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The trailer for Leonardo DiCaprio's western thriller The Revenant has just popped up on YouTube.

Based on a true story, it follows a frontiersman who is attacked by a bear and left for dead. After struggling through a vicious winter, he sets off to exact vengeance on the hunting team who abandoned him.

Slated for release during awards season, the film is directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - whose film Birdman picked up four Oscars earlier this year.

The trailer looks suitably bleak, with DiCaprio squaring off against Tom Hardy as his character's confidant turned enemy.

There's also an unusual amount of heavy breathing.

In an interview with Deadline, external earlier this year, Inarritu said the film was made entirely with natural light - which meant the shoot dragged on for nine months.

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Veteran actor John Hurt, star of Alien, The Elephant Man and The Naked Civil Servant, has spoken about his pride at being made a knight by the Queen at Windsor Castle.

Sir John also gave reporters an update on the state of his health, following his announcement last month that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Sir John was accompanied by his wife Anwen at Friday's ceremony, to which he wore a three-piece brown linen suit and matching hat.

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In honour of James Corden's 50th episode at the helm of The Late Late Show in the US, Adam Lambert has serenaded him with a special anniversary version of Queen's We are the Champions. 

Lambert's clever reworking included the new lyrics: "He is James Corden, my friends, and he’ll host Late Late Show ’til the end."

Australian boyband 5 Seconds of Summer are one of the biggest pop groups on the planet, with a US number one album and four multi-million-selling singles.

You might also remember them as "that band who set themselves on fire" after guitarist Michael Clifford was injured in a pyrotechnic, external accident last month.

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Speaking to Radio 1's Scott Mills this afternoon, he says he's doing fine now... but the band have ditched the explosions from their live act.

"We've switched the flames off," he said.

The band were on the show to premiere their new single She's Kinda Hot.

The first single from their second album, it's a big, dumb pop-punk song about an irritating girlfriend.

"She put me on meds / She won't get out of my head... She's kinda hot, though."

Listen below.

A GQ magazine photo shoot featuring comedienne Amy Schumer in suggestive poses with C-3PO, R2-D2 and other Star Wars characters was not condoned by the makers of the sci-fi film saga, according to a post on the official Star Wars Twitter feed.

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If you pepper your tweets and texts with pictures of smiley faces, party poppers and that weird, smiling pile of fecal matter, then rejoice - because today is World Emoji Day.

Why today, you ask? Because the calendar emoji shows the date 17 July. (If you're using an Apple device, that is - it's 12 July on Android.)

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The popularity of the pithy pictographs has even inspired artworks - with Yung Jake recently creating portraits solely out of emoji symbols.

Lots of institutions are getting in on the #WorldEmojiDay action on Twitter.

The mind boggles.

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Superstar DJ, producer and songwriter Calvin Harris popped up on Nick Grimshaw's Radio 1 breakfast show earlier to premiere his new single, How Deep Is Your Love.

Sadly it's not a cover of the Bee Gees' syrupy '70s anthem, but a blissed-out house track with a ribcage-rattling bass line.

Harris explained that he has been trying to move away from the hedonistic dance sound of his last two records.

The Scottish musician also revealed he receives "three or four" requests for collaborations every month, but often ends up turning them down.

This year's X Factor judges and presenters are clearly having a blast, if this picture on Rita Ora's Instagram account is anything to go by.

But it wasn't all smiles at the London auditions... apparently Simon Cowell got a bit handy with the dessert tray.

One audience member even got a shot of the altercation in full flow.

Honnestly, you don't see this sort of behaviour on The Great British Sewing Bee.

Cult band Wilco have surprised their fans by releasing a new album for free.

Star Wars - which apparently has no connection to the popular sci-fi saga - will be available to download for an unspecified time from the band's official site, external.

Here's what frontman Jeff Tweedy had to say about the unexpected move.

Here's what the album cover looks like, if you're feline in the mood.

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Filming is about to begin on the final series of hit sitcom Peep Show, its star David Mitchell has confirmed.

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It doesn't hit the screens until January 2016, but the first trailer for Fox's reboot of The X-Files was revealed during an episode of Wayward Pines last night.

Just 15 seconds long, it gives us a glimpse of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson back in character as Mulder and Scully - underscored by that theme tune.

It also shows two alien creatures being dragged along the floor, leaving a trail of blood; while another frame appears to reference the 2008 X-Files Movie, I Want To Believe.

The six-episode mini-series will also feature original cast members Mitch Pileggi, who played Skinner, and William B Davis, aka The Smoking Man.

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Scottish synth-pop trio Chvrches premiered their new single on Annie Mac's Radio 1 show last night.

Singer Lauren Mayberry describes Leave a Trace as "the nastiest, snidest tune" she's ever recorded - an "anti-love song" about a lover who talks "far too much for someone so unkind." 

Listen to the track below.

The single is the first taster of the band's new album, Every Open Eye, which comes out in September.

Lauren said the record had been recorded in the same home studio in Glasgow where they made their debut.

You can hear the full interviewon the Radio 1 site.

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Empire creator Lee Daniels has defended his expletive-laden rant about the show's paucity of Emmy nominations.

The hit show only received three nods - two for its period costumes, and one for lead actress Taraji P Henson.

After the nominations were revealed, Daniels - whose films include The Butler and Precious - posted an Instagram video blasting the Television Academy's voters with a few choice words.

But in a follow-up video, he insisted he was just "having fun".

"I love the Emmys," he clarified, "and I'm excited about my cast and crew that got nominated."