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Box-office flops weigh on Peppa Pig owner

Entertainment One shares slide 14% after poor performance of recent titles, including Steve Jobs biopic, and fewer releases

Government to bring forward law to close BBC ‘iPlayer loophole’

Culture secretary also asks if BBC shows such as Strictly Come Dancing are ‘distinctive’ enough and launches initiative against online adblocking

Culture secretary expected to warn of threat to newspapers from adblocking

John Whittingdale will also back Clementi report’s recommendations that BBC Trust should be scrapped and regulation of the corporation handed to Ofcom

Openreach decision is an upgrade for all – as long as Ofcom gets sums right

BT will not be broken up and its rivals have a more level playing field on which to operate, but the pressure is now intense to deliver on the deal

Net neutrality: BBC urges Ofcom to protect iPlayer

ISPs could wield ‘gatekeeper power’ in conflict with public sector broadcasters unless regulation is modernised, it warns

Brit awards beats Great Sport Relief Bake Off to TV ratings cake

Average audience of 5.8m watches music awards ceremony, pipping 5.4m for charity baking final and whipping up 7.5m tweets

STV to take on BBC in Scotland with launch of digital news service

ITV licence holder to begin digital service next month that will cover international and UK news from Scottish perspective

Becoming Mike Nichols: new HBO film is fitting tribute to a great director

Documentary shows Nichols discussing Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate before a New York theater audience, shortly before his death in 2014

French TV’s reputation spirals upward

The Returned, Spiral and the upcoming Marseille starring Gerard Depardieu are just the tip of France’s €67.5m TV export industry

Credits roll on-air for the final time as BBC3 becomes online only

Channel aimed at younger audience, which launched 13 years ago, sees budget cut from £85m to £30m as it stops broadcasting on television

Independent owner considering closing national print titles

Evgeny Lebedev and team have not yet made a final decision but he is expected to close 30-year-old titles

Inbetweeners creators sign Film4 deal to make four comedy features

Agreement with Iain Morris and Damon Beesley revealed as part of Channel 4’s plans to boost film arm’s budget by £10m this year

War and Peace watched by 5.7m as writer signs up for Les Misérables

Andrew Davies set to follow success of Tolstoy drama with adaptation for BBC of Victor Hugo novel

BBC3 boss on going online only: ‘We are reinventing the BBC’s offer to youth’

Controller Damian Kavanagh on taking his station online, nurturing talent, and how he’s winning over critics

PewDiePie, Lilly Singh and Rooster Teeth star in first YouTube Red Originals

Three films and one show to make their debut on 10 February in the US, but fans from elsewhere in the world will have to buy online

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  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
  • 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
  • Don’t wait for Prime Day. We found the 31 best early deals from Amazon and its competitors
  • 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

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