Cannes did camera: how the film festival loves to watch itself

From An Almost Perfect Affair to Mr Bean’s Holiday, there’s nothing the festival enjoys more than seeing itself on screen. The next season of The White Lotus is tapping into that rich tradition – can it capture the Côte d’Azur’s peculiar magic?

Warner Bros Discovery vote to approve $110bn merger with Paramount Skydance

The merger will still require governmental approval and could be delayed by a lawsuit seeking to block it

The cinema lab: brain activity tracked to find secret to creating immersive films

Bristol University project aims to help directors make better movies and take greater risks – with one already onboard

Severance star Adam Scott: ‘There’s nothing wrong with being told that you resemble Tom Cruise’

The Parks and Recreation actor on working with Martin Scorsese, chatting about cinema with the pope and delivering calzones to stoners

Taraji P Henson: ‘It’s exhausting to have to fight for my worth’

The Oscar-nominee on Hollywood burnout, Black resilience and her Broadway debut in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Double Indemnity review – leaden drama turns crime classic into a very cold case

James M Cain’s hard-bitten novella gained bleak power on screen but this version, giving Mischa Barton her UK stage debut, loses its flinty edge

Wuthering Heights to Small Things Like These: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are Cathy and Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s raunchy update of the Emily Brontë classic. Plus, Cillian Murphy stars in a damning take on the Magdalene Laundries scandal

Number of billionaires globally could reach 4,000 in next five years

There are now 3,110 billionaires but analysis shows ‘deep structural acceleration’ in wealth creation around world

Alphabet Lane review – tree-change couple invent fake neighbours in this unsettling drama

James Litchfield’s dark, well-paced film about an isolated pair’s imaginary friend, blends genres and emotional registers

Isaac Julien review – Gwendoline Christie meets a cyborg starfish in a pleasure-seeker’s postmodern parlour

The video artist famous for his films charged with Black queer desire unleashes a kitsch, bombastic and rather glorious meditation on human connection

People once cited romcoms to describe the love they hoped for. Now the doomscroll has replaced the meet-cute

The search for connection persists but it’s seen as a task to be completed rather than a story waiting to unfold

‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director

Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film, also dismisses concerns over copyright

Agon review – ice-cold, machine-tooled inspection of the dark side of athletic perfection

Three sportswomen undergo the various ordeals of competition in a spare, sometimes harrowing drama suffused with a chilly vérité detachedness

Exit 8 review – Escher-esque subway station corridor leads to disquieting psychological mystery

A commuter’s entrapment in an Escher-esque subway station provides a taut, unnerving and rare example of an adaptation that holds close to the video game on which it is based

Post your questions for Ian McKellen

Beyond Gandalf and Magneto, the 86-year-old stage and screen star has a grand career as a great Shakespearean, not to mention his work as an LGBTQ+ rights campaigner. He’ll be here to discuss it all