Cannes film festival set for bumper year – but no Britons in 2021 competition
Wes Anderson and Paul Verhoeven among heavyweights facing off for Palme d’Or as Andrea Arnold doc gets long-awaited premiere
Will Hollywood fly to Perth for this? Doubts cast over Fremantle’s $100m film studio
Industry insiders and Western Australia heritage activists are concerned the proposed soundstages could disrupt a working port, disturb a heritage site – and might not even work
A view to a killing: how Amazon will exploit Bond and other MGM classics
The pay-TV giant has the chance to turn popular films into ‘universes’ of stories – and steal a march in the content-hungry streaming wars
Cinema chains count on 007 to restore their Covid-hit takings
Hopes are high for the September release of the latest in the super-spy franchise, No Time to Die
Licence to content: Amazon’s MGM takeover gives it access to Bond and beyond
Another worrying step in the monopolisation of entertainment, the internet giant’s $8.45bn splurge is about adding reams of classic Hollywood IP for its film-making arm to feast on
Eternals: first trailer for Chloé Zhao’s Marvel movie released
Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Gemma Chan and Kit Harington among stars seen in promo for Oscar-winning director’s superhero movie
Cinemas in UK greet reopening success driven by Peter Rabbit 2
Cineworld and Odeon report strong results for weekend after loosening of Covid restrictions
Can anyone solve the puzzle of Paul Dano’s Riddler in The Batman?
Leaked artwork has sparked a flurry of speculation over how exactly the supervillain will be portrayed in Matt Reeves’ forthcoming movie
Peter Rabbit 2 tops box office as UK’s reopened cinemas take £2m in three days
The hybrid animated sequel has taken around a third of all box office receipts so far, with returns looking promising for a summer bounceback for sector
Can Britain’s cinemas bounce back after lockdown?
With film fans now used to streaming movies at home, multiplexes may have to rely on blockbusters alone, says media professor Stuart Hanson
Amazon in talks to buy Hollywood studio MGM for $9bn
The film company, which owns the James Bond franchise, had held talks with Netflix and Apple
Stage Struck: Gloria Swanson before the pictures got small
Twenty-five years before the hard-bitten Hollywood tale Sunset Boulevard, Swanson played a small-town waitress with a dream to act
AT&T agrees deal to combine WarnerMedia with Discovery
New company aims to ‘compete with world’s largest streamers’ such as Netflix and Disney+
From Black Widow to unseen Beatles footage: what films to see as cinemas reopen
The dazzling Nomadland leads the way with a medieval thriller, a Ben Wheatley chiller and Emma Stone’s Cruella hot on its heels
Outrage as male voice actor dubs Laverne Cox in Italian-language Promising Young Woman
Cox’s character in the revenge thriller given deep voice of Roberto Pedicini, sparking backlash over European dubbing of trans actors