Elton John was an open book when it came to his addiction or tempestuous relationships in Rocketman, but John’s marriage to Renate Blauel in Sydney was downplayed despite being one of the biggest stories of the year in 1984.
Taron Egerton’s first audition tape that would eventually land him the role of Elton John in biopic Rocketman was a duet with a surprising Aussie superstar.
Snow Patrol front man Gary Lightbody was terrified the band would be forgotten while he took time out to battle booze and depression. But they have come back strong with a little help from their friend Ed Sheeran.
Ser Bronn has proven to be a shrewd survivor with some of the best lines on Games of Thrones. And despite being ready to quit the business pre-GoT, Jerome Flynn is now making the most of every door the hit drama has opened.
Game Of Thrones star Jerome Flynn might have angered fans with this week’s episode and he’s expecting the hate mail to come flooding in. But he’s using his celebrity status for good, to back a new Australian indigenous doco.
They were inseparable radio funnymen for more than a decade, but now friends Hamish Blake and Andy Lee are striking out as rivals on their own TV shows, with surprising results.
Bond, James Bond is back. As details emerge of the eagerly anticipated new 007 movie, producers say the hard-drinking, lady-killing spy has had to change with the times.
When Robert Downey Jr’s career derailed with substance abuse and jail time, he was hardly a safe bet to base an entire movie enterprise on. But he burst out of the blocks in 2008 with Iron Man and kicked off a $24.6 billion Marvel box office blitz.
In one of the boldest and most successful experiments in film history, the Marvel 22-movie arc comes to a close in Avengers: Endgame. But does that really signal the end for the superhero franchise?
Brie Larson has dubbed it a “big feminist movie”. As Captain Marvel hit the US$1 billion mark, and became the most successful film in the franchise’s history, she says playing the character has changed her for the better.
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