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‘Can they reincarnate me?’: Meryl Streep discusses options for Mamma Mia! 3

The multi Oscar-winner and her co-stars in the hit 2008 Abba musical have revealed their enthusiasm for a second sequel – despite Streep’s character having died

Catherine Shoard

14, Sep, 2023 @7:55 AM

Murder, She Wrote movie version on the way

Almost a year after the death of Angela Lansbury, who starred in the highly successful TV show, a big-screen adaptation is announced

Catherine Shoard

12, Sep, 2023 @1:27 PM

Ava DuVernay: Black film-makers are told people don’t care about our stories

Academy Award winning director was speaking at Venice film festival, where she is the first African American woman to compete in its 91 year history

Catherine Shoard

07, Sep, 2023 @9:17 AM

Woody Allen in Venice: #MeToo has been good for women, but cancel culture can be ‘silly’

Director attacks ‘extremes’ of movement while promoting Coup de Chance, his 50th film, at Venice film festival, as well as addressing persistent interest in historic allegations against him

Catherine Shoard

04, Sep, 2023 @10:41 AM

First trailer for Sean Penn’s Ukraine documentary Superpower released

‘We are just ordinary people who want to live in our country,’ says President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in activist actor’s forthcoming documentary

Catherine Shoard

24, Aug, 2023 @12:23 PM

Charlize Theron attacks Hollywood beauty standard: ‘I’m just ageing! It doesn’t mean I got bad plastic surgery’

The actor has called out double standards for ageing stars in the movie industry

Catherine Shoard

21, Aug, 2023 @11:30 AM

George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Matt Damon among A-listers donating $1m to help striking actors

The stars have followed the lead of Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson with $15m raised so far to help those hit hardest

Catherine Shoard

02, Aug, 2023 @5:15 PM

Barbie and Oppenheimer’s success continues into second weekend

The contrasting blockbusters are continuing to buoy box office around the world as cinemas continue to struggle in the wake of Covid-19

Catherine Shoard

31, Jul, 2023 @12:48 PM

Judi Dench says she can no longer see on film sets

The actor, 88, who has macular degeneration, relies on friends to teach her the script but says, ‘You just deal with it’

Catherine Shoard

31, Jul, 2023 @9:28 AM

‘So beautiful I cried!’: Barbie obsessives give their verdicts on the movie

From the collector with 12,000 dolls to an actual ‘human Barbie’, via some of the seven-year-olds the toys are actually marketed at, we canvas the opinions of people for whom pink is a way of life

Interviews by Catherine Shoard, Laura Snapes and Tim Jonze

24, Jul, 2023 @3:17 PM

Emily Blunt: ‘Women are still pressured to be warm and likable. Men are not’

The star of Christopher Nolan’s nuclear epic Oppenheimer discusses sexism in cinema, her support for the strikes and speaking a secret language with her sister

Catherine Shoard

21, Jul, 2023 @4:00 AM

Sun, sea and flings: our writers on their favorite summertime movies

From Do the Right Thing to Now and Then, Guardian writers pick the film that reminds them most of the warmest months

Lauren Mechling, Owen Myers, Andrew Lawrence, Catherine Shoard, Scott Tobias, Jenna Amatulli, Benjamin Lee, Charles Bramesco, Radheyan Simonpillai, AA Dowd and Veronica Esposito

20, Jul, 2023 @1:37 PM