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LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - British comedian Russell Brand was found guilty on Thursday of rape and three sexual assaults. Here are details of his convictions. RAPE - COMPLAINANT FIVE The fifth complainant in the trial said she had met Brand in 2009 afte...

By Michael Holden LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Russell Brand was once considered so culturally important that the opposition leader hoping to be Britain's next prime minister went on his online show, while former US Vice President Al Gore was happy to be ...

By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Comedian Russell Brand, once one of Britain's most high-profile broadcasters and star of several Hollywood movies, faces a lengthy jail term after being convicted in a London court on Thursday o...

By Francesca Halliwell LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Actor and filmmaker Jordan Firstman wanted his directorial debut, "Club Kid", to reveal a side of himself audiences had not seen before. "In my real life, ​I'm very sensitive. I'm very emotional," he tol...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Nov 5 (Reuters) - As a child, director Takashi Yamazaki dreamed of seeing King Ghidorah, Godzilla's three-headed archrival, destroy his hometown on screen, a wish he finally fulfilled decades later in "Godzilla Minus Z...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Quinta Brunson wants to set the record straight about the animated Warner Bros. film "The Cat in the Hat": kids still read the classic Dr. Seuss ​story in schools. Brunson, creator of "Abbott Elementa...

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Bob Dylan has spent more than six decades knocking on heaven's door. On Wednesday, the door ​opened at the Vatican, where the legendary musician ‌had a private audience with Pope Leo. Leo and Dylan, fel...

By Sam Tabahriti LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The British actor Malcolm McDowell has spent more than six decades playing rebels, villains, outsiders and authority figures. At 83, he has never seriously considered retiring, and ​his latest role feels unusu...

SEOUL, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Twelve South Korean industry groups urged the government on Wednesday to invest in ​and support production of Korean ‌television dramas, known as K-dramas, warning that the country's production base risked collapse. K-dramas ha...

By Marcelo Teixeira NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Singer Harry Styles, who recently completed a 30-show residency at Madison Square Garden in New York, thought prices ​for coffee in the city were some ‌of the spookiest things he saw around Halloween. "It...

By Jaspreet Singh Nov 3 (Reuters) - Skydance, the media giant that merged Paramount-Skydance with Warner Bros Discovery last month, named Sarah Bergman and Mickey Carter to lead its distribution business, as eight executives ​are set to leave the compa...

LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The jury in the trial of British comedian and actor Russell Brand, who is accused of a string of ​historical sex offences, began their deliberations on ‌Tuesday. Brand, once a regular figure on British television and star of a...

By Francesca Halliwell LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - "Black Doves" may be packed with assassins and high-octane action sequences, but the joy of the Netflix spy thriller lies in its blend of humour and morally complex characters, Keira Knightley said at th...

Nov 2 (Reuters) - Versant's MS NOW said on Monday it was expanding its direct-to-consumer membership ​to connected TV platforms, ‌letting members watch its live feed on a TV without a cable subscription for the first time, a ‌day ​before the US midterm...

By Rollo Ross and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Nov 2 (Reuters) - A young Sylvester Stallone had one non-negotiable demand when he was trying to sell his script about a small-time boxer named Rocky Balboa. Stallone wrote the lead ​part for himself. "I pla...

Oct 30 (Reuters) - India's Zee Entertainment Enterprises reported a 38% drop in quarterly profit on Friday, as costs ​related to the FIFA World Cup ‌broadcast and other initiatives offset gains from subscription growth. Here are some details: • The bro...

BUDAPEST, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Bound in chains, plunged upside down into a water-filled tank and flirting with death, Harry Houdini returned to the ​stage in Budapest on Friday as a new ‌circus production celebrated the legendary escape artist a century ...

By Will Dunham Oct 29 (Reuters) - Patrick Stewart, who rose from poverty in England to become an accomplished Shakespearean stage actor and then achieved global stardom as the erudite Captain Jean-Luc Picard in TV's "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Spanish filmmakers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi said their sophomore feature "La Bola Negra", which has emerged as an Oscar contender, took them on the journey of their lives and left them with many more ...

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Canada will make its Eurovision debut alongside at least 35 other countries at next year's contest, organisers said on ​Wednesday, with Ireland and the Netherlands boycotting ‌over Israel's participation...