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A tourism firm is taking the studio to court for $27m, claiming that a promised use of its logo in 2014’s Age of Extinction film never took place
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The stars and directors of Captain America: Civil War – including Chris Evans, who plays the Marvel Comics superhero – talk to Benjamin Lee
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Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley appear to accidentally kill the supermodel before fleeing to France in the big-screen adaptation of their popular sitcom
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Video of training exercise at the Palais des Festivals criticised by film executives amid anxiety over security at upcoming festival
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The designer and actor on her return to film in Set the Thames on Fire, floods, fashion and Mars bars
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Listen to The Dailies, the Guardian's film podcastListen to The Dailies, the Guardian's film podcastWhat next for the Weinsteins and why The Huntsman bombed – the Dailies film podcastThe Guardian film team’s round-up of Wednesday’s movie news
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Now Snow White is awol, this dreary and incoherent CGI mashup of plots from Frozen, Narnia and The Incredibles really cannot justify its existence
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The actor underplays Presley to great effect in Liza Johnson’s entertaining imagining of the legendary meeting between the president and the rock icon
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An overbearing mother who moves closer to her daughter after her husband’s death must find another outlet for her intensity in this sweet crowd-pleaser
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Wednesday’s movie news
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie stars Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley as Edina and Patsy alongside the rest of the original BBC TV sitcom cast
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Tuesday’s movie news
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Tom Hanks says that he bet £100 on Leicester City for Premier League glory at the start of the season
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Monday’s movie news is a special edition devoted to the Holocaust drama
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The Guardian film team’s round-up of Friday’s movie news
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Film-maker Spike Lee drew a crowd of roughly 1,000 people for an impromptu street party in honor of Prince, presiding from the porch of his Brooklyn headquarters in New York in a purple T-shirt, in homage to the Prince song Purple Rain
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She may have virtually retired from on-camera duties, but the tour-de-force star is surely too spectacular to end her career with a lazy fantasy prequel
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It’s a shame the veteran British film-maker has blocked Neill Blomkamp’s plan to resurrect Ellen Ripley (again) in favour of a tedious-sounding Prometheus sequel
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Superman and Batman can only seem to summon their superpowers en masse. But I’ll take a Bourne or Bond over a pack of superheroes any day
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Swedish director Anders Weberg has taken ‘slow cinema’ to a new level with the preview for his latest film, Ambiancé. Can’t get enough of this snippet? The next preview will be 72 hours long …
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The Russian film-maker discusses The Fool, his latest study of corruption, moral compromise and the behaviour of people in impossible situations
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Molly Dineen has made an inhouse film for crisis-hit firm Serco full of happy prisoners and grateful asylum-seekers. Why?
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Jake Gyllenhaal has driven his body to the limit for his acting roles. Now it’s his mind that’s taking a hammering. He talks to Tim Adams
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He plays the violent lead in Peaky Blinders. But as he turns 40, the actor is starting to contemplate what comes next
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First he was Robb Stark in Game Of Thrones, then Lady Chatterley’s hunky gamekeeper. Now he’s winding up Idris Elba in buddy action film Bastille Day. Meet an actor going places
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Famous for immersing herself in challenging roles, the French actor plays a war photographer in her latest film Louder Than Bombs. She talks about her commitment to directors, acting with Gerard Depardieu and playing a woman who stalks her rapist
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LA-based Australian actor says Hollywood decision makers are mostly business graduates that ‘crunch numbers’ rather than make sound artistic choices
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Five best momentsFive best momentsNatalie Portman: five best momentsThe Oscar-winner’s troubled western Jane Got a Gun finally hits cinemas this week. But what have been her career highlights?
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The film quizThe film quizO Captain! My Captain! Match the captain to the movie – quizAs Chris Evans suits up for battle in this week’s Marvel blockbuster Captain America: Civil War, how well do you know his fellow fictional captains?
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UK box office reportUK box office reportThe Jungle Book remains top of the tree at UK box officeDisney’s live-action remake slips just 18% after its stunning opening week, as drone thriller Eye in the Sky looks on in second spot
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Charlie Lyne's home entertainmentCharlie Lyne's home entertainmentThat’s (wonderfully uncomfortable) EntertainmentThe American Gregg Turkington has made a unique study of the comedian’s art. Why couldn’t it find a British distributor?
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Silent but deadly!Silent but deadly!Mary Pickford: America's first screen megastarHer natural acting style made her the world’s pre-eminent silent cinema actor, but Pickford, born Gladys Smith, also became a producer and an early film mogul
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Guy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsGuy Lodge on DVDs and downloadsJoy; Sisters; Black Mountain Poets; Hitchcock/Truffaut; Krampus; Belgica – reviewJennifer Lawrence’s turn as the Magic Mop inventor deserves a second look, while Poehler and Fey are on good form as siblings, and Alice Lowe and Dolly Wells equally so as poetic impostors
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The Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary about “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale – ageing, isolated relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis – has become a cultural phenomenon, with a musical and a TV film reconstruction already produced. Here are a selection of photographs from the celebrated film
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The housing market may not sound like the most stimulating territory for a story, but it has been the basis of some of Australia’s greatest films
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Power, violence, death and reality … the movies can teach us plenty about life’s big issues. From the Godfather to Groundhog Day, five psychologists pick the films that tell us what makes humans tick
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Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! re-creates a 1980s adolescence that will seem alien to today’s teens
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The American Gregg Turkington has made a unique study of the comedian’s art. Why couldn’t it find a British distributor?
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The film and novel is a pop graveyard of the 1980s – littered with references to brands, nightclubs and cultural figures that didn’t quite make it out of the decade
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The cast and crew behind the 1976 classic Taxi Driver reunited at the Tribeca film festival to discuss violence, the mohawk and the film’s most famous line
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