Hollywood writers and studios hold talks as strike deadline looms

Writers Guild of America could call stoppage as early as Tuesday if pay agreement is not reached

Move over Marvel: Super Mario and co are bossing the adaptation game

With more than half of people now gamers, film and TV versions of their favourites can get the kind of high scores others can only dream of

Hollywood writers overwhelmingly vote to authorize strike

Vote is seen as an opportunity to reverse the trend of poorly compensating writers as studios report blockbuster profits

Hot honey halloumi helps usher Everyman back into profit

Upmarket cinema chain says its proposition feels as relevant as ever as it continues to open new sites

Cineworld shareholders to be wiped out under bankruptcy plan

London-listed cinema chain to restructure £4bn debt pile after filing for Chapter 11 protection in US

UK’s status as cinematic powerhouse at risk, warns Oscar winner David Puttnam

In speech to Bafta, Chariots of Fire producer says industry must invest ‘far more’ to close yawning skills gap

Cineworld halts plan to sell operations in US, UK and Ireland

Cinema chain seeking to raise $2.3bn in new funding as part of debt restructuring plan to exit bankruptcy

A new Hugh Grant has emerged – and he is gloriously grumpy

Having declared himself ‘basically a scrotum’ at the Oscars and that mobile phones have ruined film sets, let us celebrate the Eeyorish persona that has long lurked beneath

Is Blockbuster video about to make a comeback?

The mysterious reactivation of the long-moribund brand’s site, accompanied by a cryptic message, has fans asking if a mighty return is on the cards

‘Of course it’s disturbing’: will AI change Hollywood forever?

With the rise of AI-led services to write, voice and provide effects, industry experts express concern over the future

Peaky Blinders creator launches construction of new film and TV studio

Steven Knight’s Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham will house ska drama This Town, UB40 and Peaky Blinders film

Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that

Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans was the only best picture nominee this year actually shot on film. It’s time to stop misnaming movies, says the director John Boorman

How did Everything Everywhere All At Once sweep the Oscars?

A combination of old fashioned star power and zeitgeisty marketing captured Oscar voters (and audiences) across the board

Twickenham Studios to go global as APX Group acquires 50% of business

US and European fund to rebrand network of studios it is building around world under name of 110-year-old studio

‘A24 finds the zeitgeist and sets the trend’: how a small indie producer came to dominate the Oscars

Everything Everywhere All at Once raked in $100m and is tipped to win big at the Academy Awards. If it does, that caps quite a decade for the hip New York firm credited with getting young viewers into the arthouse. What’s its secret?