Dated film news filed as it breaks: release-date moves, casting, directors attaching, financing closes, trailers, ratings and confirmed running times.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.