The business of pictures: what got made, what it cost, what it took, and which festival said so.
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Pixar's newly confirmed March 2028 original follows a fast-talking child into a North Shore lunch shop serving stranded spirits. Its promise is not that ghosts are new, but that the doorway is culturally and geographically specific.
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Marvel has confirmed the core cast for its May 2028 X-Men film, from Sadie Sink's Jean Grey to Adam Driver's Nathaniel Milbury. The smartest part of the lineup is that it asks new actors to inherit relationships, not imitate old performances.
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The Academy Museum will honor Colman Domingo, Charlize Theron and John Carpenter at its October gala. The stronger idea is already visible beyond the red carpet: put artists back in a room with audiences and the films that made their work matter.
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The 79th Edinburgh festival opens today built around Christine Vachon, Ken Burns, and a first Branagh award.
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Major theater owners are publicly divided over Paramount’s proposed Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition. Their disagreement is not simply about one merger—it is about whether promises of more movies can outweigh the leverage created by fewer studios.
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Crunchyroll and Sony have secured international distribution for Makoto Shinkai’s untitled eighth feature. The unusual order of announcements shows how anime’s global audience is changing the moment a film becomes an international event.
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Tom Holland’s new Spider-Man film reached $1.67 billion worldwide in ten days. The scale of the record matters, but so do the conditions that persuaded audiences to choose theaters again.
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Monica Bellucci is competing while Isabella Rossellini and James Gray draw crowds to the 79th Locarno Film Festival. The contrast reveals how a discovery festival can use celebrity without letting celebrity become the program.
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