‘The enemy is the audience’: Robert Altman’s The Player at 30

The director’s razor-sharp Hollywood satire offered up a horribly prescient look at an industry turning away from creativity and toward commercialism

Will Smith: can his career survive – or is the Fresh Prince finished?

For three bravado-filled decades, he was box office dynamite, pulling in $9 billion. How will the star now win back the public’s esteem – and keep Hollywood onside?

Oscars 2022 predictions – who will win and who should win?

Can Smith pip Cumberbatch? Will Campion steal the show? And what about Bond? Our critic weighs up who will leave the Dolby theatre with a gong

Jumanji rides coming to theme parks as Sony strikes global deal with Merlin

Exclusive: first experience based on hit film franchise will open next month at Gardaland in Italy

Cineworld reports loss despite James Bond and Spider-Man releases

Hollywood blockbusters help double revenue and narrow losses but Covid continues to affect chain

Filthy gags, muted politics and Bassey bossing it: what we learned from the Baftas 2022

The key takeaways from a ceremony that saw The Power of the Dog triumph – but Coda and Belfast emerge the real winners

Glitz, glamour, Gaga … but no royals: can a real-life return save the Baftas?

Sunday’s primetime film awards ceremony marks a break from recent tradition and promises a change of tack for institution

‘We can’t afford to lose them’: the fight to bring missing movies back

Films such as The Heartbreak Kid and I Shot Andy Warhol remain unavailable on any platform but a new initiative is aiming to change that

Film industry banks on The Batman to mark start of ‘post-Covid’ cinema

UK box office sales forecast to double this year to £1.1bn – just short of pre-pandemic levels – after lifting of all coronavirus restrictions

Netflix offers £1.5m budget in search for new UK film-makers

Breakout initiative will give an unknown director, producer or writer a global launch on streaming service

The big question at this year’s Oscars – will anyone watch the ceremony?

The last few years have broken records for low ratings. Can the Academy save the annual film awards spectacle?

Warner Bros sued over ‘abysmal’ Matrix Resurrections release

Production company Village Roadshow says December release of sci-fi sequel was ruined by a simultaneous streaming release in US

UK film and TV industry bounces back from Covid with record £5.6bn spend

Annual investment doubles as production industry races to replenish libraries depleted by the pandemic

Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall premiere party turned disaster into opportunity

The Independence Day director is known for bombast, but scaling back his new film’s celebrations because of Omicron and holding the party in his back yard was low-key impressive

‘She immediately saw herself’: how Encanto strikes a major chord in a diverse world

The runaway success of the Colombia-set animation, with its infectious Lin-Manuel Miranda songs, is in no small part thanks to its Latinx characters, cast and key film-makers