Film Festival News: How to Read a Premiere Lineup for Early Signals on the Season's Biggest Films
A premiere slot is a studio's bet. Here is what the calendar, the venue, and the slot actually say.
Film News
Dated film news filed as it breaks: release-date moves, casting, directors attaching, financing closes, trailers, ratings and confirmed running times.
Why a Movie Marketing Budget Can Rival the Film's Entire Production Cost
The number studios never put in the trailer is the one that decides profitability: a global campaign for a tentpole can cost as much as the picture itself.
A Minecraft Movie Opens to $157 Million Domestic, Warner Bros.' Biggest Non-Sequel Start: Studio Estimates
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.
Estimates Versus Actuals: How Weekend Box Office Numbers Are Reported, and Why They Move
Sunday grosses are two-thirds count and one-third forecast — and opening-weekend estimates have run 6.38% above the real figure on average, per published research.
Talent Agency Consolidation Explained: What Bigger Agencies Mean for Stars
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.
Why Studio Sunday Box Office Estimates Run High Before Monday's Real Numbers
Studios' Sunday morning weekend estimates overstate the eventual actual gross by an average of 6.38%, a Stanford study of more than a thousand releases found, and the gap is largest in a film's first weekend.