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Paramount's Warner bid has a deadline nobody is discussing
The $31-a-share offer has been reported everywhere. The clock attached to it, which starts running on 30 September, has not.
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Narnia gets 49 days in cinemas, 3.5 times what Netflix first offered
In January 2025 Netflix offered Narnia: The Magician's Nephew 14 days on IMAX screens. It now gets 49 days in every kind of cinema, with Sony handling the rest of the world, and two outlets are still printing the wrong number.
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The X-Files reboot cast has no Scully. Carter predicted one in August
On 11 August Chris Carter said Mulder and Scully would be in Ryan Coogler's X-Files. Sixty-three days later Hulu ordered the series with two new agents and neither of them. Here is everything Carter has said, with dates.
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Hello Sunshine sells for up to $50m. Its buyer put North Road at $900m
Mediawan valued Peter Chernin's North Road at about $900m in January and Brad Pitt's Plan B at about $300m in 2022. Hello Sunshine, once a $900m company, is changing hands for tens of millions.
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VisionQuest runs 28 days on Disney+. WandaVision was given 49
WandaVision ran for 49 days, Agatha All Along for 42 and VisionQuest gets 28. The Doomsday date does not force it: one episode a week would still have finished 24 days clear.
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DuVernay's 14th leads Critics Choice. 8 of 11 winners missed Oscars
14th has six Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations. We checked every past winner of the top prize against the Oscar lists: three of 11 were nominated, and from 2017 to 2024 it was one in nine.
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Tarantino's Popinjay Cavalier has 128 shows. Baron Cohen is in 112
Sacha Baron Cohen is scheduled for 112 of the 128 performances of Quentin Tarantino's first play. The 16,000 tickets under £50 are 125 a night, or 12.4% of the Phoenix Theatre run.
Box Office
The Odyssey outdrew Digger 3.7 to 1 per cinema in its 13th weekend
The Odyssey averaged $3,571 a cinema in its 13th weekend against $964 for Digger's second. Three days back in IMAX took $2m; the seven days without it took $1.81m.
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Resident Evil's record is 13% from China. The last one was 51%
Resident Evil reached $320.2m worldwide and took the franchise record from The Final Chapter. Strip China out of both and the new film is 83% ahead; on the usual studio splits, the record is worth about 31% more.
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The day in film and television: deals, casting, production starts and the moves that reshape a slate.
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Narnia gets 49 days in cinemas, 3.5 times what Netflix first offered
In January 2025 Netflix offered Narnia: The Magician's Nephew 14 days on IMAX screens. It now gets 49 days in every kind of cinema, with Sony handling the rest of the world, and two outlets are still printing the wrong number.
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Hello Sunshine sells for up to $50m. Its buyer put North Road at $900m
Mediawan valued Peter Chernin's North Road at about $900m in January and Brad Pitt's Plan B at about $300m in 2022. Hello Sunshine, once a $900m company, is changing hands for tens of millions.
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Tarantino's Popinjay Cavalier has 128 shows. Baron Cohen is in 112
Sacha Baron Cohen is scheduled for 112 of the 128 performances of Quentin Tarantino's first play. The 16,000 tickets under £50 are 125 a night, or 12.4% of the Phoenix Theatre run.
The Grapevine
What the industry is whispering about — feuds, rewrites, walkouts and the stories behind the official statement.
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Higgsfield's 4-star Trustpilot score rests on reviews it asked for
We counted the 200 most recent Trustpilot reviews of Higgsfield and sorted them by who asked for them. Invited reviewers give the AI video company 4.4 stars. Unprompted ones give it 3.5, and 31% give it one. Archived snapshots show the score climbing from 2.8 to 4.0 in nine months, and when the turn came.
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Higgsfield faces scam claims as 'unlimited' AI renders take hours
Higgsfield launched a 33-day 'unlimited' offer on 7 August with a published average render time under five minutes. Within eleven days paying users were reporting waits of two hours and more. The refund window had already closed. Here is the timeline, the small print and the complaints on file.
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Coyote vs. Acme went from tax write-off to a $15.4m opening
The Looney Tunes film Warner buried for a tax break opened in second place and held third over Labor Day. The numbers are ordinary, which is exactly the embarrassing part.
Box Office
Weekend numbers, breakevens and what a result actually means for the people who greenlit it.
Box Office
The Odyssey outdrew Digger 3.7 to 1 per cinema in its 13th weekend
The Odyssey averaged $3,571 a cinema in its 13th weekend against $964 for Digger's second. Three days back in IMAX took $2m; the seven days without it took $1.81m.
Box Office
Resident Evil's record is 13% from China. The last one was 51%
Resident Evil reached $320.2m worldwide and took the franchise record from The Final Chapter. Strip China out of both and the new film is 83% ahead; on the usual studio splits, the record is worth about 31% more.
Box Office
Verity fell 64%. Its hurricane Saturday was the day it held best
Verity dropped 64% in its second weekend and Amazon MGM pointed at Hurricane Isaias. Day by day, the stormy Saturday held best, four rival films improved their holds, and the landfall zone is worth about 1.3 points.
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What is landing on the services, what is quietly disappearing, and how the platforms are changing their bets.
Streaming
The X-Files reboot cast has no Scully. Carter predicted one in August
On 11 August Chris Carter said Mulder and Scully would be in Ryan Coogler's X-Files. Sixty-three days later Hulu ordered the series with two new agents and neither of them. Here is everything Carter has said, with dates.
Streaming
VisionQuest runs 28 days on Disney+. WandaVision was given 49
WandaVision ran for 49 days, Agatha All Along for 42 and VisionQuest gets 28. The Doomsday date does not force it: one episode a week would still have finished 24 days clear.
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Ray Gunn took 30 years to make. Netflix gives it 14 days in cinemas
Ray Gunn was shelved in the Turner-Time Warner merger of 1996 and lost its IMAX slot to the fallout from the Warner Bros sale of 2026. It premiered in London on Friday to a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score, and it gets one day on a cinema screen for every 26 months it spent in development.