Back to Russia with love … Vincent Cassel and Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises. Photograph: Peter Mountain/Photo Credit: Peter Mountain Vincent Cassel will reunite with Viggo Mortensen and director David Cronenberg on the previously announced sequel to the latter’s gritty 2007... 

Darren Aronofsky winning the Golden Lion award for The Wrestler in 2008. Photograph: Joel Ryan/AP Black Swan, the new picture from writer-director Darren Aronofsky, will open this year’s Venice film festival. A backstage drama set around the New York ballet scene, the film stars Natalie... 

Flying high … the Stool Pigeon’s existence is a cause for celebration Does anybody out there like the idea of a music paper that is equally comfortable pontificating about Nas, Roky Erickson, Marc Almond and Holy Fuck, has the reassuringly newsprint-y feel of Melody Maker in the... 

Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon Photograph: NYSDOCS / HANDOUT/EPA The latest parole hearing for John Lennon’s killer has been postponed, delaying Mark David Chapman’s sixth bid for freedom. The 55-year-old was scheduled to appear before a parole hearing this week at the... 

© Manuil Yamalyan/WENN Jon Bon Jovi recently suffered a torn calf muscle on stage. The Bon Jovi frontman limped during a final set of the band’s concert at New Jersey’s New Meadowlands Stadium. The rocker, who often jumps up and down during his concerts,...