Barbie v Oppenheimer: dolls trump nukes as blockbusters hit screens

Glasgow crowds root for Greta Gerwig’s bubblegum satire over Christopher Nolan’s atom bomb saga

DCMS sets sights on championing UK film industry as Hollywood struggles

A parliamentary inquiry plans to address issues hampering the British film and TV sector, such as skills shortages, while ‘attracting blockbusters to our shores’

From Deadpool 3 to Gladiator 2: the movies affected by the actors’ strike

The industry-shifting strike has affected a number of major productions, including films starring Ryan Reynolds, Jenna Ortega and Tom Cruise

Barbie set to topple Oppenheimer with $110m US opening

Greta Gerwig’s toyland satire expected to win out over Christopher Nolan’s atomic-bomb drama but both will provide box-office boost

Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out

One-time indie cinema darling Greta Gerwig is now making money for a megabucks toy company that sells vacuous, hypersexualised dolls – and no one bats an eyelid

The Hollywood strike can and must win – for all of us, not just writers and actors

The thousands of strikers are at the frontlines of two key battles: against a future controlled by AI, and against suffocating inequality

US actors’ union grants 39 film and TV productions exemption from strike action as UK and Australian works halted

About 230 local actors and crew stood down at Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast amid SAG-AFTRA and WGA industrial action

‘We will not back down’: Hollywood stars on the actors’ strike

George Clooney, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and other major stars have added their support to the ongoing Sag-Aftra strike

Before Barbenheimer: when major movies are released on the same day

The much-hyped showdown between Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer isn’t the first time two cinematic titans have gone to war

As Hollywood actors strike, here’s why A-listers are next in the firing line

Impoverished Sag-Aftra members are currently targeting overpaid studio bosses. It can’t be long until their ire is directed closer to home

‘A giant among critics’: Derek Malcolm remembered by film-makers

The former film critic of the Guardian, who has died aged 91, was a friend to many of those whose work he admired – and criticised. Here, Stephen Frears, Asif Kapadia, Jeremy Thomas and Stephen Woolley pay tribute

Have Hollywood studios blown it with the streaming glut? They can’t say they weren’t warned

Walt Disney’s CEO Robert Iger says the studio ‘lost focus’ by concentrating on its Disney+ content. Can the blockbuster movie ever recover?

A tiny change would help more Australians with disabilities work in film and TV. Why hasn’t it been made?

Programs that are supposed to help workers with disabilities find employment have criteria that means most screen industry jobs are excluded

Hollywood actors’ strike: entertainment desert looms and pain will spread wider

The walkout by writers and screen stars won’t affect just the US film industry but production in UK and Europe

Hollywood grinds to a halt on first full day of joint actors’ and writers’ strikes

Sag-Aftra action sees actors and writers picketing together outside studios and pauses production and promotion of movies