Movies

‘One Battle After Another’ wins Oscar for Best Picture

The film bags six trophies while Sinners takes home four

In acting, as elsewhere, the elites are accruing ever more riches, and the rest face uncertain prospects.

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AI, streaming and media fragmentation are changing the economics of acting

Animated by Sony Pictures Animation, the original musical film follows K-pop girl trio Huntrix as they balance their superstardom with secret lives as demon hunters.

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The film has two Oscar nominations, for best animated feature and best original song

Cast member Jon Hamm attends the premiere of Disney-Pixar's "Hoppers" at El Capitan theatre in Los Angeles, California, Feb 23, 2026.

‘Hoppers’ top North American box office

The movie has given Pixar its biggest original debut since Coco in 2017

Delroy Lindo and cast and crew from "Sinners" accept the award for Best Movie Cast in a Motion Picture during the Actor Awards in Los Angeles, California, March 1, 2026.

‘Sinners’ wins top Actor Award, boosting chances at the Oscars

[LOS ANGELES] Vampire thriller Sinners claimed the Actor Award for best movie cast on Sunday, a major win for the Segregation-era tale on Hollywood’s road to the Oscars.

Director of One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson, while accepting the best film prize, had a few choice words for anybody who claims movies are not good anymore and called for the audience to join him “at the bar”.

One Battle After Another wins best film at BAFTAs

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor, it takes home six awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars

Netflix has promised to keep Warner Bros films exclusively in theatres for 45 days.

Netflix co-CEO says Warner deal to put more films in cinemas

The streaming company has historically put only a limited number of pictures in select theatres for short runs

The Oscar-nominated musical is Netflix’s breakout movie of 2025, featuring a K-pop girl group by day, demon slayers by night.

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ creator hints any sequel will take a ‘long time’

The film is Netflix’s most-streamed film of all time with more than half a billion views at the end of 2025

Amazon is publicly embracing AI in response to spiralling production budgets that limit the number of shows and films companies can finance.

Amazon plans to use AI to speed up TV and film production

The company plans to launch a closed beta programme in March

'Melania' faces the same obstacles as all documentaries in the streaming era, when many viewers opt to skip theatrical releases for non-fiction movies altogether.

Amazon’s ‘Melania’ documentary opens to US$7 million in theatres

The movie focuses on Melania Trump during the 20 days before Donald Trump’s return to the presidency last year