T-shirts, thongs and perfect twerking: Anora spent $18m on marketing – three times its budget

Indie distributor Neon has revealed how it pulled off its second best-picture win in five years, following Parasite in 2020

Oscars telecast ratings fall 7% to 18m viewers

After three consecutive years of growth, viewership fell this year after 2024’s Barbenheimer buzz

And the winner is … the rising generation of older female actors

With this year’s Oscars about to be handed out, Hollywood women of a certain age have never been more bankable or in demand. What’s behind the cultural shift?

First, catch your (CGI) dragon: hope that visual effects breakthrough can reanimate UK film industry

Pioneering startup technology allows camera operators to see on-screen graphics while filming in real world, rather just imagining them

James Bond nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon

As the Bond franchise heads to the online giant, thriller author William Boyd foresees a slew of spin-offs and says AI is not a threat to human screenwriters

‘I chose to NOT follow the gutless rules’: Francis Ford Coppola says he’s ‘thrilled’ by Golden Raspberry votes

Veteran film-maker defends his sci-fi epic Megalopolis as it scores two Razzies from nominations that included ‘worst picture’

‘I spent 12 hours a day for 16 months with Gene Hackman – but never met him’: The Conversation’s Walter Murch pays tribute

Murch was just a rookie when he was hired to edit Francis Ford Coppola’s follow-up to The Godfather, but studying Hackman taught him all he needed to know

‘He let us hate him’: Gene Hackman had a rare power – he didn’t need to be liked

The former marine was able to plumb depths of nastiness that set him apart from other ‘hard men’ actors of his generation, such as Robert Duvall and Clint Eastwood, writes David Thomson

Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, has hit the UK. It’s obvious why creatives are worried

The technology, just released in Europe and the UK, clearly has the potential to transform the film, TV and advertising industries

A cosmic Jackson Pollock: Kathleen Kennedy’s Star Wars tenure has been marked by chaos

The reportedly outgoing Lucasfilm president has brought a raft of new movies to the sci-fi franchise but some plans have crashed and the narrative has the look of random splashing, writes Ben Child

Is this the most open Oscars race in recent memory?

While last year’s Academy Awards progressed with relative predictability, this year pundits are split and the four big categories are too close to call

Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn

Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately

Who is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?

Prominent figures in the arts say class is a key factor that determines who can make it in the creative industries

Amazon paid more than $1bn to take creative control of James Bond

007 stars offer mixed reactions to deal with the British-American heirs to the film producer Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli

James Bond producers give Amazon full creative control of 007

Deal is struck with heirs to film producer Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli, long-serving stewards of franchise