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Jackson will take over Bristol-based department in autumn, when current head Neil Nightingale returns to programme-making Andrew Jackson, managing director of the independent production company Tigress, is to take over the running of the BBC 's Natural History Unit, which makes shows such as The Blue Planet and Springwatch.

AT 5ft 6in, Bob Hoskins isn't exactly a beanpole but the stocky actor says that his height was never an issue until he starred alongside leggy pop singer and actress Cher.

SHORT star Bob Hoskins was forced to do his own fight stunts after bosses brought in a much taller stand-in. Production staff on BBC One's The Street hired a stunt man a whole foot taller than the 5ft 6in actor.

Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network 2009-07-03 09:27:04 - Actor BOB HOSKINS had to risk his safety and turn stunt-man in his latest TV show - after blundering bosses hired a double who was a foot taller than him.

Bob Hoskins had to do his own fight scenes for a TV drama after programme makers sent a giant stunt man.

The film company founded by former Beatle George Harrison to finance Monty Python's Life of Brian in 1979 yesterday saw its shares suspended after failing to publish its audited accounts for 2008.

The most commercially successful living filmmaker, Steven Spielberg is also the movies' greatest conduit to the American collective subconscious.

After adding it to my collection nearly two years ago, I finally got around to watching a movie that most critcs loved.

It was produced by Steven Spielberg just coming into his power . It announced that the old Disney America no longer held sway and that the "nation of immigrants" was ready to be seen benignly in big animated films instead of the one that came from those who lived in restricted neighborhoods, frolicked in restricted country clubs and consorted with ...

Mickey Rourke will star in the remake of the classic 1980s British gangster film Mona Lisa .

Home Instead Senior Care, Shoppers Home Health Care, Vancity and the Rialto Twin Theatre in White Rock have joined forces to present Take your Senior Parent to a Movie Matinee.

FRIDAY "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was the cartoon crime of the century - that was the 20th century.

As you know, unless you've been under a rock for the past two weeks and have missed the hundreds of flower commercials, Mother's Day is coming up.

Could cartoon favourite Roger Rabbit be returning to the big screen in a new movie sequel? MTV reports that the film's director Robert Zemeckis has revealed he is thinking about bringing the toon town hero back in a new digital form.

PR: New to Blu-ray: The Machinist, Paycheck, Changing Lanes, Enemy at the Gates, Three Days of the Condor May 19th, Paramount Home Entertainment will release five titles newly on Blu-ray: The Machinist, Paycheck, Changing Lanes, Enemy at the Gates, Three Days of the Condor The Machinist Paycheck Changing Lanes Enemy at the Gates Enemy at the Gates ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, reduced ridiculously to a personal "duel" between superstar snipers, a Russian peasant and a German aristocrat.

Darley Dale Film Society will be screening Fred Schepisi's film Last Orders tomorrow at the Whitworth Centre.

Arrow Films have announced the UK DVD release of four titles over April and May 2009.

Bob Hoskins and Daniel Radcliffe in the Charles Dickens classic "David Copperfield," tonight at 8 on Channel 26.

Doc Martin "On The Edge - Part 2" Doc Martin and Louisa find themselves held hostage by her father's former partner in crime.