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Avengers: Doomsday trailer sees Chris Evans return and reveals first full look at Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom

Avengers: Doomsday trailer sees Chris Evans return and reveals first full look at Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Marvel has finally released the first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, which sees Chris Hemsworth’s Thor uniting heroes from across multiple universes to face a new enemy: Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom. The film, the first in a two-part Avengers finale, will feature almost every major character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers, X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor and Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh). The trailer sees Thor announce: “Something’s coming. Something we may not be able to deter. Before this day is done, we shall be faced with an unthinkable decision. “I’ve fought with many warriors in my time. They were far stronger than all of us put together. And they died.” “They died facing enemies and threats that scared me far less than this one,” he cautions. “Everything that they sacrificed will be for …

Barry Ward on ‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans,’ Netflix Series ‘Grown Ups’

Barry Ward on ‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans,’ Netflix Series ‘Grown Ups’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Irish star Barry Ward (Bad Sisters, The End of the F***ing World) has a busy work schedule, but he visited the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) last week to introduce one of his latest films. Ward has actually attended the Czech festival several years in a row now. “I was invited in 2023 to be a jury member for the main competition and had the time of my life,” he tells THR. Another member of that jury was Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu. “Over the course of the week, he cast me in his next film. So, some months later, we made his film Ungrateful Beings and almost a year to the day of meeting him, we wrapped on that film [which premiered at San Sebastian], and we came straight back to Karlovy Vary for the next festival to celebrate.” This year, Ward traveled to Karlovy Vary with British documentary director Grant Gee’s fiction feature debut Everybody Digs Bill Evans, which premiered at Berlin and stars Norwegian actor and Joachim Trier regular Anders Danielsen Lie (Sentimental Value, The …

Luke Evans stars in exclusive first look trailer for ‘high-stakes’ new TV thriller

Luke Evans stars in exclusive first look trailer for ‘high-stakes’ new TV thriller

Published by Daniella Wilson

ITV has unveiled an explosive teaser trailer for upcoming series The Party, adapted by award-winning showrunner Sarah Solemani and starring Luke Evans. In an exclusive first look shared with Radio Times, a bloodied Evans can be seen walking into a police station before he is questioned about the night before. A flashback of the lavish event then plays before showrunner and star Sarah Solemani’s character says: “Just terrible people doing terrible things”. A gun shot then rings out… You can watch the full clip below. Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as YouTube may use cookies and other technologies. To view this content, choose ‘Accept and continue’ to allow YouTube and its required purposes. Accept and continue ITV announced last year it has commissioned Elizabeth Day’s novel, and would be adapting it as a five part series led by Evans. The book is described as “a taut psychological tale of obsession and betrayal set over the course of a dinner …

‘Failure was my thing’: Women’s prize winner Virginia Evans on her long journey to success | Women’s prize for fiction

‘Failure was my thing’: Women’s prize winner Virginia Evans on her long journey to success | Women’s prize for fiction

Published by Sam Flores

Just as I am about to interview this year’s Women’s prize winner, debut American novelist Virginia Evans, at the party on a drizzly evening in a leafy London square, we are interrupted because someone wants to congratulate her. The fan is Richard Curtis. A warm-hearted weepy with a sprinkling of gentle humour, Evans’s prize-winning novel The Correspondent is prime Curtis material. In fact, he is too late. “I think he just wants to be my friend,” Evans jokes modestly – Notting Hill is her favourite movie of all time. A film of The Correspondent is already in the pipeline with Jane Fonda playing 73-year-old Sybil Van Antwerp, the crotchety correspondent of the title. Evans will be one of the producers and will have a cameo appearance, “walking a dog or something”. It is a far cry from when Evans wrote the novel in a closet (she removed her husband’s clothes) over nine months in a rented house in North Carolina, during the pandemic in 2020. She never expected her story, written entirely in letters, of …

Rugby League International Kane Evans Comes Out as Gay in a TV Interview

Rugby League International Kane Evans Comes Out as Gay in a TV Interview

Published by Sam Flores

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Ex-rugby league international Kane Evans won’t have to worry about the extortion threats any more or be concerned about his family finding out about his sexuality before he’s ready to tell them. In a television interview Monday with Channel Nine’s “100% Footy,” Evans said he was gay and that he felt like a weight had lifted off him when he finally could talk about it publicly. Evans played 131 games in the elite National Rugby League from 2014-2021 for clubs including the Sydney Roosters, Parramatta and the New Zealand-based Warriors before finishing off his professional career in England in 2023. He played 13 international games for Fiji. “I had three goals in life: It was to play NRL, to buy my parents a house, and then I wanted to top myself, because I was living in denial from a young age,” the 34-year-old Evans said in the television interview. “I know that I’m gay. But I went down every other avenue to sort of build up these walls … to escape …

Rugby League International Kane Evans Comes Out as Gay in a TV Interview

Rugby League International Kane Evans Comes Out as Gay in a TV Interview

Published by Sam Flores

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Ex-rugby league international Kane Evans won’t have to worry about the extortion threats any more or be concerned about his family finding out about his sexuality before he’s ready to tell them. In a television interview Monday with Channel Nine’s “100% Footy,” Evans said he was gay and that he felt like a weight had lifted off him when he finally could talk about it publicly. Evans played 131 games in the elite National Rugby League from 2014-2021 for clubs including the Sydney Roosters, Parramatta and the New Zealand-based Warriors before finishing off his professional career in England in 2023. He played 13 international games for Fiji. “I had three goals in life: It was to play NRL, to buy my parents a house, and then I wanted to top myself, because I was living in denial from a young age,” the 34-year-old Evans said in the television interview. “I know that I’m gay. But I went down every other avenue to sort of build up these walls … to escape …

Virginia Evans: ‘I loved books about things that can’t exist’ | Fiction

Virginia Evans: ‘I loved books about things that can’t exist’ | Fiction

Published by Sam Flores

My earliest reading memoryI’m not sure what we were reading – The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams or the poems in Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein – but I was undoubtedly with my sister, two years older, who set the example for me to be a reader. I picture us in the back of our family car or laying across our twin beds in the room we shared. My favourite book growing upI loved mysteries and fantasy worlds. I read so many of the Nancy Drew books, and The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. And I loved the Narnia stories and The Wind in the Willows. I loved books about things that can’t exist. I suppose it’s all escapism – crimes solved by children, talking animals, time travel, people two inches tall. I always loved to slip into another, better world. The book that changed me as a teenagerI read John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath at 15. It was my first real understanding of what fiction can do, how far a story …

Luke Evans on Broadway Role in ‘Rocky Horror,’ Tony Nomination

Luke Evans on Broadway Role in ‘Rocky Horror,’ Tony Nomination

Published by Daniella Wilson

When director Sam Pinkleton began envisioning a Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show, he drew up a list of qualities he believed the lead, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, needed to have.  “He had to be a truly tremendous actor. He had to be a real comedian, like a clown. He had to have a killer voice. He had to be terrifying, and also tender,” Pinkleton said. “We had to be scared of him, and we also had to want to fuck him. I also really felt strongly that it needed to be somebody who carried some kind of queerness with them, whatever that means.”  At first, Pinkleton was unsure who could embody all of that and provide a new take on the role made famous by Tim Curry. But when he met Luke Evans, an onscreen action star with a background in musical theater, he found a fit in an actor who happily contains his own contradictions.  Standing at 6 feet 8 inches in heels, Evans towers above cast members including Stephanie Hsu, Juliette Lewis, Harvey …

Mena Suvari, Jean Evans, Steph Tolev to Star

Mena Suvari, Jean Evans, Steph Tolev to Star

Published by Daniella Wilson

A comedy feature is set to focus on the unexpected effect of a psychedelic gummy. Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Jean Evans (Busboys), Steph Tolev (Tires), Jake Picking (Top Gun: Maverick) and Rodney J. Hobbs (Young Dylan) are set to star in filmmaker Jenna Milly’s teen body-swap movie The Incredible Edible, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Principal photography recently wrapped in Los Angeles for the project that hails from Paillette Pictures. The Incredible Edible is set over the final 24 hours before high school graduation and centers on Evans as an overachieving valedictorian who discovers that a psychedelic edible has caused her to begin body-switching with those around her. Her experiences through the perspective of her classmates, teachers and mother (Suvari) lead her to question the future that she has planned for herself. Marking her feature directorial debut, Milly helmed the indie film from her own script. Producers include Milly for Paillette Pictures and Clément Bauer for Resonate Entertainment, alongside Emily Sheehan, Andrew DeCesare and Mike Day. Susan Cartsonis and Suzanne Farwell are executive producing for …

Met Gala 2026: The Best Celebrity Red Carpet Looks From Heidi Klum To Luke Evans

Met Gala 2026: The Best Celebrity Red Carpet Looks From Heidi Klum To Luke Evans

Published by Sam Flores

Every year, the Met Gala gathers together some of the most famous faces from across the world of music, cinema, sport and, of course, fashion for a star-studded fundraiser in aid of the Metropolitan Museum Of Art’s Costume Institute. This year’s event was held on Monday night, and proved to be as A-list as ever. Co-chaired by Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and, as ever, Anna Wintour, the themed dress code of 2026’s Met Ball was “Fashion Is Art” – really allowing the famous guests to think outside the box and let their imaginations run wild when putting together their red carpet looks. And what do you know – some of them actually did. On that note, we’ve pieced together some of the must-see looks from this year’s Met Gala, from some of the biggest stars on the planet… Beyoncé As one of the organisers of the Met Gala this year, Beyoncé will have known that all eyes were on her on the red carpet. Leaning into the elaborate theme, the Break My Soul singer …