Christopher Nolan

Leaders of Hollywood's actors' union voted Thursday to join screenwriters in the first joint strike in more than six decades, shutting down production across the entertainment industry after talks for a new contract with studios and streaming services broke down.

The women and men who write the movies have spoken: "Get Out" is the best screenplay of the century. So far, at least.

Members of the Writers Guild of America voted the 2017 racially-charged thriller from Jordan Peele the best bit of film writing of the last 21 years, placing it atop a list of 101 movies.

With 258,770 tickets sold, Sam Mendes' World War I drama "1917" was Greece's biggest box office hit in 2020, a devastating year for the country's cinemas, which saw admissions collapse by close to 70% compared to 2019, according to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

The supervillain origin story of Arthur Fleck's descent into madness and emergence as the titular Joker took home the most Academy Award nominations Jan. 13 with 11, including Best Picture.

History -- some of it intensely personal -- leant heavily on Christopher Nolan when he was making his wartime epic "Dunkirk," which rolls out in cinemas across the world from July 19.

The English-born director of the "Batman" movies had long dreamt of tackling the story of how a kind of victory was pulled from Britain's worst defeat of World War II.