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‘There are no rules’: spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era

Defying criticisms of ‘slop’ and ‘theft’, the growing culture of AI-powered creativity is attracting interest from Hollywood

Film industry cannot fight rise of artificial intelligence, says Demi Moore

US actor urges her peers to work with the technology, but stresses it can never replace ‘true art’ created by humans

‘Peak TV is behind us’: UK developers pivot from building studios to datacentres amid AI boom

Ambitious plans are being scaled back – but film and TV industry point to big existing investments in British production

When I was seven, Jack Nicholson vomited cherry juice on me – it certainly beat doing schoolwork

Sassica Francis-Bruce regularly joined her father – a film editor – on set. As she grew older she loved working beside him in the cutting room

‘Men are so frightened of being too cuddly or affectionate’: Danny Dyer on going from hardman to heart-throb in Rivals

The actor has always been full of surprises – and now thanks to Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster he’s become a romantic lead. As the series returns, he talks about marriage, masculinity and meditation

Gaga, Dior and $24 tweezers: how The Devil Wears Prada 2 turns rags to riches

From celebrity cameos to lucrative brand partnerships, The Devil Wears Prada 2’s approach to maximising revenue is worthy of Runway’s finest

Oscars changes allow for double acting nominations while banning AI

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has also rewritten rules on international film eligibility

The Woman Who Loves Luxury Goods 2: why the Devil Wears Prada title goes back to basics in Vietnam

Foreign language films often have their names altered for different markets and – for the most part – improve on them. Anyone up for a watch of I Will Marry a Prostitute to Save Money?

Michael moonwalks to $217m opening weekend, shattering box office records for a biopic

Michael Jackson biopic has shrugged off controversy, bad reviews and a troubled production to take $217m worldwide, including $97m in North America

Bad movies, good business: how sanitised biopics became a Hollywood staple

As interest in the lives of celebrities has intensified, we have become acclimatised to them curating and mercilessly monetising their image

A star reborn: ‘America’s sweetheart’ Sandra Bullock returns to the spotlight

After backing out of public sight, the versatile and enduringly bankable actor has turned up on Instagram trading quips with Nicole Kidman as hype begins for Practical Magic 2 this autumn

Gen Z to the rescue! Zoomers are ditching doomscrolling and saving cinema

People born after 1997 are now the most frequent cinemagoers, defying fears that digital natives would lose interest in the big screen

Why are respected film-makers suddenly embracing AI?

From Soderbergh to Aronofsky, esteemed Hollywood directors are starting to find ways to include artificial intelligence in the production of their films

Screenmaxxing: why Hollywood is supersizing the big screen experience

With Imax more popular than ever, a new way to watch movies – HDR by Barco – has been quietly rolling out but what difference does it really make?

I’ll make up a whopper you can’t refuse! Why do we love to believe cinema’s best lines were improvised?

From The Godfather to Saltburn, the internet is awash with claims that actors are ditching the script and making it up as they go along. What’s behind our desire to invest in these behind-the-scenes ‘secrets’?

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