Lionsgate released a new teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 for its appearance at Comic Con.

In a city where standing out from the crowd is the surest-fire way to survive, he’d get lost in a phone box. But contrary to the goading trash talk of his opposite number, that has nothing to do with his height. Chad Mendes is just simply not the stander-outer type. He’s a blender-iner.

Stepping out of the sliding doors of McCarran International Airport into a July mid-afternoon on the fringe of the desert is not the most settling of experiences.

Benedict Cumberbatch has admitted he wasn’t always the leading man when he first started acting – often, he was the leading lady.

Conan O'Brien broke news to shocked audience live on air.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has been named best film at the MTV Movie Awards, besting even top Oscar winner 12 Years A Slave.

Philomena Lee, Robbie and Claudine Keane, The Strypes and Snow Patrol were some of the guests at the US-Ireland Alliance’s ninth Oscar Wilde party which saw TV host Conan O’Brien and YouTube founder Chad Hurley honoured.

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Cliff Robertson, PT 109, 1963.

Everyone’s favourite Space Canadian, astronaut Chris Hadfield, says box office smash Gravity is a visual delight — and pretty damn close to being in space.

One lucky Irishman has been selected as Outback Adventurer in Australia’s Best Jobs in the World competition.

ANYONE who has ever known anyone with an Irish wolfhound declares an Irish connection for St Patrick’s Day.

The Drums’ frontman Jonathan Pierce has alienated his pastor parents by turning his back on religion, says Ed Power

Charlie Sheen is to play two live shows.

A lead actress in Broadway’s 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' officially walked away from the long-delayed musical, another blow for an unsettled production that has already sent several actors to hospital and burned through millions of dollars even before its official opening.

AN actor on the accident-prone set of U2’s troubled Broadway musical Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark, fell about 30ft during a performance.

HUGH LAURIE is the highest paid actor in a US television drama, according to a new survey.

HIS most recent Ryan Confidential show aired just two nights ago and featured a raucous interview with the controversial ex-wife of Paul McCartney, Heather Mills.

Broadcaster NBC has pulled the plug on comedian Jay Leno’s struggling prime-time TV show.

LATE-NIGHT hosts didn’t waste a moment poking fun at the troubles of one of their own, after a CBS newsman was charged with trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million (€1.37m) in a plot that forced the late-night comic toacknowledge having sex with some of the women who have worked for him.

A PROMINENT politician, especially one known for a certain righteousness, is alleged to be a customer of high-priced call girls. For comics, that’s a hanging curveball over the plate.

A fully bearded David Letterman opened his first talk show in two months by walking out amid dancing girls holding picket signs for striking TV writers.

DAVID Letterman and Jay Leno were set to return to the air last night, two months after writers went on strike.

American TV network NBC has apologised over a sketch at the Emmy Awards which showed a mock plane crash just hours after a commuter jet accident in Kentucky killed 49 people.

Comedian Jon Stewart has been asked to host this year’s Oscars, the Academy of Motions Pictures Arts and Sciences announced today.