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Johnny Depp's case against his management has begun in court in Los Angeles.

Johnny Depp, ex-business manager trade blame

Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp took in hundreds of millions of dollars as Captain Jack Sparrow in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and other movies, but not enough to pay for his own swashbuckling lifestyle.

How Birdman soared and then crashed

High flyers: Radio Birdman, the influential Sydney six-piece, before they fell to Earth.

The most interesting question about any great band is not how and why they broke up. It is how they did what they did in the first place and on that, Descent into the Maelstrom is fairly opaque about the mysterious, uncompromising Radio Birdman – who might be termed the best Australian band most Australians never heard.

Worth the wait

Eleanor Coppola on the set of <i>Paris Can Wait</i> with Alec Baldwin.

First-time feature director Eleanor Coppola brings more than a famous name to Paris Can Wait.

Oscar winner Martin Landau dies aged 89

Martin Landau arrives at the 24th Night of 100 Stars Oscars Viewing Gala.

Were it not for a stunning performance in the film Ed Wood in 1994, which won him an Oscar, actor Martin Landau might have had to settle with a couple of, admittedly memorable, genre hits, Mission: Impossible and Space: 1999, as his epitaph.

A saving grace

(From left) Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard and Fionn Whitehead as young soldiers on the beaches of Dunkirk.

Director Christopher Nolan takes on an epic story from World War II with the help of Harry Styles.

Why this feminist is looking forward to a Barbie movie

Barbie dolls in various outfits at the makeshift Barbie museum, in 2004.

Everything about 2017, from the resurgence of racism and sexism in public life to Ivanka Trump's star turn as Julie Nixon Eisenhower, feels retro. So it makes a certain amount of sense that I find myself looking forward with pleasure and apprehension to a new movie about an old toy: Barbie is getting another shot at the big time. The way she's getting it says a lot about adults' anxieties about children's stories.