The future is brighter than HD, it's Ultra HD - and the first disks are already on the way from Sony Pictures. They're very shiny

Sony Pictures is behind the Bond franchise so it's hardly surprising that Sony products have a habit of showing up in the films. Case in point, Bond needs his new phone, and Moneypenny is giving chase.

The cyber attack case that saw nude photos of celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton posted online is still to be solved by authorities, one year on.

James Bond fans will be able to get their hands on tickets for the new movie, Spectre, from early September.

Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence has topped Forbes list of the world’s highest-paid actresses, earning $52m (€45.7m) the past year but still far behind the best paid actor.

Ben Affleck has expressed regret for asking the makers of a discover-your-past television show to exclude the fact that he had a slave-owning ancestor.

Ben Affleck requested that the PBS documentary series Finding Your Roots not reveal he had a slave-owning ancestor, according to emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, and the information never appeared on the programme.

Whistleblower site WikiLeaks has put hundreds of thousands of emails and documents from last year’s crippling cyber-attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment into a search-able online archive.

A survey has found US citizens feel under threat from many sources, including North Korea, Boko Horam, as well as the Republican and Democrat parties, writes Peter Van Buren

This was the year that the Oscars got political.

Sony Pictures and Marvel have signed a deal that will see Spider-Man appear in an as-yet-unspecified Marvel film.

The group will conduct simulated cyber attacks on Wall Street and London's financial district.

Leave it to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to turn some of Hollywood’s sorest subjects into punch lines.

The US government was not responsible for sustained electronic attacks that crippled North Korea’s internet infrastructure last month, two senior US officials have said.

Sony is bringing back the Walkman, with a new model of the music player pioneer that comes with high-resolution playback and Bluetooth-connected headphones.

South Korea says rival North Korea has a 6,000-member cyber army dedicated to disrupting the South’s military and government.

Video streaming giant Netflix has hit back at claims it is cracking down on subscribers who bypass regional locks to view the US version of the site.

The United States has imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea in its first public act of retribution for a crippling cyber attack against Sony.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said he is open to a summit with his South Korean counterpart.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said he is open to a summit with his South Korean counterpart.

DVDs of Sony’s controversial film The Interview will be dropped into North Korea by balloon, a South Korean activist says.

Sony Pictures says that The Interview has earned more than $15m (€12.6m) in online sales and another $2.8m in theatres, an impressive return made possible by the publicity surrounding the cyberattack blamed on North Korea.

Sony’s PlayStation network remains down for a third day in a blow that hit eager online gamers as they unwrapped their new consoles on Christmas morning.

North Korea has hurled racial slurs at President Barack Obama as the communist state blamed the US for shutting down its internet amid the Sony hacking row.

The Interview, the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, opened in more than 300 cinemas across the US on Christmas Day, drawing many sellout audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.

The Interview, the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, opened in more than 300 cinemas across the US on Christmas Day, drawing many sellout audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.

Controversial comedy The Interview grossed more than $1m (around €820,000) from its limited release at cinemas in the US.

Critics and early viewers are agreed that The Interview is less than a masterpiece, but thanks to threats from hackers that nearly derailed its release, it has become an event.

Amid controversy, confusion and threats, Sony released The Interview online in an unprecedented response to hackers who spoiled the Christmas opening of the comedy depicting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Sony Pictures has confirmed it will distribute the film at the centre of the North Korea hacking controversy to the public online.

Sony has announced a limited cinema release of The Interview, putting the comedy back on to screens after a huge international row.

Key North Korean websites were back online after an hours-long shutdown that followed a US vow to respond to a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures that Washington blames on Pyongyang.

North Korea is experiencing serious internet problems, with experts warning that online access is “totally down”.

North Korea is experiencing serious internet problems, with experts warning that online access is “totally down”.

North Korea has threatened strikes against the White House, Pentagon and “the whole US mainland, that cesspool of terrorism”, accusing Barack Obama of “recklessly” spreading rumours of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyber-attack on Sony Pictures.

When a butterfly’s wings beat somewhere, something else happens somewhere else to someone else altogether.

Sony “made a mistake” in shelving a satirical film about a plot to assassinate North Korea’s leader, US president Barack Obama said, and he pledged the US would respond “in a place and manner and time that we choose” to the hacking attack on Sony that led to the withdrawal.

Hollywood loves its overseas villains. Evil forces from Russia, China and North Korea have tirelessly menaced our big-screen heroes in recent years. But, in the wake of the startling cancellation of The Interview, an entire species of movie baddies might be in danger of extinction.

Sony Pictures “made a mistake” in deciding to shelve a film about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even though the studio suffered significant damage in a hacking attack the FBI blames on the secretive Communist regime, US President Barack Obama has said.

Hollywood stars and political leaders have angrily described the decision to pull a film about the assassination of the North Korean leader as a defeat for free speech.

Hours after the news broke that Sony Pictures will not release Seth Rogan's North Korea-based comedy The Interview, the scene at the heart of the controversy has appeared on YouTube.

Sony Pictures Entertainment made the shock decision to cancel the Christmas Day release of controversial comedy The Interview amid the threat of terrorist attacks from hackers and America’s largest multiplex chains pulling the film from their screens.