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Disney execs consider radical shake-up as crisis hits centenary celebrations

Can Bob Iger make the House of Mouse sparkle again, despite its waning cinema clout, and the huge cost of keeping up with Netflix?

‘Kate Winslet started getting emotional’: Bafta Breakthrough’s alumni look back

Since 2013, Bafta Breakthrough has paired upcoming stars with established mentors. Alumni such as Rose Ayling-Ellis and Susan Wokoma share what it was like to meet their heroes, the best piece of advice they’ve received, and how they’re managing their rising fame

Swifties flock to Leicester Square as Taylor Swift’s box office smash hits UK

The Eras Tour, filmed over three nights in California stadium, likely to become biggest grossing concert movie in history

The Snyderverse is dead. But did the DC Universe have to do it this way?

None of the stars cast by Zack Snyder will reprise their roles in future films, which rather takes for granted the time fans have invested in them

Welcome to the microplex! The hidden world of Britain’s 1,500 tiny cinemas

The film industry faces intense pressure, yet some independent cinemas are still flourishing. We meet the volunteers who are making it happen

‘A lot of catching up to do’: Hollywood writers head back to work

The end of the historic writers’ strike brings with it a rush back to the page but also an awareness of a changing industry

Hollywood writers agree to end five-month strike after new studio deal

Writers Guild of America said its members could return to work while a ratification vote takes place for fresh three-year contract

Is the Hollywood writers’ strike over? The provisional deal explained

A tentative agreement has been announced but what does it mean for the industry and the viewers?

‘Exceptional’: Hollywood writers hail tentative deal to end strike

Writers Guild of America says agreement with studios on pay and conditions ‘due to the willingness of this membership to exercise its power’

The writers’ strikes aren’t just about Hollywood – British workers like me are now out of work

The film and TV industry has always relied on financial precarity for the people who make it tick. It only takes one shock to put freelancers into hardship, says film-maker Elise Tyson

Ebrahim Golestan obituary

Iranian writer and film-maker who was a prominent figure in the country’s new wave of cinema

Warner Bros studios in Leavesden to expand, creating 4,000 UK jobs

Studios behind Harry Potter films to undergo 400,000 sq ft expansion by 2027, in boost to struggling industry

Oppenheimer overtakes Bohemian Rhapsody to become biggest biopic of all time

Christopher Nolan’s film about J Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, has passed $912m in worldwide box-office takings

‘Studios are like ghost towns’: how Britain’s TV and film industry fell into a hole

Excitement about Netflix and Amazon’s investment has evaporated as strikes, falling ad spend and a glut of completed shows leaves crews out of work

‘Can they reincarnate me?’: Meryl Streep discusses options for Mamma Mia! 3

The multi Oscar-winner and her co-stars in the hit 2008 Abba musical have revealed their enthusiasm for a second sequel – despite Streep’s character having died

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