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OPINION - The bores have won: in 2025 the office Christmas party is dead

What oh what has happened to the office Christmas party this year of our lord, 2025?

Evening Standard

Christmas is all around! The great festive film guide 2024

Here are all the best movies to watch this season – from classics It’s a Wonderful Life and Love Actually to Kerry Washington’s rousing war drama The Six Triple Eight and even Godzilla x Kong. Merry flicksmas …

The Guardian - UK

Ben Elton: ‘I fancied Olivia Newton-John. It’s all right to say that about a third cousin, right?’

The standup talks about tensions behind the scenes of Blackadder, his Wiggles movie that never happened and his opinions on hecklers

The Guardian - AU

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Ed Sheeran 'getting back into big pop'

Ed Sheeran has finished work on his next album and teased he has made a return to "big pop".

BANG Premier

‘It is quite creepy’: Keira Knightley flagged ‘stalkerish’ aspects while shooting Love Actually

The actor has commented on the ‘creep factor’ of the cue cards scene in Richard Curtis’s festive romance film, in which she featured as a 17-year-old

The Guardian - UK

Love Actually director says famous cue card scene could have been very different

Iconic scene, ‘stolen from a Bob Dylan video’, has been parodied countless times since the film’s release in 2003

The Independent UK

Netflix's new Christmas movie just hit the top 10 list — but you should stream these 3 instead

"That Christmas" is proving to be a popular Netflix Christmas movie, but we believe there are better holiday movies to be found on the streaming service.

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Richard Curtis reflects on 'posh' Hugh Grant casting doubts

Grant has worked with Curtis on films including Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually

Evening Standard

Fiona Shaw: ‘People were being shot out of cannons by the British – why aren’t we telling that story?’

INTERVIEW: The Irish powerhouse is voicing the headteacher with a heart of gold in Richard Curtis’s new animation ‘That Christmas’. She sits down with Helen Coffey to talk falling in and out of love with acting, the joys of hitting her sixties – and why she’s not quite full of…

The Independent UK

What to stream: Sabrina Carpenter holiday special, 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' and Rosé goes solo

Sabrina Carpenter hosting a holiday variety music special on Netflix and Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw playing a spy and an assassin in the TV series “Black Doves" are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

The Independent UK

That Christmas review – overstuffed but lovingly detailed animation of Richard Curtis trilogy

Locksmith Animation’s second feature goes overboard on snow and suffering but offers plenty of fun nonetheless

The Guardian - UK

Film advent calendar: 24 festive movies chosen by leading film figures

Count down to Christmas with favourites selected by Sean Baker, Gillian Anderson, John Waters, Mike Leigh, Gurinder Chadha, Will Sharpe and more

The Guardian - UK

Film advent calendar: count down to Christmas with 24 movies chosen by leading actors and directors

Sean Baker, Gillian Anderson, Mike Leigh, Gurinder Chadha and other figures from film and television select their festive favourites

The Guardian - UK

A Group of Construction Workers Reenacted the 'Love Actually' Cue Cards Moment When They Saw Keira Knightley IRL

“It was creepy and sweet at the same time—much like it was in the film.”

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The Guardian - UK

That Christmas to Beatles ’64: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Richard Curtis gets the festive season off to a cracking start with a bubbly animation, plus Martin Scorsese’s fly-on-the-wall epic about the Fab Four on tour

Marie Claire

Julia Roberts Turned Down a 'Notting Hill' Sequel, Calling It a "Very Poor Idea"

Hugh Grant is ready to destroy the movie's happy ending, though.

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Julia Roberts turned down Notting Hill sequel

Richard Curtis wanted to make a mini 'Notting Hill' sequel for Red Nose Day that saw Julia Roberts' character Anna Scott divorce William Thacker, played by Hugh Grant, but she said no as she thought it was a "very bad idea".

The Guardian - UK

‘A very poor idea’: Julia Roberts rejected Richard Curtis’s proposed Notting Hill divorce sequel

While Roberts put the kibosh on Richard Curtis’s proposal, Hugh Grant was happy to prove the lie of a happy ending for his ‘despicable’ character

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The Independent UK

Notting Hill writer Richard Curtis shares why Julia Roberts turned down sequel

Roberts played Hollywood film star Anna Scott alongside Hugh Grant, who played bookshop seller William Thacker in the 1999 romcom

The Guardian - UK

That Christmas review – seasonal Richard Curtis yarn is kid-friendly but short on ho-ho-hos

There’s a nice nod to Love Actually, but this tale of a seaside town hit by a blizzard may still leave you cold

Evening Standard

'Here comes Ed Sheeran to save Christmas again': Fans react to new song set to rival Band Aid 40

Song sees Love Actually filmmaker Richard Curtis make debut as music video director

The Independent UK

Richard Curtis is done directing: ‘It’s just not gonna happen’

‘I don’t think there’s much to come,’ said ‘Notting Hill’ director

International Business Times

Quincy Jones Awarded Posthumous Oscar

The late Quincy Jones was posthumously awarded an honorary Oscar at an emotional and star-packed Hollywood gala on Sunday that also handed golden statuettes to the producers of the James Bond movie franchise.