The business of pictures: what got made, what it cost, what it took, and which festival said so.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day has reached $2.32 billion worldwide and is projected to pass Titanic this weekend, giving Sony and Marvel a new place in the all-time box-office ranking.
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Ketchup’s release of the long-shelved Looney Tunes hybrid opened above Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars, and the gap says plenty about August studio logic. One film was treated like a write-off; the other was supposed to be the safer grown-up play.
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James Gray opens New York Film Festival 2026 with Paper Tiger on Sept. 25, Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth! takes the centerpiece slot, and Ava DuVernay closes with 14th on Oct. 12. Yahoo Entertainment says the 32-feature slate also pushes screenings out across the city, from Lincoln Center to the Bronx.
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USA Today reported that Quaid called Hathaway a "horrible choice" and pushed Tom Cruise to bring Nicole Kidman back instead. The argument says less about the sequel's actual setup than about how quickly a new casting can get flattened into old romance talk.
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Trump’s new push for a nationwide production incentive gives Hollywood’s tax-credit lobby a rare opening. The fight now is less about whether the industry needs help than who gets to sell the plan, and on what terms.
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The action thriller fell 64.3 percent in its second weekend and reached only $19.83 million worldwide against a reported $40 million budget. A Prime Video leak, piracy, and soft overseas play have kept the movie from recovering.
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Tom Holland’s latest Spider-Man film has already left Avengers: Endgame behind at the North American box office and is now headed for a rarer mark: $900 million domestic. Forbes says the finish line should arrive by Friday, with Labor Day traffic as the last lift.
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Ridley Scott had been eyeing Jacob Elordi before The Dog Stars came along, and the film finally gave them a reason to meet. Early reviews are mixed, which makes the movie look less like an easy crowd-pleaser than a hard sell built on mood, loss, and one young actor trying to keep moving past Euphoria.
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The sixth Insidious film opened to $60.1 million worldwide, then moved to $66.5 million after six days, according to Scream Horror Magazine and Koimoi. That leaves Jacob Chase’s sequel within striking distance of the 2011 original and keeps the franchise’s box-office ladder moving.
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Tom Cruise has turned a long-rumored return to 'Days of Thunder' into an official sequel, and Anne Hathaway is in the car with him. Paramount has set the film for summer 2028, which gives this one a clear date and a real charge: Cruise is back as Cole Trickle, Hathaway is stepping in as a team owner and engineer, and the old racing movie is getting a new engine.
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Ridley Scott’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama is opening with soft numbers and a hard budget. Box Office Pro’s forecast leaves Disney with a film that may need reviews, overseas money, and a lot of patience just to look workable.
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Disney says Pixar's latest Toy Story film starts streaming on Sept. 23, with digital rental and purchase already live and discs due Sept. 22. That gives the movie a neat home-video landing after a box-office run that cleared $1.1 billion worldwide.
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Disney's D23 pavilion points to The New Simpsons Movie as the sequel's title ahead of its September 3, 2027 release. After two decades away from theaters, Springfield may be coming back with a name that sounds like a shrug and lands like a punchline.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day is projected to win its fifth domestic weekend despite fresh competition from The Dog Stars and Coyote vs. Acme. The real fight now is less about one weekend than how long this summer can ride Peter Parker’s record run.
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The Los Angeles festival will give Wallace its Visionary Award on opening night, with Braveheart back on a big screen and new DIFF programs filling out the weekend.
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Pedro Almodóvar’s “Bitter Christmas” will close the Silver Spring festival, while Diego Luna’s “Ashes” sits near the front of a 43-film program built around Latin American cinema during National Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day won its fourth North American weekend with $39 million. The sharper industry story is beneath it: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now his biggest film, while most new releases failed to break through.
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Nivin Pauly and Mamitha Baiju’s Malayalam rom-com turned its Onam weekend into a real box-office lead. Koimoi reported that its three-day India net total ran about 18% ahead of Sarvam Maya’s opening frame.
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Richard Kelly’s follow-up, The Philosophy of Time Travel, is due in Q4 2026. Variety reports the novel is meant to open the door to animated and live-action Donnie Darko sequels.
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Venice has added NAZA, from No Other Land directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, to its main Competition. The Gaza documentary is now the only nonfiction film chasing the 2026 Golden Lion.
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