Christmas Box Office: ‘Aquaman 2’ Sinks With $40 Million Debut

Coronation Street actress Sally Ann Matthews has been flooded with support from fans and colleagues after the TV star, who plays Jenny Connor in the soap, shared some heartbreaking personal news.Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, Sally, 53, announced the devastating passing of her uncle with a poignant photo and caption with her 107,000 followers. Support and messages of condolence have since poured in for the actress after she shared how she'd had to say goodbye to her beloved uncle this week.The picture that she posted appeared to show a young Sally Ann with her late family member on the beach.The three people in the photograph had their backs to the camera as they looked out across the sea.

Fay Ripley has come a long way from her early days selling men's clothes door-to-door and is now one of the UK's most loved actresses. After graduating from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1990, Fay landed a role in a pantomime version of Around the World in 80 Days. From there, her career took off.

King Charles III discreetly made a change to an act to prevent both Prince Andrew and Prince Harry from acting as substitutes for him when he took to the throne. The 75 year old monarch, who became King following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, added both his sister, Princess Anne, and brother, Prince Edward, to the list of family members who can act for him in the Counsellors of State Act 2022.

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The Libertines have shared a dramatic new single from their upcoming album – listen to ‘Shiver’ below.The band will release new album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ on March 8, and have so far shared the tracks.The release of the album will be preceded by a tour of intimate club gigs across the UK in January and February dubbed The Albion Tour, which the band have described as a return to “[their] roots in these small sweaty clubs, where [they] can see the whites of the crowds eyes”.After debuting a number of tracks at a sweaty Margate gig last month, they have now shared ‘Shiver’, of which Carl Bârat said: “Peter had a song and I had a song and we mashed them up and did it collaboratively.”Pete Doherty added: “I would probably find it difficult to work out who did what because we were both there the whole time through its creation. It should really be called ‘The Last Dream Of Every Dying Soldier’, but everyone liked the title ‘Shiver’.”In an NME interview from last year, Doherty spoke of how ‘Shiver’ references the band watching the funeral of Queen Elizabeth while recording the album in Jamaica.“It was really strange,” he said.

Bethesda and MachineGames have shared the first full trailer for Indiana Jones And The Great Circle as part of Microsoft’s most recent Xbox Developer Direct – check it out below.The 3-minute gameplay video sees Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones headbutt Nazis, explore crypts, assemble ancient puzzles and use his whip to escape life-threatening situations as he tries to uncover the truth about The Great Circle. Despite the likeness to Ford, he hasn’t returned to voice Indiana Jones with Troy Baker stepping up instead.“Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders Of The Lost Ark and The Last Crusade,” reads the game’s official description.

Read this article for free! Plus get unlimited access to thousands of articles, videos and more with your free account! Please enter a valid email address. By entering your email, you are agreeing to Fox News Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive.To access the content, check your email and follow the instructions provided. Prince Harry is being crowned a living legend of aviation, and the honor is already raising eyebrows among several royal watchers.

Actor Sean Ward has made his modelling debut at Paris Fashion Week, following his exit from Coronation Street back in 2015. The 35 year old, who portrayed Callum Logan in the ITV soap, walked in the LGN Louis Gabriel Nouchi Menswear Fall/Winter show at Paris Fashion Week on 18 January, marking his first catwalk. Sean shared a snap of himself in the show on Instagram and admitted that the experience felt "surreal" and he felt his "imposter syndrome kick in".

It’s Friday, and one star sign will refuse to get drawn into arguments with workmates, while another will receive news of a financial boost today. There are 12 zodiac signs - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces - and the horoscopes for each can give you the lowdown on what your future holds, be it in work, your love life, your friends and family or more.These daily forecasts have been compiled by astrologer Russell Grant, who has been reading star signs for over 50 years. From Aries through to Pisces, here's what today could bring for your horoscope - and what you can do to be prepared.

Loose Women viewers witnessed an awkward moment when presenter Gloria Hunniford was interrupted by co-host Kaye Adams. Sixty one year old Kaye led Wednesday's show, 17 January, with panellists Dame Kelly Holmes, Sue Cleaver and Gloria.They were chatting with guest Rebecca Wilcox, Esther Rantzen's daughter.Things got a little tense when Kaye interjected as Gloria, 83, tried to ask Rebecca a question but Kaye cut her off.The discussion came up after Rebecca updated fans about her mum's tragic health situation.

Coronation Street star Peter Ash has left the soap's fans guessing as he offered an update on Paul Foreman future. Character Paul, played by Peter, has been dealing with a heartbreaking Motor Neurone Disease (MND) diagnosis on the show.The condition affects the brain and nervous system, causing symptoms like muscle weakness and slurred speech. Fans were saddened to learn that Paul's condition has worsened significantly, with recent tests showing he only has months left to live.

Stephen Bear's ex-girlfriend Jessica Smith has taken a swipe at him by posting a loved-up photo with her new man as the disgraced reality star is released from prison. Jessica, wearing a black crop top and shorts, stuck her tongue out as her new boyfriend posed behind her, both of them in sunglasses, and pouted at the camera.

Sally Lindsay has carved a prominent place in the British entertainment scene, charming audiences across the years. Beyond her on-screen success in popular shows like Coronation Street, Loose Women, and Still Open All Hours, Sally's life off-screen is a fascinating journey. While best known for her acting prowess, Sally also had a brief foray into the music scene with her school choir's Christmas number one hit.

A petition has been launched and the president of Perth City Swim Club has accused Perth and Kinross Council of selling the public short with a "devastating scaling-back" of sports provision.

Celtic hero John Hartson hit out at what he claimed was “unfair pressure” being put on his former team-mate and Parkhead legend Neil Lennon’s son Gallagher ahead of a potential debut against Rangers for new loan club Dumbarton.

Netflix’s new k-drama series The Bequeathed has been released to streaming today (January 19).The six-episode show was first announced back in October, and it is based on a popular webtoon by Kang Tae-kyung. It is co-written by Hellbound and Train to Busan creator Yeon Sang-ho, alongside Hwang Eun-young and series director Min Hong-nam.The trailer for the series was released earlier this month, featuring the lead character Yoon Seo-ha being informed of the death of an uncle that was previously unknown to her.“That crazy bastard is killing people around me one by one to inherit that burial ground all by himself,” Seo-ha tells the police in the trailer, but still things in her life slowly spin out of control.“Give me the family burial ground.

Fallout Shelter, The Elder Scrolls: Castles, has been announced.The news was announced on the official X (formerly Twitter) Bethesda account, with the post stating that the team is “excited to finally share The Elder Scrolls: Castles, our new mobile game from the team behind Fallout Shelter. The team has been hard at work on it for the last few years and we absolutely adore it.”The game allows you to control and expand your castle over various generations, making decisions that dictate exactly how your citizens perceive you and whether or not they attempt to overthrow your regime.

Post Malone will sing ‘America The Beautiful’ at next month’s Super Bowl LVIII, it has been confirmed.The traditional pre-game performances of ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ and ‘Lift Every Voice And Sing’ will be performed by Reba McEntire and Andra Day respectively.Super Bowl LVIII will take place at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday, February 11.Performing the famous halftime show will be Usher, who said: “It’s an honour of a lifetime to finally check a Super Bowl performance off my bucket list.”

Melissa Barrera is sharing her thoughts on her exit from the Scream franchise and what her current relationship with the cast is like.

Theda Hammel’s latest dramedy at Neon Stressed Positions stars Hammel, John Early, Qaher Harhash, Amy Zimmer, Faheem Ali, and Rebecca F. Wright follows Bahlul, a queer Moroccan-American model that everyone wants to meet. While moments emerge showing the glimmer of an insightful character study, the film quickly dissolves into an endurance test drowned out by superficial noise. One must tip the cap to Hammel’s sheer feat of micro-budget production, but his organic style choices bewilder more than enlighten.The film follows Bahlul (Harhash), a 20-year old  Moroccan, American model, spending his time in recovery from a broken leg with his uncle Terry in Brooklyn, Ny. Terry is not Moroccan, but American and white and are family by marriage. The injured Bahlul meets a cast of eccentric characters, including Terry’s best friend Karla (Hammel), Carla‘s girlfriend, Vanessa (Zimmer), Terry’s husband Leo (Roberts), Ronald (Ali), the local GrubHub delivery guy, and Coco (Wright), the woman living in the apartment above them. 

A teenage girl was raped at Center Parcs after her family let a man stay in their campervan. Caden Crossley was granted permission to stay in their lodge after he was kicked out of his own cabin by his partner, following a row in the summer of 2022.

A car park is to be dug up in the search for a missing Royal Navy sailor feared to be a victim of a serial killer.

Fresh calls are being made for another 'Awaab's Law' to help tenants in private rented accommodation. It's one of a number of 'urgent' recommendations being made today (January 19) by a cross-party committee of MPs as part of a new report.

Temperatures will start to slowly rise in Greater Manchester today after a freezing cold snap.

“I’m just so grateful on what I got to infuse in the franchise, and that’s something I’ll be proud of forever,” Melissa Barrera told Deadline at Sundance tonight, indicating no bad blood after being severed from the Scream series by Spyglass Media last month.

Jacob Elordi is sharing his thoughts on the “Jacob Elordi’s Bathwater” candle that has gone viral on the internet.

Nikki Reed is on TikTok and her first video is a hit!

Jason Momoa has revealed his hopes to star in a “really good film” that will be appreciated by the awards circuit.Speaking to Variety about his new unscripted series On The Roam, Momoa told the publication that despite starring in blockbuster films and hosting Shark Week and more throughout his career, he doesn’t feel like he has really “done anything so far”.“I don’t really think I’ve done anything so far,” he said, telling Variety that On the Roam just highlighted “what I’d be doing on my off days.” Momoa added: “I’m not going to be able to master all of these things. I’m a solid C+ to B- at everything. But I like doing a lot of different things, and I’m not an A at one thing.”For now, he’s focused on comedy: “I really went after comedy.

Reacher arrived on Amazon Prime Video today (January 19), but what is the future of the show? This latest adaptation of the book series by Lee Child stars Alan Ritchson as the former US Army military policeman, who possesses formidable intelligence and strength and now lives as a drifter. Reacher was developed by Nick Santora, who has written and produced episodes of The Sopranos, Law & Order, Prison Break, Scorpion. More recently, Santora led the Netflix series Fubar starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The first season of Reacher arrived in February 2022, while the second season premiered in December 2023, with its concluding episode hitting streaming today.

Siddhant Adlakha Few issues have defined and divided the United States this decade like policing, and Yance Ford’s “Power” seeks to explore its origins. With few exceptions, the Netflix documentary/visual essay is more factual than emotional — let alone revelatory in its examinations — but the film covers enough historical ground to function as a contemporary cinematic flashpoint, aimed at a wide audience who isn’t already steeped in its academic analyses (which have become a fixture of social media these last few years).

Sundance soaked up the sun on Thursday’s opening day. With plenty of powder to lend an idyllic backdrop to selfies and social media updates, the festival crowd was buzzing in line for the day’s largest film opening: “Freaky Tales,” taking the coveted early evening spot at the Eccles Center.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic If Ann Landers had it right, and hanging on to resentment amounts to letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head, then “Your Monster” is what happens when you kick open the door and let those feelings run amok. Drawing from personal experience, writer-director Caroline Lindy delivers a clumsy metaphor of a movie, in which a promising young actor named Laura Franco (“In the Heights” star Melissa Barrera) has her Broadway dreams derailed by a cancer diagnosis, only to discover a ferocious inner strength, courtesy of the beastly creature she finds hanging around her childhood home.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Hailing from the country that gave us such grim social critics as Michael Haneke and Ulrich Seidl (fittingly, the latter serves as a producer here), Vantablack Austrian satire “Veni Vidi Vici” opens with a senseless homicide. It’s a startling scene, no less upsetting than the Scorpio killing that kick-starts “Dirty Harry” — except that in this case, the incident is calibrated as the darkest sort of comedy.

Kristen Stewart is being honored with the visionary award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival opening night gala, a prize that is a bit unusual for the actor to accept. Speaking to Variety‘s Angelique Jackson, Stewart said her job is to serve the vision of filmmakers and not to always have her own sense of vision. “When I saw that I was being given the visionary award I was like, ‘What a word!'” Stewart said during Variety On The Carpet, presented by DIRECTV.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Robert Downey Jr. trekked to Sundance Film Festival‘s opening night gala to reveal that a “terrible tragedy” has befallen Christopher Nolan. But don’t worry about the filmmaker behind “Oppenheimer.” His hardship is really just a bad case of the blues, and it’s because Nolan — as Downey explained on Thursday while bestowing Nolan with the first-ever Trailblazer Award — “has become recognizable on the street.” According to Downey, the critical and commercial success of “Oppenheimer” causes the British director to recoil, “as though from a hot flame, from this new and unwelcome reality.” Well, Nolan may not be retreating from the spotlight anytime soon.