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Trump hosts Kennedy Center honorees and teases hosting skills: ‘I’m sure they’ll give me great reviews’

George Strait, ‘Sly’ Stallone and Kiss accept medals from president, who says he was ‘98% involved’ in choosing them

Warner Bros Disaster? Netflix inks deal for troubled Hollywood giant

David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, promised ‘everyone’ would win by combining the storied Hollywood studios with his reality TV giant. Instead, many lost

The New Yorker at 100: Netflix documentary dives inside a groundbreaking magazine

Film-maker Marshall Curry pulls back the curtain on the beloved institution in a revealing and celebratory new film

Forget festive schmaltz, the best Christmas film this year is a gay biker dom-com

Die Hard isn’t a Christmas film, claims the British public. But Pillion reminds us that the finest festive films reflect the complexities of the season, says film critic Kitty Grady

From Eternity to Jamiroquai: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Elizabeth Olsen examines her life choices in metaphysical romcom and the elaborately titferred sometime Space Cowboy returns

Why is Timothée Chalamet suddenly everywhere? Seven things you need to know – from Oscars to puppies

The 29-year-old star is getting his best reviews ever for the upcoming film Marty Supreme – but he’s also making waves with his idiosyncratic approach to celebrity and maintaining his status as the internet’s boyfriend

Zootopia 2 bucks trend for Hollywood releases in China as it breaks records for foreign animation

Surprise success of film, known as Zootropolis in some countries, bucks trend for Chinese to spurn Hollywood in favour of domestic productions

Fackham Hall review – Downton Abbey spoof is fast, funny and throwaway

Period drama parody has some decent and often smart gags and benefits from a game cast including Damian Lewis and Thomasin McKenzie

‘This merger must be blocked’: Netflix-Warner Bros deal faces fierce backlash

US politicians and Hollywood guilds have voiced concerns against the proposed $83bn purchase of the studio

The Guardian view on reboots of A Christmas Carol and Paddington: refugee tales for today

Editorial: An Asian Scrooge, a break-dancing Bob Cratchit and a musical bear – new versions of classics keep stories alive

Scarlett Johansson joining the Batverse is good news for the franchise – but who will she play?

The actor who marries box office ratings with Wes Anderson cool should revive the Batman series, but trying to guess who she might play is a thankless task

The end of big-screen cinema? What Netflix hopes to achieve by buying Warner Bros

IP success stories such as Barbie and the DC Universe? That elusive best picture Oscar? Or perhaps the main goal is a good old-fashioned blockbuster

Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros Discovery studio and streaming business in $83bn deal

Streaming service to gain control of studio behind Harry Potter and Batman, as well as HBO, home to The White Lotus and Game of Thrones

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair – what does the new Tarantino cut offer?

The director’s two-part revenge saga has now been released as one mammoth movie with several tweaks and additions

‘He’s the new Daniel Day-Lewis’: Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

Robbie addresses backlash to casting Elordi as a character described by Brontë as ‘dark-skinned’, while Fennell praises her female star’s ‘big dick energy’

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