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10th Adaptation Film Weekend takes place in Manorhamilton

Preparations are in hand by Bandit Films and The Glens Centre for this year's 10th Adaptation Film Weekend in Manorhamilton, taking place on September 22-24. Opening on Culture Night, the festival is coming to the town's newly refurbished Main ...

21 Sept 2023 at 19:33

News

Leo Woodall: Bridget Jones’ love interest character was meant to be Scottish

Leo Woodall has revealed that he prepared to play Bridget Jones’ young love interest as a Scot before the producers “changed their minds”. In the fourth movie in the romantic comedy saga, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, Londoner Woodall ...

31 Jan 2025 at 10:46

First image of Nick Frost as Hagrid in Harry Potter TV series released

The first image of actor Nick Frost in character as Hagrid has been revealed as filming of the new Harry Potter TV series gets under way. Production of the new HBO TV show version of the popular fantasy novels is taking place at Warner ...

15 Jul 2025 at 15:53

Movies

David Byrne and Hayley Williams write original songs for Netflix film The Twits

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and Paramore singer Hayley Williams have written original feature songs for Netflix’s The Twits. The film adaptation based on the characters from Roald Dahl’s book of the same name will ...

05 Aug 2025 at 17:50

Life

Five minutes with… bestselling novelist Adele Parks

Less than a decade ago, bestselling novelist Adele Parks switched from writing romantic fiction to creating twisty domestic noir tales – and now she’s turning her hand to movies. She’s been commissioned to write the screenplay ...

02 Jul 2024 at 08:15

Life

Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell: My take on screen adaptations

The world of movies is so far removed from her normal life as a novelist, but Maggie O’Farrell is clearly relishing the opportunity she had to bring her characters to the big screen as co-screenwriter for Oscar-tipped Hamnet. ...

30 Dec 2025 at 09:00

Arts & Entertainment

From County Derry to the Globe: Maggie O’Farrell on Bringing Hamnet to Life

05 Jan 2026 at 14:33

Margot Robbie: Wuthering Heights one of the greatest love stories of all time

Wuthering Heights star Margot Robbie has described the film as “one of the greatest love stories of all time”. The actress, who was also one of the producers on the film, told The Graham Norton Show that she did not ...

06 Feb 2026 at 11:43

Travel

I visited ‘Cathy’s bedroom’ from Wuthering Heights ahead of the new Margot Robbie film

The classic tale of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights – especially the passionate entanglement between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff – has captivated swathes of readers since its publication in 1847, cementing ...

04 Feb 2026 at 09:28

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