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

China’s go-to English bad guy Kevin Lee: ‘I’m happy to play a villain’

The English actor, who has worked with Chinese directors from Jackie Chan to Zhang Yimou, reveals how a chance meeting at the visa office in Beijing changed his life

The British film industry is doomed if it can’t support new film-makers

New creative talents need to be able to take risks, says the director of Four Weddings – and for all the financial obstacles, there are things we can do to enable them

Glasgow becomes Gotham for Batgirl as Scottish film industry booms

Culture minister says country is at a ‘critical mass of screen production’ that will keep jobs in Scotland

What happens when your star is cancelled but you can’t cancel the film?

Scandals affecting Armie Hammer, Kevin Spacey and Johnny Depp have all hit their movies. We look at how film companies cope when leading players’ box-office stock crashes

Film studio in space planned for 2024

Space Entertainment Enterprise, co-producers of Tom Cruise’s forthcoming space-set film, have announced a production studio 250 miles above Earth

‘I’m one of the nicer showrunners’: Joss Whedon denies misconduct allegations

Whedon denies allegations of threats and cruelty detailed by Buffy and Justice League actors, saying he has been made to seem like an ‘abusive monster’

Rebel Wilson to host 2022 Bafta film awards at Royal Albert Hall

Australian actor booked to oversee March ceremony as Baftas hopes to return to ‘in person’ event with audience

Spider-Man drives Cineworld revenues to near pre-pandemic levels

Film pulls in audiences across global business in December, pushing revenue to 88% of 2019 levels

Behind the scenes of Munich: The Edge of War – in pictures

Guardian photographer Sarah Lee describes her experience as a stills photographer on the set of the joint British-German Netflix production starring Jeremy Irons