BAZ BAMIGBOYE: No time to spy. Even James Bond is on coronavirus lockdown

New 007 film No Time To Die is already locked, loaded and ready to go for its November release.  Pernicious rumours circulating that its opening date was shifted from April because it was unfinished are wide of the mark.  Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson announced on March 4 that after careful consideration they … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Sir Elton John ramps up plans for next musical

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Sir Elton John ramps up plans for his next musical about US TV preacher Tammy Faye Bakker By Baz Bamigboye for the Daily Mail Published: 23:54 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 01:36 GMT, 13 March 2020 Elton John has accelerated plans for his latest musical by collaborating with one of the UK’s … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Dame Judi Dench cheers us all up in new film adaption of Noel Coward’s classic 

Judi Dench declared that we could all do with some ‘levity’ and ‘cheering up’. The great dame enters that spirit with a deliciously comic masterclass as clairvoyant Madame Arcati in a new film version of Noel Coward’s 1941 dark comedy Blithe Spirit. It features Charles Condomine, a playboy novelist who invites the eccentric medium to … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Kristin Scott Thomas called her Iraq veteran brothers for Military Wives background

Kristin Scott Thomas’s two step-brothers served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and she called on them for background for the picture. ‘I would ring them up and go: ‘Does it happen like this, or like that?’ They were very helpful,’ she reported Kristin Scott Thomas fixed me in her sights.  Was that froideur or merriment behind … Read more

BAZ BAMIGBOYE talks to Renee Zellweger about her career comeback

Renee Zellweger positioned the statuette on the table and twisted and turned it until its panel, freshly engraved with her name, faced out towards onlookers. The 50-year-old acknowledged that this Oscar, awarded for her touching portrayal of Judy Garland, meant much more to her than the one she took home 16 years ago. Her first … Read more