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Piracy is a long-running and even routine issue for Hollywood, whether it's street vendors hawking bootleg DVDs on street corners or video uploaded to file-sharing sites like Pirate Bay. Now cybercriminals are also putting embarrassing chatter and other company secrets at risk. The reputational risk from leaked email is much more difficult to calculate than any financial risk from piracy. "In some ways, that risk can be higher because you have no way of knowing what's in those emails," said Erik Rasmussen of Kroll Cyber Security. The cataclysmal event in the back of everyone's mind is the Sony hack in 2014 . While unreleased movies were leaked, what's remembered is the chaos unleashed amid a network shutdown and the disclosure of derisive comments about such well-known actors as Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio and racially insensitive remarks about then-President Barack Obama. Although the recent HBO leaks so far have fallen well short of the dama...

Disney is considering a third standalone Star Wars film centred on Obi-Wan Kenobi, with English director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) in "early talks", according to a new report. Unlike the new trilogy that began with 2015's The Force Awakens and will continue with The Last Jedi later this year, the Obi-Wan film would be a Star Wars anthology movie, just like last year's Rogue One and the upcoming untitled Han Solo chapter. According to sources that spoke with The Hollywood Reporter , the film doesn't have a script as of yet, but Daldry would contribute to the writing process with Lucasfilm heads – Kathleen Kennedy and Lawrence Kasdan – if a deal is put in place. What's more interesting is that the Obi-Wan standalone entry is "one of several projects", according to THR. Kenobi was played by Sir Alec Guinness in the first Star Wars, where he briefly served as a mentor to Luke Skywalker. The character had a much b...