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James Van Der Beek attends the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena on 20 September, 2019 in Las Vegas

James Van Der Beek, Dawson's Creek star, dies aged 48

The death has been announced of the American actor James Van Der Beek, best known for his starring role in the series Dawson's Creek. He was 48 and had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni starred in It Ends With Us

Lively and Baldoni attend court-ordered talks

Actor James Van Der Beek with wife Kimberly Van Der Beek and daughter Olivia Van Der Beek attend the Pampers 50th birthday celebration at SIR Stage 37 on 16 June, 2011 in New York City

James Van Der Beek: TV heart-throb and family man

Jaafar Jackson stars as Michael Jackson in the biopic Michael

Go behind the scenes on the Michael Jackson biopic

PREDATOR: BADLANDS

Disney advert for Predator: Badlands banned in UK

Eve Hewson on the phone in Disclosure Day

Eve Hewson stars in Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day

People look at the dining room set model, from Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, 2024, during a photocall for the Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends exhibition at the Young V&A museum in London on 9 February, 2026

Say cheese! Wallace & Gromit expo puts kids into motion

Catherine O'Hara

Catherine O'Hara's cause of death revealed

IFTA Rising Stars

IFTA reveals Rising Star nominees for 2026

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Actress Brenda Fricker to receive Freedom of Dublin

Paul Thomas Anderson accepts the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for One Battle After Another onstage during the 78th Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards at The Beverly Hilton on 7 February, 2026 in Beverly Hills

Directors Guild Awards honour One Battle After Another

Cillian Sullivan as Bobby and Danielle Galligan as Maura in Spilt Milk

First trailer for Irish film Spilt Milk released

New Spider-Man movie still

First look: Cage goes black-and-white in Spider-Noir

My Father's Shadow

My Father's Shadow is an impressive and confident debut

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My Father's Shadow

My Father's Shadow is an impressive and confident debut

Movie Review: Primate

the history of sound

Hamnet isn't the only movie Mescal has out this month

No Other Choice

Movie Review: No Other Choice

Chris Pratt stars as Chris Raven in Mercy

Mercy gets the wrong man in more ways than one

Jacobi Jupe stars as Hamnet and Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare in director Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, a Focus Features release.Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

Hamnet: Shakespeare in love... and grief

Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring in the dock in Nuremberg

Nuremberg comes to Sky with a terrifying Russell Crowe

Steve Coogan as Mick McCarthy and Éanna Hardwicke as Roy Keane in a sauna in Saipan

McCarthy and Keane clash brought to life in Saipan

Hugh Jackmand and Kate Hudson performing onstage in Song Sung Blue

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson dazzle in Song Sung Blue

Still from Anaconda movie

Anaconda: Deliciously bonkers but lacks bite

Sentimental Value

You will be thinking about Sentimental Value for weeks

Timothée Chalamet talking on the phone in Marty Supreme

Timothée Chalamet achieves greatness in Marty Supreme