How ethical is it for advertisers to target your mood?

ESPN and the New York Times are exploring how to match marketing to their users’ emotions

Wallace and Gromit creators pull out of ‘UK’s Disneyland’

Aardman Animations no longer involved with delayed £3.2bn theme park in Kent

Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton dies aged 51

Singleton, who was the first African-American to be nominated for the best director Oscar, led a resurgence in mainstream black film-making in the 1990s

BBC admits iPlayer has lost streaming fight with Netflix

Corporation wants to be able to show programmes for up to a year in attempt to stem decline

Disney Plus streaming site will not offer ‘racist’ Song of the South film

Hit from 1946 now criticised for portrayal of African-Americans in post-slavery period

Directors’ Fortnight risks Cannes festival rupture by choosing Netflix film

Selection of Babak Anvari drama for parallel programme follows official festival’s exclusion of films distributed by streaming giant

Disney prepares to strike back at Netflix

Streaming service Disney+, launching in the US in autumn, is gambling billions on being able to see off a rival that already has 150 million subscribers worldwide

Spoiler alert! How TV and film are trying to protect their blockbusters

From self-detonating scripts to drone killers, production companies are going to extreme lengths to protect shows such as Game of Thrones and franchises like Marvel’s Avengers. But is so much secrecy really necessary?

Larger actors rarely get cast as romantic leads, says James Corden

The Late Late Show host says ‘chubby’ actors are too often typecast as funny friends

What’s the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV’s crown

The saga of the Seven Kingdoms may be bowing out, but it has opened the floodgates. Here’s your guide to the next big heroes

Christchurch attacks: the media’s rush to be first causes its own kind of harm

Facebook’s AI may have failed the victims – but humans didn’t do much better

As government flounders, investors find a way to curb executive pay

An unlikely hero – the Investment Association – is wading into pension inequality with a simple, compelling proposition

Are we not all Lorraine Kelly, playing versions of ourselves?

The queen of light entertainment has opened an existential can of worms by convincing HMRC there are two Lorraine Kellys, says Richard Godwin

‘A monopolistic blob’: what the Disney/Fox merger means for cinema

This cartoon-like demonstration of alpha-capitalism will lead to stricter, safer and blander entertainment – and with each acquisition, the stakes get higher

The death of my mate Mike Thalassitis shows that reality TV is costing lives

The way this industry operates is toxic. Shows such as Love Island have to take better care of contestants, says former contestant Jonny Mitchell