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After 43 years, Michael Douglas confirms he instantly liked Kathleen Turner
Forty years later, Michael Douglas is finally telling you what his relationship with co-star Kathleen Turner really was.
October 7, 2026 11:14 am
Resident Evil passed $100 million at home and is still $115 million behind the 2016 film
Resident Evil is the first film in the franchise to pass $100 million in North America. It got there in eleven days on a 57 per cent opening weekend and a 62 per cent second-weekend fall, which is a different kind of hit from the one the headlines describe.
October 1, 2026 12:53 pm
Disney says 27 Doomsday chairs, Wikipedia says 26, and the running time backs Disney
Marvel's Doomsday cast reveal is the most-quoted marketing stunt of the decade and nobody can agree how many people were in it. Disney's own newsroom says 27 chairs. The encyclopedia says 26. The stunt's own running time settles it.
September 29, 2026 12:41 pm
Practical Magic 2 is being judged against a forecast that was raised two days before release
Practical Magic 2 is being written up as a film that missed a $40-50 million forecast. That forecast was a release-week upgrade. The August projection was $30-40 million, and the film missed the bottom of that one too.
September 26, 2026 4:51 pm
Forgotten Island gained 24 reviews in three days and nobody printed the same number twice
DreamWorks opens Forgotten Island on Friday at 100 per cent. Three outlets have published three different review counts for that score inside 72 hours, and the film it is supposedly beating has a 99 per cent built on four times the sample.
September 25, 2026 11:26 am
Paramount Did Not Promise 30 Films a Year. It Promised 156 Over Five
Paramount's settlement with twelve states is being reported as a commitment to 30 films a year. The Attorney General's own release says 32 for three of the five years, and the consent decree contains the part nobody is quoting.
September 24, 2026 2:56 pm
Resident Evil Broke a 16-Year Record About 36 Hours After Everyone Said It Had
Resident Evil was reported as beating the franchise's all-time domestic gross on Sunday, when the estimate was $128,566 short. It cleared it on Monday's revision by $71,434 — on one tracker, while the other still shows the estimate.
September 21, 2026 1:06 pm
Resident Evil Opens on an $80 Million Global Forecast That Leaves Out Japan and China
Resident Evil opens today on an $80 million global forecast that is not a result, is not global, and is being measured against a franchise record set in 2010 dollars with a 3D surcharge attached.
September 18, 2026 5:53 pm
Nobody Has Confirmed What Disney Gets From Spider-Man, Including the People Reporting It
Everyone is printing the same number about Disney's cut of the next Spider-Man film. It is wrong in at least three ways, and possibly a fourth nobody has checked.
September 13, 2026 1:25 pm
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
Netflix Just Announced Its Third Dungeons & Dragons Series. It Killed the Second One First.
Netflix has a live-action Dungeons & Dragons series in development called Ravenloft, with Alfonso Cuarón executive producing and John August writing. It also, quietly, has a dead one. That makes three D&D live-action series announced in three and a half years, and not one frame has ever been shot.
September 8, 2026 1:10 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
HBO Redesigned the Hogwarts Crests. One Change Fixes a 25-Year-Old Film Error.
HBO unveiled redesigned Hogwarts house crests for its Harry Potter series at a Back to Hogwarts event in Australia on Monday. They are flatter, thinner and circular where the films were heraldic. One change is a genuine correction to the books; the rest have split the fanbase.
September 5, 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
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
Christine Vachon on Pedro Pascal Replacing Joaquin Phoenix: "The Happy Ending We Deserved"
Todd Haynes' De Noche nearly died. Joaquin Phoenix walked days before production, the project collapsed, and Haynes lost a year. Producer Christine Vachon has now discussed the aftermath, and she is remarkably cheerful about it.
August 29, 2026 5:37 pm
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