Jim Sheridan Will Direct ‘North Star,’ An Autobiographical Biopic Of His Childhood Featuring New U2 Songs

Kate Bush tops this week’s Official Singles Chart with Running Up That Hill, 37 years after the song’s release, breaking a slew of Official Chart records in the process, the Official Charts Company can confirm.

While most Number 1 hits show their chart-topping potential from the off, going in high and burning bright, some songs prefer to take the slow and steady approach...

Love Island viewers will be left feeling hot under the collar this evening as the girls pole-dance and twerk for the boys.First-look snaps from Friday's (June 17) sizzling episode shows the girls, including Amber Beckford and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu, putting on a sexy show for the boys.The stunning singletons don tiny bikinis as they show off their best moves as part of a racy challenge.Ekin-Su looks determined to keep the boys' eyes firmly fixed on her as she swings around the pole.Amber can also be seen shaking her booty in a paddling pool wearing a tiny thong and bikini top.Want all the last villa gossip straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily Love Island newsletter HERE Her moves will no doubt get Dami Hope and Remi Lambert talking as they battle it out for her affections.Elsewhere in the upcoming instalment of the ITV2 dating show, Davide Sanclimenti will go head-to-head with love interest Ekin-Su.The duo came to blows on Thursday night after she shared a kiss with Jay Younger in a sneaky meet on the terrace - and as the feud continued, Davide put a stop to their romance.Do you have a story about one of this year's Love Island stars? Contact us at staronlineshowbiz@reachplc.comDavide makes the decision to call time on his brief fling with the stunning starlet as he opened up about his reservations.The Italian stallion asks Jay if he was on the terrace with Ekin-Su, only for Jay to confirm his suspicions, prompting Davide to call Ekin-Su a liar.He tells her: "This is the reason why I was not opening myself because I am scared to be hurt from a woman like you.

No drama here! More than a decade after appearing on The Hills, Lo Bosworth offered an update on where she stands with her costar Lauren Conrad.

Noah Dixon and Ori Segev’s “Poser” is a confident film that melds fact and fiction and fuses multiple genres together to create a tense, compelling and thorny exploration of the relationship between creators and their hangers-on. Organized around podcast episodes that Lennon (Sylvie Mix) creates as a way to ingratiate herself within the Columbus, OH underground music scene, the film takes its title quite literally — playing up the awkward, and ultimately anxious interactions she has with indie musicians before trying to become one of them, creating some music of her own.

viral optical illusion challenging viewers to see if their brains rank in the “top one percent.”TikTok user Rana Ashard shared the tricky picture to his “illusions” account showing a drawing of an old man’s face with a beard and hair.However, there’s more than meets the eye, with Ashard instructing 1.1 million followers — some of whom claimed they solved the challenge in “seconds — to hold their screens further away from their eyes to see if it changes what they see.“Look at the image again,” said Ashard, who’s racked up millions of views with his brain teasers. “What do you see?”According to Ashard, changing the distance from the eyes to the screen can help bring out the image of a woman on the man’s face.Spoiler alert: If you look closer at the nose of the man in the image, it looks like a woman is sitting with her back facing the viewer, wearing a wide brimmed hat and her arms stretched out, blending in with wrinkles underneath his eyes.The response from TikTok users was mixed, but most appeared to claim they found the woman quickly.“Sitting with her back to the picture with a hat on,” one user wrote.

With its affection for loopy gadgets, unlikely friendships, and large vegetables, the new UK comedy “Brian and Charles” resembles a live-action Aardman film. (Think “Wallace & Gromit” shot to look like a documentary.) On a new Be Reel, I chat with director Jim Archer (“The Young Offenders,” “Big Boys”) about his debut feature.

Elisabeth Moss might be the “queen of trauma” (my words), expertly navigating harrowing emotional stories in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Invisible Woman,” and in her new Apple TV+ series, “Shining Girls,” but she’s also, more importantly, become a triple threat. Having produced, directed, and starred in “The Handmaid’s Tale”—directing several episodes last season and directing the first two episodes and finale for season five—Moss has taken on a holistic view of the show and she’s applied the same approach to “Shining Girls.” Adapted and executive produced by Silka Luisa, who also serves as showrunner, “Shining Girls” is based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel of the same name and follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss) as a Chicago newspaper archivist whose journalistic ambitions are put on hold after enduring a traumatic assault that nearly kills her.

As if the current Ezra Miller saga couldn’t get any worse. After news broke last week that a North Dakota family had filed a legal order against Miller accusing the actor of grooming their daughter, A Massachusetts family came forward this week with similar allegations.

Jordyn Woods was seen smiling with her boyfriend Karl Anthony Towns as they were leaving dinner late on Thursday night.The couple were seen side by side as they exited Catch Steak in West Hollywood for a small, weeknight outing.Woods and her beau recently just celebrated their two-anniversary with a romantic, weekend getaway in Santa Barbara. Cute couple: Jordyn Woods, 24, and her boyfriend of two years, Karl Anthony Towns, were seen looking very happy together after a dinner at Catch Steak in West HollywoodWoods, 24, looked very chic and classy in an all black ensemble.The star donned a long-sleeved shirt with a square neckline.

Erika Jayne's money troubles and legal woes are showing no signs of wavering, as it's been revealed she is now struggling to pay off a huge tax bill - despite recently refusing to 'downsize' on her rumored $40K-a-month glam squad.The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star - who has been caught up in estranged husband Tom Girardi's 2020 bankruptcy case - has claimed that she is unable to pay $2,226,985.77 in California state taxes from 2019.It comes after the 50-year-old said on a recent episode of RHOBH: 'You can downsize and we've downsized, right? Certain things you don't downsize on and that's your glam.' Money woes: Erika Jayne has claimed that she is unable to pay a $2.2M tax bill... after revealing on RHOBH that is also refusing to give up her $40K glam squadBut in legal documents obtained by PEOPLE, it is stated that Erika claims she does not have the 'ability' to pay the California tax board, after receiving a notice from administers in May this year.The filing reads: 'I am in the midst of trying to figure out the basis of this tax bill with the assistance of my business manager, who is also an accountant.

Victoria Beckham regrets some of her WAG behaviour and bold outfits during the World Cup according to husband David Beckham, who has shared the details on how the mother of his four children reflects on that time. When David was England captain, Victoria, 48, was probably the most famous WAG in the world. Now an acclaimed fashion designer, the former Spice Girl's ultra-racy outfits and sexy behaviour is worlds away from her elegant and demure style today.

This Morning presenter Dermot O’Leary was forced to race off set during Friday’s episode of the popular daytime show, as climbing temperatures scorching the UK, began to damage the iPads he uses with fellow presenter Alison Hammond.The pair had been filming outdoors during the summer heat as chef Phil Vickery showed them how to make their very own ice cream to help cool down in the midst of the heatwave. Yet partway through the segment, Alison noticed that a warning had appeared on the screen of the iPad, stating that the temperature was too high, meaning it needed to be removed or risk suffering permanent damage.

Drake dropped his latest album, "Honestly, Nevermind," Friday. The album, which marks Drake's seventh studio production, was a surprise release.The 35-year-old rapper announced the drop hours before on Instagram. "7th studio album ‘HONESTLY, NEVERMIND ’out at midnight," Drake captioned a photo of the cover art.

Katie Price has been caught out in what appears to be a photo-editing fail after uploading her latest snap to Instagram. The 44 year old had posted a photo of herself on Instagram showing off her £2,000 Louis Vuitton rucksack – but one rather important thing was missing from the snap. Katie can be seen looking straight at the camera while holding onto her expensive bag and was fully made up as she gave her best pout.

Coronation Street star Alex Bain has been snapped out and about with a foot brace after injuring his ankle at the end of May.The actor, 20, plays Simon Barlow in the long-running soap, and has been spotted hanging out with friends wearing a foot brace after ending up in A&E at Blackburn Hospital with the injury. He later returned to the hospital for a check-up, getting an x-ray done at the fracture clinic to see how his foot was doing.The Corrie star's ankle seems to be healing well, and he was spotted chatting with friends and drinking a Starbucks coffee while standing on the pavement.

Savannah Chrisley is speaking out for the first time following her parents’ recent federal conviction on charges of bank and tax fraud.

Paul Pogba ranted about Manchester United's handling of his contract negotiations during a chat with late agent Mino Raiola before opting to leave the club and push for a return to Juventus. The World Cup winning France midfielder failed to live up to expectations on his £89million Old Trafford reunion, despite winning both the League Cup and Europa League during his debut season under Jose Mourinho.

Rachel Bilson is opening up about her love life!

U2‘s Bono and The Edge are reportedly working on new music for North Star, an upcoming biopic about the director Jim Sheridan.Sheridan, who is best known for such films as My Left Foot and In The Name Of The Father, will direct the semi-autobiographical feature, which will tell the story of the director’s early life in Ireland in the early 1960s.North Star is described as “the coming-of-age story of 17-year-old Sheamie Sheridan, who lives with his rough-around-the-edges father and younger brother Frankie”.“A journey into the heart and soul of a family, Sheamie finds his world turned upside down when a teenage orphan moves in to live with them, revealing the deeper and more complicated problems Sheamie has with his dad; secrets that now threaten to tear the family apart.”Variety reports that Bono and The Edge are “in discussions to compose original music” for Sheridan’s North Star, which is being produced by Spinning Gold director Timothy Scott Bogart.The U2 musicians are in talks to write and perform the original song ‘North Star’ in addition to collaborating on the score.Shooting on North Star is set to begin in early 2023 on location in Ireland.Bono, meanwhile, will publish his memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story in November.The book is set to span the singer’s career, “from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty”.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Spinning Gold” director Timothy Scott Bogart has set up his next projects on the heels of his musical biopic about his father, Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart.Bogart will produce the semi-autobiographical feature “North Star” from Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan (“My Left Foot,” “In the Name of the Father”), which tells the story of the director’s early life in Northern Ireland. U2 musicians Bono and The Edge are in discussions to compose original music for the film, Variety can reveal.Meanwhile, Bogart will also write and direct the modern pop-music driven, 1191-set “Marian,” which charts the love story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, with music from Grammy-winning songwriter Evan Bogart.