Emma Watson explains long break from acting: ‘I do not miss selling things’

The Harry Potter star, who has not acted in a film since 2018, says she found promotion duties ‘soul-destroying’ but is now ‘maybe the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been’

Al Pacino on Dog Day Afternoon at 50: ‘It plays more today than it even did then’

The 85-year-old actor talks the legacy of his stirring 1975 drama, his love of YouTube, fake death rumours and why he won’t discuss politics

Norway finds place in spotlight during ‘golden age’ of film-making

Distinctive and critically acclaimed films and drama series from ‘a big hub of talent’ are appealing to audiences around the world

‘Always the coolest, calmest man in the room’: friends and film-makers remember Robert Redford

Everybody loved Robert Redford. Directors and co-stars including Ralph Fiennes, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Delroy Lindo, Judd Hirsch, Norman Reedus and F Murray Abraham explain why

Stuart Craig obituary

Oscar-winning production designer who helped recreate the fantastical world of Harry Potter in intricate detail on screen

Hollywood tycoon poised to swoop on Secret Cinema owner

Exclusive: Ari Emanuel, whose entertainment agency owns UFC and WWE, looks to buy TodayTix Group

‘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