Cinema
Elizabeth Holmes Beat the Rich at Their Own Game. Now Cinemas Cheer Her
Elizabeth Holmes is box-office gold. Her documentary is beating DC's superheroes as The Dropout and Bad Blood surge again. Why can't we stop watching her?
Hollywood
The Hollywood industry from the inside: studios, money, deals, awards, power and the people who run the business.
Cinema
Washington hosted them, Hollywood Lionised them. Now They’re Terrorists
Forty years ago the Muslim Brotherhood raised men and money for America’s war in Afghanistan, Ronald Reagan hosted its allies in the Oval Office and Hollywood made them heroes.
Cinema
Sacha Baron Cohen, Boycotter, Becomes the Boycotted as Ali G Returns
Sacha Baron Cohen backed the ADL's boycott of Facebook. As Ali G returns to cinemas, the boycotts are aimed at him, and the ADL has discovered it dislikes litmus tests.
Cinema
TikTok Restores Musk Documentary’s Account After Ban
TikTok has restored the account promoting Alex Gibney’s Musk, attributing its suspension to an error. Critics call the film terrifying; Musk calls it boring.
Cinema
Danny Boyle and Ben Affleck Just Gave Broke Studios a Green Light for AI
Danny Boyle says he would use AI again after putting Margaret Thatcher's face on an actor in Ink. With Ben Affleck and Alex Gibney, the stars are leading studios into AI.
Cinema
Netflix Called Cinemas Outmoded. Now It Is Copying Nolan’s IMAX Playbook
Netflix is cutting 1,000 jobs as Greta Gerwig's Narnia heads for IMAX screens, following the trail Christopher Nolan's record-breaking The Odyssey blazed this summer.
Cinema
Hollywood Takes On the Tech Titans, and the Titans Fight Back
Alex Gibney's Musk opens across America despite Elon Musk's insults and legal threats, as Sorkin's Zuckerberg sequel flops and Amazon drops its OpenAI film.
Cinema
Israeli Filmmakers Hunted at Home and Boycotted Abroad
Netanyahu has set the Shin Bet on the soldiers who spoke to NAZA, as Geneva shuns Israel's Oscar entry. Israel's storytellers are hunted at home and boycotted abroad.
Hollywood
Netflix Disrupted Hollywood. Now YouTube Is Disrupting Netflix
Netflix is preparing to cut 5 per cent of its staff as YouTube takes its viewers and Skydance takes Warner Bros. The disrupter of Hollywood now looks like one of its studios.
Hollywood
Tech Bought Hollywood’s Studios. Now AI Is Coming for Its Stars and Awards
Sorkin's Zuckerberg sequel opens as an Oracle heir takes Warner Bros. and an AI-made film chases an Oscar. Hollywood tamed every earlier technology. This one replaces the talent.