The business of pictures: what got made, what it cost, what it took, and which festival said so.
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The 34th Hamptons International Film Festival runs October 2–12 with Wicker closing the program and conversations led by Amanda Seyfried, John Turturro, Jesse Eisenberg and Ron Howard. Its packed slate turns the East Coast stop into an awards-season meeting point for premieres, repertory screenings and filmmaker access.
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AMC has ordered an eight-episode continuation of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action film. It returns to the Ex-Presidents’ world more than three decades later, but no cast or firm premiere date has been announced.
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Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan’s crime thriller lost business on its first Sunday, finishing below ₹12 crore worldwide. Even the competing estimates tell the same grim story.
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The 49th Mill Valley Film Festival runs Oct. 1–11 with 94 features and 80 shorts from 45 countries. Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine opens, Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky anchors the middle, and Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut closes the festival.
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Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman’s sequel opened to $30 million domestically, finally moving Spider-Man: Brand New Day to second place. The superhero film still sits on the edge of a domestic record that could fall within days.
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Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman’s Warner Bros. sequel takes the top spot, but its debut lands below the studio’s $30 million-$35 million target. The result points to a softer post-summer market even as the 1998 film’s audience turns out.
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The 2026 Zurich Film Festival has added 12 Gala Premieres, including Danny Boyle’s Venice opener ‘Ink,’ Florian Zeller’s ‘Bunker,’ Jordan Firstman’s ‘Club Kid’ and two world premieres. The late September lineup now balances major stars with films arriving from Venice, Cannes and Toronto.
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s 71-minute Cameron Winter film joins a late programme expansion that also brings Javier Bardem and Robert Eggers to London for career talks.
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Adam Wingard’s $15 million action-horror film fell short of its modest Labor Day projection. Mixed reactions now leave the A24 release with little theatrical momentum.
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Criterion’s physical edition now arrives November 3, nearly two months earlier than first reported. Ami Thompson’s battle-ready cover and a feature-length animatic make this far more than shelf decoration.
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Casper Kelly’s horror-comedy followed a record-setting $5.36 million debut with an even stronger second weekend. Its young audience and tightly focused release have turned a strange orange unicorn into an indie box-office event.
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ held the domestic box-office crown for a sixth weekend and is closing on North America’s unadjusted record. Its $2.4 billion global run is extraordinary, but ‘Avengers: Endgame’ remains safely ahead worldwide.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day is closing in on the domestic record while Coyote vs. Acme posts a sturdy second weekend. Their Labor Day numbers show two very different kinds of theatrical staying power.
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Sajid Nadiadwala has announced the sequel as part of a three-film Australia deal. Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Riteish Deshmukh, Fardeen Khan and director Sajid Khan have not been confirmed to return.
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Prime Video, Amazon MGM, Apple TV, Lionsgate and Netflix are developing screen versions of Rebecca Yarros’ novels, with projects ranging from a dragon-rider fantasy series to a WWII romance. Here is what each adaptation has attached—and what remains unknown.
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The Batman 2 co-writer says he is receiving five times more video-game adaptation offers than comic-book ones, as recent box-office results push studios toward Mario, Minecraft and Sonic.
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The 53rd Telluride Film Festival runs September 4–7 with world premieres from Jesse Eisenberg, Simon Stone and Mike Leigh, plus a Sunday film whose title stays hidden until the audience enters. Here are the films, tributes and oddities shaping this year’s Oscar-season launch.
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The president wants Congress to create a national incentive for film and television production. California’s governor and a senior Democratic senator support the idea, but the percentage, rules and cost remain undecided.
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The 70th BFI London Film Festival will run October 7–18, 2026, with Brad Bird’s Ray Gunn and Travis Knight’s Wildwood leading a 251-title program from 88 countries. The animation-heavy lineup also brings new work from Duncan Jones, Louise Bagnall and Alejandra Pérez González to U.K. audiences.
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Danny Boyle’s Ink opens the 83rd Venice Film Festival on Sept. 2, with Alex Gibney’s Musk, Gaza documentaries and films about repression and labor giving the lineup a sharper political edge than its usual awards-season gloss.
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