Warner Bros Discovery tells investors to reject ‘inadequate’ $108bn Paramount bid

Board unwilling to accept hostile takeover despite $40bn guarantee from billionaire Larry Ellison

Brigitte Bardot laid to rest in funeral ceremony broadcast across Saint-Tropez

Service attended by singers, animal rights activists and public figures including far-right leader Marine Le Pen

‘It was overwhelming’: Katie Leung on Harry Potter, sudden fame, insecurity – and starring in Bridgerton

As a teenager, the actor landed her first ever job in the blockbuster film series. The experience was fun – but also led to horrendous online abuse. Now she’s back, playing a tough and surprising matriarch in the Regency smash hit

What’s to like? Why you can hate Timothée Chalamet’s character and still love Marty Supreme

Chalamet’s nogoodnik ping-pong hustler character is the latest in cinema’s rich history of protagonists with shabby morals. So why the backlash?

Labyrinth review – Jim Henson and David Bowie make beguiling magic in charmingly eccentric 80s classic

Jennifer Connelly plays a teenager having whimsical Alice in Wonderland-ish adventures in this 1986 family fantasy

Back to the Past review – everybody’s still gun-fu fighting in time-travel sequel

Louis Koo is the modern-day cop still trapped in the Qin dynasty in this cinematic reprise of the hit 2001 Hong Kong TV series

With Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, Béla Tarr became the vividly disquieting master of spiritual desolation

The Hungarian director’s films moved slowly like vast gothic aircraft carrier-sized ships across dark seas, giving audiences a feeling of drunkenness and hangover at the same time

Putin as a Russian James Bond? Jude Law’s Vladimir film seems to have swallowed Kremlin myths

In The Wizard of the Kremlin, Jude Law plays Russia’s president as a cool, reluctant leader, a strategist who got the job because he was young, athletic and a spy. This is a creation far removed from the man himself

It would be an honour to write James Bond theme song, says Noel Gallagher

Songsmith’s comments come after his brother Liam stoked rumours Oasis had been courted for the role

Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70

The internationally acclaimed film-maker was renowned for beautifully shot cinematic epics

A Game of Thrones spin-off, The Pitt returns and Goolagong: what’s new to streaming in Australia in January

Plus a star-studded Agatha Christie adaptation, gory new Ryan Murphy drama The Beauty and Oscars frontrunner One Battle After Another

2 Fast 2 Furious is the franchise’s most derided film. It’s also the best

Gaudy, plastic and tactile, the series’ second film sums up its manifesto: watching souped-up vehicles drive irresponsibly loudly

The strangest thing: is the future of cinema … not new movies?

Netflix’s big-screen release of the Stranger Things finale is estimated to have made over $25m at the US box office, the latest example of event cinema proving popular

‘I wouldn’t take a nickel of charity’: Mickey Rourke denounces fundraiser set up in his name

Denying any prior knowledge of the appeal, the actor said he would ‘rather stick a gun up my ass and pull the trigger’ than accept the money

Narnia! Dune! Charli xcx! The 2026 films Guardian writers are most excited about

From much-anticipated sequels to music mockumentaries to auteur returns, the next 12 months offers up a wide variety of intriguing new movies