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Resident Evil Is Tracking for a Franchise Record, and Everyone Is Quoting the Wrong Number
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil opens on 18 September tracking for a franchise-record start. The number everyone is citing to prove the series never broke through — $26.6 million — is being misread, and it is almost exactly the entire American gross of the biggest Resident Evil film ever made.
September 12, 2026 1:20 pm
Paramount Wants Twelve States to Post a Bond for a Penalty Paramount Invented
Paramount's $31-a-share takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery is cleared in 68 countries and frozen by a courthouse in Oakland. It is now asking a judge to make twelve state attorneys general post a bond of around $1.9 billion — largely to cover a penalty Paramount invented itself, to outbid Netflix.
September 11, 2026 1:15 pm
Warner Bros. Has Not Had a $100 Million Domestic Film All Year. It Is Counting on Witches.
No Warner Bros. release has crossed $100 million domestic in 2026. The studio's best film of the year stopped at $84 million in April. On Friday it opens a sequel to a 1998 flop that scored 30% with critics — and it is the most promising thing on its calendar.
September 10, 2026 1:10 pm
Coyote vs. Acme Passed the Tax Write-Off It Was Killed For in Nine Days
Warner Bros. decided a finished Looney Tunes film was worth more as a tax deduction than as a movie. Ketchup Entertainment bought it, released it on 28 August, and in nine days it earned more than the write-off was reportedly worth.
September 9, 2026 1:05 pm
Godzilla Is Back on a Streaming Chart, Two Places Below Dodgeball
Gareth Edwards' 2014 Godzilla — the film that started a $2.5 billion franchise — spent this week at No. 10 on the Paramount+ chart in the United States, two places below Dodgeball. It is on a service with no stake in the character's future, and the cross-platform data says the resurgence is a great deal smaller than the headlines.
September 7, 2026 1:05 pm
Forty-One Screens on Earth Can Show The Odyssey Properly. They Have Made $66 Million.
IMAX has extended The Odyssey's 70mm run to the end of September — the third extension, taking it to eleven weeks. Forty-one screens in the world can show the film the way it was shot. Those forty-one have taken $66 million between them, which is more than most films make anywhere.
September 6, 2026 1:00 pm
Disney Is Re-Releasing Endgame to Chase a Record. It Tried That in 2019 and Missed.
Avengers: Endgame returns to cinemas on 25 September as Endgame: Encore, with roughly four minutes of new footage and a look at Doomsday. Disney has run this play before, with this exact film, and it did not work then either.
September 4, 2026 1:05 pm
Summer 2026 Is $158M From a Record. In Real Money It Is $2 Billion Short.
The US summer box office sits at $4.598 billion, $158M short of summer 2013's all-time record with eight days left to run. Rentrak thinks it may fall $18M–$22M short. Either way, the record it is chasing is a nominal-dollar record — and the shape of the two seasons could not be more different.
September 3, 2026 1:20 pm
Zack Snyder Made a Small Movie With His Own Money, and TIFF Just Squeezed It In
TIFF has added a last-minute special screening of The Last Photograph, the independently financed revenge film Zack Snyder shot in Colombia, Iceland and Los Angeles. It premieres 6:30pm on Sunday, Sept. 13.
September 1, 2026 1:10 pm
The Movie Warner Bros. Threw Away Just Out-Opened Ridley Scott
Coyote vs. Acme opened to $15.4M and second place this weekend — three years after Warner Bros. shelved it as a $30M tax write-off. Ridley Scott's Dog Stars, which had an actual studio behind it and a $70M budget, opened to $8M.
August 31, 2026 3:05 pm