Technical issue at Vue Printworks cinema hits lone Manchester movie lovers

As many predicted, Greta Gerwig‘s “Barbie” cleaned up at the box office this past weekend, with the film sitting just under $500 million worldwide. Will it break the $1 billion dollar barrier like star Margot Robbie predicted in her studio pitch? It certainly looks like it, and in such a tumultuous time for Hollywood, many people are happy about that.

Police have released an image of two men they want to speak to following the theft of a mobile phone.

Living in one place for so long you can sometimes forget that beauty is at you doorstep. This is especially true when you live in Leigh as it can be very difficult to find in the ever evolving former mining town.

Amazon has slashed the prices of its most popular items of luggage in a flash summer sale that ends on Tuesday (August 8). In the post Prime-day sale, holidaymakers can pick up discounted suitcases, holdalls, duffel bags and carry on cases.

Passengers were forced to evacuate part of Manchester Airport today with bus services kept away from the scene. Firefighters were seen outside the airport's bus and rail station earlier this afternoon (July 27).

Erik ten Hag believes Manchester United have regained their transfer pull but that is set to be tested with Paris Saint-Germain entering the race for Rasmus Hojlund.

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Two police officers were injured in what has been described as an 'unprovoked' knife attack in the street on Wednesday afternoon (July 26).

In a summer where the off-the-boards success of original movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer is all the rage, the 7th-or so feature film iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise wasn’t one with great expectations – except when you read the credit block and discover the cowriters and producers are none other than Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and the director is Jeff Rowe who most recently was an Oscar nominee for the wildly inventive animated hit, The Mitchells Vs The Machines.

The Jonas Brothers are bringing their huge global tour to Manchester next year at one of the cities' newest venues.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director If you watched “Barbie” and thought it was missing a proper fart joke, then you might’ve loved one scene that Greta Gerwig and editor Nick Houy left on the cutting room floor. In a new IndieWire interview with the collaborators, it’s revealed that “Barbie” had a “fart opera” in the middle of its runtime that got cut because it wasn’t received as well as Gerwig hoped. “We’ve always tried to get in a proper fart joke and we’ve never done it,” Gerwig said.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Utopia has acquired North American rights to “The Sweet East,” a contemporary travelogue that marks the feature directing debut of Sean Price Williams. The sale comes after the film debuted at Director’s Fortnight during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Williams has a reputation as one of the most talented cinematographers in the independent film space, having previously worked with the likes of the Safdie Brothers, Alex Ross Perry, Michael Almereyda, Abel Ferrara and Albert Maysles.

Barbie fans love more about the hottest movie of the year – aside from the pink, the cast, the vibes, and the pink – than spotting its hidden references and subtle Easter eggs sprinkled throughout.Fans have been poring over every pink detail of the highly-anticipated Greta Gerwig flick since the first trailer dropped, going into a hot pink frenzy with every “genius” tid bit uncovered.But since the film’s record-breaking release weekend, once Barbies and Kens had a chance to take in Barbieland’s full pastel glory, theories are swirling about the more subtle pop culture nods.One particular theory speculates that the film features a subtle cameo by Barbie’s biggest rival: the Bratz dolls.Fans have taken to social media to unpack their theory, honing in on the scene where Barbie (Margot Robbie) travels to the real world and goes to a high school while searching for the girl she believes is responsible for her existential crisis.At the school, she comes across a teenager named Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt) and her three friends who give the cowgirl-dressed Barbie a brutal reality check about her problematic history in the real world.“We haven’t played with Barbie since we were, like, five years old,” Sasha tells Barbie.“You’ve been making women feel bad about themselves since you were invented.”One TikTok user, Ivan Mars, posted a video saying it took him three trips to the cinema to realize the group of teens bear an eerie resemblance to the original four Bratz dolls named Yasmin, Sasha, Cloe, and Jade.And though the three friends – played by McKenna Roberts, Sasha Milstein, and Brylee Hsu – being unnamed “Junior High Friend” characters, their apparent ringleader Sasha shares not only a name, but a nickname with one of Barbie’s

An 82-year-old man was tragically found dead in a stream in the early hours of Wednesday (July 26) after discharging himself from hospital hours before, the Manchester Evening News understands.

Phil Foden believes Mateo Kovacic's aggressive play and ability to wriggle out of tight situations will see him thrive at Manchester City.

A BMW driver who crashed into and killed a man before running to a shop to buy vodka has been found guilty of causing death by careless driving. Daniel Masiulis, from Tameside, was behind the wheel of a BMW 520d when he crashed into bike rider Clive Pinnock in Hyde Road, Gorton.

Family values will be on the agenda when a star of classic TV show The Waltons sets up a temporary home in Lanarkshire later this month.

A ruthless teenage gang stole £4million worth of high-value vehicles in a sickening 10-month crime wave.

BBC Breakfast star Nina Warhurst has finally unveiled her newborn daughter's name weeks after announcing she had given birth to her third child. It was co-stars Jon Kay and Sally Nugent who had the honour of announcing Nina's baby girl's arrival on the show on July 3.

Police have said Sinead O'Connor was 'found unresponsive' at her London home after her shock death was confirmed. News broke of the singer's tragic passing, aged 56, on Wednesday night (July 26).

Sinead O'Connor was found "unresponsive" at a London home before she was tragically declared dead at the age of 56.