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Apple considers moving into Gone With The Wind and Matrix studios

Tech firm in talks over office space at Culver Studios in California as it vies to become heavy hitter in TV and film

Lights, camera, inaction – could Brexit hurt the British film production boom?

With Hollywood dollars pouring in and the pound weakening, business looks good in the short term. But millions in EU funding could disappear after exit

Amazon TV hints at significant expansion into sport broadcasting

Head of Amazon Studios says at Edinburgh TV festival sport is good opportunity for company’s video streaming service

Game of Thrones: HBO hackers threaten leak of season finale

Attackers dump HBO social media account passwords on the internet following hacks and leaks of unaired TV shows and confidential data

Silver Reel is latest production firm to move into UK TV market

The Swiss film company is to branch into high-end TV drama, lured by the weakened pound and generous tax credits for big-budget series

Game of Thrones secrets revealed as HBO Twitter accounts hacked

After initial hack and ransom request, TV network suffers separate breach of social media accounts amid embarrassing leaks of unaired shows

HBO: hackers leak unaired Curb Your Enthusiasm and Insecure episodes

HBO says it doesn’t want to feed hacker’s desire for publicity, but experts say network may eventually give in after Ballers, Barry and The Deuce also leaked

Netflix will need its comic-book heroes: Disney may just have become a rival

Just as the streaming service acquired its own suite of cartoon characters, the entertainment giant announced plans to join the pay-TV business

HBO offered hackers $250,000 ‘bug bounty’, leaked email claims

Apparently ‘surprised’ by release of documents, TV network attempts to push back ransom deadline with promise of payment

Journalists to use ‘immune system’ software against fake news

Full Fact software backed by George Soros and Pierre Omidyar fact-checks statements in parliament and news media in real time

Game of Thrones stars’ personal details leaked as HBO hackers demand ransom

Group tells HBO CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom or else risk 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being released online

Netflix buys comic book company behind Kick-Ass and Kingsman

Streaming giant aims to copy Marvel owner Disney’s superhero strategy with Millarworld, its first ever acquisition

Fidget spinner toys pose risk of serious injury, tests show

Warning over children’s craze after experts find poor-quality imports with edges sharp enough to puncture skin and eyes

Sky chief gets £11.5m share payout as it reports profits slide

Broadcaster to hire 300 new R&D staff to fight Netflix and Amazon challenge amid rise in Premier League costs

Amazon and iPlayer expect summer holiday surge in downloads

Downloads from iPlayer over summer have doubled in four years, and Amazon expects demand on its platform to peak on Friday

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  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • ‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
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  • As Spielberg confirms whether ET was ‘slimy or dry’, we enter a new age of the celebrity interview
  • La Cabina/El Televisor review – horror and anxiety on the air and down the line in Franco’s Spain
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  • ‘The masturbation scene wasn’t a big deal’: Théodore Pellerin on tackling his new film Nino’s challenges
  • The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers: ‘It’s exploiting. It’s grooming. It’s predatory’
  • Inspired by Ukraine, and worried by China: Taiwan teaches its citizens how to fly drones
  • Daveigh Chase, child star known for Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, dies aged 35
  • ‘It makes no sense’: 16- and 17-year-olds on UK social media ban

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