Macaulay Culkin joins calls to get Donald Trump cameo removed from Home Alone 2
Actor tweets that he is ‘sold’ on idea of digitally replacing Trump with an older version of Culkin himself
Success for female nominees at London critics’ circle film awards
Films directed by women include Rose Glass’s Saint Maud with eight nominations, followed by Sarah Gavron’s Rocks, with six
‘The most honest person I ever met’: Chadwick Boseman’s widow pays tribute at Gotham film awards
Simone Ledward accepts honour on behalf of her late husband as Riz Ahmed and Nicole Beharie pick up best actor and best actress awards
UK lockdowns fuel record year for home entertainment spending
Netflix, Prime and Disney+ surge 38% to £2.9bn in 2020, with Frozen 2 the biggest selling video
Battlefield drama 1917 wins 2020 UK box office in pandemic-struck year
Sam Mendes’ first world war thriller was UK cinemas’ biggest crowdpuller as total earnings dropped by over 75% as a result of Covid restrictions
Record number of big Hollywood films had female directors in 2020
Women directed 16% of top 100 grossing movies, but ‘stunning imbalance’ off-camera remains
Hollywood studio MGM puts itself up for sale at $5bn
Studio behind James Bond franchise looks to cash in on rocketing prices for content amid TV streaming boom
Breaking point: why Tom Cruise is living a mission impossible
Analysis: A leaked recording of the movie star yelling at crew on his latest blockbuster is not evidence of tyranny, but the extraordinary strain of keeping the huge undertaking afloat
Even Wonder Woman won’t save cinemas this year
A grim 12 months at the UK box-office will only barely be improved by this week’s big-screen blockbuster premiere
Christopher Nolan leads industry fury over Warner Bros’ streaming move
Tenet director says studio’s decision to release its entire 2021 slate in the US simultaneously in cinemas and on HBO Max is ‘not how you treat film-makers’
Steve Turney obituary
Other Lives: Publicist and sales executive in the television and film industries
Cinemas reopen in England but streaming threatens recovery
Up to 150 expected to begin screening films before Christmas after Covid-enforced closures
Warner Bros to launch its 2021 movies simultaneously on HBO Max and in cinemas
The studio’s upcoming 17 releases, including The Matrix 4 and Dune, will premiere in the US for subscribers at no extra charge
Can superhero movies survive the Covid-era switch to streaming?
As Wonder Woman 1984 heads for front rooms at the same time as it hits cinema screens, the future of expensive blockbusters is in the balance
The Treasury must release more money – and relinquish more control
Sunak’s plan to pinch pennies in a pandemic is unwise. But the bigger problem is the centralisation of his spending projects