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Ten minutes into director James Bamdord’s Utopia, I started wondering whether the HBO executives and Jonathan Nolan are aware of the existence of this thing. Not only is the movie a blatant rip-off of Westworld if we go by the central idea, they have even failed to come up with an original title. You have to be really unfortunate and terribly unlucky if this is what pops up when you Google search the title, because ideally you should find the fantastic British TV show. But since you’re here, I guess you’ve watched this thing and are now looking for an explanation of the ending. So, I’m going to oblige by giving you just that.

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What Happens In The Movie?

So the theme park is called “Utopia” here, and it’s the brainchild of one Jeremy Zenner (should Jeremy Renner put an arrow in the...

Exclusive: The Australian television M&a market is set for its first big deal in a minute or two.

We can reveal Wtfn, one of the remaining indies in Australia’s consolidated production market, has put itself up for sale.

Bosses at the 23-year-old company are seeking buyers and we hear they have instructed Abp Advisory, the UK-based M&a firm run by former Acf Investment Bank MD Hasham Khan, to explore a deal. At present, the company is privately owned.

Wtfn didn’t respond to requests for comment and Abp declined to comment.

Melbourne-based Wtfn is known for returning unscripted series such as Nine Network’s reno show Space Invaders, long-running Network Ten doc series Bondi Vet and medical series Paramedics and Emergency. Deadline hears there are plans for concerted pushes into scripted and high-end docs.

Launched by producers Daryl Talbot and Steve Oemcke in 2001, the company owns a library of more than 2,000 in-house hours,...