and bloody images, language, brief drug use and nudity."
With news circulating that Buffy The Vampire Slayer is returning, Charlotte Smith-Jarvis looks back on this, and the other summer TV hits of her youth. Ah the 90sa I miss you.
Charismatic, outspoken and impossible to categorise, Toyah Willcox is both a boundary-smashing musical survivor from the punk era, much-loved actress and presenter of programmes as diverse as The Good Sex Guide and Songs of Praise. In a career spanning 30 years, during which she has had 13 top 40 singles, recorded 20 albums, written books, appeared in over 40 stage plays, made 10 feature films and been a fixture on television, she has managed to balance a deeply rebellious streak with becoming something of national treasure.
An image of actor Christopher Eccleston's with one of his biggest fans has become a hit on social media. Martin MacSween travelled from his home in Ness, in Lewis, to the London Film and Comic Con, where Eccleston was among the star guests.