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Scarlett Johansson criticised for accepting transgender role
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Walt Disney opens $5.5 billion theme park in mainland China
Resort is the largest foreign investment ever for the California-based company
Yen soars as BOJ holds steady, stocks rise modestly
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Netflix drops thousands of US titles
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Animation industry draws on incentives
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Design Matters: Paul Young from Cartoon Salon
‘Ideas are fine, but they don’t work until the group makes them work’
YouTube to fund premium content, signs film deal
Website teams up with DreamWorks subsidiary to release films
Oscar-nominated director: Irish people’s attitude to film ‘post-colonial’
Irish productions only seen at home if they’re success abroad, Song of the Sea’s Tomm Moore says
DreamWorks to cut 500 jobs and number of films made
Studio to produce less movies as part of restructuring
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Civil right activist’s family embroiled in court battle over his Nobel prize medal and Bible
Hollywood executives’ emails reveal unthinking racism
Breaches of etiquette hit the US in the past week, first with Will and Kate and then president Obama
Sony executives sorry for ‘insensitive’ emails about Obama
Email exchange between Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin revealed in email hack
Hasbro in talks to acquire the DreamWorks Animation
Film studio which makes the “Shrek” films is said to be asking for more than $30 a share
Tech giants accused of colluding to keep wages down
Lawsuit claims big technology firms agreed not to hire each other’s workers
Softbank buys stake in Batman producer
Japanese telecoms company to pay $250m for stake in Legendary Entertainment
Hong Kong jitters affect global markets
US, UK and European stocks fall as Hong Kong protests add to geopolitical concerns
Word for word: Rainbow Rowell’s writing strikes a chord with young readers
Irish sales of the American author’s books are on the rise thanks to word of mouth
The cutting-edge tech bringing magic of the silver screen to life
Computer firms such as HP provide the back-end technology that increasingly brings the movies to life
Coming home for Christmas: the highs and the lows
The festive season is laden with emotion and being together 24/7 may not be the perfect answer to months or years apart
Hacks meet hackers in ‘The Fifth Estate’ - with messy results
Hollywood’s new take on Wikileaks stresses the risk of publishing over not publishing
Donald Clarke's great big autumn movie preview
What better way to get you through the dark winter nights than beneath the flickering lights of a warm movie theatre? Donald Clarke runs through all the cinema releases between now and the new year
ECB interest rate plan buoys market
Bank president Mario Draghi says indications are euro area economy is stabilising
Netflix prospers on original kids’ programming deal
The subscription service’s animation deal proves dreamy for shareholders
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