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'"Drunk Ron Weasley" has been spotted staggering through the streets of Manhattan again, bespoiling his Hogwarts robes...

Ron - aka Simon Pegg - was back on the Jimmy Fallon show to mark Harry Potter's 35th birthday (also Potter creator JK Rowling's 50th birthday) on 31 July, complete with ginger wig and the inevitable bottle of booze. 

This time Hermione has left him for Victor Krum...

Before the UK Home Office reversed the decision to not grant Ai Weiwei a six-month visa, the Chinese artist posted an image of himself with his family in Berlin - where his son lives.

As his passport was confiscated four years ago, Ai had been unable to leave China to visit him until last week when it was returned to him.

The artist has yet to comment on the Home Office's new decision.

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John Green, the author of The Fault in our Stars and Paper Towns, has defended Cara Delevingne following an awkward promotional interview on US TV.

The British actress, who stars in the film adaptation of Green's Paper Towns, was accused of being "in a mood" by Good Day Sacramento hosts who cut short the interview on Wednesday.

In response, Delevingne tweeted: “Some people just don’t understand sarcasm or the British sense of humour”.

Green took to his blog to defend Delevingne.

Quote Message: I am friends with Cara, and the author of the book in question. I spent more than a month with her on tour in Europe and the US, and I watched as again and again, she was asked this question. Cara has read the book (multiple times), but the question is annoying —  not least because her male co-star, Nat Wolff, was almost always asked when he’d read the book, while Cara was almost always asked if she’d read it.

I am friends with Cara, and the author of the book in question. I spent more than a month with her on tour in Europe and the US, and I watched as again and again, she was asked this question. Cara has read the book (multiple times), but the question is annoying —  not least because her male co-star, Nat Wolff, was almost always asked when he’d read the book, while Cara was almost always asked if she’d read it.

Quote Message: In the past two months, I’ve done something like 300 on-camera interviews. As you get asked the same questions again and again, you develop rote responses as a way of protecting yourself. The rote responses are true — the cast really was like a family; we really are all still friends — but in the repetition, the answers start to feel less and less honest.

In the past two months, I’ve done something like 300 on-camera interviews. As you get asked the same questions again and again, you develop rote responses as a way of protecting yourself. The rote responses are true — the cast really was like a family; we really are all still friends — but in the repetition, the answers start to feel less and less honest.

Quote Message: Cara, however, refuses to stick to the script. She refuses to indulge lazy questions and refuses to turn herself into an automaton to get through long days of junketry. I don’t find that behavior entitled or haughty. I find it admirable.

Cara, however, refuses to stick to the script. She refuses to indulge lazy questions and refuses to turn herself into an automaton to get through long days of junketry. I don’t find that behavior entitled or haughty. I find it admirable.

Read the full blog post (note, it contains some bad language).

The official full-length trailer for Johnny Depp's forthcoming gangster movie, Black Mass, has been released online.

The film sees Depp playing real-life gangster Whitey Bulger, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch as his senator brother.

It will make its debut at the Venice Film Festival in September and will be released in the UK in November.

James Franco has posted a selfie of himself with writer Stephen King and director JJ Abrams on the set of his new TV mini-series for Hulu 11/22/63 - based on King's 2011 time-travel thriller.

Franco plays English teacher Jake Epping, who travels back in time and tries to prevent the assassination of former US President John F Kennedy, but ends up becoming attached to the life he creates in the past.

Both King and Abrams are executive producers on the series.

Franco wrote: "I'm so honored to be working with these giants of imagination."

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Not a day goes by without more speculation about who has recorded the theme tune to new Bond film Spectre.

Earlier this week, attention turned to Radiohead after a punter tried to place a £15,000 wager on them to be chosen.

Earlier this month the band's Jonny Greenwood - who has scored films including We Need to Talk About Kevin and Inherent Vice - spoke with the BBC's Film Programme ahead of a screening of There Will Be Blood, accompanied by a live orchestra performing his score at London's Meltdown festival.

When asked if he could see himself writing a score to a Bond movie, Greenwood said no.

Quote Message: I don’t think so because I think the bigger the film you do, the more control is taken away from the director and usually given to people higher up the chain and I’m not sure it would be as much fun.

I don’t think so because I think the bigger the film you do, the more control is taken away from the director and usually given to people higher up the chain and I’m not sure it would be as much fun.

Quote Message: That’s the other point - doing films with [directors] Lynn Ramsay and Paul Thomas Anderson - is how much genuine fun and excitement it’s been all the way through and I wonder if that would change if it became suddenly very financially pressured.

That’s the other point - doing films with [directors] Lynn Ramsay and Paul Thomas Anderson - is how much genuine fun and excitement it’s been all the way through and I wonder if that would change if it became suddenly very financially pressured.

So could Greenwood be hinting that the band has no involvement with the film? That said, writing a film score is a much more involved process than just singing the theme song...

You can hear Antonia Quirke's interview with Greenwood on Radio 4's The Film Programme on 6 August.

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Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari says there will be more opportunities for actors from minority backgrounds in US TV programmes, as fewer white men are in top creative positions.  

Although it's rare for minority actors to star in leading roles, Ansari said things would change as there were "more minority show runners and creatives and directors".

“They're gonna tell their stories and our stories by nature are gonna have more minorities in them and more people that look like us,” he said.

Listen to the interview from Afternoon Edition.

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It's official - directing a Star Wars movie is back-breaking work.

The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams has revealed he broke a vertebra when he rushed to Harrison Ford's aid after the actor broke his ankle on the Star Wars set last year.

"The guy is like a real-life superhero. He should have the Marvel logo above his name," Abrams, 49, told Jon Stewart in an interview on The Daily Show.

"He's down there and he's toughing it out. He's a super human being. He's literally lying there making jokes," he said, recalling the incident at Pinewood in June 2014.

"This door had gone down, and I'm trying to help lift it up - because that's the kind of guy I am. I'm trying to lift up this door and I feel this pop in my back. I'm like 'Uh, that's weird'."

A couple of days and a doctor's appointment later, it emerged Abrams had broken the L4 vertebra in his back

The director went on to reveal he was still wearing a back brace long after the 73-year-old Ford had recovered.

"I felt like the most nebbishy Jewish director ever," he said.

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Katy Perry's battle with a group of nuns to buy a former Los Angeles convent has hit another stumbling block.

Although a judge ruled a sale the nuns previously agreed with entrepreneur Dana Hollister was invalid - he warned it could take months or years to resolve the dispute, deferring a decision on whether the local archdiocese has the right to sell the property to the singer.

"You're not selling to Katy Perry any time soon," the judge told lawyers for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

At least two nuns have objected to selling the property to Perry. Sister Rita Callanan told the Los Angeles Times she looked up the star online after meeting her. "I found her videos," she said. "I wasn't happy with any of it."

Read the full story.

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Actor James Woods is suing a Twitter troll for $10m for defamation, after he was called a "cocaine addict".

The star says the user, called Abe List, began harassing him in December, calling him "a joke", "scum" and "clown-boy".

But Woods says he crossed the line earlier this month when Abe List made the drug reference. In legal papers, Woods said he "is not now, nor has ever been, a cocaine addict, and [Abe List] had no reason to believe otherwise".

"AL's reckless and malicious behaviour, through the worldwide reach of the internet, has now jeopardised Woods' good name and reputation on an international scale," the complaint says.

"AL, and anyone else using social media to propagate lies and do harm, should take note. They are not impervious to the law."

Abe List has since deleted his account.

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A thousand Foo Fighters fans have performed the band's hit Learn To Fly in the Italian town of Cesena, in a bid to persuade the band to play in their city.

Fabio Zaffagnini took a year to put together the Rockin' 1000 video, featuring local musicians and a conductor.

"Italy is a country where dreams can't easily come true but it's a land of passion and creativity," said Mr Zaffagnini.  

"What we did is just a huge, huge miracle."

Re-tweeting the video, singer Dave Grohl responded: "Ci vediamo a presto, Cesena ("See you soon, Cesena")."

The band are due to play in the nearby city of Bologna in November.

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New York's Museum of Modern Art will host a retrospective of director Robert Zemeckis's career - including classic films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Back to the Future.

The retrospective, titled What Lies Beneath: The Films of Robert Zemeckis, will run from 29 September through to 18 October and will open with a special screening of The Walk - the director's new 3D film about Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers starring Joseph Gordon Levitt.

The retrospective will also celebrate the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future with a special screening of all three movies from the trilogy.

Hoverboards are not included - even though it's 2015.

While you were peacefully sleeping this morning, One Direction released a surprise new single called Drag Me Down - their first since Zayn Malik left the band - and Directioners have exploded with excitement all over Twitter - mostly in capital letters.

Some other fans posted their reactions to listening to the track for the first time on YouTube. It's safe to say people are having a hard time handling it.

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America's golden boy, Ryan Seacrest, has had his latest series, Knock Knock Live, pulled just two episodes in after it made one of the lowest series debuts ever on the Fox TV channel.

The reality show which saw celebrities such as David Beckham and Justin Bieber surprise unwitting members of the public in their own home "averaged a 0.6 rating and 1.75 million viewers" according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The slot will be filled by comedy repeats of shows such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

The American Idol presenter - among the US's highest paid TV hosts - is also the producer on such shows as Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Now at least he has a bit more time to count his money...

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With its almost four-hour running time, ancient Greek epic Oresteia may not be the most obvious candidate for a West End transfer.

But after an outpouring of critical love for its debut at London's Almeida theatre in June, Robert Icke's re-working of Aeschylus' tragic trilogy will transfer to Trafalgar Studios from 22 August. 

Original cast members Lia Williams, Angus Wright and Downton Abbey star Jessica Brown Findlay are all returning.

The play is notable for three intervals featuring a countdown clock to get the audience back in their seats on time.    

The Almeida's artistic director Rupert Goold has described it as the theatrical equivalent of "binge-watching" a TV show.

Commenting on the transfer, he said: 

Quote Message: That a production of this ambition and intensity can find a commercial life is testament to the sheer modernity of the work and Robert Icke's breath-taking vision.”

That a production of this ambition and intensity can find a commercial life is testament to the sheer modernity of the work and Robert Icke's breath-taking vision.”

Greek tragedy fans should note that other Oresteias are available. A production at Shakespeare's Globe begins at the end of August, while Manchester's Home has a "radical, stripped back version" in October.  

Director Guy Ritchie married his long-term girlfriend Jacqui Ainsley at their home in Wiltshire on Thursday.

Brad Pitt, Jason Statham and Superman star Henry Cavill were reported to be among the guests at the wedding, alongside the couple's three children and Ritchie's two sons from his marriage to Madonna.

Another guest - actor Luca Calvani - posted a picture of the bride ahead of the celebrations.

Ritchie's latest film, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, stars Cavill, Hugh Grant and David Beckham - who posted a picture of the pair on his Instagram account wishing "my mate and his beautiful bride an amazing day".

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Yesterday's news that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei had his six-month UK visa request turned down by the Home Office because he failed to declare a past "criminal conviction" had many scratching their heads.

As the artist has never been convicted of a crime, we contacted the Home Office to clarify its decision.

It has now responded, saying: "This case did not come to the Home Secretary, and she is now looking into it."

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Paul Simon and the woman who came to Bono's aid after his bike accident were among the guests who joined U2 on stage at their New York residency at Madison Square Gardens on Thursday.

"When I crashed my bike here in the city, a beautiful girl made a phone call to 911. She's from Denver, but she's here tonight. And so is Engine 44, the fire fighters that picked me up off the ground,'' Bono told the crowd.

Offered the microphone, "beautiful girl" Alyssa clarified that she was from DC, not Denver, adding: "I was running in Central Park, there was an accident - obviously I had to stop and help because I'm not from New York, I'm from Virginia, where people are nice," she said, earning herself a round of boos from the Manhattan audience.

Simon joined the band on stage to perform some of his song, Mother and Child Reunion.

The US leg of U2's Innocence + Experience Tour ends on Friday, ahead of their European leg in September.

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Richard O'Brien is rejoining The Rocky Horror Show for its London revival in September, playing the narrator - his first UK performance in the role for more than 20 years.

We caught up with the star to talk about all things Rocky and the Crystal Maze. 

Here's a taster of what you can read in our interview.

Quote Message: I don't understand any of that. There's no incentive for me to be excited or interested. I know it works for Fox and it works for one particular producer, but the rest of it doesn't work at all, it's not nice. from On Fox's live TV production of Rocky Horror:

I don't understand any of that. There's no incentive for me to be excited or interested. I know it works for Fox and it works for one particular producer, but the rest of it doesn't work at all, it's not nice.

Quote Message: It does sound rather wonderful - it almost sounds unbelievably wonderful. I think I'm going to be virtual Rick - they're going to film me saying "welcome here", "do that" and "oh, that's not very good". from On his involvement in the Crystal Maze crowdfunding campaign

It does sound rather wonderful - it almost sounds unbelievably wonderful. I think I'm going to be virtual Rick - they're going to film me saying "welcome here", "do that" and "oh, that's not very good".

There will also be a special celebrity gala performance of Rocky Horror which will be screened live in cinemas on 17 September - here's a trailer to get you excited.

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Glenn Close could be heading to the West End in a new musical production of Sunset Boulevard, according to its writer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The Fatal Attraction star played leading lady Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, in the original US version of the musical.

"Glenn wants to do it and I said to her that if she really wants to, we should get on with it," Lord Lloyd-Webber told The Stage.

The original 1950 film on which the musical is based was directed by Billy Wilder, and starred Gloria Swanson and William Holden. It received 11 Oscar nominations and won three Academy awards.

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Dame Helen Mirren came face to face with herself in triplicate when she attended Madame Tussauds in London on Thursday.

The special display, to mark the actress's 70th birthday, includes waxworks of Dame Helen in two of her most famous roles - as HRH Elizabeth II in The Queen, and as TV's Jane Tennison, from the series Prime Suspect.

The Oscar-winner described the experience as "amazing": "It's like having three sisters, I love it," she said.

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She said the waxwork figure in a black Asprey dress donated by the star - which was installed in the London museum in 2010 - was her favourite.

"I love this one, it's very 'me', I look happy."

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Singer Morrissey has claimed he was sexually assaulted by a security guard at San Francisco airport.

The former Smiths frontman filed a sexual assault complaint amid claims an airport official "groped my penis and testicles" during security procedures, ahead of a flight to London on Monday.

"I went through the usual airport security procedure, including the stand-up 'scanner', and all was well - no bleeps and nothing unusual," Morrissey wrote, on fan website True to You.

"Before I could gather my belongings from the usual array of trays, I was approached by an 'airport security officer' who stopped me, crouched before me and groped my penis and testicles.

"He quickly moved away as an older 'airport security officer' approached," he said, adding two British Airways "special services employees" accompanying him "assured me that a complaint was worthwhile".

A spokesman for the Transport Security Administration (TSA) said a review of security camera footage revealed "standard operating procedures" had been followed.

"TSA takes all allegations of misconduct seriously and strives to treat every passenger with dignity and respect," said TSA spokesman Mike England.

Morrissey concluded: "In the interests of imperishable bureaucracy my submitted complaint against this 'officer' will obviously be either unread or ignored because, as we all know, on matters of officialism it is not possible to be pleasantly surprised by anything at all."

The sister of former Apprentice star Stuart Baggs has said the family's world has been "shattered" by his sudden death, describing him as "the biggest character".

"Today my dearest brother Stuart Baggs gained his wings. To say we are all shocked and devastated is an understatement," she wrote on Facebook.

Police said there was "nothing obvious to indicate the cause of his untimely death and inquiries will continue".

Read more on this story.

Former Apprentice hosts and contestants have been paying tribute on Twitter.

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It looks like there will be a further two seasons of Game of Thrones after series six - and possibly even a prequel.

"'Seven seasons and out' has never been the conversation," Michael Lombardo, president of HBO programming, told reporters on Thursday. "The question is, how much beyond the seventh season are we going to do?"

He said the show's creators, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, "are feeling two more years after [series] six".

Asked about the possibility of a prequel, he added: "I would be open to anything David and Dan want to do … there's enormous storytelling to be mined in a prequel."

But he stressed nothing had been signed off yet, concluding "the focus is on figuring out the next few years of this show".

And what of Jon Snow's demise in last season's finale - will he rise again as fan speculation has suggested?

"Dead is dead is dead. He be dead… Everything I've seen, heard and read, Jon Snow is indeed dead," said Lombardo.

This year, Game of Thrones amassed an average of 20 million viewers for its fifth season in US and received 24 Emmy nominations.

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It's Friday - and the sun has got his hat on (at least here in London)!

What better way to celebrate the end of the week than catching up on all today's celebrity news and finding out what's happening in the arts and entertainment world across the weekend.

Stick with us and it will be time to clock off before you know it. And if you missed what happened yesterday, check out Thursday's live page.