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Lights, camera, comfy furnishings: why the ‘beige chic’ of Nancy Meyers is having a revival

In her hit romcoms, the director’s sets were as popular as the films. Now trending on social media more than a decade after her last movie, her coveted look is back

Is this really the end of the line for Deadpool? Disney will never turn off the money tap

Poised to take a billion dollars at the box office, the sweary and ultraviolent Deadpool & Wolverine proves where there’s muck there’s brass – so there can’t not be a sequel

‘There is an incredible hunger for it’: why classic films are making a comeback in cinemas

From Caligula to Forrest Gump and My Neighbour Totoro, rereleases are hitting the big screen once again – and are proving lucrative at the box office

Tell us: do you bring your own snacks to the cinema?

We’d like to hear from people about whether they bring their own food and drink or prefer to choose from the cinema’s own options

Un oeuf is enough: have we had our fill of movie Easter eggs?

They were once a sweet treat for audiences, but Deadpool & Wolverine proves that gorging on cameos, callbacks and end-credit stingers can leave you gagging

A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived

Many struggling cinemas depend on sales of pricey food and drink as ticket revenue mainly goes to film studios. But does banning outside supplies really add up, asks Stuart Heritage

Breaking the bank: are Hollywood stars getting paid too much?

Robert Downey Jr’s return to the Marvel universe will make him the highest-paid actor in the industry but post-strikes, should A-listers be taking all the cash?

More than half UK’s film and TV workers still unemployed after Hollywood strikes

Bectu survey shows just 6% of workers have seen a full recovery in employment a year on from joint industrial action by Sag-Aftra and the Writers Guild of America

‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music

Jimmy Kimmel and John Mulaney turn down Oscars host role

Mulaney had been tipped as a successor after his supporting turn this year, when Kimmel presented the awards show for a fourth time

‘We went bankrupt and had to set up the explosives ourselves’: Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine on making Richard III

‘The movie changed my life,’ says McKellen of the 1995 film. ‘If Bryan Singer hadn't seen it, he would never have asked me to be in X-Men’

Cineworld to close six UK cinemas in cost-cutting drive

Embattled operator says sites in Glasgow, Bedford, Hinckley, Loughborough, Yate and Swindon now ‘unviable’

‘Hold on to your seats’: how much will AI affect the art of film-making?

The future is here, whether some like it or not, and artificial intelligence is already impacting the film industry. But just how far can, and should, it go?

Inside Out 2 becomes highest-grossing animation of all time

Pixar’s sequel to its 2015 hit has now overtaken Frozen II and Barbie in global ticket sales, reaching $1bn in only 19 days

Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths

As swords and sandals make a bloody return to the screen, the ‘Colosseum consultant’ who advises all the epic productions about accuracy tells us why he is ‘paid to be ignored’

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