Sam Neill on 50 Years of Acting, Filming ‘Six-Hour Movie’ ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ and Adapting ‘Rams’

Black entertainment channel BET UK has unveiled five originals including shows on queer Black Britain narrated by Gina Yashere, Black British music and relationships.

Canneseries 2022 has unveiled its Long Form Competition finalists, with Academy Award winners Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Punishment and Jean-Xavier De Lestrade’s The Inside Game, Seeds of Wrath featuring alongside the likes of Zentropa’s The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen. 

The Polish Film Institute is the latest international film organization to show its support for Ukraine as the war-torn country continues to be invaded by the Russian Federation. PFI has called for cultural sanctions to be imposed on Russia, in addition to the already issued political and economic sanctions that have been placed on the country.

A 'fed up' police officer left a 'nuisance' student with severe facial injuries after driving off in a van with the passenger door open, a disciplinary hearing was told.

A popular Scottish wildlife park is offering animal fans a once in a lifetime chance to not only name an adorable polar bear cub – but also meet and feed him too.

Snoop Dogg revealed his love for Jay-Z during a recent interview with Tidal.

The image of the letter Z has now become a chilling symbol of the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

The UK Government recently confirmed that State Pension and benefits delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) including Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) will increase by 3.1 per cent next month.

A Scots mum who cares for her disabled daughter fears her family could be made homeless after being told her utility bills are set to almost triple.

Lanarkshire MSPs have joined the condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine which has seen so many people flee their homeland.

Airdrie’s boulevard of lights and North Lanarkshire’s council headquarters have been lit up in blue and yellow to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

David Byrne performed ‘Like Humans Do’ with the cast of his American Utopia show on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (March 7) – you can watch their performance below.American Utopia, the hugely successful stage production of the Talking Heads musician’s 2018 solo album of the same name (which also features songs from across his back catalogue), is currently playing at Broadway’s St. James Theatre in New York City until April 3.Byrne and the current cast of American Utopia visited The Tonight Show yesterday to perform ‘Like Humans Do’, which originally featured on Byrne’s 2001 album ‘Look Into The Eyeball’.You can watch Byrne and the cast of American Utopia perform ‘Like Humans Do’ below.The Tonight Show performance follows on from Byrne’s recent appearance on CBS Saturday Sessions, where he and his band performed Talking Heads’ 1983 hit ‘Burning Down The House’ and ‘Marching Through The Wilderness’.The Spike Lee-directed concert film version of American Utopia was released in 2020, which NME described as “a rare concert film that packs in brilliant music, incredible visuals, a vital political message and jokes”.

Game of Thrones co-creator D.B. Weiss has reiterated that he and David Benioff will continue to move away from the franchise.Discussing their new Netflix film Metal Lords with Entertainment Weekly, Weiss called the Game of Thrones era “the best decade of our lives”.“All in, we were 11 years, probably, doing that show.

Corey Taylor has called Kanye West a “fucking moron” over the rapper’s decision to make ‘DONDA 2’ available exclusively through his Stem Player.Released last month, West’s 11th studio album – a direct follow-up to last year’s ‘DONDA’ – can currently only be accessed via his $200 (£150) device, which was created by the star’s Yeezy Tech enterprise.Four tracks from the record were made available to Stem Player owners on February 23 following a listening party and live performance in Miami the night before. An additional four songs arrived the next day, with a further 12 cuts landing on February 25.During a recent interview with Metro.co.uk, Slipknot frontman Taylor suggested that West’s method of putting out ‘DONDA 2’ was out of touch with his audience.“It’s like releasing all the parts for a car and sending them to people’s houses and going there, you got a free car, now you’ve got to figure out how to build the goddamn thing,” Taylor told the outlet.“You’re assuming that the audience has the access and same technology that you have but you’re a fucking moron for doing that.

“I shouldn’t tell you this,” grins Sam Neill, as he and his pup Chuff escort ET Canada through a gate to his Instafamous cows at the sprawling headquarters of his Two Paddocks vineyards in New Zealand’s Central Otago. “It sounds too eccentric, but I come play my ukulele here and a couple wander over and listen, but I’d really like mass adoration … I want cattle groupies.”

Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill have shared a new duet from the Jurassic World: Dominion set – you can watch it below.The pair, who starred in the original 1993 film, will reprise their roles of Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr.

Jurassic World: Dominion actor opened up the animals on his New Zealand farm in a new interview on ITV daytime show This Morning, revealing he has a number of pets named after famous stars.Explaining that he has a cow called Helena Bonham Carter, as well as rams called Jeff Goldblum and Timothy Spall, Neill then admitted to having a cockerel named after a certain actor.When asked by co-presenter Phillip Schofield for the rooster’s name, the star laughed as he said: “I’m slightly embarrassed about that now, I won’t say his name because he took offence.”“Oh I thought he was quite pleased!” co-presenter Holly Willoughby suggested.

Jurassic World : Dominion managed to film amid the coronavirus pandemic last year – and one of its stars, Sam Neill, has confirmed the production team spent around five million dollars in order to keep everyone safe on set.The movie started filming in February 2020, the production got shut down twice due to the pandemic, once in March 2020 and once in October 2020 as a safety precaution.Speaking on This Morning, Neill explained that no expense was spared for the cast and crew when they filmed Jurassic World: Dominion."It's been 20 years, I know, time flies, but some of us are back.

Jurassic Park star Sam Neil says he believes that the critically panned third film in the series got “unfair” treatment from critics, and was a “pretty damn good” film.Neil is set to reprise his role as Dr Alan Grant in the forthcoming Jurassic World: Dominion, the first time he will play the character since the 2001 film.Speaking to Collider, Neill reflected on the film’s legacy, saying: “I was just talking to someone earlier in the day who said, ‘I really like Jurassic Park III and it gets an unfair [treatment].’“And I said, ‘Thank you very much.’ I agree that the last 10 minutes are way too easy and way too hurried, but I think up to that point, it’s pretty damn good.”Neill went on to say that it was only by Jurassic Park III that he

Alissa Simon Film CriticNearly six years ago, “Rams,” a touching humanist drama from Iceland directed and written by Grímur Hákonarson, won hearts — and prizes — at the Cannes Film Festival. Now, in trots “Rams,” an Australian remake, directed by Jeremy Sims (“Last Cab to Darwin”).

Sam Neill has discussed naming his farm animals after celebrities, from Helena Bonham Carter to Graham Norton. “One can’t really eat Helena Bonham Carter,” the Jurassic Park star told The Times.