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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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The Grapevine
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.
Box Office
Resident Evil's Thursday previews beat the last reboot's whole weekend
Resident Evil's $8m-$9m in previews is more than Welcome to Raccoon City took in its entire opening weekend. Applying the preview multiples of Weapons and Mortal Kombat II gives a $59m-$68m opening; the tracking says $40m-$50m. Here is the arithmetic, and why it may still be wrong.
Awards
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.
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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.
The Grapevine
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.
The Grapevine
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
Resident Evil's Thursday previews beat the last reboot's whole weekend
Resident Evil's $8m-$9m in previews is more than Welcome to Raccoon City took in its entire opening weekend. Applying the preview multiples of Weapons and Mortal Kombat II gives a $59m-$68m opening; the tracking says $40m-$50m. Here is the arithmetic, and why it may still be wrong.
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.
Streaming
What is landing on the services, what is quietly disappearing, and how the platforms are changing their bets.
