The business of pictures: what got made, what it cost, what it took, and which festival said so.
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Paramount is developing a How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days sequel with Kate Hudson producing. The catch is the part making readers bristle: Hudson and Matthew McConaughey are still intentions, not cast members.
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Wen Muye’s anti-war drama beat Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in mainland China despite Nolan’s film owning the IMAX footprint. The upset says as much about standard theaters as it does about summer taste.
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Sony owned the weekend: Spider-Man: Brand New Day stayed first with $39 million, while Insidious: Out of the Further opened to $25.3 million. The result pushed the domestic frame to an estimated $134.2 million, another big 2026 sign for theaters.
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The 64th New York Film Festival’s Currents lineup has 15 features and 28 shorts, with Tala Hadid’s Bardi named its centerpiece. The section also brings new work from Carlos Reygadas, Dan Sallitt, Laura Poitras, Bruno Dumont and Mariano Llinás.
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The 83rd Venice International Film Festival has set a Sept. 2-12 run led by major festival names and fewer studio titles. The result looks fertile for cinephiles and uneasy for an awards season still sorting out its launchpad.
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The Magic Faraway Tree opened in North America on August 21 with a wide family push, but MSN reported it is poised to mark Andrew Garfield’s weakest debut. For Vertical, the fantasy film arrives with real overseas money and a tougher domestic question.
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The Anthony Bourdain biopic jumped from specialty heat to a seventh-place box office finish. For A24, it is another summer win built on expansion, not brute force.
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Sony’s sixth Insidious landed where horror franchises hope to land. MUBI’s Camp Miasma did something smaller and more interesting: it turned a niche slasher expansion into real theatrical evidence.
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The BFI London Film Festival has named the 10 films competing for its 2026 best film award. The lineup gives London a tight, international race before the full program lands in September.
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David Heyman has signed a multi-year first-look film deal with Amazon MGM Studios, according to TheWrap. The Bond connection grabs the eye, but the wider play is Heyday Films’ next slate.
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Sen. Adam Schiff is backing a federal film production tax credit as shoots leave Los Angeles for cheaper markets. The plan could spread help beyond the states with the richest incentives, but Reason points to years of evidence that these credits often cost more than they return.
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Ava DuVernay’s follow-up to 13th will reach Netflix in December after a New York Film Festival world premiere and a short theatrical run. The new documentary shifts from the 13th Amendment to the 14th, putting citizenship, due process and equal protection at the center of the argument.
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Warner Bros. is negotiating for the rights to Allen Levi’s bestseller, with Hanks in discussions to star and co-produce. The book’s gentle premise sounds built for the actor’s late-career register.
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Pinkvilla reports that Mohanlal will head the action-thriller sequel, while Prithviraj Sukumaran returns as Aamir Ali. The sequel follows the continuation set up by Khalifa: Part 1.
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Ad Vitam Eternam is now in production, with Guillaume Canet returning as Franck Lazareff and Sophie Marceau, Mathieu Amalric and Nicolas Duvauchelle joining the cast.
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Sacramento’s new business-credit cap hit the film incentive just as California was trying to lure work back. The proposed fix protects independent films first, while studios get a faster cash option instead of the full exemption Hollywood wanted.
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Promise is making an AI-assisted horror film within sight of the lots where Singin' in the Rain was shot, on a budget in the low millions. The unsettling part of the reporting is not what the software can draw. It is the list of things the software makes unnecessary.
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Possible Love premieres in Venice competition on September 6, opens in Korean cinemas on September 23 and reaches Netflix on November 6. It is Lee Chang-dong's first film in eight years, and the order of those three dates is the most interesting decision anyone made about it.
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Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan have recreated the Abbey Road crossing for Sam Mendes' four-film Beatles project. The perfect replica is less interesting than the four competing memories around it.
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Disney has set Ryan Gosling's Ghost Rider for July 28, 2028. The date completes a striking three-film Marvel calendar, but the character will only matter if the studio lets a supernatural loner remain strange.
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