Bob Hoskins’s retirement after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease brings the curtain down on a distinguished career.

Bob Hoskins is retiring from acting after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

The actor Bob Hoskins is retiring from acting after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.

Ray Winstone played pranks on his castmates while filming 'Snow White and the Huntsman'.

Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish said his appearance in a new film set around the 2005 Champions League Final is his “first and last” on the big screen.

SCREEN star Keira Knightley is to play the fairy Tinker Bell in a new Peter Pan prequel movie.

Screen star Keira Knightley is to play the fairy Tinker Bell in a new Peter Pan prequel movie.

Simon Cowell has headed a list of British stars who won awards at the International Emmy Awards.

Christina Ricci has confessed she “hated” her body.

A wonderfully British film with a fine cast of English talent – including Rosamund Pike, Kenneth Cranham and Geraldine James – retracing the headline-grabbing 1968 strike by the 187 female machinists (the rest of the 55,000 workforce was male) that brought the mighty Ford motor company to its knees.

THE film and television industry is set to bring €200 million into the nation’s coffers this year Minister Mary Hanafin said yesterday.

The economy is expected to get a €200m boost from the film and television industry, it emerged today.

The 67-year-old actor Bob Hoskins - who is currently starring in British movie 'Made in Dagenham', based on the true life story of women in the 1960s striking for equal pay at a car factory - admits he is constantly thinking about retiring from his profession but keeps finding new work.

Bob Hoskins will star in new alien movie 'Transmission'.

The ‘Leave Right Now’ singer Will Young – who shot to fame after winning UK talent show ‘Pop Idol’ in 2002 – has claimed he can predict the future saying he knew he would be successful in his career and the achievements he would make.

Dickens’ classic morality story has been brought to the screen so many times that the redemption of old miser Scrooge is well known to us, and difficult to present in a new and engaging way.

We first meet Mad Dog in the home of his foster parents, a kindly couple who really want to make the boy and his baby brother happy.

Mickey Rourke is to star in a remake of the 1986 British gangster movie 'Mona Lisa'.

Dubliner Liam Cunningham, who scored a hit in the controversial ‘Hunger’, is set to take to ‘The Street’ alongside Bob Hoskins and Frances Barber.

IT’S been said only tickets to a U2 show sell out quicker than a Billy Connolly gig, but that’s not because Bono is funnier.

A film so slight it hardly registers on any scale: so slight it’s difficult to find it either a hit or a miss. It’s the sort of film that’s neither bad nor good … merely a film.

‘Mussolini and I’ (Liberation, €39.99) is a less than satisfactory drama which examines Il Duce’s (Bob Hoskins) relationship with his son Count Ciano (Anthony Hopkins) and daughter Edda (Susan Sarandon).

We are here in the Blairite world gone utterly mad. Society has gone to pot, the streets have been taken over by yobs … enter the punishers.

Bad sequels and remakes tortured movie audiences last year, and they provided a smorgasbord for the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof that recognises the very worst in Hollywood.

Bob Hoskins couldn't take his eyes off Ben Affleck's nose when the actors reunited recently after filming new movie Hollywoodland together - he was convinced his pal had gone under the cosmetic surgeon's knife.

Bob Hoskins was left terrified by last week's airport alerts after flying into Los Angeles from London, oblivious of a thwarted terrorist attack.

Scottish singer KT Tunstall is preparing to make her big screen debut in the first film effort by London's Old Vic Theatre Company.

Veteran actor Morgan Freeman loves being a villain on screen, as it's much more rewarding than playing a boring good guy.

TOM CRUISE and Katie Holmes are in line for Hollywood’s least wanted accolade — the Razzies.

Keira Knightley and Dame Judi Dench will lead a host of British hopefuls at the Golden Globes, as they go head to head for a best actress award.

CILLIAN MURPHY and Pierce Brosnan were nominated in the best actor category yesterday as gay cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain swept the boards at the Golden Globes with seven nominations.

Actor and kung fu expert Jet Li says he’s given up the martial arts genre for more sensitive fare, Shanghai newspapers reported today.

How innocent it all seems now, those statuesque nudes who stood perfectly still – by law – on the stage of the famous Windmill Theatre in London.

Keira Knightley is to receive a top honour at the British Independent Film Awards.

Award-winning filmmaker Neil Jordan today revealed he will travel to Hollywood to make his next movie.

The Spice Girls film and the sentimental musical Annie top a list of “toe-curling” movies people have been renting out online, according to research.

Vanity Fair, the William Makepeace Thackeray classic of social ambition, comes to the screen in lavish splendour…though not without its flaws.

English actor Bob Hoskins has revealed he conducts a simple test to help him decide what film to star in - he brings the scripts to the bathroom.

Film beauty Kate Bosworth had some A-list support at her movie premiere tonight in the shape of boyfriend Orlando Bloom.

Actor Bob Hoskins was happy when he went bald, because he has always hated hair.

MARLON Brando’s portrayal of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather has been voted the most memorable movie gangster of all time.

Marlon Brando’s portrayal of Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather has been voted the most memorable movie gangster of all time.

The unfailing charm and tireless entertaining of actor David Hemmings were remembered by family and friends from the showbusiness world at a memorial service.