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It is one of Hollywood’s biggest gambles of the year: an £80million throw of the pink fuzzy dice, betting that audiences will embrace the adventures of an 11 1/2-inch plastic plaything brought to life. Margot Robbie stars as Barbie, the most popular doll in world history, opposite Ryan Gosling as …

Sylvester Stallone has played the toughest of Hollywood hardmen in everything from the Rocky to the Rambo franchises. Rocky 3 is back on ITV tonight and shows the eponymous boxer almost down and out as his life and career hit the mat. Real life echoed the dramatic plot when Stallone …

In September 1966, John Wayne was set to shoot a Western heist movie, but he needed the right co-star to play his character’s former enemy Lomax. Burt Lancaster turned down The War Wagon part as he didn’t want to work with Duke, while Rod Taylor was intended for the role …

Are you all multiversed out? If not, here’s another blockbuster where a hero enters a wobbly portal to meet an alternate version of himself. And can you separate art from the artist? Because said hero is The Flash, also Barry Allen, the fleet-footed chap from the Justice League movies who …

Unlike Elton John and ABBA, Take That never broke America, so their jukebox musical doesn’t have Rocketman or Mamma Mia’s Hollywood dollars to fund its trip down memory lane. As director Coky Giedroyc’s adaptation of Tim Firth’s 2017 stage production is a British film, it has to rely on a …

In his final months, Elvis confided in his girlfriend Kathy Westmoreland that his greatest regret was never making a “classic film that would be remembered” – and yet he had just turned down Grease. The entire movie actually draws heavily on the image and stylings of Elvis from the hip …

Aside from John Williams, no other film composer has had quite the blockbuster impact that Hans Zimmer has. When not working on his next movie score, the German legend tours with his band and orchestra performing a dazzling rock show. Last night at London’s O2, the 65-year-old led the audience …

It’ll soon have been two years since Daniel Craig exited the James Bond franchise so explosively in No Time To Die. Even before he announced his fifth and final 007 movies, speculation was rife over who his successor would be from Tom Hardy to Idris Elba. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, star of …

It’s been 48 years since Sir Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson starred opposite each other in The Romantic Englishwoman. And before she died today, the former Labour MP reunited with her fellow Oscar-winner in the upcoming The Great Escaper. The new movie is based on the true story of Bernard …

Back in 1984, Harrison Ford returned for his second outing as the archaeologist adventurer in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Joining him in the prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark was rising child star Ke Huy Quan as sidekick Short Round. Quan went on to play Data in …