Scarlett Johansson has set a box office record. But could the movie star be out of a job?
The Jurassic World and Black Widow star is now the highest-grossing lead actor of all time. She can count herself lucky we remember her name
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July 7th-11th: including Live Aid at 40; Noraid: Irish America and the IRA; and The Breaking Wave - The Buddhists of Beara
Four new films to see this week: Jurassic World Rebirth, The Shrouds, Beat the Lotto and Sudan, Remember Us
Mahershala Ali, Scarlett Johansson, Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger and Stefan Klincewicz feature in these movies released in the week of July 4th, 2025
Jurassic World: Rebirth review – the plot is mid-level dumb but ‘good film’ belongs among its keywords
It’s no masterpiece. The plot is mid-level dumb but ‘good film’ belongs among its keywords
Jurassic World: Rebirth director Gareth Edwards – ‘I think I’ve got the wrong personality for this job’
The self-effacing film-maker has never been an obvious fit for the Hollywood mould. What’s it like at the helm of one of the summer’s biggest titles?
25 films to check out in summer 2025: From Liam Neeson in Naked Gun to Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World: Rebirth
Amid a summer of remakes and sequels, there are some smaller gems to seek out
Scarlett Johansson: ‘I had a very formidable grandmother who I was incredibly close with’
The actor has taken up directing with her debut Eleanor the Great, about an elderly woman who inadvertently ends up in a support group for Holocaust survivors
Cannes 2025: Clapologists get it wrong, an acidic Israeli satire is too hot to handle, and Scarlett Johansson serves up schmaltz
The French film festival’s 78th edition was strong if rarely spectacular – but still threw up a few surprises
Benicio Del Toro: ‘I do movies that are more than just shooting and killing’
Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera speak about their roles in Wes Anderson's latest film
The Phoenician Scheme review: Beautiful to look at, but like a museum vase – pretty, pristine and hollow
Wes Anderson’s film, starring Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton, makes little advance on the director’s recent airless productions
Cannes 2025: Will Paul Mescal scoop an award, how will Bono’s film go down, and 10 other questions
The Cannes film festival is back at the centre of the movie world thanks to recent Oscars success
Thunderbolts* star Florence Pugh on getting her way: ‘I was very sassy. I cornered a few people’
Florence Pugh knew what she wanted to do after she joined Marvel’s cast: jump off one of the world’s tallest buildings
Hozier joins Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and Hollywood stars on Time influence list
Wicklow musician described as being ‘as kind as they come’ in tribute from Noah Kahan
Cannes film festival 2025: Bono, Paul Mescal and Element Pictures to fly flag for Ireland
Documentary based on U2 frontman’s memoir will premiere in Cannes, while Paul Mescal will attend for The History of Sound
Oscars 2025 red carpet: Ariana Grande sets the standard while Timothée Chalamet stood out in ‘Kerrygold’ yellow
Gowns holding space were popular this year, with Ariana Grande setting the standard in Schiaparelli. Among men, Timothée Chalamet stood out in ‘Kerrygold’ yellow
‘Age is being put in its place’: Actor June Squibb on becoming an action hero at 94
The star of Thelma, about a scammed woman who embarks on a revenge mission, on an ageing world, landing her first lead role and working with Shaft
Fly Me to the Moon review: Lunar romcom starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum fails to achieve lift-off
Underpowered screwball take on Apollo moon landing was intended for streaming – and it shows
Axel F is a ‘legacy sequel’, apparently. Is this mangling of language to be our legacy?
Movie insiders use the term neutrally, but surely few outside the business can say the words with a straight face?
Irish composer Jennifer Walshe on AI music: ‘If you came up with the idea for I Glued My Balls to My Butthole Again, is that art?’
The Oxford professor of composition’s long use of artificial intelligence in her work makes her a good judge of its merits and its dangers
Scarlett Johansson is right: AI companies must be more transparent
A new index shows that they have a long way to go, including on data access and model trustworthiness
‘Commendable’, ‘meticulous’ and ‘intricate’: the giveaways that students have been using AI
But students cheating on essays is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to artificial intelligence and plagiarism
Asteroid City: Wes Anderson hands his detractors a wealth of ammunition
It is difficult to locate the narrative or emotional core in a film that has difficulty settling upon what story it wants to tell
Summer movies 2023: Indiana Jones, Mission: Impossible, Barbie, Oppenheimer and more
The films to watch out for this season – including two that make up the most anticipated movie weekend in years
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City: ‘Every scene and every sentence will have three or four hidden things’
The Wes Anderson ensemble on how they made the Amerindie’s 11th feature.
Asteroid City review: Wes Anderson’s new film feels like a pretty collection of actors in search of a movie
In competition at Cannes, the director’s 11th feature is an aesthetic triumph. But Anderson’s trademark deadpan silences have seldom felt longer
Photographers, doctors and the Irish Parachute Club appear on latest tax defaulters list
Revenue details €2.8m worth of cases in final three months of 2021
Golden Globes 2022: What’s happening with the ceremony you can’t watch?
After a year of scandals, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is under pressure
Lola and the Sea: Taking a road trip towards understanding
Mya Bollaers is wonderful as a high-spirited young trans woman
Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘There was a time when my biggest roles were to do with my sexuality’
‘Once they parodied me on Saturday Night Live! Now I get a lifetime-achievement award’
Scarlett Johansson’s suing Disney. Welcome to the great 21st-century streaming wars
The Black Widow star and her lawyers are riding a wave that has been swelling for some time
Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over Black Widow streaming release
Actor claims studio breached contract by releasing standalone Marvel film on Disney+
Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel swansong is a cut above
Florence Pugh steals the show in the latest, mercifully fun superhero outing in the MCU
The best new movies coming to cinema and TV this summer
Films are once again being shown on big screens, as well as on Netflix and Disney+
Epic Games v Apple, M&S Brexit woes and the dawn of the cross-Border cinema trade
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