John Barry has died of a heart attack.

MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand.

Veteran British TV host Bruce Forsyth received the highest accolade the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Academy can award at a ceremony in London last night.

Late director Anthony Minghella is to be honoured with a special BAFTA Award created in his name, according to British filmmaker Richard Attenborough.

CO WICKLOW resident Daniel Day-Lewis took the best actor prize at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta’s) last night.

Oscar winner Denzel Washington is set to pick up the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film at the Bafta/LA Cunard Britannia Awards later this year.

Oliver Stone wants to make another movie about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, because the subject matter is too "huge" to cover in one film.

Screen legend Sean Connery will be honoured today in his native city by Scotland’s screen industry.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Los Angeles will honour Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for excellence in film.

Val Guest, the versatile British director and screenwriter best known for directing science-fiction classics The Quatermass Xperiment and The Day the Earth Caught Fire, has died. He was 94.

Ricky Gervais almost missed out on a Bafta nomination this year after a blunder by BBC bosses.

Director and movie chief Alan Parker warned today that the British film industry needs “radical reinvention” to stop it “permanently hovering in the relegation zone”.

Investigative journalist Roger Cook today settled his High Court libel action over "devastating" claims that his TV series, The Cook Report, was a cynical sham.