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This image released by Sony Pictures shows, from left, Kim Matula, as Jane Curtin, Emily Fairn, as Laraine Newman, Gabriel La Belle, as Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott, as Rosie Shuster, and Matt Wood, as John Belushi in a scene from “Saturday Night.” (Hopper Stone/Sony Pictures via AP)

Live, from New York: How Saturday Night captured the chaos of the TV icon

Director Jason Reitman had to harness the energy of the sketch show that turned its 20-something comedians into superstars.

  • Michael Idato

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Bill Murray was 52 when this film was shot; Scarlett Johansson was 17.

Creepy, jarring: 20 years on, I don’t love Lost in Translation any more

It’s one of the great travel films, but some elements of Sofia Coppola’s story of two lost souls in Tokyo don’t look so good these days.

  • Ben Groundwater
Bill Murray has spoken for the first time about the incident that caused his film to be shut down.

Bill Murray says ‘attempt at humour’ led to complaint and film’s shutdown

In his first comments about the shutdown of Hollywood film Being Mortal, the actor and comedian described the incident as a “difference of opinion”.

  • Philip Marcelo
The 71-year-old actor is reportedly being investigated for “inappropriate behaviour” on set of Being Mortal.

Bill Murray investigated for ‘inappropriate behaviour’ on set

The 71-year-old actor is reportedly being investigated for “inappropriate behaviour” on set of Being Mortal, directed by Aziz Ansari.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Bill Murray and German cellist Jan Vogler. The pair’s friendship developed into the hit tour, New Worlds.

‘We did the show 65 times, and we killed them every time’: Bill Murray

Far from the reticent interviewee of legend, I’ve caught the Hollywood star in a gregarious – and punctual – mood.

  • Robert Moran
Bill Murray on stage in the concert film Bill Murray’s New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilisation.

Relive Bill Murray’s most spectacular live performance. It’s a charmer

New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilisation captures Murray and Jan Vogler’s concert at the Acropolis on a summer’s night in 2018.

  • Sandra Hall
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Rashida Jones, herself the daughter of a famous father, with Bill Murray in On the Rocks

Life is still faintly fun after you bag Mr Big, just ask Sofia Coppola

On the Rocks, Coppola’s low-key serenade to father-daughter bonding in New York City, reconfigures mum life as both heartbreakingly realistic – and still cool.

  • Natalie Reilly
Andie MacDowell and Bill Murray in the movie 'Groundhog Day.' Supplied for publicity purposes 1997 by Foxtel.

OK gloomer, this fresh hell will end, and when it does this is the first thing I'll do

There are those who think the coronavirus crisis will never end - that's not me.

  • Jenna Price
Bill Murray (left) as Officer Cliff Robertson, Chloe Sevigny as Officer Minerva Morrison and Adam Driver as Officer Ronald Peterson have a town full of zombies on their hands in The Dead Don't Die.

Forget zombies, The Dead Don't Die's real concern is climate change

With an all-star cast of his favourite actors, including Bill Murray and Adam Driver, Jim Jarmusch has created a film that looks reassuring ... until the shadows creep in.

  • Jake Wilson
'You can't help but be funny sometimes,' Bill Murray says

'You can't help but be funny sometimes,' Bill Murray says

The star of Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day is in Australia to perform in an unexpected show.

  • Garry Maddox

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