‘It’s OK that life is hard’: Jennifer Lee, the bullied Cinderella fan who rose to billion-dollar boss at Disney

As co-writer and director of Frozen, she changed cinema forever. Now Lee is in charge of Disney animation – and creating a new blockbuster, Wish, about a dodgy king’s whistleblowing apprentice

Flamin’ not? Critics say popular snack founding myth is a hoax

White House denies cover-up, but critics say Eva Longoria-helmed Cheetos docu-drama distorts the true story of the spicy snack

The 25 best stunts in cinema – ranked!

In the forthcoming Mission: Impossible film, Tom Cruise drives a motorbike off a cliff and wrecks a 70-tonne train. But how does such derring-do compare with cinema’s most hair-raising escapades?

UK government to invest in film and TV AI special-effects research

Almost £150m to be spent on research labs to help future-proof industry and lift creative economy

‘Protege! Would you use that word for a man?’ Claire Denis on rum, Africa and rethinking MeToo

Choose your words carefully with France’s most brilliant – and formidable – film director, as she discusses being bourgeois, Harvey Weinstein, and her latest movie, Stars at Noon

‘It wasn’t really about the money’: the shocking story of Hollywood’s con queen

In a twist-filled new book, writer Scott C Johnson tears back the layers of deception in a story of a scammer who wreaked havoc in the film industry

‘Those who hate AI are insecure’: inside Hollywood’s battle over artificial intelligence

‘We are at a cocktail party pretending we know what we’re talking about,’ an editor said. But it’s clear the role of AI in cinema is dividing the industry

Sean Penn says failing to resist rise in AI screenwriting is a ‘human obscenity’

At Cannes film festival, the actor expressed his solidarity with the striking Writers Guild of America

‘It was apocalyptic’: Tim Richards of Vue on cinema’s collapse and comeback

The chain’s founder is celebrating its 20th anniversary – but for a while it, and the industry as a whole, was on the brink

Hollywood thinks it can divide and conquer the writers’ strike. It won’t work

Conglomerates want to turn us into gig workers or replace us with AI scabs. Writers across the world are uniting to fight back

From Bond to Heroes: what was affected by the 2007 writers’ strike?

As WGA members put their pens down again, a look back on the last industry-shifting strike

Thousands of TV and film writers are striking. Here’s why we had to

Studio profits have increased by 39% over the past 10 years – yet the average writer’s salary has gone down by 4%

‘Pens down!’: Hollywood writers strike as late-night comedy shows go dark

Members of the Writers Guild of America picket major studios as they demand higher pay and rules for AI

Hairdressers, camerapeople, caterers: the ‘scary’ ripple effect of the Hollywood writers’ strike

Workers across the industry are poised to lose work as productions shut down, but they feel solidarity: ‘This struggle is our struggle’

Hollywood film and TV writers begin rare strike: ‘The dream should pay a living wage’

Writers Guild of America calls first work stoppage in 15 years as industry grapples with streaming boom