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Richard Curtis

May 2024

  • Four weddings and a funeral

    ‘I thought: “I’ve engineered the death of Hugh Grant!’’’ – the inside story of Four Weddings and a Funeral

    The low-budget romcom about Britain’s upper middle classes launched the careers of its writer Richard Curtis and Grant. Cast and crew share their stories – from Liz Hurley in that dress to Amber Rudd’s role as an ‘aristocracy coordinator’

December 2023

  • Brian Logan

    Richard Curtis’s Christmas Actually raises the ghost of ropey light-entertainment past

    Brian Logan
  • Paapa Essiedu in a beanie hat and duffle coat, Melissa McCarthy almost unrecognisable in glasses, straight blond wig, turban hat and bright pink and turquoise fluffy coat

    Genie review – soulless Richard Curtis New York festive caper

November 2023

  • Completely subdued … Melissa McCarthy in Genie.

    Genie review – seasonal Richard Curtis comedy can’t save Christmas for anyone

  • Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in a still from the film Love Actually. Photo: Peter Mountain. Copyright: 2003 Universal Studios. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    Love Actually at 20: Richard Curtis’s imperfect yet irresistible Christmas romcom

October 2023

  • Renée Zellweger and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones’s Diary

    Richard Curtis admits regret over weight jokes and lack of diversity in films

    Love Actually and Notting Hill director says jokes calling people chubby ‘aren’t any longer funny’

September 2023

  • Martha Gill

    We should celebrate Taylor Swift. But her success shouldn’t crowd out others

    Martha Gill
    The arts are the poorer for a system that hugely rewards the few while the less lucky can’t even earn a living wage

August 2023

  • Ana de Armas poses for photographers upon arrival for the World premiere of the new film from the James Bond franchise 'No Time To Die', in London Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

    ‘A self-inflicted injury’: judge dismisses lawsuit claiming Yesterday trailer tricked Ana de Armas fans

    Plaintiffs claimed that keeping the actor in the trailer for the Danny Boyle film but cutting her from the final product amounted to false advertising

July 2023

  • The exterior of a building in Wimbledon town centre displays an advert with the slogan 'Barclays and Wimbledon go together like strawberries and cream’

    Celebrities call on Wimbledon to drop Barclays sponsorship

    Richard Curtis, Emma Thompson and others say bank is ‘financing and profiting from climate chaos’

January 2023

  • Julia Roberts and George Clooney in Ticket to Paradise.

    Golden oldies: how romantic comedies set out to attract the more mature lover

    After a lean decade, the 90s staple has returned in a big way. But there is one key difference: grey hair. How did older actors take over the genre?

December 2022

  • ‘I know it was you that made me do the Dunkaccino rap.’

    Ranked
    The best New Year’s Eve scenes – ranked

  • Gold envelope with white paper.

    Brief letters
    How to save money this Christmas – send your cards via Japan

November 2022

  • Richard Curtis, whose film took $246m at the global box office.

    Richard Curtis: lack of diversity in Love Actually makes me feel a bit stupid

    In a TV special marking the festive romcom’s 20th anniversary the director says ‘some moments … feel out of date’

September 2022

  • Iconic villain … as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

    ‘He got our tortoise a part in Taming of the Shrew’: Alan Rickman remembered by Emma Thompson, Eddie Izzard and more

    Why did Rowan Atkinson infuriate him in Love Actually? Could he have started his own religion? And was Betty the tortoise any good on stage? Stars from Ruby Wax to Richard Curtis remember an acting colossus

March 2022

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Tones and I is not alone in wishing people would stop making a song about that tune

    Rebecca Nicholson
    When music artists come to loathe their megahit, it’s a sure sign they’ve made it to the top of the pop industry

February 2022

  • Richard Curtis

    Force pension funds to align with net zero goal, says Richard Curtis

    Film-maker urges UK ministers to make it mandatory for schemes to align portfolios with climate target

January 2022

  • Ana de Armas.

    Ana de Armas fans sue Hollywood studio over ‘deceptive’ Yesterday trailer

    Class action lawsuit says ‘misleading and deceptive’ trailer showing brief glimpse of actor, who had been cut from the film, led fans to rent it

April 2021

  • Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones’s Diary, a film that finds its silliness in a world no longer the same as it was.

    Bridget Jones’s Diary at 20: a gloriously messy ode to imperfection

    While elements of the hit British comedy have aged quite notably, the charm remains as strong as ever as does Renee Zellweger’s Oscar-nominated turn

December 2020

  • Love Actually, Hugh Grant, Martine Mccutcheon

    How to save the planet? Richard Curtis says it involves pensions, actually

    Director of much-loved Christmas film wants people to be aware of what investments may finance

September 2020

  • The UN deputy secretary general Amina Mohammed.

    Looking for a Saturday night film? Instead of Notting Hill try Nations United

    Richard Curtis
    In 2015, 193 countries agreed a blueprint for a better planet. 2020 was supposed to be a Super Year of progress – we can’t let the pandemic knock us off course
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