‘He was quite a private person’: expansive auction shows Gene Hackman as actor and artist
Bonhams is selling over 400 items from the estate of the late Oscar-winning actor, from a draft script of The Silence of the Lambs to his own unique artwork
Welcome to the great unwokening of Hollywood! Shame no one can be bothered to turn up
Sydney Sweeney has become the poster child of a predicted rightwing cultural domination. So why is no one watching her films, asks Guardian assistant newsletter editor Jason Okundaye
The Running Man to David Hockney: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Stephen King’s dystopian novel gets an Edgar Wright reboot with Glen Powell, while the prolific British master is back with new paintings
‘I’m not as fierce as I seem’: Glenn Close on growing up in a cult, marching against Trump – and being unlucky in love
She’s Hollywood’s biggest character actor who terrified a generation of men with her ‘bunny boiling’ turn in Fatal Attraction. Now, Close alternates the glamour of the red carpet with living in a red state. She talks about the joy of her ‘undefined’ life
From Hollywood to holy water: Pope Leo invites stars to the Vatican
Observers say that welcoming of guests including Cate Blanchett, Monica Bellucci and Spike Lee is a move to raise pontiff’s profile
Labubu toy movie with potential to anchor franchise in the works at Sony
Viral plush toy is heading to big screen after a deal was signed with details still unclear over whether it would be live-action or animated
Man who grabbed Ariana Grande at Wicked sequel premiere charged
Footage shows the man jumping the red carpet barricade of the Singapore premiere of Wicked: For Good, then rushing towards and embracing the star
Epic movie: Christopher Nolan uses 2m ft of film for adaptation of The Odyssey
The director has revealed suitably grand scale of his forthcoming Homeric adventure, which was shot with Imax cameras and stars Matt Damon as Odysseus
John Cleese Packs It In review – former Python goes on the road in sickness and in health
Such is his grumpiness, it isn’t clear why the 85-year-old wanted to make the film – though ‘I need the money’ is a running gag
Train Dreams to A Thousand and One: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Joel Edgerton stars in an epic American tale, and Teyana Taylor is a total scene-stealer in AV Rockwell’s tender story of a mum abducting her child from care
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe is top notch as an on-trial Göring but Rami Malek lets side down
Crowe is wittily cast as the pompous Nazi in this tale from behind the scenes at the Nuremberg trials, but Malek is deeply silly as army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley
The Carpenter’s Son review – Nicolas Cage is predictably miscast in dull biblical horror
A grim, grave-faced look at Jesus realising he is in fact the son of God is a bafflingly acted and messily made bore
The Wild Geese review – Richard Burton and Roger Moore lead cast of amigos in preposterous African caper
Reactionary boy’s own adventure sends craggy gentlemen mercenaries Burton, Moore and Richard Harris into somewhat implausible action
Future Boy by Michael J Fox review – secrets from the set of a definitive 80s movie
The actor’s account of his big Hollywood break – and how it almost never happened
‘Studio bosses were like: it sounds lovely. We’ll pass!’: Joel Edgerton and Clint Bentley on their Oscar-tipped lumberjack tragedy
The actor and the director of Train Dreams – a quietly powerful tale of a logger in 1900s Idaho – on the slog of getting it made, the joy of motel living and why human-made things will always beat AI