The Hollywood industry from the inside: studios, money, deals, awards, power and the people who run the business.
China's biggest film holiday has crashed to 1.16 billion yuan across 96,000 screens. The market Hollywood rewrote its films for has stalled, and the studios have little to show for it.
Tom Cruise's Digger vanished from Hong Kong and Macau cinemas two days before its National Day opening. The censor, the distributor and a studio in mid-takeover have all stayed silent.
Warner Bros. joins David Ellison's Skydance with $80 billion of debt and its last film a flop. Three earlier takeovers show what such deals cost the studio and cinema.
Ben Affleck says he used AI for lots of things in Animals and will not say where. After three years of strikes, union deals and new awards rules, Hollywood's argument is about…
Three countries have entered Gaza films for the international Oscar, and Israel's government is fighting its own film-makers for the second year running.
As Warner Bros. passes to David Ellison, we asks why the Ellisons are buying studios, newsrooms and TikTok, and what it tells Hollywood about criticising Israel.
Spider-Man crossed $1 billion, but original films were punished at the box office and found refuge on streaming.
Frank Herbert built Dune's Fremen from Bedouin life, Islam and T. E. Lawrence's Arabs. Denis Villeneuve shot Arrakis in Wadi Rum, where Lawrence of Arabia was filmed, yet cast no Arab actors.
Matt Damon has weathered storm after storm over things he said, or never said. He tells Husam Sam Asi how his words get twisted, and the latest campaign shows cancel culture's blindness.
From Exodus to Munich and Miral, Hollywood told the story of Israel and the Palestinians largely from one side. Social media is changing what its stars will say.
