Angelina Jolie said she has always been drawn towards villains rather than princesses, ahead of her latest role as Sleeping Beauty sorceress Maleficent.

MUSIC NEWS: Nile Rodgers seems to be in so many places at the moment you shouldn’t be surprised if he pops his head out of your fridge when you reach for that cold drink later today.

Long before Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart sank their pearly whites into ‘The Twilight Saga’, British director Neil Jordan was entertaining A-list bloodsuckers on the big screen.

Kristen Stewart found her 'On the Road' character's old-fashioned diction "cute".

Hit and Run ****

Twilight star Kristen Stewart’s latest film On The Road was given a low-key UK premiere tonight in the absence of its leading female.

A Hollywood master and a young pretender go head to head for Cannes’ top prize tomorrow, as films starring Brad Pitt and Robert Pattinson had their premieres this week.

'Trainspotting' actor Ewan McGregor will join actress Diane Kruger and fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier on the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

LESS STYLISH than Raging Bull, less euphoric than the Rocky films, The Fighter (US/15A/115 mins) is a boxing movie made in the image of its hero, ‘Irish’ Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), a solid but unspectacular Irish-American scrapper who slugged his way to a shot at the world title in the mid-’90s.

The perfect example of a film that never required re-making, especially since the new version turns out to be such a clunking disappointment. You cannot improve on perfection.

Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen have signed up to star in new movie 'On The Road'.

Helen Mirren has joined the cast of 'Brighton Rock'.

Following the success of his latest movie, In Bruges, Dubliner Colin Farrell will head home for his next … he starts work on Triage for Bosnian helmer Danis Tanovic. First there’s a six-week shoot in Europe and then a four-week stay in Dublin.

'Atonement' led the way at the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards, scooping three of the most coveted prizes.

Period drama 'Atonement' has picked up another host of awards on its path to the Oscars.

'Atonement' has followed its Golden Globes run with seven nominations at the Critics’ Circle Film Awards.

Atonement, the Arctic Monkeys, and Turner Prize-winner Mark Wallinger have been nominated for the 12th annual South Bank Show awards.

Johnny Cash drama 'Walk The Line' has been voted the greatest music biopic.

Joy Division biopic Control leads the field at the British Independent Film Awards with 10 nominations.

A drama-doc based on the book by Debbie, the wife of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, telling the story of the iconic band and the tragic Curtis, who took his own life just as the band was preparing for its Stateside debut.

A ROMANIAN film has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival — while a British film about Joy Division star Ian Curtis got a special mention.

A low-budget British film about Joy Division star Ian Curtis has won a top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

A small-budget British film about Joy Division star Ian Curtis has won a top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.