DWP rejects proposal for £416 weekly State Pension payments and lowering retirement age back to 60

EXCLUSIVE: The cast of thriller Rich Flu has been set with Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Star Wars: Ahsoka), Rafe Spall (The Big Short), Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos), Dixie Egerickx (The Secret Garden), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid), Cesar Domboy (Outlander), Dayana Esebe (LA Star), and Richard Sammel (3 Days To Kill).

EXCLUSIVE: Black Adam, The Old Guard and Aladdin star Marwan Kenzari is set to join Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in The Return, which is due to film this spring.

Hello and welcome back to your weekly International Insider. Berlin’s back and with most of our team in the German capital, it’s Jesse Whittock here bringing you the latest from the worlds of TV and film.

AMC Networks posted strong fourth-quarter results, with total revenue rising 20% over the prior-year quarter to $964.5 million, while earnings per share jumped almost fivefold to $2.52.

Paul Rudd got an unexpected phone call as he was promoting Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania on BBC Radio 1 this morning.

on Thursday, which found the singer and opening up about her experience of taking medication for lupus, the autoimmune disease she suffers from. “I tend to hold a lot of water weight and that happens very normally, and then when I’m off it I tend to kind of lose weight,” she told the camera. “I just wanted to say and encourage anyone out there who feels any sort of shame for exactly what [you’re] going through, [when] nobody knows the real story… you’re beautiful and you’re wonderful.” She went on, acknowledging that there were days when it made her feel “like shit”, but that she would much rather be healthy and take her medication to help her live a better life.

Eugene Levy almost passed on one of his most iconic roles.

Drake and 21 Savage have reached a settlement with publisher Condé Nast over the use of a fake Vogue cover story to promote their collaborative album ‘Her Loss’.According to Billboard, the agreement includes a permanent injunction preventing any further use of Condé Nast’s Vogue trademarks, as well as an undisclosed monetary payment from the two rappers.William Bowes, general counsel at Condé Nast, said in an internal email that the New York media company was “glad to put this matter behind us”.

Seacrest out! On Thursday, Ryan Seacrest announced that after six years, he would be stepping down as Kelly Ripa’s “Live With Kelly and Ryan” co-host. While the decision might feel sudden to fans, the 48-year-old had actually been thinking about making the change for years.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer AMC Networks reported its fourth-quarter 2022 earnings Friday, two days after naming Kristin Dolan, wife of the company’s owner, James Dolan, its new CEO. The company says it ended 2022 with 11.8 million paid streaming subscribers across all of its targeted streamers: AMC+, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, ALLBLK and HIDIVE. Those digital offerings are in addition to the company’s linear channels AMC, BBC America (a joint venture with BBC Studios), IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv and IFC Films. That’s a slight increase of 700,000 customers from the end of Q3, when AMC Networks reported it had reached 11.1 million subs. Meanwhile, U.S. ad sales fell 12% in the quarter.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The intersection between Black Lives Matter and a COVID-like pandemic plus a standout performance from non-professional actor Mwajemi Hussein is sure to make “The Survival of Kindness” one of Berlin’s most talked-about films. The film is deliberately obscure – the little dialog that is heard involves each performer speaking in a language of their own invention with the meaning known only to that actor and the film’s director, Australia’s Rolf de Heer. And it is minimalist. Character names are purely functional. Location filming was done with a crew of just nine people who walked extensively across Tasmania and the deserts of South Australia and cooked for each other between set-ups.

Cressida Bonas has clearly taken parenting in her stride, looking absolutely effortless during a low-key stroll in London's Notting Hill area earlier this week.The actress, who welcomed her first child with husband Harry Wentworth-Stanley in November, was seen walking alongside her pet pooch while little Wilbur was strapped in a carrier close to her chest.WATCH: Inside Prince Harry's dating historyThe ex-girlfriend of Prince Harry looked completely relaxed and trendy, rocking a denim jacket with velvet jeans as she enjoyed some shopping with her baby son and dog Budgie Bear.The outing comes as Cressida took to Instagram to share a stunning new selfie as she paid a sweet tribute to her "Valentine," her baby boy.The candid picture showed the new mum wrapped up warm in her winter knits while her three-month-old son was snuggled up to her. She simply added a heart emoji to the post to mark Valentine's Day.DON'T MISS: How Cressida Bonas became the ex-girlfriend of Prince Harry to get awaySEE: Inside Prince Harry's dating life - from Chelsy Davy to Cressida Bonas and Caroline Flack Cressida seen with her baby son earlier this weekThe 33-year-old welcomed her baby son last year, and both Cressida and her property developer husband Harry made a fitting tribute when naming their child.

Elizabeth Banks is ready for another installment after Cocaine Bear.

dramatic Season 2 finale of “The White Lotus,” fans have been anxiously waiting for the location of Season 3 to be announced.Season 1 of the show took fans to Hawaii, filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, while Season 2 brought us out of the country to Sicily, filmed at the Four Seasons San Domenico Palace in the town of Taormina.In a new interview with Vulture, Knoxville, 51, might have accidentally let slip where the next season will take place when talking about his friendship with show creator Mike White, 52.“Mike White is a very close friend of mine. He and I had been in Tokyo together,” he shared “I think that’s where the next…Oh, I’m not giving anything away.”“I might call him again as soon as this is over,” Knoxville added.Before TVLine confirmed the renewal of the HBO Max show that follows guests and employees of the fictional hotel chain White Lotus, White was already thinking about where the next location would be — and hinted at Asia.“I think it’d be fun to maybe go to a whole different continent.

Ricky Martin has shared a very rare photo of one of his sons!

with season 2. The series, starring Tom Hiddleston as the God of Mischief, details what happened when the character created a divergent timeline following his escape with the Tesseract during the events of . Season 1 then followed Loki as he found himself in trouble with the Time Variance Authority, which monitors all the timelines in the universe and sees its employees painstakingly maintaining the Scared Timeline.

Paulina Porizkova is looking back on a scary incident. In a new conversation with Deadspin, the supermodel recalled finding out she had landed the February 1984 cover of Sports Illustrated the same day her home burned down.

Jen Shah’s sentence is starting.

Judi Dench is struggling to read her scripts these days.