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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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Awards
Two HBO Max shows have 49 Emmy nominations between them
The 78th Primetime Emmys hand out prizes on Monday at the Peacock Theater. A hospital drama leads with 25 nominations, and the host is the first non-comedian in more than three decades.
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Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes film is chasing a best picture first
Fielder and Lance Oppenheim spent three years on Elizabeth Holmes, starting 34 days before she went to prison. A24 wants it in best picture, where no documentary has ever been nominated.
Box Office
Practical Magic 2 heads for a $40m opening despite 36% reviews
Susanne Bier's sequel reunites Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman 28 years on. The reviews are poor, the previews were not, and the studio is about to find out which one the audience believes.
Awards
Venice's Golden Lion comes down to a Gaza documentary and a comedy
NAZA drew 24.5 minutes of applause, Wild Horse Nine got 13 and left John Malkovich in tears, and Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love has the best reviews of the festival. The jury decides at 19:00 Rome time.
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AI can make a whole film for $2,000. It still can't make you care
AI-generated features now premiere at Tribeca and Venice. Guillermo del Toro would rather die than use it. The real threat falls on junior crew, and the real opportunity on filmmakers with no money and something to say.
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Venice boss says only one woman made a film good enough to compete
Venice announced a 20-film competition with one female director. Alberto Barbera blamed the quality of submissions. Maggie Gyllenhaal, who chairs the jury, asked who gets to decide.
News
How peer-to-peer camera and crew hire works for UK filmmakers
Record UK production spend has not reached the smallest shoots. Peer-to-peer platforms let owners rent out idle kit and, on Picturental, offer crew on demand. Here is how they work and what to check.
News
Netflix paid $587m for AI filmmaking tools as Hollywood pushes back
Netflix paid $587m for an AI company, SAG-AFTRA wrote synthetic performers into its contract and the Oscars now demand human authorship. Here is where the rules stand.
News
The day in film and television: deals, casting, production starts and the moves that reshape a slate.
News
Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes film is chasing a best picture first
Fielder and Lance Oppenheim spent three years on Elizabeth Holmes, starting 34 days before she went to prison. A24 wants it in best picture, where no documentary has ever been nominated.
News
AI can make a whole film for $2,000. It still can't make you care
AI-generated features now premiere at Tribeca and Venice. Guillermo del Toro would rather die than use it. The real threat falls on junior crew, and the real opportunity on filmmakers with no money and something to say.
News
Venice boss says only one woman made a film good enough to compete
Venice announced a 20-film competition with one female director. Alberto Barbera blamed the quality of submissions. Maggie Gyllenhaal, who chairs the jury, asked who gets to decide.
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
Practical Magic 2 heads for a $40m opening despite 36% reviews
Susanne Bier's sequel reunites Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman 28 years on. The reviews are poor, the previews were not, and the studio is about to find out which one the audience believes.
Box Office
The Odyssey is $43m short of Universal's biggest film ever
Spider-Man won at home over Labor Day. The Odyssey won the world. Now it needs about $43 million more to pass Jurassic World as Universal's highest grosser.
Box Office
Summer box office hit $4.76bn, and supply is the whole story
Summer 2026 set a US record of $4.76 billion and the year is within reach of $10 billion. The clearest explanation is not a change in appetite, it is a change in release count.
Streaming
What is landing on the services, what is quietly disappearing, and how the platforms are changing their bets.
