Entertainment News Roundup: Paul McCartney, Emma Stone join on anti-bullying music video; EU boy band tells Brits the love isn't over, 'come back to us'

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Inside the elephant at the heart of 'Circus 1903'

A roll-call of acrobats, contortionists, jugglers and trapeze artistes will be captivating London audiences this Christmas season in a show that celebrates the golden age of circus acts. But some of the performers at the heart of "Circus 1903" will be largely hidden from view, inside the life-size - and eerily lifelike - puppet elephants that give the spectacle a decidedly 21st-century twist.

Paul McCartney, Emma Stone join on anti-bullying music video

Former Beatle Paul McCartney has teamed up with Oscar winner Emma Stone on the music video for his new single "Who Cares", a song he hopes will inspire youngsters to stand up to bullying. The pair are shown miming and dancing on an all black and white set alongside harlequin-like figures who torment Stone before she and McCartney make their escape in his car.

Moviemaker Harvey Weinstein loses bid to dismiss criminal case

A New York state judge on Thursday denied Harvey Weinstein's motion to dismiss criminal charges that he sexually assaulted two women, rejecting the movie producer's argument that the case was tainted by police and prosecutorial misconduct. Supreme Court Justice James Burke in Manhattan announced his decision at a hearing in a packed courtroom. Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Weinstein, told reporters outside the courthouse he was disappointed in the decision but was confident his client would prevail at trial.

Biopic tells Justice Ginsburg's story long before 'Notorious R.B.G'

Seven years ago, a nephew of Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked the U.S. Supreme Court justice to help him with a screenplay that would chronicle one of her early cases seeking equal rights for men and women. That story, written with extensive input from the justice, debuts in theaters on Christmas in the movie, "On the Basis of Sex," starring Felicity Jones. The Oscar-nominated actress plays a young Ginsburg as she juggles being a new mother and trying to establish a law career in the 1960s and 1970s.

'Vice' movie explores U.S. Vice President Cheney's 'shadowy' rise to power

Shortly after the release of his 2015 Wall Street drama "The Big Short," writer and director Adam McKay was home sick with the flu and picked up a book about former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. McKay was fascinated by the power that Cheney quietly amassed behind the scenes of the George W. Bush administration, and he was inspired to write and direct "Vice," which opens in movie theaters on Christmas, to show how that happened.

EU boy band tells Brits the love isn't over, 'come back to us'

As Brexit rapidly approaches, a pro-European Union boy band has made its debut with a ballad to the British people pleading for them to "come back to us" because the love is not over. The five-member "Breunion Boys", formed by a Dutch animation artist, launched the video of their first single, "Britain Come Back", in Amsterdam this week.

Will Ferrell promises smart jokes and slapstick in 'Holmes & Watson'

Comic actors Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly reunite on the big screen on Christmas in the film "Holmes & Watson," a spoof of the famous stories about the legendary British detective duo. In the movie, Sherlock Holmes (Ferrell) and his partner Doctor Watson (Reilly) set out to stop a plot to assassinate Queen Victoria.

(With inputs from Reuters)