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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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Avengers: Endgame is $38.2m from a record built on five re-releases
Avatar's $2,923,710,708 contains $180,133,121 its original release did not earn. Avengers Endgame: Encore has taken $86,106,643 back in three days, and needs $38,164,965 more.
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Paramount's 470m Warner warrants strike 17% above its share price
Paramount Skydance will distribute about 470 million warrants with a floor exercise price of $12.00. Its shares closed at $10.28 on Monday. The same filing says the timing of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, 'if any', is not yet certain.
Box Office
La Bola Negra outsold Avengers: Endgame 3.6 to 1 in Spanish cinemas
La Bola Negra sold 613,240 tickets in Spain for €4,673,201, an average of €7.62 a head against a market average of €7.75. Avengers: Endgame Encore, second in the same chart, averaged €8.60.
Awards
Fjord is Romania's 42nd Oscar entry. The first 41 got one nomination
Romania has submitted 42 films to the international feature Oscar since 1966 and been nominated once. Entries close on Wednesday, and Fjord is going in without the corrective the Academy built for Mungiu's last Palme d'Or.
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Jon Watts gets the Star Wars trilogy Lucasfilm said wasn't Episode X
Rey's return to cinemas has now been handed to four writing teams and two directors in 41 months without a day of filming, and the one Star Wars film Lucasfilm has released this decade made 32% of what The Rise of Skywalker took.
Box Office
Forgotten Island opened $370,000 above Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Forgotten Island's $12.8m opening is being written up as a DreamWorks disaster. Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado opened Puss in Boots: The Last Wish at $12,429,515 and finished on $186,090,535. The difference between the two films is not the reviews. It is the calendar.
News
NAZA takes 20 days from Venice to cinemas. No Other Land took 350
Yuval Abraham's Oscar-winning No Other Land needed 350 days to reach an American cinema and never found a US distributor. NAZA needed 20 days, and its team stopped asking.
Box Office
Primetime beat Mickey 17's opening day on an eighth of the budget
A24's Primetime opened to $8,494,586 on Friday, against $7.7m for Mickey 17's first day in March 2025. One cost a reported $15m, the other $118m. Per screen, the cheap one is winning by 46%.
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The day in film and television: deals, casting, production starts and the moves that reshape a slate.
News
Paramount's 470m Warner warrants strike 17% above its share price
Paramount Skydance will distribute about 470 million warrants with a floor exercise price of $12.00. Its shares closed at $10.28 on Monday. The same filing says the timing of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, 'if any', is not yet certain.
News
Jon Watts gets the Star Wars trilogy Lucasfilm said wasn't Episode X
Rey's return to cinemas has now been handed to four writing teams and two directors in 41 months without a day of filming, and the one Star Wars film Lucasfilm has released this decade made 32% of what The Rise of Skywalker took.
News
NAZA takes 20 days from Venice to cinemas. No Other Land took 350
Yuval Abraham's Oscar-winning No Other Land needed 350 days to reach an American cinema and never found a US distributor. NAZA needed 20 days, and its team stopped asking.
The Grapevine
What the industry is whispering about — feuds, rewrites, walkouts and the stories behind the official statement.
The Grapevine
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.
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
Avengers: Endgame is $38.2m from a record built on five re-releases
Avatar's $2,923,710,708 contains $180,133,121 its original release did not earn. Avengers Endgame: Encore has taken $86,106,643 back in three days, and needs $38,164,965 more.
Box Office
La Bola Negra outsold Avengers: Endgame 3.6 to 1 in Spanish cinemas
La Bola Negra sold 613,240 tickets in Spain for €4,673,201, an average of €7.62 a head against a market average of €7.75. Avengers: Endgame Encore, second in the same chart, averaged €8.60.
Box Office
Forgotten Island opened $370,000 above Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Forgotten Island's $12.8m opening is being written up as a DreamWorks disaster. Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado opened Puss in Boots: The Last Wish at $12,429,515 and finished on $186,090,535. The difference between the two films is not the reviews. It is the calendar.
Streaming
What is landing on the services, what is quietly disappearing, and how the platforms are changing their bets.
Streaming
Bob Chapek defends his price rises as Disney+ hits $21.49 a month
The last Disney+ price rise Chapek approved took effect eighteen days after the board sacked him. It put the ad-free tier at $10.99. On Wednesday it reached $21.49, and the gap between the ad-free and ad-supported plans has tripled to exactly $9.00.
Streaming
Spider-Noir cancelled at Prime Video in Spider-Man's record week
Amazon has now retired both series announced under its Sony Marvel television pact, and it dropped the second one in the week the Spider-Man film franchise set domestic box office records.