Tinseltown takeover: how Harry Potter fanfic has evolved into Hollywood’s hottest property
What once seemed a pretty fringe subculture of hobbyists riffing on stories that got them privately hot is now bringing mainstream cinema to a rolling boil
‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine – and toothache
As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to the ‘Hollywood machine’
AI firm plans to reconstruct lost footage from Orson Welles’ masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons
Film-making studio Fable has announced it will attempt to recreate the 43 minutes cut from the auteur’s 1942 film using AI
Meet your descendants – and your future self! A trip to Venice film festival’s extended reality island
A flourishing lineup of immersive storytelling experiments are taking visitors into novels, nightclubs and outer space
Australian film-maker Alex Proyas: ‘broken’ movie industry needs to be rebuilt and ‘AI can help us do that’
Director of The Crow and I, Robot says technology will ‘streamline’ film industry workforce but will make projects easier and cheaper
Think you actually own all those movies you’ve been buying digitally? Think again
New lawsuit aimed at Amazon questions the legitimacy of the word ‘buy’ when it comes to owning a movie on your devices
‘We are seeing a new maturity’: how ‘extended reality’ is coming of age at the Venice film festival
At the festival’s pioneering immersive section, a ‘seamless evolution’ of VR and mainstream film-making is revolutionising narrative
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the way
‘Nobody believes in the future any more’: Adam Curtis and Ari Aster on how to wake up from the post-truth nightmare
Paranoia is exploited to control us. Movies are groomed to flatter us. And trauma has been twisted to make us blame ourselves. How can we make sense of our lives? The two film-makers try to navigate the chaos
Can’t Look Away review – a harrowing, heartbreaking indictment of social media’s ruthlessness
Bloomberg journalist Olivia Carville follows a small legal outfit as it takes Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies to task for endangering young users
Excelling in … Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting
New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in Florida
Aamir Khan: India’s movie legend on a cut-price mission to save Bollywood
The superstar actor will release his latest film on YouTube so families who cannot afford cinema trips can watch
Jeremy Strong eyed to play Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network sequel
The Succession star is reportedly the leading choice to play the controversial tech mogul in Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up
CatVideoFest: how clips of cute kitties spawned a million-dollar movie franchise
Every year since 2016, Will Braden has devoted himself to assembling a feature-length film from snippets of moggies doing the darndest things – and it has started to bring in serious money
Indian film company to rerelease romantic drama with AI ‘happy ending’
Director ‘heartbroken’ after 2013 film about doomed romance between Hindu man and Muslim woman altered without his knowledge