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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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Minotaur is France's third Oscar entry running that isn't in French
France's committee picked a Russian-language film over four French ones. It is the third year running that the country's Oscar entry has not been in French, and the 34th submission since France last won the category.
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James Cameron buys AI 3D firm Outsyders. The saving is in people
Cameron spent 60 weeks and $18m converting Titanic to 3D. Outsyders did most of Lilo & Stitch in eight weeks. But six weeks was the normal turnaround in 2012, which means the number that actually moved is the headcount, not the calendar.
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TIFF's market added 130 buyers at C$59,000 each in public money
Canada put C$23m behind TIFF: The Market over three years. Year one confirmed more than 130 buyers who were not already coming, which works out at about C$59,000 each. Toronto now has around 930 buyers against Cannes's 1,700 and Berlin's 1,794.
Awards
The Odyssey would be the biggest Best Picture winner since Titanic
The Odyssey is the twelfth highest-grossing film ever made. If it wins Best Picture on 14 March 2027 it becomes the third billion-dollar winner in Academy history, and the second-biggest of them, $537m ahead of The Return of the King.
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American Idol leaves LA for Georgia, which pays less than California
American Idol moves to the Atlanta area for season 25 after 24 years in Los Angeles. The reporting says Georgia's incentives won it, but California now pays a higher rate. LA reality filming has fallen to 676 shoot days, about a third of its five-year norm.
Box Office
Obsession cost $750,000 and out-grossed every Disney film but one
Obsession was made for $750,000 and has taken $513.8m worldwide. It sits seventh on the 2026 domestic chart, ahead of every Disney release this year except Toy Story 5, and its opening weekend alone returned 23 times its budget.
Awards
Widow's Bay won 14 Emmys from 19 nominations, Hacks two from 24
The Pitt and Hacks arrived at the 78th Emmys with 49 nominations between them and left with eight awards. Widow's Bay arrived with 19 and left with 14, a conversion rate four and a half times better and a new record for a comedy series.
Box Office
Spider-Man's US record beats Star Wars on a third fewer tickets
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has passed The Force Awakens' $936,662,225 to become the biggest domestic release ever. Divide each gross by the price of a ticket in its year and the new record holder sold about 70 million seats against 111 million. It also took a bigger share of its year's cinemagoing than Star Wars did.
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The day in film and television: deals, casting, production starts and the moves that reshape a slate.
News
James Cameron buys AI 3D firm Outsyders. The saving is in people
Cameron spent 60 weeks and $18m converting Titanic to 3D. Outsyders did most of Lilo & Stitch in eight weeks. But six weeks was the normal turnaround in 2012, which means the number that actually moved is the headcount, not the calendar.
News
TIFF's market added 130 buyers at C$59,000 each in public money
Canada put C$23m behind TIFF: The Market over three years. Year one confirmed more than 130 buyers who were not already coming, which works out at about C$59,000 each. Toronto now has around 930 buyers against Cannes's 1,700 and Berlin's 1,794.
News
American Idol leaves LA for Georgia, which pays less than California
American Idol moves to the Atlanta area for season 25 after 24 years in Los Angeles. The reporting says Georgia's incentives won it, but California now pays a higher rate. LA reality filming has fallen to 676 shoot days, about a third of its five-year norm.
The Grapevine
What the industry is whispering about — feuds, rewrites, walkouts and the stories behind the official statement.
Box Office
Weekend numbers, breakevens and what a result actually means for the people who greenlit it.
Box Office
Obsession cost $750,000 and out-grossed every Disney film but one
Obsession was made for $750,000 and has taken $513.8m worldwide. It sits seventh on the 2026 domestic chart, ahead of every Disney release this year except Toy Story 5, and its opening weekend alone returned 23 times its budget.
Box Office
Spider-Man's US record beats Star Wars on a third fewer tickets
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has passed The Force Awakens' $936,662,225 to become the biggest domestic release ever. Divide each gross by the price of a ticket in its year and the new record holder sold about 70 million seats against 111 million. It also took a bigger share of its year's cinemagoing than Star Wars did.
Box Office
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is $1.5m from the biggest US gross ever
Spider-Man: Brand New Day stands at $935,170,888 in North America, $1,491,337 behind The Force Awakens. It lost the top spot this weekend and will take the all-time domestic record anyway, probably by Wednesday.
Streaming
What is landing on the services, what is quietly disappearing, and how the platforms are changing their bets.
