The Return: Last News

Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey are foundational works of Western literature, yet they are seldom adapted for the screen today. The Iliad was last made into a mainstream Hollywood blockbuster in 2004’s “Troy.” But you must go back to 1954 to find an equivalent for The Odyssey in “Ulysses” starring Kirk Douglas.

Marcus Theatres saw revenue and profit dip last quarter but is the latest exhibitor to report a soft April and May leading into a notable positive shift in June as the industry shakes off the impact Hollywood strikes last year.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera says he’s been “toiling for the past nine months like a factory worker on an assembly line at a Chaplinesque pace” to assemble the star-studded lineup he just unveiled that on paper also looks like one of his best. The Lido’s upcoming 81st edition features a geographically balanced mix of known names and potential discoveries across a wide range of genres spanning from pure entertainment to highly political works and marking the return of erotically charged cinema, as Barbera tells Variety. It looks like a great lineup. Are you happy? Yes, of course I’m happy.

They had huge success with rebooting Gladiators - but now the BBC have now delighted fans even more with the return of yet more nostalgic shows.The classic programmes will run on BBC Four and iPlayer during the channel’s Olympic coverage, starting from the end of July. Episodes of fan favourite shows such as The Generation Game and Blankety Blank, as well as Noel's House Party, Bob's Full House and the first episode of Strictly Come Dancing, which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, will be shown to celebrate the broadcaster's heritage.The classic entertainment season will air across three Saturday nights beginning next week, on July 27.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Here’s the Lowe down: Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star” finally has a Season 5 premiere date, almost a year and a half after its previous episode aired. “9-1-1: Lone Star” will return on Monday, Sept. 23 at 8 p.m., kicking off a premiere week for Fox and marking the first new episode of the Rob Lowe series since May 2023.

We’re gonna let you in on a little secret. Some of the best seasons of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” are not appearing on MTV or Paramount+ or screening.

Eagles‘ Don Henley has filed a lawsuit for the return of his handwritten notes and lyrics from the ‘Hotel California’ album.Henley filed the civil complaint in New York federal court on Friday (June 27), per the Associated Press. It follows a previous case against three collectibles experts in March, who were accused of trying to sell the notes.

. Kylie Jenner just proved me wrong.On June 8, the shared a series of vacation snaps in a low-rise white mini skirt featuring a true bubble hemline, which she paired with a matching white bralette tied behind her back with a bow.

Virgin Atlantic will resume flights between London Heathrow and Israel, the airline has announced. A daily flight will operate in each direction between Heathrow and Tel Aviv from September 5.

D:Ream have spoken to NME about their shocked reaction to their 1993 hit ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ returning to the charts after being played over Rishi Sunak announcing a general election in a downpour – and how it has led to them being asked to play Glastonbury 2024.Last Wednesday (May 22), as a drenched Sunak took to a podium outside 10 Downing Street to reveal the snap July 4 election date, in the background protester Steve Bray played the Northern Irish band’s Number One song which had long been associated with Tony Blair’s landslide victory in 1997.The clip has since gone viral on social media platforms and entered the iTunes chart Top 10 within 24 hours.According to D:Ream singer Peter Cunnah, though, the political connotations of the song had become an albatross for the band over the New Labour years and beyond.“My first reaction was ‘not again, please let me move on’,” he told NME. “We all wanted that change in ’97, that sense of positivity.

EXCLUSIVE: Since being launched in 2017 by a quartet including Jesse Armstrong, Various Artists Limited (VAL) has made shows ranging from Michaela Coel‘s I May Destroy You to Julia Davis’ Sally 4Ever,but bosses now see the comedy landscape heading in a somewhat different direction.

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To celebrate the highly-anticipated return of Aldi’s Next Big Thing on Channel 4, we’ve teamed up with Aldi to give away £100 worth of shopping vouchers to 15 lucky readers.The six-week series will follow innovative food and drink entrepreneurs from across the UK, as they compete for the life-changing chance to have their products stocked in more than 1,000 Aldi stores nationwide. Hosted by broadcaster and author, Anita Rani and Chris Bavin, of The One Show and Eat Well for Less, the show will return for the second series on April 2 at 8pm.

Alien: Romulus has teased the return of the franchise’s frightening facehuggers.Alien: Romulus was directed by Álvarez (Don’t Breathe and 2013’s Evil Dead), produced by Ridley Scott and written by Álvarez and his longtime collaborator Rodo Sayagues.The trailer’s opening scene sees the inside of dimly-lit, hexagonal corridors within a space station. From there, someone is heard crying for help while another voice says “No, I don’t know what it is”.

, and yes, Ryan Gosling will perform and Zendaya will present, but before we get into all that, let's focus on something else: the start of the most jam-packed premiere season.Studios, networks and streamers will start unveiling the shows they consider to have major shots at this September's Emmy Awards, and the deadline to air the bulk of those episodes is the end of May, meaning they start premiering now. That way they are fresh in voter's minds when it comes to the “For Your Consideration” period.

shared another one of her , this time dressed in a simple white tank top and bell-bottom jeans. All it took to elevate this everyday uniform was her face-framing bob with the ends curled upwards. While the flicked bob is also having a moment with , Gomez's hair seems to sit just above her shoulders with a few volumeizing layers and a more dramatic flip.It's unclear, however, if this is a new cut or a throwback pic.

Jessica Kiang In November 2021, 61 years after Benin gained independence from the French empire, 26 of the many thousands of plundered national antiquities were returned by France to their African home. Inserting an inquisitive, imaginative intelligence into this key moment in the troubled timeline of post-imperial cultural politics, French-Senegalese director Mati Diop fashions her superb, short but potent hybrid doc “Dahomey” as a slim lever that cracks open the sealed crate of colonial history, sending a hundred of its associated erasures and injustices tumbling into the light.

Laura Jane Grace has spoken to NME about her new album ‘Hole In My Head’, reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the seminal punk album ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues’ and the possibility of new Against Me! music.The musician was speaking to NME from her new house in Chicago where she lives with her wife comedian Paris Campbell – who she married last December. Grace is best known as the frontwoman of anarcho-punk group Against Me!, and is also notable for being one of the most visible transgender women in punk rock today, coming out in 2012.The musician will soon release ‘Hole In My Head’, her second solo album written during the pandemic.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has spoken to NME about the resurgent success of her classic single ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ after its feature in Saltburn – as well as the experience of watching the movie with her mother and teenage son.‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ was first released in 2001 from Ellis-Bextor’s debut album ‘Read My Lips’ – reaching Number Two in the UK singles chart at the time and going on to become a pop cult classic. Now, the song has found a new audience after soundtracking an already infamous nude scene in the 2023 hit film Saltburn, and is currently at Number Eight in the UK as well as breaking into the Billboard 100 in the US for the first time.Speaking to NME, the singer explained her shock after having “nothing at all” in terms of awareness or success in America until now.“That’s what’s been quite extraordinary.

America's Got Talent Judges Sofía Vergara and just stepped out for a girls night in dresses that prove neutrals can be festive and fun.The pair hit up West Hollywood restaurant Madeo, according to the Daily Mail, and showed off their attire in mirror selfies as they got ready. opted for a skintight brown spandex dress that's floor-length and long-sleeved. Sexy without showing skin: impressive.

Ted Sarandos acknowledged that Netflix may be making fewer movies than it used to — because it’s so much easier to license them now.