Richard Attenborough: Last News

The Demon Headmaster, has died aged 86.The news was broken with “great sadness” by his agent earlier today, who described him as a “beloved client and much-loved stage and screen actor” (via BBC). As of yet, no further details have been announced.Hardiman first rose to fame in the ‘90s, for his role in The Demon Headmaster — a CBBC series which scared a generation of kids between the period of 1996 and 1998.

After a few years in limbo, the BAFTAs finally found a host to replace the much-missed Stephen Fry in David Tennant. The Doctor Who actor proved an amiable and funny emcee, although much of his humor would have gone way over the non-Brits in the audience, starting with a lengthy filmed skit riffing on his BBC TV series Staged, co-starring Michael Sheen. It was a night of surprises, not especially pleasant ones for the teams behind Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon, and there were no egregious upsets. Neither were there any of the usual technical nightmares that have plagued the event in the past. 

Victor J. Kemper, the former president of the American Society of Cinematographers whose career spanned four decades and included films as diverse as Dog Day Afternoon and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, has died according to the ASC. He was 96.

viewing of “Violent Night.”The “Home Improvement” alum, who is known for his portrayal of Saint Nick in his “The Santa Claus” film franchise, prefers watching more wholesome, family holiday movies — like his own.“I can’t watch another Santa Claus movie. Especially when they’re bad Santas,” Allen, 70, told The Post in a joint interview with his daughter, Elizabeth Allen-Dick, while promoting “The Santa Clauses.”“I know there are people that like the ugly Santa movies but sometimes I’m like, ‘Eh, I don’t know if I like bad Santas.’ You know, dressed up with knives and stabbing,” he added. “I don’t like that.”The comedian stepped into Santa’s shoes as Scott Calvin in 1994’s “The Santa Clause,” going on to make two more films and his Disney+ series, which is now in its second season.While other actors (Ed Asner in “Elf,” Richard Attenborough in “Miracle on 34th Street” and Kurt Russell in “The Christmas Chronicles”) have played a light-hearted Kriss Kringle, David Harbour and Billy Bob Thornton have taken on darker versions in 2022’s “Violent Night” and 2003’s “Bad Santa,” respectively.“I’m not judging other shows,” Allen insisted.

As the latest series of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway came to an end on Saturday evening, viewers were more than a little distracted by presenter Stephen Mulhern ’s appearance during one segment of the show. Geordie show hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly swapped their usual UK studio for the balmy warmth of Florida, as they broadcast live from Universal Studios, Orlando - and had even brought along co-stars Stephen, Fleur East and Jordan North for the final show.

Sir David Attenborough is not just a famous personality, but a beloved national icon.Throughout his life, the 96-year-old has tirelessly advocated for the preservation of the natural world and the protection of endangered species. As a renowned natural historian and documentary filmmaker, he has been bestowed with two knighthoods, one in 1985 and the other in 2020, and has enriched our lives with his awe-inspiring films that showcase the extraordinary beauty of our planet. Despite his professional accomplishments, have you ever wondered about his personal life? Sir David Attenborough was born on May 8, 1926.

They’re back! Prince William and Princess Kate will attend the 76th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, February 19, Us Weekly can confirm.

At the start of awards season, Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front was a lock for International, but few could have foreseen how much further it would go. Alongside that nomination, the German film is now also in the running for Best Picture, having made the shortlist for Sound, Original Score, Adapted Screenplay, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Visual Effects, and Cinematography.

The season of rambling acceptance speeches is at hand, prompting that nasty question: Why can’t award winners learn how to edit their gratitude? Or find an editor to help?

British film industry veteran Sir Sydney Samuelson has died. He was 97.

A Lanarkshire cinema has crowned Home Alone the UK’s favourite Christmas movie of all time.

Angelique Jackson A key element of “Jurassic World Dominion” is Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcolm reunion with the original “Jurassic Park” crew (Laura Dern, Sam Neill and BD Wong), as the quartet share the screen for the first time since 1993.But that plot point isn’t the only “Jurassic” milestone for 2022.

IT'S been nearly three decades since the first Jurassic Park movie burst on to our screens in 1993, and even now the film is just as popular. The iconic franchise began with John Hammond - played by the late Richard Attenborough - creating an incredible theme park on Nublar Island off the coast of Costa Rica, filled with real-life dinosaurs.

One of the original children from the Jurassic Park franchise looks unrecognisable nearly 30 years after she first starred in the movie. Ariana Richards was just 12 years old when she appeared in the first Jurassic Park film in 1993, and now she has joined the new cast at the premiere of the Jurassic World: Dominion. Now, aged 42, she's appeared on the red carpet to celebrate the new movie and reunited with her old co-stars including Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum.

John Wayne played another tough cop in 1975 action thriller, Brannigan, opposite Richard Attenborough. Set in London, the movie saw Duke's Chicago detective Lieutenant Jim Brannigan organise the extradition of an American mobster, who is kidnapped and held to random. The 67-year-old star had been suffering from major health problems for years, having had a cancerous lung removed a decade prior.

Romaine Hart, who passed away last December at the age of 88. In 1970, native Londoner Hart — the daughter of a cinema boss who showed her the ropes of programming and managing theaters — took over one of the family-owned fleapits, The Rex, making it over into the renamed Screen on the Green.

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A fire broke out at the UK’s famed Pinewood Studios on Tuesday, the Buckingham Fire & Rescue Service has confirmed.

K.J. Yossman A fire has broken out at Pinewood Studios in the U.K., reportedly during a shoot for Disney’s live action version of “Snow White.”The film stars “West Side Story’s” Rachel Zegler as the Disney princess and “Wonder Woman” lead Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen.The fire was reported to have broken out on Pinewood’s Richard Attenborough stage, with photographs showing enormous flames next to a mock thatched cottage, with thick smoke all the way up to the ceiling.Photographs taken outside the production facility also showed smoke billowing around the outside of the building.An unnamed source told The Sun that a tree had caught fire. “A set made up of a lot of wood, and trees etc was currently being built in the Richard Attenborough stage,” the source told the newspaper.

hospitalised for three weeks in 2020 with Covid.The 75-year-old singer – who was previously the girlfriend and muse of Rolling Stones rocker Sir Mick Jagger – has been open about her struggle to recover from the virus, revealing last year she was still experiencing memory loss and fatigue, while her lungs hadn’t fully recovered.Now it’s been revealed she’s living at Denville Hall, north west London, which is a retirement home for professional actors and other theatrical professions and has been home to several other stars over the years, including Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs and filmmaker Lord Richard Attenborough and his actress wife Sheila Sim.A spokesman for the As Tears Go By hitmaker confirmed: ‘Marianne is staying at Denville Hall while she recovers from the ongoing effects of Covid.’Meanwhile, a friend of Marianne’s told the Daily Mail’s Eden Confidential this week: ‘She’s adding a touch of glamour to the home.’Marianne has been beset by health woes in recent years and was hospitalised for three weeks with the virus in April 2020; in January 2021 she told how she may never sing again after battling the infection.She told the Guardian: ‘I may not be able to sing ever again. Maybe that’s over.‘I would be incredibly upset if that was the case, but, on the other hand, I am 74.‘I don’t feel cursed and I don’t feel invincible.

Longtime Fleet Street fixture Baz Bamigboye is joining Deadline as a columnist and international editor at large. Bamigboye comes from London’s Daily Mail, where he has been the newspaper’s chief chronicler of showbusiness in the UK for three decades.