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• ‘Gripping’ new Netflix thriller scores 17,900,000 views after dividing viewers

  06-03-2025 16:18 via metro.co.uk
  
  Robert De Niro led the way in Zero Day on Netflix (Picture: Netflix)Star-studded political thriller Zero Day has dominated the Netflix global charts for a second week, despite dividing viewers around the world.Hollywood icon Robert De Niro made his TV debut in the series, which premiered on the streaming service last month.The 81-year-old starred as former US president George Mullen, who investigated a nationwide cyber-attack alongside Angela Bassett, Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons and Connie Brit
  
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• UK’s tallest skyscraper outside London gets green light

  11-04-2025 17:59 via metro.co.uk
  
  The 76-storey structure will be built in Deansgate in Manchester (Picture: Salboy/SWNS)Manchester will soon be home to the tallest skyscraper outside London after plans for a 76-storey tower were approved.
  The high rise in Deansgate will house a 160-bed hotel and restaurant alongside 452 homes.It will be delivered by property developers Salboy Group and luxury lifestyle brand Nobu.Planning permission for the scheme was approved by the Manchester City Council planning committee on Thursday.
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• Best-selling car brand AXES flagship EV after just 3 years as cheaper & newer model bites chunk out of sales

  04-04-2025 11:30 via thesun.co.uk
  
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  A BEST-selling car brand has axed a flagship EV after just three years.Now a newer, cheaper model has taken a chunk out of its sales.
  The Kia Niro is being axedKia IrelandKia is axing the Niro EV, its first electric model in Australia.The Kia Niro first arrived in Australia in 2021, considerably late to the party, and despite an update in 2022, it failed to keep up with competitors such as Tesla.
  Drop in salesSince its launch, its total sales accumulated to 5,795 units.In 2022,
  
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• Val Kilmer’s truly ‘heartbreaking’ words about Robert De Niro and Al Pacino revealed

  02-04-2025 15:08 via metro.co.uk
  
  Val Kilmer starred in Heat alongside Robert De Niro and Al Pacino (Picture: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock)Fans have uncovered a truly ‘heartbreaking’ message that Val Kilmer left reminiscing about his time working with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.It was announced on Wednesday that the Top Gun and Batman star died at the age of 65.
  His daughter Mercedes said Kilmer had died from pneumonia in a statement to the New York Times.
  The legendary US actor rose to fame after starring as Icema
  
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• Robert De Niro, 81, is unrecognisable as he takes two lead roles in new gangster movie

  21-03-2025 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Screen legend Robert De Niro will have fans seeing double in The Alto Knights (Picture: Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)Robert De Niro has taken on the challenge of acting opposite himself as the two unrelated lead characters in his new mob movie – and looks virtually unrecognisable.The Alto Knights has the 81-year-old screen legend starring as both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, real-life mob bosses whose childhood friendship decays into a deadly rivalry.Opening just as Genovese has orde
  
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• Robert De Niro’s double-role mob movie flops as one of 2025’s biggest bombs

  21-03-2025 09:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Screen legend Robert De Niro will have fans seeing double in The Alto Knights (Picture: Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)Robert De Niro acting opposite himself as the two lead characters in his new mob movie has not produced anything like double the dough at the box office.The Alto Knights opened on Friday but is already on track to be one of the biggest flops of 2025.Its first weekend in cinemas resulted in a poor showing of just $3.1miilion (£2.39m) in the US, against a reported production
  
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• The Alto Knights review: Robert De Niro’s performance will leave audiences trembling – but film only shines at the end

  20-03-2025 22:00 via thesun.co.uk
  
  The Alto Knights(15), 123mins★★★☆☆ON the face of it, this is an offer cinema-goers can’t refuse – Robert De Niro as two mob bosses for the price of one.In this Godfather-style film based on a true story, the Oscar-winning actor plays both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese.AlamyRobert De Niro’s performance will leave audiences trembling – but film only shines at the end[/caption]They are friends from New York City’s streets who rise to th
  
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• Adolescence star Stephen Graham breaks down in tears in live interview

  19-03-2025 12:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageStephen Graham broke down in tears on this morning’s Capital Breakfast radio show while talking about his dad.This comes as the 51-year-old has rocketed to public consciousness in recent weeks for co-writing hit Netflix show Adolescence.
  In it, Stephen plays the well-intentioned father of a 13-year-old son, Jamie Miller, who is arrested for murdering a
  
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• Adolescence star Stephen Graham breaks down in tears during live interview

  19-03-2025 12:07 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageStephen Graham broke down in tears on this morning’s Capital Breakfast radio show while talking about his dad.This comes as the 51-year-old has rocketed to public consciousness in recent weeks for co-writing hit Netflix show Adolescence.
  In it, Stephen plays the well-intentioned father of a 13-year-old son, Jamie Miller, who is arrested for murdering a
  
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• BBC The One Show fans gobsmacked as Hollywood legend Robert De Niro graces sofa and shares career advice

  14-03-2025 10:25 via thesun.co.uk
  
  FANS OF The One Show were left utterly gobsmacked as Hollywood legend Robert De Niro graced the sofa.
  Clara Amfo and Alex Jones welcomed the A-list actor into the BBC studio alongside his co-star Debra Messing, 56.BBCViewers were in disbelief as Robert De Niro appeared on The One Show[/caption]GettyThe A-List actor appeared on the BBC Show before making his way into Mayfair for the European premiere of The Alto Knights[/caption]BBCHe was welcomed into the studio by Alex Jones and Clara Amfo[/cap
  
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• Robert De Niro sparks concerns on The One Show as fans brand him ‘disinterested’ during ‘awkward’ interview

  14-03-2025 10:25 via thesun.co.uk
  
  FANS OF The One Show were left utterly gobsmacked as Hollywood legend Robert De Niro graced the sofa.
  Clara Amfo and Alex Jones welcomed the A-list actor into the BBC studio alongside his co-star Debra Messing, 56.BBCViewers were in disbelief as Robert De Niro appeared on The One Show[/caption]GettyThe A-List actor appeared on the BBC Show before making his way into Mayfair for the European premiere of The Alto Knights[/caption]BBCHe was welcomed into the studio by Alex Jones and Clara Amfo[/cap
  
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• ‘Unbelievably awful’ new thriller tops Netflix chart with almost 18,000,000 views

  06-03-2025 16:18 via metro.co.uk
  
  Robert De Niro led the way in Zero Day on Netflix (Picture: Netflix)Star-studded political thriller Zero Day has dominated the Netflix global charts for a second week, despite being absolutely slated by divided viewers.Hollywood icon Robert De Niro made his TV debut in the series, which premiered on the streaming service last month.The 81-year-old starred as former US president George Mullen, who investigated a nationwide cyber-attack alongside Angela Bassett, Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons and Co
  
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• Netflix fans cancel weekend plans after discovering ‘incredible’ political thriller

  21-02-2025 18:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  Netflix users have rushed to watch a new political thriller starring Robert De Niro (Picture: JoJo Whilden/ Netflix)Netflix viewers have rushed to binge a new political conspiracy thriller starring a Hollywood legend.Launching on the streaming service this week, Zero Day is Robert De Niro’s first ever starring TV role.The six-part series sees the 81-year-old actor play former United States president George Mullen as he spearheads the investigation into a nationwide cyberattack whilst also
  
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• Robert De Niro’s Netflix thriller Zero Day makes one crucial mistake

  20-02-2025 09:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageAngela Bassett as the President of the United States. Robert De Niro as the former President. The pair of them teaming up to fight the forces of evil.It’s everything you could possibly want from a Netflix thriller. What many would even love to see in real life, given the state of politics across the pond today.From the first few moments of Zero Day, th
  
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• Robert De Niro’s horrifying Netflix political thriller makes one crucial mistake

  20-02-2025 09:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageAngela Bassett as the President of the United States. Robert De Niro as the former President. The pair of them teaming up to fight the forces of evil.It’s everything you could possibly want from a Netflix thriller. What many would even love to see in real life, given the state of politics across the pond today.From the first few moments of Zero Day, th
  
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• Robert De Niro battles Robert De Niro in first look at his new mafia movie

  14-01-2025 22:56 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageRobert De Niro has done the impossible by going up against himself in the first trailer for the Alto Knights, leaving movie fans seriously divided.The Goodfellas icon returned to his roots for the upcoming flick, directed by Barry Levinson, in which he plays dueling roles of two notorious crime bosses, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, as they battled for co
  
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• The Godfather Part II at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s sprawling masterpiece

  20-12-2024 12:00
  
  After the recent release of his misbegotten saga Megalopolis, the anniversary of his crime drama sequel serves as a perfect reminder of the director’s abilitiesCreatively speaking, 2024 was Francis Ford Coppola’s biggest year in ages. Not only did it see the release of his first movie in 13 years, that film was Megalopolis, a dream project that had been kicking around in his head for upwards of four decades. It made a particularly auspicious year for the emergence of Coppola’s
  
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• Standing Up review – autism gets sappy treatment in didactic family road movie

  17-12-2024 08:00
  Familiar worries about how to raise a neurodiverse child are played out with empathy but little subtletyWhile normally I’m a soft touch for any film about autistic children, one just can’t let something as sappy and annoyingly didactic as this road movie get by without some honest assessment. It’s obvious the film-makers mean well and no doubt the work comes from a place of love and probably personal experience, but that doesn’t negate how profoundly irritating the main a
  
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• Cast of hilarious 00s comedy ‘return for new sequel’ after nearly 25 years

  10-12-2024 22:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  A sequel for Meet The Parents is officially on the way (Picture: Universal)Film fans, it’s time to get excited as we’re officially getting a sequel to an iconic 00s comedy, with the star-studded cast returning.Meet the Parents was first released in October, 2000, and followed Ben Stiller’s Gaylord ‘Greg’ Focker as he met the family of his girlfriend, Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo) for the very first time.His attempts to impress Jack and Dina Byrnes, played by Robert De Nir
  
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• Ben Stiller’s hilarious 00s comedy ‘returning for new sequel’ after 24 years

  10-12-2024 22:37 via metro.co.uk
  
  A sequel for Meet The Parents is officially on the way (Picture: Universal)Film fans, it’s time to get excited as we’re officially getting a sequel to an iconic 00s comedy, with the star-studded cast returning.Meet the Parents was first released in October 2000, and followed Ben Stiller’s Gaylord ‘Greg’ Focker as he met the family of his girlfriend, Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo) for the very first time.His attempts to impress Jack and Dina Byrnes, played by Robert De Niro
  
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• Meet the Parents sequel in development with original cast set to return

  10-12-2024 20:15
  Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro are in talks to reprise their characters for a new comedy follow-upRobert De Niro and Ben Stiller are in talks to reprise their roles in a new Meet the Parents sequel.According to Deadline, the actors, along with their fellow co-stars Blythe Danner and Teri Polo, are in discussions to return for an as yet untitled follow-up. Continue reading...
  
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• Sergio Leone, ‘the Man with No English’, mimed directions to spaghetti western star Clint Eastwood

  17-11-2024 12:00
  The Italian film-maker overcame the language barrier with his actors by using mime, as revealed in previously unseen photographsThey made their names with A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a series of spaghetti westerns that became classics of 20th-century cinema. But the Italian director Sergio Leone had such a poor grasp of English that, between takes, he would repeatedly rely on the words “watch me” before miming whatever he wanted from his leading man, Clint Eastwood, and his ot
  
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• Wag the Dog: a pitch-black political comedy that’s never looked more relevant

  08-10-2024 16:00
  Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman lead an all-star cast in this satire about a spin doctor and a film producer who fake a war to divert attention from a presidential sex scandalIn a public discussion about the US election, the political commentator and one-time Keating speechwriter Don Watson posited that the American public finds it difficult to tell the difference between reality and fantasy. Never were the lines more blurrily drawn than in Wag the Dog, Barry Levinson’s pitch-black comed
  
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• John Ashton obituary

  01-10-2024 18:13
  
  American actor best known for his role as Sergeant John Taggart in the Beverly Hills Cop filmsIn several action comedies of the 1980s, John Ashton, who has died aged 76 from cancer, played disgruntled, buffoonish or flummoxed figures caught up in chaotic situations not entirely of their own making.The first, Beverly Hills Cop (1984), was originally intended as a dramatic vehicle for Sylvester Stallone: “Stallone was going to make it ‘Rambo Blows Up Beverly Hills’ or something,&
  
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• Hollywood legend, 81, amazes fans with his daredevil side by leaping off yacht

  18-08-2024 10:34 via metro.co.uk
  
  The star is in his daredevil era (Picture: Dominik Bindl/Getty Images/Instagram/Drena De Niro)Robert De Niro appears to be living his best life as he leaps into his 81st birthday with his daughter, Drena De Niro, close by his side. The Godfather actor celebrated his special day on Saturday and instead of opting for a quiet birthday, he embraced his daredevil side and leapt off the side of his yacht. In an impressive moment captured by his daughter, Drena, who he adopted during his marr
  
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• Robert De Niro is living his best life leaping off yacht on his 81st birthday

  18-08-2024 10:34 via metro.co.uk
  
  The star is in his daredevil era (Picture: Dominik Bindl/Getty Images/Instagram/Drena De Niro)Robert De Niro appears to be living his best life as he leaps into his 81st birthday with his daughter, Drena De Niro, close by his side. The Godfather actor celebrated his special day on Saturday and instead of opting for a quiet birthday, he embraced his daredevil side and leapt off the side of his yacht. In an impressive moment captured by his daughter, Drena, who he adopted during his marr
  
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• Nobu at 30: the abiding coolness of the restaurant that changed UK dining

  17-08-2024 18:00
  Robert De Niro was so taken by Nobuyuki Matsuhisa’s cuisine that they went into business … the rest is notorietySome meals are more memorable than others. In 1988, Robert De Niro met the English director Roland Joffé, with whom he had recently made The Mission, at a restaurant in Los Angeles called Matsuhisa. The restaurant had opened a year earlier and Joffé had become a regular, but it was De Niro’s first visit. The actor ordered black cod miso – a discre
  
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• Fifty-woman orgies, heroin & cocaine cocktails and $46k room service bills – inside world’s most infamous A-list hotel

  27-07-2024 11:57 via thesun.co.uk
  
  IF walls could talk, those from the legendary Los Angeles hotel Chateau Marmont would have some of the most salacious stories of all time. The infamous Hollywood haunt gained a reputation for debaucheryduring the Thirties and little has changed in the subsequent decades.AlamyChateau Marmont on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip has a reputation for debauchery[/caption]BackGridThis week, Bianca Censori caused a stir by flaunting their smart casual dress code by wearing a minuscule bikini top an
  
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• ‘Harris for America!’: Hollywood reacts with gratitude – and relief – as Joe Biden steps aside

  22-07-2024 04:53
  
  Celebrities including Aaron Sorkin, Robert De Niro and Barbra Streisand have shared their support for the US president’s decision to end his election campaignBiden drops out of presidential race – live updatesHollywood has reacted to the news that the US president, Joe Biden, is dropping out of the presidential election with gratitude and a sigh of relief, having for the most part stayed stumm in recent weeks as only a few celebrities called for him to step aside.Just hours before Bi
  
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• 10 best movies to watch on the new streaming service that’s completely free

  12-07-2024 13:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  Tubi – plenty to like with a price to love (Picture: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock)With Netflix hiking their prices and Amazon Prime Video sneaking ads into their content even for subscribers, it’s easy to feel a little bit exploited as a streaming service customer in 2024.Alright, so ‘exploited’ is probably a bit strong. But there’s a distinct feeling that the industry is starting to squeeze their customers. If you love your film and telly, you may also be an Apple T
  
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