The day in film and television: deals, casting, production starts and the moves that reshape a slate.
The governor proposed California's third credit cap in sixteen months on the day before the state elects his successor, and wants the programme written through 2040.
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Stewart died on 28 October at 86; Avengers: Doomsday opens on 18 December with his final Professor X. Chadwick Boseman's death-to-release gap was 112 days, Heath Ledger's 178, Paul Walker's 489.
Alex Garland has announced his retirement from directing twice on the record, in 2022 and 2024. Since the second statement he has directed Warfare, taken on A24's most expensive film ever, and now signed Zendaya for an untitled sci-fi shooting in 2027.
Canal+'s July accord commits €196m a year to French and European film from 2028. The draft 2027 budget's VAT rise costs it up to €200m a year, and triggers the clause that voids the whole deal.
Lisa Nandy's 'minded to intervene' letter on Sky and ITV comes 107 days after the one she sent Paramount. Laid next to three earlier Sky cases, the dates show which kind of review this is likely to be.
In January 2025 Netflix offered Narnia: The Magician's Nephew 14 days on IMAX screens. It now gets 49 days in every kind of cinema, with Sony handling the rest of the world, and two outlets are still printing the wrong number.
Mediawan valued Peter Chernin's North Road at about $900m in January and Brad Pitt's Plan B at about $300m in 2022. Hello Sunshine, once a $900m company, is changing hands for tens of millions.
Sacha Baron Cohen is scheduled for 112 of the 128 performances of Quentin Tarantino's first play. The 16,000 tickets under £50 are 125 a night, or 12.4% of the Phoenix Theatre run.
Zaslav received $606.1m when Paramount's $31-a-share takeover closed: $224.4m for shares and $381.7m for options that vested at the close. Add the $114m, $59m and $21.7m sales made while the deal was pending and the year's total reaches about $801m.
Skydance closed its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery on 6 October and filed the bond schedule the same day. Multiply each principal by its coupon and the fixed-rate notes cost $3.22bn a year. Warner's and Paramount's film studios earned $132m between them in the most recent quarter either reported.
The Batman Part II is booked for 18 February 2028, which is 2,177 days after the first film opened. No Batman film has made its direct sequel wait that long, and the schedule has now moved three times before a camera stopped rolling.
Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy handed six famous directors a budget and no franchise to hide behind. Those six films cost between $653m and $733m to produce and have grossed $959.7m worldwide. Only Sinners made money.
Cinema United says North American exhibitors reinvested $2.7bn over two years. Its own figures show the annual total fell from $1.5bn to $1.2bn, and that $220m of the $300m drop came from outside the eight biggest chains.
Mattel Films existed for 2,948 days and put two films into cinemas: Barbie and Masters of the Universe. The consent decree approved on Wednesday obliges the merged Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to release 30 a year, or pay $30m a film.
Pooja Entertainment UK Limited's statement of affairs, filed on 17 September, puts its debts at £10,085,267.92. A single creditor in the United Arab Emirates accounts for £8,752,652.35 of it.
HBO and Warner Bros have put at least twelve Game of Thrones projects into development since May 2017. House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms reached a screen. The twelfth, Aegon's Conquest, is now a film dated for 1 June 2029.
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.
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.
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.
Mushtaq Khan spent 46 years in Hindi cinema and appeared in 11 films alongside Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan. Raza Murad, who attended the funeral, says no star came. Half the obituaries could not even agree how old he was.
Tiny Ltd closed Friday at a market capitalisation of US$117m. Its 60% stake in Letterboxd is being marketed at $300m, which works out at $9.77 a member, against the $458 a head the New York Times Company paid for The Athletic.
The consent decree obliges the merged Paramount-Warner to release four independent films a year and attaches $5m a year to buy them. Missing a single studio release costs $30m, six times as much.
Paramount Skydance closed at $10.18 on Thursday. The equity syndicate funding the Warner Bros. Discovery takeover pays no less than $12.00, a gap of about $7.1bn across the full $46.95bn commitment. Elon Musk is one of the names discussed for it.
A24 used to take 40 to 45 per cent of the ticket. It now asks for the low to mid 50s. On the $197.5m Backrooms took in America, those ten points come to $19.75m, nearly twice what the film cost to make.