London venue Matchstick Piehouse launch £35k crowdfunder after landlord demands rent arrears for end of next week

Caroline Brew editor SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for “Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire,” now streaming on Netflix. Kurt Johnstad and Zack Snyder first started talking about creating “Rebel Moon” in 1997. In college, Snyder came up with the idea of a “Dirty Dozen” movie set in space, and the two would discuss their favorite films as a launching point for what eventually became the sci-fi world of “Rebel Moon.” “’What’s your favorite science-fiction movie?’ ‘Oh, ‘Star Wars,’’ or I would say ‘Seven Samurai.’ We would always hit these really cinematic wavelengths, certainly as a child with cinema who went to the movies. All of those influences, we can’t deny the impact,” Johnstad says.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Cheating pays — for Bart and Homer, that is. This Sunday’s episode of “The Simpsons” takes on sports cheating, college admissions scandals (like “Varsity Blues”) and more, as father and son become kings of the blue-collar sports circuit. But in “Do the Wrong Thing,” Marge soon suspects that there’s something dishonest going on.

J. Kim Murphy ‘Twas the weekend before Christmas and all through the theaters, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” was the box office leader.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Jeremy Allen White may co-star with Zac Efron in Sean Durkin’s new wrestling drama “The Iron Claw,” but the Emmy-winning “The Bear” actor has something to admit — he has never watched a “High School Musical” movie. “I haven’t seen them,” White says on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. “Sorry, Zac.

Brent Lang Executive Editor The entertainment industry is wrapping up one of the most chaotic and costly years in its history. From striking writers and actors to swooning stock prices, 2023 didn’t lack for drama. But even as Hollywood looks to put all that in the rearview mirror and get back to business as usual, the landscape remains treacherous.

Jeremy Allen White shared a shocking revelation about costar Zac Efron‘s High School Musical movies during an interview on the Just For Variety podcast.

Suits has been one of the biggest shows of 2023, even though it’s finale aired four years ago. With its awe-inspiring renaissance, we’re here to test your knowledge about what was going on behind the scenes of the smash success!

Ali Wong finally moved to make her breakup with her estranged husband official!

Cardi B and her estranged husband Offset have been hit with a lawsuit!

Scarlett Johansson is having a hard time getting her daughter Christmas gifts off her wish list this year.

Whitney Port is opening up about her experience with credit card debt.

Each morning, Mia starts her day by carefully wiping down her walls and windowsills for mould.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a shooting in Manchester. Police were called to Stockport Road in Ardwick on Thursday afternoon (21 December) after a firearm was discharged, near to McDonald's and the Apollo theatre.

. But does it really work?To catch you up to speed: "Face slapping" is what TikTok users are calling the questionable practice of slapping one's face. Why would they do such a thing? Allegedly, it improves the absorption of skin care products like and stimulates the natural production of collagen.Intrigued, we asked beauty experts what they think of the controversial beauty trend.In short: No, not really.

has shared the first photos of baby .Kardashian with husband in early November, per multiple reports. However, despite eagerly sharing and her throughout her pregnancy, Kardashian waited until December 22 to share the first images of her newborn son.Kardashian and Barker shared a slideshow of sweet photos with baby Rocky on Instagram, with each member of their little unit dressed in cozy black loungewear.

Justin Timberlake for his behaviour towards Britney Spears and Janet Jackson in the past, calling him a “grubby little eel face”.Timberlake has received considerable criticism over various revelations Spears made about him in her recent memoir The Woman In Me. The pair dated between 1998 and 2002 and Spears claimed Timberlake had cheated on her multiple times, and also discussed how he damaged her reputation through the ‘Cry Me A River’ video, where “a woman who looks like me cheats on him and he wanders around sad in the rain”.She added that the media saw her as a “harlot who’d broken the heart of America’s golden boy” when in reality she was “comatose in Louisiana” trying to mend her broken heart while Timberlake was “happily running around Hollywood”.Spears also claimed he pressured her to have an abortion when he got her pregnant because he thought they “weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives” and were “way too young”.

Dolly Parton opened up about plastic surgery, the royal family and more in a new interview.

2024 is right around the corner, and so much new music is expected in the coming 12 months.

British actor Ralph Ineson is suing Disney in a suit that alleges he sustained injury filming a scene in fantasy TV show Willow. 

Harry Styles made his big screen debut as a in 2017′s Dunkirk and has pursued a career as a movie star alongside his music ever since.

This Deadline feature, now in its fourth year, seeks to spotlight the work of some of the buzziest new European writers in the business.

move to Montecito, Calif. in 2020 — but wife Meghan Markle doesn’t want to make amends with the Royals.

played by Adam Driver in the new Michael Mann movie “Ferrari,” which is released on Christmas Day, was anything but. “He would fart and burp and cuss and do what he wanted… He taught himself to calm his baser instincts,” Stacy Bradley, editor and contributing writer to “Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine,” by her late father Brock Yates, on which the hotly anticipated movie is based, told The Post. Bad behavior included “sleeping with hundreds of women” and not minding when his best drivers died in the line of high-speed duty.Never mind that he was married to Laura, and had a longterm mistress, Lina Lardi — played by Shailene Woodley — and a lovechild.

Manchester United suffered a disappointing 2-0 loss to West Ham in the Premier League fixture.

Paul Scholes has hit out at Manchester United's attacking players after another woeful performance in Saturday's 2-0 defeat at West Ham.

A mother has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of her five-month-old baby daughter, who was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital from a park. Hayley Macfarlane made a brief appearance before magistrates in Leeds on Saturday (December 23) where she was not required to enter a plea.

Luke Shaw described Manchester United's performance against West Ham on Saturday as 'not good enough'.

Two inmates have died within a week at a women's prison. They were both serving sentences at HMP Styal in Cheshire. The Manchester Evening News understands the incidents were unrelated.

The identify of a man found dead in a field remains a mystery two weeks after he was discovered. The man, thought to be aged between 40 and 50-years-old, was found on Dean Brook, near to Horrobin Lane in Rivington.

They're a familiar Christmas sight - the snaking queues at butchers across Greater Manchester as families make their final festive preparations.

Romantic Charles Bronson treated his ex-wife to a "luxury" hamper for Christmas - including wine, cheese and chocolate. The infamous lag sent Irene Dunroe the festive gift from inside HMP Woodhill.

Police are asking for help after a supercar worth hundreds of thousands of pounds collided with a lamppost and house - after which the car and home were left ablaze.

Rodri admitted he was 'close to crying' after a horror challenge forced him off during Manchester City's 4-0 Club World Cup final win over Fluminense.

Police have issued a renewed appeal to help find a missing man who has now not been seen for four days. The last sighting of Anthony, a 62-year-old man from Timperley, was on Tuesday morning.

musician Taylor Goldsmith.“So we did that throughout my childhood, which feels silly, but we loved it. Pancakes and waffles and eggs and bacon and toast and all of that, we’re gonna do.”She hopes to introduce another tradition this year at their new Los Angeles home.

Timothée Chalamet says he’s heard a wealth of unreleased Bob Dylan music in preparation to play the iconic artist in an upcoming biopic.In preparation for his role in the upcoming biopic Complete Unknown, Dylan’s longtime manager Jeff Rosen, who will also be serving as a producer on the film, gave Chalamet access to a 12-hour playlist of unreleased Dylan songs which were recorded between 1959 and 1964.“This might earn the ire and wrath of a lot of Bob fans, rightfully,” Chalamet said in a recent interview with Happy Sad Confused’s Josh Horowitz, “but he sent me like a 12-hour playlist of unreleased Bob stuff from like 1959 to ’64. I feel like I’m holding onto gold or something.”He added that some of the music available to the public via bootlegs like ‘The Minnesota Tapes’.The film is being directed by Le Mans ’66 filmmaker James Mangold and, rather than chronicling Dylan’s entire life and career, it will focus on Dylan’s controversial decision in 1965 to embrace the electric guitar, alienating many of his original fans.Chalamet will be singing in the film and said that in preparation, he has been working alongside the team who assisted Austin Butler for Elvis.The project was announced in 2020, before being delayed indefinitely later that year with no release timeframe shared.