The Oz-set blockbuster, plus the Inside Out and Dune sequels, packed out cinemas but won’t win best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards

Box-office success is a strong indicator of Oscars failure at this year’s Academy Awards, with the two highest-grossing best picture nominees among those titles least likely to win.

Wicked and Dune: Part Two have both made more than $700m globally, but neither is tipped – by anyone – to pick up the top prize on Sunday in Hollywood. Wicked, Jon M Chu’s first half of his adaptation of the Broadway musical, is currently on $728m, from an estimated $150m production budget.

With this grisly yet witty thriller, Lawrance’s Millie instantly joins the ranks of greatest ever TV cops

Marlon James doesn’t just tell stories; he creates entire worlds. The professor and Booker prize-winning author’s look at the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 Jamaica, A Brief History of Seven Killings, took in everything from the crack wars of New York City to the political schisms of Cuba. Black Leopard, Red Wolf – the opening volume of his prehistoric African fantasy series, which is being adapted for the screen by Michael B Jordan – creates a landscape that feels like Conan the Barbarian viewed through the prism of ancient African mysticism. His work always depicts complex ecosystems operating on cursed topographies.

Now, he has turned his talents to a new genre: mystery. Get Millie Black (Wednesday 5 March, 9pm, Channel 4), his first foray into television, is a detective tale in which the titular police officer tracks down a missing schoolgirl. On the surface it’s a grisly, witty thriller – but it’s also so much more. Millie (Tamara Lawrance) returns to Jamaica after years living in London, only to discover that the dehumanisation and exploitation of Black bodies didn’t end with the slave trade; it just evolved. The more she investigates young Janet’s (Shernet Swearine) disappearance, the more she realises it is only the tip of a corrupt iceberg that reaches across race, class and international borders. Her investigation ends up catching the attention of ambitious Scotland Yard Supt Luke Holborn (Joe Dempsie), whose interference in the case becomes another albatross round Millie’s neck. It’s a transfixing testimony to how colonialism still breeds violence on both sides of the Atlantic, an elegantly told tale that walks the tightrope between pulpy action and unflinching intergenerational trauma.

Welsh crime drama The One That Got Away is an addictive watch with a hotshot lead. Plus, Sabrina Carpenter will dazzle the stage at the 2025 Brits. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC Four
This knotty Welsh crime drama opens with a nurse heading for a romantic weekend in Paris. She is later found dead in the woods, with a heart-knot carved into a nearby tree. Enter your new favourite no-nonsense detective: Ffion Lloyd (Elen Rhys). The hotshot is called back from Cardiff to team up with ex-partner (and lover!) DS Rick Sheldon (Richard Harrington), and the pair wonder if, based on a previous murder they solved, there is a copycat killer on the loose. Hollie Richardson

The former French PM says the US is no longer an ally of Europe – but has joined Russia and China as an ‘illiberal superpower’

• Live reaction to Zelenskyy’s clash with Trump and Vance

Dominique de Villepin made his name with a memorable speech to the UN security council in February 2003, just before the US-led invasion of Iraq. De Villepin, the then French foreign minister, in effect signalled France’s intention to veto a UN resolution authorising the war, forcing the US and UK to act unilaterally. He warned that Washington’s strategy would lead to chaos in the Middle East and undermine international institutions. The prophetic plea was met with applause, a rare event in the security council chamber. It led to the career diplomat’s inclusion as a character in David Hare’s 2004 anti-war play, Stuff Happens.

Now the veteran statesman, who warned about the risks of Europe’s over-reliance on the US many years before it became a mainstream opinion in Paris or Berlin, is back with advice on how to respond to the most serious breakdown in Europe’s relationship with the US in 80 years.

New Mexico town shocked by deaths of actor, wife and dog – but answers to critical questions may take time to emerge

As New Mexico authorities investigate the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, their adopted home town of Santa Fe is grappling with the mystery of what happened to the couple.

Hackman, a Hollywood legend with two Academy Awards picked up over a 60-year career, and Arakawa, a classical pianist, had lived in the area for decades and had embraced the close-knit community that is New Mexico’s capital city.