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?

Why Top Gun: Maverick should win the best picture Oscar

The film that even Steven Spielberg has called ‘the saviour of cinema’ deserves credit for reviving the industry – but more than that, it’s a genuinely great blockbuster that truly hits deep

Botox, trifle and a bit of Australia: Oscars gift bags and party menu revealed

Even if nominees don’t win they can walk away with a $126,000 grab bag of wellness-focused luxuries, after enjoying tiny fish and chips

Star Wars films by Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins shelved

Taika Waititi is looking to direct and act in the first live action Star Wars film since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, according to a report in Variety

Tim Robbins backs Woody Harrelson’s call to end Covid protocols on set

Shawshank Redemption actor tweeted in support of a recent interview in which Harrelson called on-set Covid protocols ‘nonsense’

This is England … and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: where to find the UK’s greatest film scenes

From aliens cruising Glasgow to punks rocking Belfast, most regions of the UK have had their big-screen moment. Our critics take us on a tour of some of their favourite locations

My kids often baffle me. But at least we agree on subtitles

Research suggests young people use subtitles more than their elders. I suspect this reflects their love of text – and the vagaries of today’s sound designers, writes Adrian Chiles

Walter Mirisch obituary

Producer whose trust in his film-makers led to a string of popular, Oscar-nominated movies

Cineworld shares plunge after it receives no all-cash offers to save business

Any bankruptcy rescue deal for London-listed group would wipe out shareholders

New Lord of the Rings films in the works at Warner Bros

Announcement comes 20 years after Peter Jackson’s trilogy was released and amid a scramble for franchises at Warner Bros Discovery

‘I’m a film-maker because of him’: Herzog, Swinton, Rushdie and more on Tom Luddy, cinema’s quiet titan

Friends and film-makers including Errol Morris, Laurie Anderson and Adam Curtis on the brilliance of Telluride’s Tom Luddy, who has died aged 79