‘Humanity is facing a reckoning’: Venice film festival shrugs off the glamour to take aim at politics
Stars waved as usual from the city’s water taxis, but there was a repeated focus on films that help audiences interpret a chaotic world
Australian film-maker Alex Proyas: ‘broken’ movie industry needs to be rebuilt and ‘AI can help us do that’
Director of The Crow and I, Robot says technology will ‘streamline’ film industry workforce but will make projects easier and cheaper
Summer box office 2025: what were the big hits and misses?
The season saw Marvel and DC attempting a superhero comeback, a rush of millennial nostalgia plays and surprise theatrical hits from streamers
KPop Demon Hunters sequel talks under way between Netflix and Sony
The animated film about girl group Huntr/x has become Netflix’s most watched film of all time with 236m views and topped the North American box office at the weekend
Does James Bond have to be played by a man? Helen Mirren seems to think so
The actor says she is ‘such a feminist’ but that it doesn’t work to have a woman as the next 007. She may find that Amazon, which has taken creative control of the franchise, agrees, writes Zoe Williams
Sinéad O’Connor biopic in the works produced by company behind Slow Horses
The film about the Irish singer who died in 2023 will be directed by Josephine Decker, with involvement from Slow Horses producers See-Saw
‘I don’t touch my phone. At home, I’d be scrolling’: why young people are flocking to independent cinemas
Young people are drawn in by the promise of a ‘no-distractions’ zone, rereleases of old classics and music documentaries by global artists
‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished
The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film festival
Yellowstone, Top Gun, Chalamet: what will the Paramount-Skydance merger mean for film and TV?
Controversial $8bn deal finalized this week and the future is set to look different for one of the biggest Hollywood studios
‘I couldn’t get rid of Finchy’: Ralph Ineson on The Office – and becoming a Hollywood superstar at 55
He played one of the most horrible characters in TV history, found his feet as an actor in his 40s and is now a Marvel supervillain. He discusses shame, typecasting and how he appeared in three Harry Potter films without ever saying a line
Aamir Khan: India’s movie legend on a cut-price mission to save Bollywood
The superstar actor will release his latest film on YouTube so families who cannot afford cinema trips can watch
Benedict Cumberbatch says Hollywood is a ‘grossly wasteful industry’
Speaking to Ruth Rogers, the actor took aim at the film industry’s lack of sustainability, noting he ‘could feed a family with the amount I’m eating’ when bulking up for film roles
Australian production companies may have to pay millions in alleged unpaid super after ATO ruling
Film and TV screenwriters prepare challenge after 2024 ruling they work for an employer rather than sell a product and so are due superannuation
Watch the Skies review – see the lips move in alien abduction sci-fi with pioneering AI
This nicely put together Swedish UFO throwback is notable for its early use of ‘vubbing’ – using tech to match lip movements to new English dialogue. What’s coming next?
Jurassic World Rebirth smashes predictions at box office
Encouraging figures for latest reboot starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey, albeit below previous films in the series