Michael Apted obituary: Eclectic director’s work spanned Up documentaries to James Bond

Gorillas in the Mist director worked on variety of projects including Coronation Street

The Zoom transgression that sank one of the United States’ best-known journalists

How Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker writer and CNN legal analyst, lost his sweetest gig

Tom Cruise erupts on Mission: Impossible set over crew’s breach of Covid-19 rules

Actor heard in expletive-laden recording yelling at staff that they will be fired if they do not follow restrictions

European indices climb as oil surge drags equities higher

Poor jobs numbers in US weigh on Wall Street but bolster hopes for stimulus

Why Hollywood studios pulled the plug on cinemas

James Bond was the last remaining hope for 2020 before it was postponed last week

Batman star Robert Pattinson tests positive for Covid-19

Actor will reportedly self-isolate as Warner Bros halts UK production of The Batman

Hollywood delays summer blockbusters due to Covid-19

Disney postpones Mulan indefinitely and delays Star Wars and Avatar releases

European shares end lower on fears of ‘second wave’ of Covid-19

Stoxx 600 weighed down by Wirecard over missing $2.1bn in payments firm’s accounts

Michael Curtiz: The ‘pompous b*****d’ who shaped Casablanca

A new Netflix film focuses on how the egotistical Hungarian-born director brought the 1942 classic together

Netflix falling short in ferocious Oscar drive

A $70m campaign and 24 nominations may not bring it a big night

Martin Scorsese: ‘Crime is glamorous at first if you’re young and stupid’

The director on his endless curiosity, making gangland films, and how he thinks about death

Clint Eastwood’s film tells a lie, but shows us the true Clint

In the film, a real-life female journalist sleeps with a source. There’s no evidence it happened

Cork’s Spike Island wins second international major tourist award

Site’s visitor numbers have grown steadily from 27,000 in 2016 to over 81,000 in 2019

Colin Farrell in line to play the Penguin in The Batman

The actor is talks to join Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz and Paul Dano in a neo-noir take on the superhero

Sam Taylor-Johnson: ‘The fear hasn’t completely gone away’

Director’s new film A Million Little Pieces is based on James Frey’s contentious memoir

A week among the stars (and the Irish) in Los Angeles

Make sure your trip to LA includes great food, cool bars and a Dodgers game

Netflix and Amazon should pay levy to Irish industry, says Screen Ireland

Outgoing chief James Hickey says big media firms could help fund Irish film and TV

The Wild Bunch at 50: Peckinpah’s symphony of wanton destruction ages disturbingly well

The nihilism of Sam Peckinpah’s western came as a shock to the system in the late 1960s and still resonates today

#MeToo or not #MeToo? Warner Bros chief resigns after sexual misconduct allegations

If a relationship is consensual - is it part of the #MeToo movement?

A year on from ‘inclusion rider’, Hollywood accepts 4% challenge

Stars and some studios are backing a push to see more women and minorities hired

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