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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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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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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.
News
A True Warrior is a 30-minute AI film made in a single day
AI films have struggled to make anyone care about faces that belong to nobody. A True Warrior casts a creator its audience already recognises as the villain Sultan, and was generated in twenty-four hours.
Box Office
The Odyssey is Nolan's biggest hit only if you ignore inflation
The Odyssey has taken $593.1m in North America and $1.65bn worldwide. One of those records is real and one is an artefact of pricing, and the difference is $296 million.
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.
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
The day in film and television: deals, casting, production starts and the moves that reshape a slate.
News
A True Warrior is a 30-minute AI film made in a single day
AI films have struggled to make anyone care about faces that belong to nobody. A True Warrior casts a creator its audience already recognises as the villain Sultan, and was generated in twenty-four hours.
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.
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.
