Ritchie writes and directs, Statham stars, and shooting starts in the UK in early 2027. Netflix has not revealed the plot or a release date. It is the pair's seventh film together since Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998.

By Lucy Bennett

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Pope Leo XIV received Bob Dylan at the Apostolic Palace on Wednesday afternoon for a short audience. The 85-year-old is in Rome on tour and plays the Palazzo dello Sport on Thursday. In July the Pope had quoted one of his songs against the bomb.

Bob Dylan went to the Vatican on Wednesday afternoon and came away with a rosary from Pope Leo XIV. In return he left a copy of "Chronicles: Volume One", the memoir he published in 2004. Vatican News confirmed the meeting and called it brief, with greetings and a few light-hearted exchanges. Dylan turned up at the Apostolic Palace looking the way he looks almost everywhere: in black, with the hood of his sweatshirt pulled up. He was accompanied by the…

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The three-part docuseries premiered on 4 November, directed by Dani Sloane and Matthew Galkin for Story Syndicate. Natalee's mother, Beth Holloway, is at its centre, and Aruba's former deputy police chief talks about the case for the first time in nearly twenty years.

Netflix released "Taken: Natalee Holloway" on Wednesday, a three-part docuseries about the American student who vanished in Aruba in 2005. It was one of the most-followed cases on US television for the next two decades, and the series has pushed it back up the search charts on both sides of the Atlantic. It is directed by Dani Sloane and Matthew Galkin for Story Syndicate, the production company run by Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan, both of whom are executive…

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The French author took the 2026 Prix Goncourt for L'Inconnue du quai de Javel, a 528-page inquiry into the death of a Montparnasse model. He won six votes to three, and the Renaudot went to François-Henri Désérable.

Philippe Jaenada has won the 2026 Prix Goncourt, France's best-known literary award. The Académie Goncourt named him on Tuesday, 3 November, at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, where the prize has been announced for over a century. The winning book is L'Inconnue du quai de Javel, published by Flammarion in August.

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Grand Theft Auto VI reaches PS5 and Xbox Series X|S in 16 days, on 19 November. In Portugal the Standard Edition is €79.99 and the Ultimate €99.99. Physical copies contain only a download code, and pre-loading opens on 12 November.

If you pre-ordered GTA VI in a shop and you're expecting to collect a box with a disc in it, worth knowing now: there isn't one. The physical edition of the decade's most anticipated game contains only a download code. In practice you're buying it digitally, with a case for the shelf. It's 16 days away. Grand Theft Auto VI lands on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on 19 November, and Rockstar has already confirmed that pre-loading starts on 12 November,…

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time lands on 5 November, rebuilt from scratch for Nintendo Switch 2, at €59.99 on the Portuguese eShop. It adds voiced dialogue, free running and jumping, and a clock that keeps ticking. Portuguese appears on the language list for the first time.

Some people will tell you it is the best video game ever made. Plenty of others have never touched it. From Thursday, 5 November, both get the same way in: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time returns, rebuilt from the ground up and exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2. On the Portuguese eShop it costs €59.99, with release set for 5 November. In the US, the digital edition is $59.99.

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At the New York party she has hosted for a quarter of a century, the model appeared as a giant replica of her left hand, with long red nails, a thumb ring, her engagement ring and her wedding band. Only her eyes and mouth showed. Getting into it took five to six hours.

For weeks Heidi Klum had been dropping hints: a costume that was "very, very bloody" and would go "very well with red wine". On Saturday night, at the 25th edition of the Halloween party she has thrown for a quarter of a century, it made sense. She came as a hand. Her own left hand, blown up to giant size and freshly severed. The detail was obsessive. Long red nails, a ring on the thumb, her engagement ring and her wedding band. Only her eyes and mouth…

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"A Story of Derry" landed on HBO Max at midnight on 31 October with no warning. Directed by Tazbah Chavez, the half-hour special follows three young people into the Western Wood. Zahn McClarnon plays the warrior who forges the dagger It fears. Season 2 is set in 1935.

HBO Max quietly released a new episode of It: Welcome to Derry overnight, just in time for Halloween. It is called "A Story of Derry", it runs about 30 minutes, and it leaves the 1960s of the first season far behind. This one is set hundreds of years before Pennywise. The setup is simple. Three young people walk into the Western Wood, the forest around what will one day be Derry, and run into an ancient, terrifying spirit. A title card at the start frames…

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The British actor died on Wednesday 28 October at his home in Los Angeles, his family said in a statement on his official X account. He had Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia. A Royal Shakespeare Company veteran, he played Jean-Luc Picard for nearly four decades.

Sir Patrick Stewart died on Wednesday 28 October at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. His family announced the death in a statement posted to the actor's official X account, saying he died in the care of his wife, Sunny, after a brief struggle with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia. To a lot of people he was simply the captain. Jean-Luc Picard ran the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 to 1994, then across four films and,…

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Hidetaka Miyazaki's Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive will no longer launch in 2026. FromSoftware says the game is at the final adjustment stage and needs more time for rules and balancing. No month or date has been given.

The Duskbloods is no longer a 2026 game. FromSoftware said on Thursday, on the game's official X account, that it has moved the launch window to 2027 because development "is at the final adjustment stage". That is the whole schedule for now. A year, with no month attached. The extra time is going on game rules and balancing, according to the statement, which also thanks players for how they responded to the combat and strategic depth in August's network…

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Dolly Alderton’s six-part adaptation, directed by Euros Lyn, stars Emma Corrin as Lizzie and Jack Lowden as Darcy. It lands on Netflix on 3 December.

Netflix has put out the first proper trailer for its new Pride and Prejudice, and with it a date: all six episodes arrive on 3 December. Emma Corrin, the young Diana in The Crown, plays Lizzie. Jack Lowden, River Cartwright in Slow Horses, takes on Darcy. Corrin is also an executive producer here, a first for them. The supporting cast is stacked. Olivia Colman is Mrs Bennet and Rufus Sewell is Mr Bennet, the father who tunes out the moment his five…

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Judi Dench's memoir came out on 22 October in the UK (Michael Joseph, £25) and reaches the US on 3 November. It was written in conversation with actor and director Brendan O'Hea, her partner on the 2023 Shakespeare book.

Judi Dench is 91, has been working for seven decades, and has now put the whole of it in one book. "Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?" came out on 22 October from Michael Joseph, a Penguin imprint: 368 pages, £25 in hardback, with an ebook and an audiobook alongside. The American edition, from St. Martin's Press, follows on 3 November. She wrote it the way she wrote her last one, in conversation with her friend Brendan O'Hea, the actor and director who…

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The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation named Jay-Z as headliner of Super Bowl LXI on 14 February 2027 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. His own company, Roc Nation, executive produces the show.

Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl LXI halftime show. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation made it official on Monday night, ending months of rumours. The game is on Sunday 14 February 2027 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The joint announcement confirms that Roc Nation, Jay-Z's own company, is executive producer of the broadcast, with Hamish Hamilton directing.

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The actor who played Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek series and seven films died on Sunday 25 October at his home in North Hollywood, aged 90. His representative said he died of natural causes. He was also the telepath Alfred Bester in Babylon 5.

Walter Koenig, who spent half a century being stopped in the street as Star Trek's Ensign Pavel Chekov, died on Sunday 25 October at his home in North Hollywood, California. He was 90. His representative confirmed the death and said he died of natural causes. Koenig stepped onto the Enterprise bridge at the start of the original series' second season, in 1967. Chekov was young, Russian and proud of it, in an American show made at the height of the Cold…

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The Canadian voice actor's family announced his sudden death on Sunday. The Los Angeles County medical examiner gives the cause as hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Bauza took over the Looney Tunes leads in recent years and won three Emmys for the work.

Eric Bauza, the actor who voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck for the past several years, has died at 46. His family announced his sudden death in a post on his Instagram account on Sunday night and said more details would follow. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's report says he died at home of hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Two days earlier he had posted a clip of himself reading New York subway announcements in Bugs Bunny's voice, a bit of…

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