Snow White’s sleepy start at US box office buoyed by Republican voters

Disney’s controversial live-action remake was proportionally more successful in ‘red’ states that vote Republican than those voting Democrat

Original body model of ET expected to fetch up to $1m at Sotheby’s

Daughter of Oscar-winning special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi hopes item will ‘continue to inspire’

‘I’d feel stifled by that’: Gwyneth Paltrow told intimacy coordinator to ‘step back’ on new film with Timothée Chalamet

The actor, who shares a number of sex scenes with co-star Chalamet in new film Marty Supreme, said ‘I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on’

Demon-child movie wows China – and smashes global box office records

Virtually unknown in the west, Ne Zha 2 is the world’s highest-grossing animation at £1.6bn – outdoing Inside Out 2 – just weeks after its release

Intern of the Jedi: film sector turns to franchise favourites in effort to woo talent

Careers fair at Pinewood is among initiatives to lure young to an industry hit by cost inflation, writers’ strikes and an advertising recession

‘It’s controversial and polarising’: is Disney’s new Snow White a poisoned apple?

The studio’s latest remake may need more than a magic kiss to survive its entanglements with politics, sexism and CGI dwarf trouble

T-shirts, thongs and perfect twerking: Anora spent $18m on marketing – three times its budget

Indie distributor Neon has revealed how it pulled off its second best-picture win in five years, following Parasite in 2020

Oscars telecast ratings fall 7% to 18m viewers

After three consecutive years of growth, viewership fell this year after 2024’s Barbenheimer buzz

And the winner is … the rising generation of older female actors

With this year’s Oscars about to be handed out, Hollywood women of a certain age have never been more bankable or in demand. What’s behind the cultural shift?

First, catch your (CGI) dragon: hope that visual effects breakthrough can reanimate UK film industry

Pioneering startup technology allows camera operators to see on-screen graphics while filming in real world, rather just imagining them

James Bond nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon

As the Bond franchise heads to the online giant, thriller author William Boyd foresees a slew of spin-offs and says AI is not a threat to human screenwriters

‘I chose to NOT follow the gutless rules’: Francis Ford Coppola says he’s ‘thrilled’ by Golden Raspberry votes

Veteran film-maker defends his sci-fi epic Megalopolis as it scores two Razzies from nominations that included ‘worst picture’

‘I spent 12 hours a day for 16 months with Gene Hackman – but never met him’: The Conversation’s Walter Murch pays tribute

Murch was just a rookie when he was hired to edit Francis Ford Coppola’s follow-up to The Godfather, but studying Hackman taught him all he needed to know

‘He let us hate him’: Gene Hackman had a rare power – he didn’t need to be liked

The former marine was able to plumb depths of nastiness that set him apart from other ‘hard men’ actors of his generation, such as Robert Duvall and Clint Eastwood, writes David Thomson

Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, has hit the UK. It’s obvious why creatives are worried

The technology, just released in Europe and the UK, clearly has the potential to transform the film, TV and advertising industries