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Every generation someone murders the studio system – this time it was always going to be the streamer

Chief executive David Ellison criticises Netflix’s ‘inferior proposal’

The story of the American 20th century is easily traceable through the films of Hollywood studios, and Warners was the leading light

HBO and CNN owner says it has received unsolicited interest from multiple parties for part or all of company

Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s Comedy Central satire wrongfoots attempts to nail down its politics. That’s as it should be

Who could believe CBS sacking Stephen Colbert was just about money?

Clear parallels between play about 1950s McCarthyism and how US president is waging war on US news media today

Television: Helen Mirren’s Irish accent is another phonetic fumble, but Brosnan seems determined to scupper his national treasure status

Apple TV+’s stylish dystopian drama Severance is one of the best workplace TV shows. Here are eight more to watch

The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable

Television: Have the producers never heard of domestic violence? Do they think the patriarchy only does its dirty work at night?

Market in Dublin climbs 0.5% as it is buoyed by a strong showing from budget airline Ryanair following O’Leary comments

Ellison family and US investment group RedBird to invest $8 billion in group

Television: This breezy adaptation is, for all its lack of dramatic substance, deeply bingeable

Planet Business: Apple has us shaking our heads, Paramount calls off a planned merger and it never rains but it pours for Rishi Sunak

Television: The drama is piled high with unpleasant protagonists and wallows in nastiness simply for the sake of it

Television: Following a well-established formula where a successful middle-class woman’s life is ripped apart, Insomnia is silly but gets under the skin

Expression of intent comes a day before exclusivity window is due to close for rival Skydance Media

Tie-ups and cuts on menu as Disney, Warner, Comcast and Paramount seek new ways to keep up

A deal could combine CNN and CBS while letting the indebted media groups cut streaming costs

Donald Clarke: The director’s latest tussle with the great unwashed concerns unauthorised intermissions at screenings of Killers of the Flower Moon

‘Unbelievable’ demand as fans flock to low-quality projections of blockbuster movie after producer Warner Bros pulled out of country

Planet Business: KKR’s Simon & Schuster bargain, Beyond Meat’s sales woes and a spreading European phenomenon: windfall taxes on banks

‘Vampire subscriptions’ to the likes of Netflix and Disney+ can suck the cash out of unwary consumers' accounts

Move expected to halt majority of productions and have major effects on broader LA economy

Strike is expected to have an immediate impact on publicity efforts for the summer’s top films

It has been a fine year on the telly with some memorable dramas and comedies

With Queen of the Universe in its second season, the chatshow host talks drag, television and flying the ‘freak flag’ in small-town Ireland

Main benchmark logs steep weekly decline on growing concerns over slowing global economy and uncertainty around US debt ceiling talks

This show has beamed in from a pre-#MeToo era

As Warner Brothers celebrates its centenary, our film correspondent is granted access to a revelatory, spiritual experience - the treasures of its archive

Television: In 2013 a young woman was discovered, dishevelled and in distress, on O’Connell Street in Dublin. Con Girl retells an extraordinary story

Pandemic favourites have collapsed amid recession fears and what’s next may be rough

From Finding Dory to Zootopia to Cats: The legendary actor takes on the role of Knuckles

Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and many others have taken home an Oscar to Ireland

Fifty years later, the actor looks back on his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone

Film review: Ryan Reynolds time-travel adventure gives all the good lines to the boys

50 years on from its release, the director is working on restoring his crime epic

Financial stocks in retreat as Kerry the star performer after posting strong results

Broadcasters like NBC investing in future as young audiences absorb worldwide leagues