Blitz Bazawule, the director of a new film adaptation of Alice Walker’s revered 1982 novel The Color Purple, is a true renaissance man.

An Edinburgh cafe where JK Rowling wrote parts of her Harry Potter books is set to reopen three years after a devastating fire.

Cast your mind back not so long ago to the summer of 2022. Baz Luhrmann was making a dazzling return to the big screen with his eye-popping Elvis biopic, a riot of colour and glitz with a budget of around $85m (£67m).

A survivor of a plane crash in the Andes, where the living resorted to cannibalism while waiting to be rescued, has said a film about it made him “smell the experience all over again”.

One Bollywood star is making obscene gestures to the camera, another is posing while scantily clad.

Britain’s King Charles poked fun at his “sausage fingers” – a topic that has drawn immense media attention and internet memes in recent years – in a behind the scenes documentary that charts the royal family’s preparations for his coronation.

Kim Kardashian knows how to milk free publicity. The reality-star-cum-influencer has used the likes of Instagram to help flog shapewear from her company Skims, among other things, and she isn’t alone.

Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Global are in early talks to merge, according to multiple media reports.

The year 2023 was good to Gracie Abrams. She released her debut album. She opened for Taylor Swift. She sold out a U.S. tour, and took that tour to Europe. She started writing new music. And to cap it all off, she got her first Grammy nomination: best new artist.

Shaan’s melody for Shah Rukh Khan’s Dunki has hit a sour note.

Ten years ago, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel was the first film to be set in a universe shared by DC’s superheroes.

Taraji P. Henson is letting her reality as a working actor be known.