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fromFast Company
23 hours ago

Why people are suddenly hesitant to watch Zendaya's new movie, "The Drama"

The film 'The Drama' faces backlash for its sensitive plot involving a character's confession about planning a school shooting.
fromEsquire
22 hours ago

The Best Action Movies of 2026 (So Far)

In the new film, he plays a hit man named Mike who is attempting to leave the business when he's framed for murder. He's sleeping with loan shark Nick's wife Alice, so Nick tricks him into pulling off one last job.
Television
fromNo Film School
23 hours ago

How a $30K Animated Indie Scored a Theatrical Run - Then Landed on HBO

Glander and producer Payson made Boys Go to Jupiter with a tiny team and a $30,000 budget, showcasing the potential of indie filmmaking in animation.
Independent films
fromTechdirt
2 days ago

Meta Caves To The MPAA Over Instagram's Use Of 'PG-13,' Ending A Dispute That Was Silly From The Start

Meta has agreed to 'substantially reduce' its references to PG-13 and include a rather remarkable disclaimer: 'There are lots of differences between social media and movies.'
Social media marketing
#independent-film
Media industry
fromIndieWire
3 days ago

To Access Stranded Capital, Filmmakers Need to Learn Demand-Side Thinking

Shifting from supply-side to demand-side thinking is crucial for independent filmmakers to attract investment and audience interest.
Media industry
fromIndieWire
3 days ago

To Access Stranded Capital, Filmmakers Need to Learn Demand-Side Thinking

Shifting from supply-side to demand-side thinking is crucial for independent filmmakers to attract investment and audience interest.
#disney
Business
from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

Disney Receives Upgrade and Is Historically Cheap Even in Harsh Scenarios

Raymond James upgraded Disney's rating to Outperform, citing attractive entry points for long-term investors amid a 13.06% year-to-date stock decline.
Media industry
from24/7 Wall St.
6 days ago

Disney Is Down 25%, but the Worst Might Not Be Over

Disney's stock has declined significantly due to challenges in linear TV, rising costs, and reduced park attendance, now trading around $92.
Business
from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

Disney Receives Upgrade and Is Historically Cheap Even in Harsh Scenarios

Raymond James upgraded Disney's rating to Outperform, citing attractive entry points for long-term investors amid a 13.06% year-to-date stock decline.
Media industry
from24/7 Wall St.
6 days ago

Disney Is Down 25%, but the Worst Might Not Be Over

Disney's stock has declined significantly due to challenges in linear TV, rising costs, and reduced park attendance, now trading around $92.
Humor
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Why do this spring's blockbusters feel so smug?

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice combines multiple genres but relies on repetitive comedic elements that feel familiar and uninspired.
Film
fromVulture
1 day ago

The 13 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson's film explores wedding anxieties and dark secrets, while reality shows continue to stir drama and relationships.
SOMA, SF
fromIndieWire
6 days ago

Steven Soderbergh's 'The Christophers' Wins Narrative Audience Award at Sonoma International Film Festival 2026

The Sonoma International Film Festival 2026 showcased 104 films, highlighting emerging filmmakers and culinary experiences, with increased ticket sales.
#netflix
Television
fromConsequence
3 days ago

Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in April 2026

Netflix is releasing a diverse lineup of new movies and TV shows in April, including anticipated series and acclaimed films.
fromFortune
2 months ago
Business

Netflix may be turning into an 'entertainment giant,' but its stock looks like 'dead money' to investors | Fortune

Television
fromConsequence
3 days ago

Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in April 2026

Netflix is releasing a diverse lineup of new movies and TV shows in April, including anticipated series and acclaimed films.
fromFortune
2 months ago
Business

Netflix may be turning into an 'entertainment giant,' but its stock looks like 'dead money' to investors | Fortune

Business
from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

AMC Shares Sit 35% in the Red Year to Date as Blockbuster Season Begins

AMC Entertainment's shares are near 52-week lows despite a surge in social sentiment and record admissions revenue driven by blockbuster films.
Film
fromIndieWire
3 days ago

Horror Movies Seemed Unusually Good in Q1 - What Went Wrong at the Box Office?

Q1 2026 saw unexpected quality in horror films, contrasting with historical trends of poor releases during this period.
fromIndieWire
2 weeks ago

Prediction Markets Claimed an Oscar Victory. The Reality Was Messier.

Supporters of platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi argue that when markets reach enough activity, their collective wisdom becomes a kind of crystal ball - faster than experts, smarter than pundits, and better at identifying outcomes before the rest of the culture catches up. Their evidence: prediction markets correctly called 19 of the 24 Oscar categories.
Poker
Film
fromVulture
2 days ago

Should A24 Be Worried About The Drama's Plot-Twist Drama?

The Drama features a controversial plot twist involving a character's admission of a near mass shooting, sparking significant backlash.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

Best picture nominees are leaving theaters sooner than they used to

Movie theater attendance has declined significantly since 2019, with over 5,000 screens closing, and Oscar-nominated films now show in fewer theaters during their theatrical runs.
DC food
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

The Logic Behind The Madison's Unusual Release

Paramount+ releases Taylor Sheridan's The Madison in two three-episode batches on consecutive Saturdays to emphasize its cinematic qualities and position it as date-night events for audiences.
#project-hail-mary
Independent films
fromTechCrunch
6 days ago

'Project Hail Mary' becomes Amazon MGM's biggest box office hit | TechCrunch

Project Hail Mary has become Amazon's highest grossing movie, surpassing Creed III, with a budget of $200 million.
Film
fromThe Independent
5 days ago

Project Hail Mary flies past major franchise to become US's top film of the year

Project Hail Mary is the highest-grossing Hollywood film of 2026, surpassing Avatar: Fire and Ash with a domestic gross of $164.3 million.
Independent films
fromTechCrunch
6 days ago

'Project Hail Mary' becomes Amazon MGM's biggest box office hit | TechCrunch

Project Hail Mary has become Amazon's highest grossing movie, surpassing Creed III, with a budget of $200 million.
Film
fromThe Independent
5 days ago

Project Hail Mary flies past major franchise to become US's top film of the year

Project Hail Mary is the highest-grossing Hollywood film of 2026, surpassing Avatar: Fire and Ash with a domestic gross of $164.3 million.
Film
fromVariety
3 days ago

When Fandom Converts: How TikTok Is Driving Measurable Box Office Growth

TikTok has become a powerful engine for movie discovery, translating online engagement into real-world ticket sales.
Media industry
fromOK Magazine
2 weeks ago

Why the Oscars Are Losing TV Viewers But Winning the Internet

The 2026 Oscars experienced declining television viewership but achieved record social media engagement, reflecting a fundamental shift in how audiences consume and participate in the event.
Film
fromEsquire
4 days ago

The 9 Best Movies of 2026 (So Far)

Major studio films have underperformed, while smaller films have offered fresh ideas and engaging stories.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

From the phone to the plex: why TV shows are turning into movies

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man achieved over 25 million views on Netflix in three days, showcasing the shift from cinema to streaming.
fromConde Nast Traveler
4 weeks ago

Where to See a Movie in Los Angeles, the Heart of American Cinema

Los Angeles is home to more than a dozen one-of-a-kind cinemas that operate on their own terms. Some of these theaters have been around for 100 years, and in classic LA fashion some of them are owned by living LA legends-think Quentin Tarantino and Kyle Ng. Kristen Stewart recently announced she's also jumping into the mix with her purchase of Los Angeles's Highland Theatre.
Los Angeles
fromAnOther
3 days ago

Films to See This April

Emma drops an absolute bombshell in the midst of a game where they're asked to reveal the worst thing they've ever done. Soon everyone around her starts to question how well they really know her.
Film
Miscellaneous
fromVulture
1 month ago

Protests and Bad Reviews Couldn't Stop Scream 7 From Setting a Paramount Record

Scream 7 exceeded box office expectations with a $64.1 million opening weekend, becoming Paramount's best horror debut despite critical panning and pre-release controversies.
Film
fromVulture
3 days ago

6 New Movies You Can Finally Watch at Home Right Now

March saw a limited selection of new films on video-on-demand, featuring comedies and notable directors.
Media industry
fromIndieWire
3 weeks ago

If You've Been Waiting for Normal in Hollywood, Here It Is

YouTube surpassed Disney as the world's largest media company while accomplished independent producers like Ted Hope struggle to find industry support, signaling a fundamental shift in entertainment's structure and sustainability.
Business intelligence
fromThe Motley Fool
1 month ago

National CineMedia (NCMI) Earnings Transcript | The Motley Fool

Total revenue reached $93.2 million, up 8% year-over-year, with programmatic revenue doubling and advertising revenue growing 9% to $90 million.
Independent films
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Why Universal Committed to Keeping Movies in Theaters Longer

Universal Pictures extends theatrical exclusivity windows to five weeks immediately and seven weeks by 2027, though most viewers already wait longer for streaming access via Peacock subscription service.
#academy-awards
Independent films
fromThe Independent
3 weeks ago

The 10 worst Oscar Best Picture winners of all time

The Academy's Best Picture choices often reflect herd mentality from earlier awards shows, resulting in questionable winners that don't deserve the honor.
Film
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Finally, an Oscars for People Who Actually Bother to Watch Movies

The Academy Awards ceremony featured humorous recreations of film scenes, signaling a shift toward celebrating cinema rather than attempting to modernize the show through external entertainment formats.
fromRaymondcamden
1 week ago

Checking if a Movie has a Post or Mid Credit Scene

The app is incredibly simple. I made use of the wonderful SimpleCSS for my design and then made use of the TMDB API. The TMDB APIs are pretty easy to use, but finding out how to get this information did take a bit of digging.
Film
#box-office
Film
fromVulture
1 week ago

How Project Hail Mary Broke Amazon's Losing Streak at the Box Office

Project Hail Mary achieved the year's biggest opening with $80.5 million, surpassing expectations and previous records for non-franchise films.
Independent films
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
3 weeks ago

Pixar's Hoppers' bounds to No. 1 as Warner Bros.' The Bride!' is on life support

Disney and Pixar's animated film Hoppers earned $88 million globally in its opening weekend, marking the biggest launch for an original animated film since Coco in 2017, while Warner Bros.' The Bride! underperformed significantly with only $7.3 million domestically.
Film
fromVulture
1 week ago

How Project Hail Mary Broke Amazon's Losing Streak at the Box Office

Project Hail Mary achieved the year's biggest opening with $80.5 million, surpassing expectations and previous records for non-franchise films.
Independent films
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
3 weeks ago

Pixar's Hoppers' bounds to No. 1 as Warner Bros.' The Bride!' is on life support

Disney and Pixar's animated film Hoppers earned $88 million globally in its opening weekend, marking the biggest launch for an original animated film since Coco in 2017, while Warner Bros.' The Bride! underperformed significantly with only $7.3 million domestically.
Media industry
fromVulture
1 month ago

Everybody Loses

David Ellison's Paramount acquisition of Warner Bros. over Netflix's bid will likely result in massive debt, layoffs, reduced content production, and a rightward-leaning combined news operation.
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Let's Wrap Up the MFL with a Few Small Charts

One Battle After Another dominated the awards race and even threw in some box-office points as well. Seven of the top-ten movies were Best Picture nominees at the Oscars, for what it's worth.
Film
Music
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Why Albums Drop and Movies Launch

Ephemeral contemporary music consumption makes it far harder for albums to become cultural events, altering promotion strategies and reducing once-common album-release spectacles.
Film
fromThedrum
2 weeks ago

S4M drives users to cinemas for Sony's latest release

Sony Pictures' mobile campaign for The Dark Tower reached 2 million Singapore users, achieving 71,000 trailer completions and 24,000 ticket bookings through location-based targeting and seamless booking integration.
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue

Contemporary Hollywood's frequent AI stories have grown repetitive, commercially unreliable, and have undermined the cinematic treatment of artificial intelligence.
Silicon Valley
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Psychology says if you check movie reviews before watching you probably display these 9 distinctive traits - Silicon Canals

People who check reviews before watching movies tend to be highly conscientious, detail-oriented, time-conscious, and thorough, often researching extensively across decisions.
Film
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Hollywood Is Dead: We Must Fight to Save the True Magic

Technological advancement in filmmaking has eliminated scarcity and bottlenecks that once created awe, diminishing the magic of cinema through abundance rather than enhancing it.
Film
fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

Do Original Movies Have Any Hope Left? I Went on a Journey to Find Out.

Theaters must create unique event experiences to compete with home entertainment, driving elaborate marketing stunts and premium screen innovations.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Sinners or One Battle: what can we learn from this year's anonymous Oscar ballots?

The 2016 #OscarsSoWhite movement prompted the Academy to diversify its membership and voting base, resulting in more unpredictable Oscar races featuring diverse films and narratives.
Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
3 weeks ago

Oscar predictions: Film expert makes picks for Hollywood's biggest night

'Sinners' makes Oscar history with 16 nominations, while the ceremony features legendary veterans receiving their first nominations alongside emerging talent.
#oscar-nominations
Film
fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

How Did 'Sinners' Get This Big? Ask This Guy.

The 2025 film industry experienced significant consolidation through major mergers while simultaneously producing successful original films that dominated discourse and profits despite technological disruption.
Film
fromInsideHook
4 weeks ago

Of Course Oscar Voters Still Aren't Watching All the Movies

The Academy's new requirement for voters to certify they've watched all nominated films relies on an honor system that voters are openly admitting to circumventing through false attestations and technical loopholes.
fromVulture
4 weeks ago

17 Movies With Exclamation-Point Titles, Ranked!

During a junket interview with OutNow, Gyllenhaal explained that the punctuation mark was included to represent the "whole lot of energy" that comes out when the historically muted Bride of Frankenstein is finally allowed to speak. That's all well and good, but to viewers the titular exclamation point is less of a metaphor and more of a golden arrow saying, "This movie is going to be crazy."
Film
Film
fromHarvard Gazette
4 weeks ago

Who still goes to the movies? - Harvard Gazette

Despite declining theater attendance overall, dedicated moviegoers—particularly Gen Z—continue attending cinemas for blockbusters, special events, and anniversary screenings, driven by the ritualistic and communal experience that streaming cannot replicate.
Film
fromVulture
4 weeks ago

11 Movies You Shouldn't Miss on Netflix This Month

Netflix's March lineup features curated film selections including Scorsese's comedy classic, Christopher Guest's mockumentary, and new releases like a biographical drama about Broadway composer Lorenz Hart.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Letterboxd's most eager reviewers are changing cinema etiquette: I was excited to pull out my phone'

Turning off a phone during films creates uninterrupted, luxurious solitude, while Letterboxd drives rapid, seat-side reviews and incentivizes cinephiles to produce immediate, polished critiques.
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

17 great movies ruined by terrible endings

10 Cloverfield Lane Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr are locked in an underground bunker for the majority of this left-field sequel to Cloverfield, with thrilling results. In the film's final throes, Winstead's character exits the bunker, and finds that her captor was telling the truth about an alien invasion above - a twist that completely and ruinously dissipates the hard-earned tension that came before.
Film
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The gulf between critics and audience has never been wider just look at Melania's Rotten Tomatoes score

Rotten Tomatoes shows an 87-point gap: critics rate the Melania Trump documentary 11% while verified audience rating is 98%.
fromwww.esquire.com
2 months ago

The 45 Most Anticipated Movies of 2026

In recent years, there's one word you hear again and again from movie distributors and pundits: event. Making a great movie is nice. But creating a culture-shaking event is what's required in the current boom-bust film landscape. It's something everyone has known for a long time, but in 2026 it seems like studios are really beginning to grasp what it actually means. From Tom Cruise in an auteur-driven comedy to the sequels to Devil Wears Prada and The Social Network
Film
fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago

The 17 Best Movies About Radio, Ranked | Features | Roger Ebert

Even in an era of CGI and AI, nothing is more vivid than the intimacy and imagination of radio or more direct than the connection radio has with listeners. I remember when the legendary Stan Freberg drained Lake Michigan and filled it with hot chocolate, a 700-foot mountain of whipped cream, and a 10-ton maraschino cherry. We didn't have to see it. We heard it on the radio. It was Freberg's demonstration of what radio can do better than television.
Film
Film
fromIndependent TV
2 months ago

These are the films taking over awards season

Films likely to dominate awards season and practical strategies to stay conversationally informed without watching every contender.
Film
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Movies 2026: Here are 18 films we are excited to see

2026 features two major Pixar releases, high-profile adaptations, franchise sequels, and tentpole projects from filmmakers like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

So What's the Deal With Iron Lung?

Markiplier's Iron Lung, a self-financed sci-fi horror adaptation of the 2022 game starring him largely alone, achieved unexpectedly massive box-office success.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The Real Secret to a Filmmaker's Success

Coppola, Lucas, and Spielberg in the 1970s combined artistic daring with commercial ambition, reshaping Hollywood through auteurism and blockbuster filmmaking.
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

5 Bold(ish) Hollywood Predictions for 2026, from Billion Dollar Box Office Hits to Warner Bros. Optimism

Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros. reshapes studio ownership while 2026 may see more $1 billion blockbusters despite a roughly unchanged annual box office.
Film
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Where to watch all the Oscar-nominated movies in the US

The 2026 Oscar-nominated films are available across theaters, streaming services, and on-demand platforms, with availability varying by film and distributor.
Film
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

'Melania' might look like a box office win, but Amazon is still $68 million in the red

Amazon MGM paid $40 million to acquire 'Melania' and $35 million to market it, leaving a $75 million deficit despite a $7 million opening.
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