‘People are looking to forgive him’: inside Will Smith’s carefully choreographed comeback

Two years after that slap at the Oscars made him persona non grata, the Fresh Prince is making a fresh start with a return to Bad Boys. His rehabilitation seems assured – so long as his films don’t flop

‘This sounded a little fishy’: the dramatic rise and fall of MoviePass

A new documentary looks back at the discount moviegoing subscription model that went from industry disruptor to joke

Furiosa and Garfield fail to save US box office from worst Memorial Day since 1995

US box office revenue is down 36% on last year’s Memorial Day weekend, as the two leading films take only around $30m each

‘Of course, one wants orgasmic life’: Bruce Joel Rubin on Ghost, gay identity and goldfish

The Oscar-winning screenwriter says he has always been gay, but is only now going public. At 81, he reflects on LSD, gurus and falling out with Whoopi Goldberg

Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble

‘Paintings are still around, people still go to museums,’ the actor has said, trying to sound positive about the future of cinema. But if you crunch the numbers, this isn’t reassuring

Saturday Night Fever dancefloor to be auctioned with $300,000 estimate

Multicoloured floor is part of sale along with Raiders of the Lost Ark prop prototype and The Big Lebowski costumes

Film-making only for wealthiest as accessible routes disappear, MPs told

Diverse and working-class talent unable to enter industry after cancellation of initiatives and development projects

Sex, rape, cannibals: what Yorgos Lanthimos did after Poor Things

The maverick director and his trusted company of actors on making Kinds of Kindness, the ‘bonkers’ film causing a stir on the Croisette

‘It felt like a historic moment’: the Hollywood strikes one year on

Last summer’s strikes, as writers and actors took on the studios, led to historic change – but how is the industry faring now?

Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters

Speaking at Cannes, the actor said that before more women got greenlight jobs in Hollywood, executives had struggled to see themselves in female roles

‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis

The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic. Just days ahead of its debut in Cannes, some of his crew members are questioning his methods

Roger Corman: cinema’s pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel

Heists, horror and carnivorous plants were all grist to Corman’s staggeringly prolific movie mill, as were his pivotal collaborations with other film-makers

Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and king of the B-movie, dies aged 98

Corman made over 400 movies including cult classics Death Race 2000, Piranha and The Little Shop of Horrors and launched the careers of Scorsese and De Niro

‘Explosive’ secret list of abusers set to upstage women’s big week at Cannes film festival

Crisis management team reported to be in place as Meryl Streep heads roster of female stars and directors collecting accolades

Cannes film festival faces strike disruption over seasonal workers’ rights

Group will protest against government’s treatment of freelance workers at festivals across France