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Dated film news filed as it breaks: release-date moves, casting, directors attaching, financing closes, trailers, ratings and confirmed running times.
The video-game adaptation delivered the largest opening of 2025 to date and a demonstration of what a four-quadrant family title still does to a release calendar.
From a paid submission through the Rating Board to a two-thirds vote on appeal, the process that puts a letter on every theatrical release runs on rules the Motion Picture Association publishes in full.
Talent agency consolidation has cut Hollywood's Big Four to a Big Three owned largely by private money, reshaping leverage for everyone whose career runs through a representative.
Event cinema has grown from a niche opera experiment into a billion-adjacent business, with concerts, theatre broadcasts and live sports now filling multiplexes on slow nights.
After three decades of misfires, video game movie adaptations have become one of Hollywood's most dependable box office categories, built on Mario, Sonic and Minecraft.
Podcast adaptations gave Hollywood a new development pipeline — IP with a proven audience, testable in public before a single scene is shot.
Music documentaries have become one of streaming's most reliable genres — cheap to license, cheap to produce and algorithmically near-guaranteed to find an audience.
Award show ratings fell for decades before producers found formats that stabilize them — shorter runtimes, streaming simulcasts and fan-voted categories.
Film merchandise licensing is a global business worth more than $350 billion a year, and entertainment properties drive the largest slice of it.
Theme park movie tie-ins have become the entertainment industry's most durable investment thesis, with Disney committing $60 billion and Universal opening a whole park around franchises.