From Baby Reindeer and The Traitors to Bodkin and The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: The best and worst television of 2024
The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable
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Curfew review: Passable thriller set in dystopian near future where men aren’t allowed out after dark
Television: Have the producers never heard of domestic violence? Do they think the patriarchy only does its dirty work at night?
Markets cheered by prospects of interest rate cuts
Market in Dublin climbs 0.5% as it is buoyed by a strong showing from budget airline Ryanair following O’Leary comments
Paramount agrees Skydance merger in end to Redstone era
Ellison family and US investment group RedBird to invest $8 billion in group
Murdaugh Murders: The Movie review – Bill Pullman is masterful in cheesy retelling of gruesome crime
Television: This breezy adaptation is, for all its lack of dramatic substance, deeply bingeable
Beer sales bonanza as Euro 2024 kicks off with a little help from Albärt the mascot
Planet Business: Apple has us shaking our heads, Paramount calls off a planned merger and it never rains but it pours for Rishi Sunak
The Serial Killer’s Wife review: Another British thriller in which a woman’s middle-class life is ripped to tatters
Television: The drama is piled high with unpleasant protagonists and wallows in nastiness simply for the sake of it
Insomnia review: Vicky McClure is great in this ridiculous British potboiler
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
Sony and Apollo approach Paramount Global with €24bn bid outline
Expression of intent comes a day before exclusivity window is due to close for rival Skydance Media
‘Shakeout has begun’ after $5bn streaming loss for Netflix rivals
Tie-ups and cuts on menu as Disney, Warner, Comcast and Paramount seek new ways to keep up
Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount CEOs hold exploratory merger talks
A deal could combine CNN and CBS while letting the indebted media groups cut streaming costs
Why is Martin Scorsese making a fuss over Killers of the Flower Moon toilet breaks?
Donald Clarke: The director’s latest tussle with the great unwashed concerns unauthorised intermissions at screenings of Killers of the Flower Moon
Russia’s bootleg ‘Barbie’ viewings attract huge numbers
‘Unbelievable’ demand as fans flock to low-quality projections of blockbuster movie after producer Warner Bros pulled out of country
Come to Russia, says war-waging Kremlin as it chases tourist custom of foreign visitors
Planet Business: KKR’s Simon & Schuster bargain, Beyond Meat’s sales woes and a spreading European phenomenon: windfall taxes on banks
Time to press ‘pause’ on your streaming habit?
‘Vampire subscriptions’ to the likes of Netflix and Disney+ can suck the cash out of unwary consumers' accounts
Hollywood actors announce strike as Cillian Murphy and Oppenheimer cast walk out of premiere
Move expected to halt majority of productions and have major effects on broader LA economy
Hollywood actors’ union recommends strike as negotiation deadline passes
Strike is expected to have an immediate impact on publicity efforts for the summer’s top films
Patrick Freyne: My favourite TV shows of 2023 so far, from murderous Barry to Succession’s squabbling brats
It has been a fine year on the telly with some memorable dramas and comedies
Graham Norton: ‘When my father died, I started to appreciate lots of Irish qualities that I’d dismissed’
With Queen of the Universe in its second season, the chatshow host talks drag, television and flying the ‘freak flag’ in small-town Ireland
European shares put in best day in two months as techs shine
Main benchmark logs steep weekly decline on growing concerns over slowing global economy and uncertainty around US debt ceiling talks
Fatal Attraction reboot: this bunny boiler-free retread is all fur coat and no knickers
This show has beamed in from a pre-#MeToo era
James Dean’s red jacket, Casablanca script notes, Batmobiles galore: An orgy of iconography hidden in a Hollywood barn
As Warner Brothers celebrates its centenary, our film correspondent is granted access to a revelatory, spiritual experience - the treasures of its archive
Whatever happened to GPO Girl? The mind-boggling tale of a serial scammer who landed in Ireland
Television: In 2013 a young woman was discovered, dishevelled and in distress, on O’Connell Street in Dublin. Con Girl retells an extraordinary story
Tech stocks are not like the dotcoms of old, but few will escape the pain
Pandemic favourites have collapsed amid recession fears and what’s next may be rough
Idris Elba on Nelson Mandela, Sonic the Hedgehog – but absolutely not 007
From Finding Dory to Zootopia to Cats: The legendary actor takes on the role of Knuckles
Oscars 2022: 11 great Irish moments at the Academy Awards
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and many others have taken home an Oscar to Ireland
Al Pacino: ‘The Godfather gave me a new identity that was hard to cope with’
Fifty years later, the actor looks back on his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone
The Adam Project: Effective retro entertainment that comes back from the future
Film review: Ryan Reynolds time-travel adventure gives all the good lines to the boys
Francis Ford Coppola: ‘I didn’t really know how to make The Godfather’
50 years on from its release, the director is working on restoring his crime epic
European shares inch higher on strong commodity shares
Financial stocks in retreat as Kerry the star performer after posting strong results
US networks cashing in on soccer’s younger, middle-class fanbase
Broadcasters like NBC investing in future as young audiences absorb worldwide leagues
Streaming wars only just beginning as US media giants target Europe
Irish viewers lose access to content while streamers prepare fresh market assaults
Oatly stumble, art collectors’ Christmas and Star Trek fans vs Paramount Plus
Planet Business: It’s a streaming service, Jim, but not as we know it
Tinder founders go to court over bitter break-up with Barry Diller
Entrepreneurs allege they have been cheated out of billions of dollars
Cineworld eyes US listing to bolster pandemic-strained finances
Cinema chain reports $576m first-half pretax loss, expects release window to stabilise
Black Widow: Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel swansong is a cut above
Florence Pugh steals the show in the latest, mercifully fun superhero outing in the MCU
Budd Schulberg: The screenwriter who made Marlon Brando a star
He spent a weekend with F Scott Fitzgerald, saw Nazi Germany and wrote On The Waterfront
Golden Globes 2021 and the ‘doddering, faintly corrupt’ group that chooses the winners
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s membership and finances are under scrutiny
Tom Cruise erupts on Mission: Impossible set over crew’s breach of Covid-19 rules
Actor heard in expletive-laden recording yelling at staff that they will be fired if they do not follow restrictions
A film he couldn’t refuse: Francis Ford Coppola’s new version of Godfather Part III
How Francis Ford Coppola got pulled back in to make The Godfather, Coda
Walking sort of like an Egyptian may not be enough any more
The news had barely landed before social media blew its collective top
Oscars to introduce diversity targets for best picture hopefuls
Beginning in 2024, inclusion standards will have to be met by films hoping to qualify for the category
Shari Redstone readies ViacomCBS streaming rebrand
Family open to selling some media group assets after death of Sumner Redstone
Viacom and CBS mogul Sumner Redstone dies aged 97
One of the industry’s most colourful characters who popularised the term ‘content is king’
Hollywood delays summer blockbusters due to Covid-19
Disney postpones Mulan indefinitely and delays Star Wars and Avatar releases
Coronavirus will be cinema’s biggest villain for some time yet
More films will be sent straight to streaming as struggling exhibitors go fully dark
Covid-19: Can motor industry steer way through crisis?
Online car buying is up, and AA is offering free help for the elderly and health workers
James Bond film decision was the canary in the coalmine
Coronavirus: Cinemas are closed, festivals cancelled, movie productions halted
Hollywood’s next mission impossible: avoiding the fallout from coronavirus
Industry reels as distributors fear it is no time to release a film
Martin Scorsese: ‘Crime is glamorous at first if you’re young and stupid’
The director on his endless curiosity, making gangland films, and how he thinks about death
Film is still dodging bullets despite being under heavy fire
The Decade in Culture: As we move into the roaring twenties many things remain the same about the seventh art
The Irishman review: The sort of grown-up flick they don’t make any more
Al Pacino gives his most enjoyable performance in decades in Martin Scorsese’s sprawling film
Turk's Head in Dublin’s Temple Bar seeks excess €25m
Bar being sold alongside 66-bedroom Paramount Hotel with potential for up to 130 suites
De Niro and Pacino: ‘We are very close... We have known each other a long time’
The Hollywood veterans are back on screen together for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
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