Bottoms to The Founder: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
The Emmy-winning Ayo Edebiri stars in the best comedy of last year, and Michael Keaton plays Ray Kroc – the man who turned McDonald’s into a megabrand
February 2017
The Founder is a film of our time: capitalism as entertainment
Tim Lott
Story-telling is the fashion in commerce. This McDonald’s biopic, with its triumphant villain, exemplifies a sorry trend
Box office analysis: UK
Moonlight shines at UK box office as Lego Batman overshadows Fifty Shades
Animated family favourite still top as Moonlight creeps in to join fellow Oscars hopeful Hidden Figures
The Founder review – bland fast-food biopic
Weinstein Co sued for $15m over releases of The Founder and Gold
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The Founder’s Nick Offerman: ‘Being American means that I have to stand up and march’
January 2017
La La Land equals record for most Oscar nominations
Split scares away competition for US box office top spot
The Founder review: Michael Keaton supersizes McDonald's and births Trump's US
Why a film celebrating McDonald's is the perfect start for Trump cinema
April 2016
Michael Keaton builds McDonald's empire in trailer for The Founder
The Oscar-tipped biopic focuses on Ray Kroc, the salesman who started as a franchise agent before turning the fast-food burger business into a global phenomenon
March 2016
Pass notes
Ray Kroc: the wily businessman who made McDonald’s
Michael Keaton is set to star in a biopic of the entrepreneur who introduced the world to the Big Mac, and who – spoiler alert – may not always have been 100% nice
December 2014
Story of McDonald's founders to hit the big screen in tasty new biopic
Blind Side director John Lee Hancock is in talks to helm The Founder, a history of the McDonald’s fast-food chain, writes Ben Child
