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The Herald Scotland
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Yungblud says filming new documentary was ‘roller coaster of emotions'
He told the PA news agency: 'The film is going to be insane. It's completely out of control, I don't know how the hell they're going to edit it but there was a roller coaster of emotions so it was pretty raw.' Idols was released in June 2025 and the singer, whose real name is Dominic Harrison, said the album is not just about paying homage to his music heroes. 'I called the album Idols, because it's actually the first time that I've turned away from them,' he said. 'I've always looked to other people for an answer. I've always looked to the picture on the wall. 'I wrote a record about looking at picture on a wall, wanting to become a picture on the wall, becoming a picture on the wall, and realising it didn't f****** mean anything.' Musician Yungblud during an album playback event for his new music at Thirteen At Chateau Denmark, in central London (Jonathan Brady/PA) He added: 'I think I've spent a long time paying homage to my heroes, which I always will do, but it's time for me to challenge myself, to try and f****** reach as high as I can, try my best and push my musicians, and push my band, and push my team.' 'I can honestly say, since probably (debut studio album) 21st Century Liability, I wrote this album for myself, and I f****** believe in magic, man, it made me believe in magic again. It's like, it's just completely pure, and it's just been amazing,' he said. The 27-year-old recorded in the same studio used by David Bowie for Heroes and U2 for Achtung Baby!. 'Berlin has been through so much, been the most liberal place in Europe, but then also experienced the most pain,' he said about the German city. With sequences shot in 16mm, the two-hour long documentary will show the live session being recorded while also giving behind-the-scenes insights that depict the relationship between Yungblud and his band. Yungblud. Are You Ready, Boy? will screen in 30 countries across the globe, including in 150 UK cinemas on August 20 and 24.
Daily Mirror
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
'I visited Alton Towers this summer and was floored by the queue times'
A rollercoaster fan who recently went to Alton Towers was shocked at how long the wait times were for several rides with summer holidays coming up and she shared his experience online Alton Towers, the beloved theme park nestled in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is a hot spot for thrill-seekers with its array of rides and attractions. With the six-week summer holiday on the horizon, parents are on the hunt for fun days out to keep their little ones entertained. Theme parks are a favourite choice for family outings, but they can become quite crowded during this period. A rollercoaster fan who goes by the moniker Coastertog on social media, has given his followers a glimpse into the lengthy queues at Alton Towers via a TikTok video. The clip has garnered a whopping 1.1 million views, 50,900 likes, and more than 1,300 comments in just two days. In the video, Coastertog started by declaring Alton Towers is very busy at the moment and he told viewers they wouldn't be ready to see the extensive queues for a number of rides. He revealed that the wait time for The Smiler was a staggering 140 minutes, while Thirteen had a 90-minute queue, even though it was only 11am. The video shows throngs of visitors at the park, with long queues around various rides. Despite the rainy weather, Coastertog estimated a turnout of 16,500 guests that day. He continued to highlight the extended wait times for other rides, including Wicker Man with a 110-minute queue, Nemesis with an approximate wait time of 100 minutes, and Galactica with a 105-minute wait. Coastertog also pointed out a ride access pass queue that was "hanging out of the gate." The avid theme park further notes that the closures of Rita and Spinball Whizzer were likely contributing to the lengthy queues. He remarked: "We've seen a lot of triple digit queue times today and fast track isn't going to save you either. Look at how long that queue is." Coastertog gave a heads-up that Alton Towers is expected to be "busy pretty much every day" during the school summer holidays but also hinted that queues "do die down nearer the end of the day" suggesting visitors might want to stick around rather than leave early. The TikTok post's caption warns: "Alton Towers queue times right now. Queues do calm down later in the day but if you're looking for a chilled day at Alton right now, just wait until September!" A spokesperson for Alton Towers Resort stated: "At this time of year, the Resort welcomes a high volume of school groups from across the country, many of whom are eager to experience our most thrilling rollercoasters. "As the UK's number one theme park, we're proud to offer unforgettable experiences but during peak periods, queue times can naturally be longer. "We continue to work hard to manage guest flow and provide real-time updates via our app to help guests plan their day." A viewer in the comments section of Coastertog's video suggested: "Alton Towers need to place daily guest limits. "If [a] certain amount of tickets for the day have already been sold, no more can be purchased." Despite Coastertog indicating lengthy queues for rides, a recent visitor to the theme park shared: "Went on Sunday and walked onto Nemesis twice and [the] maximum we waited was 30 mins."
Cosmopolitan
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
‘Twilight' Director Admits 'Every Studio in Los Angeles' Turned the Movie Down at First
Within the grand limestone walls of Fort Ricasoli in Malta last week, director Catherine Hardwicke gave a masterclass on her craft at the 2025 Mediterrane Film Festival, dissecting specific scenes from her many movies—including Twilight. The movie based on Stephanie Meyer's hit book debuted nearly 17 years ago, but there is still behind-the-scenes intel to be found, and Catherine was generous in sharing her set stories. In her session—called 'Fix It in Prep' and moderated by The Hollywood Reporter's Chris Gardner—Catherine gave intel on her movie, from the color stories of the wardrobe to background on Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's "hold on tight, spider monkey" scene, which did not appear in the book. Catherine also touched on many of her other projects during the masterclass, including Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown, Miss You Already, and her episode of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. But the Twilight intel? Unmissable. Read on for Twilight highlights from Catherine's Mediterrane Film Festival masterclass. 'In the Cullen family, they wore the colors of an arctic wolf: silvers, blues, grays, blacks. Those were the only colors they were allowed to wear,' Catherine said. 'If you look at the whole movie, you will never see one human being in yellow, orange, or red. You know, those colors were not allowed.' 'We had 10 different T-shirts for her. She didn't like any of them. When we were shooting, she goes, 'I like your T-shirt.' I'm like, 'Okay,' [so I gave it to her] and I got a different T-shirt. That's what she wears in the movie, the T-shirt I had.' Bella's wardrobe also had a specific color story that mirrored her story arc: 'She had a different color palette, more earth tones [at the beginning], but by the end of the film, she's dressing like the Cullens. She's got the blue jacket and everything.' 'The book has a lot of time where we're thinking about Edward's cheekbones, then again we're thinking about the cheekbones, and again we're thinking about the cheekbones. That doesn't work well in a movie. A book has to turn cinematic.' 'I wanted to do a scene that shows how wonderful it is to be in love with a hot vampire. How does it feel the first time you're madly in love? What could I create for that? So I kind of came up with the idea: Let's do this crazy tree top sequence.' 'Hold on tight, spider monkey. Anybody remember that line? Okay, I started to notice that Rob and Kristen needed a little bit more dialogue. There was too much eyes, eyes. So the night before, I'm writing like 10 different things, and I gave Rob the list asking, 'Which one do you want to say?' And he said, 'I want to say that.' Which is now the classic.' 'At the time, every studio in Los Angeles turned down Twilight. Nobody thought it would make one penny,' she said. 'I read the script, and I thought the script was terrible. I went and read the book, and I saw why there were fans that were passionate about it. So I said, 'I want to take a meeting,' and I went in there to the meeting and I took the script and said, 'This guy's in the trash can, but we're going to make it closer to the book and here are some ideas.' So they said, 'Okay, we agree with you. Let's hire a screenwriter.'' 'Our bonding was baseball camp, because most people didn't know how to play baseball. I thought, 'How do you bond as vampires?' We can't really go out and drink blood and stuff together. So we did the baseball.' WATCH 'TWILIGHT' HERE
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Catherine Hardwicke Praises Heath Ledger, Talks ‘Twilight' at Mediterrane Film Festival Masterclass
Steps away from set pieces featured in the Gladiator franchise inside Malta's historic Fort Ricasoli, veteran filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke delivered an epic two-hour-plus masterclass fitting of its backdrop during the Mediterrane Film Festival on Wednesday morning. Hardwicke, who is also currently serving on the island fest's jury, covered nearly all aspects of the craft for the 'Fix It in Prep' session which was moderated by The Hollywood Reporter. She recalled how she made so many of the films on her resume like the gritty drama Thirteen, the skateboarding pic Lords of Dogtown, the beloved teen vampire classic Twilight, the friendship tearjerker Miss You Already, the genre series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities and more. More from The Hollywood Reporter BBC Introduces News Paywall for U.S. Users Disney+ Sets July Premiere for Korean Treasure-Hunt Drama 'Low Life' 'Tehran Another View' Features Paintball, Carwalking, and a DJ Dressed up as the Joker (Karlovy Vary Trailer) Twilight lore figured prominently in the discussion, much of which has been documented in anniversary interviews and earlier versions of Hardwicke's presentation, including how star Robert Pattinson hand picked her line 'Hold on tight, spider monkey.' She revealed one unique wardrobe choice for Pattinson's fellow franchise star Kristen Stewart who passed on a selection of shirts presented to her for a kissing scene for Bella and Edward. 'We had 10 different T-shirts for her,' Hardwicke recalled. 'She didn't like any of them. When we were shooting, she goes, 'I like your T-shirt.' I'm, like, 'OK,' [and I gave her my shirt] and I got a different T-shirt. That's what she wears in the movie, the T-shirt I had.' She added that Bella started in the film wearing 'more Eart tones' but by the end of Twilight, as her character has grown closer to Edward and the Cullen family, 'she's dressing like the Cullens' with a blue jacket and more vampire-approved color ways. Hardwicke, who launched the successful franchise based on the best-selling book series, also recalled how she came to direct the first film in the series. 'They gave me the script and said, 'Are you interested in directing any of these?'' she said, noting that it was in development at the time at Summit Entertainment. 'At the time, every studio in Los Angeles turned down Twilight and it was in turnaround. Nobody thought it would make one penny [because it was a young female lead. I read the script and thought it was terrible. I went and read the book and I saw there were a lot of fans that were passionate about it. So I said, 'I want to take a meeting.'' Once she arrived for a meeting with the development team at Summit, Hardwicke claims she offered a bold reaction to the material. 'I took the script and said, 'This goes in a trashcan but we're going to make it closer to the book and what matters in the book. Here are some ideas.' They said, 'OK, we agree with you. We'll hire you.'' The rest is history. Speaking of the past, Hardwicke also recalled how she boarded 2005's Lords of Dogtown starring Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsche and Victor Raskuk about the origins of skateboarding culture in Venice, Calif., in the 1970s. 'David Fincher was supposed to be directing it and he wanted to make it for $75 million,' Hardwicke said of the respected filmmaker who eventually fell out over budgetary and creative issues with executives at Columbia Pictures where it was in development. Hardwicke, coming off the critical success of Thirteen, figured she could find 'a trickier way or cheaper way' to make the film about a sport she was super passionate about. 'Amy Pascal was the studio head at the time, and she liked skateboarding and grew up in L.A.,' she noted of the high-profile Hollywood executive-turned-producer with whom she took a meeting. 'I walked into the first meeting. I was dressed in my Dogtown t-shirt, I lived in Venice and I had Dogtown swag all over, I had a whole plan for shooting the movie and I had skateboards with me. [Amy] had seen Thirteen and she really liked it. I pitched how to do it for a better budget, and I don't know how but I got the job.' Hardwicke said at several points during the presentation that as a director, she always likes to be where the action is rather than away from the actors sitting in video village. One such anecdote she shared is how during filming one of the surfing scenes in Lords of Dogtown, star Ledger complained that the water was too cold. 'We had been working all day for six hours in the morning, and then after lunch he and the older guys came up and I heard [Heath] say, 'Fuck this, man, it's too cold, I'm not doing this.' At that moment, I swam over to him and he didn't know it was me. I go, 'Hey, Heath, what's up man. I've been in here all morning, it's awesome isn't it?' And he's, like, if she's in here, I can't complain. Let's shoot. Sometimes as a director, you have to do more radical things like you're asking your actors to do. You can't say I want you to do it if you're not doing it yourself. That's my philosophy.' Hardwicke played a scene from the film that featured Ledger, playing the character Skip Englbom, who was based on a real person, as he is shaping a surfboard while singing along to Rod Stewart's 'Maggie May.' She praised Ledger's effortless authenticity and how he was intent on using that track despite its high price tag. 'Look at all his movies, Heath really works with his body. He has a different body posture in every movie and different vocal qualities,' explained the filmmaker. 'Heath wanted the song, 'Maggie May,' and we could not afford the song because they wanted a zillion dollars. On the day, I had [two songs ready] including the one we had permission for and we could afford. At the end, he goes, 'I fucking hate that song, we need to do 'Maggie May.' I had a take of the other one in the can so I wouldn't get fired from my first studio movie, and then we did 'Maggie May' and of course you see it's integral to the scene. He moves with it, and then we went back and got permission.' Near the end of the presentation, Hardwicke also teased her latest film, the indie homeless drama Street Smart starring Isabelle Furhman, Yara Shahidi, Michael Cimino, Daniel Zovatto and Skeet Ulrich. The night before she left for Malta, Hardwicke said she finished working on the music for the film, which is set in Venice and follows a group of unhoused as they navigate the streets with their big dreams. Scenes from the film were shoot in her Venice home, which doubled as the film's production office for the quick 20-day shoot. '[The characters] are all based on real people, and we had one real person [who acts in the film] who really was in the foster care system,' she said of the first time actor who is one of the leads. 'We found housing for him the week before we started shooting with Covenant House, which is a beautiful global organization for kids that have aged out of the foster care system. He got his first apartment and he starred in his first movie.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts
Cision Canada
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Cision Canada
Canada's Walk of Fame RBC Emerging Musician Program Seeks Next Wave of Canadian Talent Français
Thirteen and Thriving: New partnership with Stingray brings national exposure to emerging artists – including a dedicated Canada's Walk of Fame music channel launching this fall TORONTO, June 9, 2025 /CNW/ - Now in its 13th year, the Canada's Walk of Fame RBC Emerging Musician Program is once again inviting emerging Canadian artists to apply for one of the country's most respected music mentorship opportunities. A proven springboard for rising talent, the program has supported more than 65 artists since its inception, offering national exposure, career development and a meaningful path forward for the next generation of Canadian musicians. Submissions for the 2025 edition are now open through to Sunday, July 13, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Five solo artists or groups between the ages of 15 and 35 will be selected to receive career-defining prizes and development experiences valued at over $100,000, including industry mentorship, studio time, national media opportunities, and more. For details, visit This year also marks an exciting new chapter in the program's evolution, with the launch of national media partnership with Stingray, one of Canada's leading music and media companies. Through this collaboration, winners and alumni will gain invaluable exposure across Stingray's TV, streaming, digital, and radio platforms - including the debut of a dedicated Canada's Walk of Fame music channel across Stingray's platforms launching in October 2025. This year's Grand Prize winner will receive a $20,000 cash prize, performance slots at key Canada's Walk of Fame events, and a private studio session at Metalworks Studios. The runner-up will receive $10,000, and three additional artists will each be awarded $5,000. All five winners will also receive: For complete rules, eligibility requirements, and to apply, visit SOURCE Canada's Walk of Fame
