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  • Disney Entertainment Showcase At D23<br>ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 09: Pete Docter, CCO, Pixar appears at the Disney Entertainment Showcase at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event in Anaheim, California on August 09, 2024. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)

    Avatar, Tron, Fantastic Four and Star Wars: Disney rolls out raft of new films at fan event

    The studio’s annual convention in Anaheim, California brought a blizzard of announcements for its most popular film series and franchises
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    Joaquin Phoenix exits Todd Haynes gay drama five days before filming begins

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    ‘There is an incredible hunger for it’: why classic films are making a comeback in cinemas

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    ‘Sobbing in the aisles’: writers on their most memorable parent-kid film experiences

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    David Lynch says he is not retiring after revealing he is too ill to direct films in person

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    Bautista returns as a less than convincing CIA agent charging around the planet to protect his stepdaughter and defend against nuclear catastrophe
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    A daredevil Russian couple who climb to the tops of skyscrapers make for both frustrating and thrilling protagonists in this hit-and-miss documentary
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  • Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – fish-out-of-water Eddie Murphy chases past glories

  • Space Cadet review – Emma Roberts joins Nasa in lazy streaming slop

  • The Imaginary – charming anime about made-up best friends from former Ghibli protege

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    Josh O’Connor on Zendaya and gardening; Marina Hyde on the Met Gala; being a boy in 2024; and Philippa Perry offers advice on leaving a legacy - podcast

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    Does murder count if you’re asleep? Marina Hyde on Christian Horner’s F1 drama; and how inanity ruined the red carpet – podcast

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    Carl Weathers' most memorable film and TV roles – video obituary

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  • This image released by Focus Features shows Izaac Wang in a scene from "DÌDI." (Focus Features via AP)

    Dìdi is a rare thing: a genuinely great film about the internet

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    Difficult, fearsome, aggressive: the Faye Dunaway documentary is unusually frank

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  • Anouk Aimée: an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

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    Broad City’s Ilana Glazer on her new pregnancy comedy: ‘I had no idea how effortful having children is’

  • ‘There’s a search for who we are as a nation’ … Moin Hussain and Faraz Ayub.

    Sky Peals director Moin Hussain and star Faraz Ayub: ‘People want to identify in one way – but our culture is mixed’

    In Hussain’s debut feature, Ayub plays Adam, a mixed-race night worker in a service station fast-food outlet grappling with his identity. They talk about their shared heritage, sci-fi and getting into film
  • Sam Neill at home in Central Otago, New Zealand.

    The second act of Sam Neill: ‘The truth was, I didn’t know how long I had to live’

    He is one of the world’s best actors – but can still go to Starbucks without anyone recognising him. He discusses cancer, remission, happiness, fame and video nasties
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    Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

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    ‘It’s foolish to mask your age. Accept it. Present it’: Jeff Goldblum on vanity, mortality and becoming a father in his 60s

  • Odessa Rae (centre) with Alexei Navalny and his wife, Yulia Navalnaya.

    ‘I’m happy for everyone released, but there is also sadness’: film-maker Odessa Rae on today’s momentous prisoner swap

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    Malcolm McDowell: ‘Kubrick had stewed pears and sour chicken for lunch because Napoleon did’

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    Mark Kermode on… director Hayao Miyazaki, who speaks to the child in all of us

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