Tori
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- Avengers: Doomsday Has Already Cleared A$1 Million in Australian Presales
- Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ or HBO Max: On a Small Budget, the Best Choice Changes by Country
- Are K-Dramas More Profitable Than Netflix's Biggest Shows? The Market Tells a More Interesting Story
- Bona's First AI Feature Has a Date: Sanxingdui Reaches Chinese Theaters October 23
- Asian cinema is thriving, sometimes more than Hollywood — just not in the way you might think
- The Assassin(s) Takes Chuseok: 1.56 Million Admissions in Five Days in Korea
- Lindsay Lohan Reunites with Mark Waters as Netflix Sets Return to You with Henry Golding
- Reacher Season 5 Isn't Even Finished Yet, and Prime Video Has Already Ordered Season 6
- Marvel Studios Has Crossed $35 Billion, and Its Back Catalogue Is Still Working
- Forgotten Island Opens to $20.6 Million, Leaving DreamWorks to Bet on Staying Power
- Brad Pitt Takes Heart of the Beast to a $50.1 Million Global Opening
- Avengers: Endgame Returns to Theaters and Already Pulls In $86 Million
- Universal crosses $5 billion worldwide with three billion-dollar movies built on very different models
- Endgame makes $3.8 million again as Marvel turns a rerelease into paid Doomsday marketing
- Rob Minkoff is circling Storm Dogs as Particle 6 pushes AI into a family feature
- The Traitors: New Blood reaches 6 million per episode, but NBC's headline only tells half the story
- S.W.A.T. Exiles launches on Starz, proving CBS did not get the final word on Hondo
- Microsoft still wants Xbox to be both publisher and platform as Nadella backs the ongoing reset
- A seven-year-old Avengers movie is starting ahead of the new releases
- Electronic Arts in 2026: after the $55 billion buyout, where do EA and its licenses stand?
- Bethesda is no longer planning one next game, but an entire production pipeline
- The New Saw Movie Finds Its Director as Mike P. Nelson Enters the Game With James Wan
- The Beast in Me Gets Season 2 as Netflix Brings Claire Danes Back and Expands Its Howard Gordon Partnership
- New Money Turns Mekki Leeper's Self-Financed Pilot Into a Prime Video Series
- Heat 2: Ebon Moss-Bachrach Is in Final Talks to Take Over the Role of Kelso
- Netflix Extends Sesame Street Through Season 62 and Adds a Film Project
- Black Bear Takes Worldwide Rights to Atmosphere as Laika's Live-Action Push Gets a Theatrical Partner
- Reacher Stays No. 1 as Neagley Debuts at No. 2, Giving Prime Video a Clean Franchise Handoff
- There is now a new Glee script — but there is not a new Glee show yet
- AAA gaming in 2026 is not one crisis — it is a widening split between business models
- Toy Story 5 is now on Disney+ as Pixar's billion-dollar theatrical hit comes home
- The Love Hypothesis is now on Prime Video as Amazon turns Ali Hazelwood's romance hit into a global streaming release
- Hollywood's September 2026 release calendar: Resident Evil, Brad Pitt, Practical Magic 2 and more
- House of David will end with Season 3 as Amazon turns its renewal into a planned finale
- Lizzie Borden goes straight to No. 1 as Monster opens with 12.1 million views
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2 is coming sooner than expected
- Chinese-language cinema doubled its TIFF presence, and it arrived in several very different forms
- Wednesday's International Cinema Releases: Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Refn and a Busy Korean Opening Day
- Ubisoft is clearly in crisis, but it is not on the brink: what the 2026 numbers actually show
- Sweet Magnolias is ending after five seasons, but Netflix is keeping its creative formula alive
- Michelle Pfeiffer is not retiring: one comment about leading movies was enough to start the rumor
- Ewan McGregor still wants more Obi-Wan, and he has already pitched Dave Filoni a Yoda story
- Gary Oldman says the next James Bond has already been picked, but 007 still has no official face
- Jacob Elordi could join Scarlett Johansson in Ari Aster's Scapegoat
- Meghan Markle in The Gentlemen? Season 3 is now official, but her casting still isn't
- Barbie 2 is stuck on contracts because nobody signed up for a sequel the first time
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 2 is real, but Matthew McConaughey is still waiting for the right story
- La Bola Negra wins Toronto's audience prize after already taking Best Director at Cannes
- Backrooms crosses $400 million as a $10 million YouTube nightmare becomes a box-office monster
- Resident Evil opens to $60 million as Zach Cregger obliterates the franchise record
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day knocks Star Wars off the top with a record $936.8 million domestic run
- MobLand Season 2 has barely started and Paramount+ already wants Season 3
- Xbox is using TGS to widen its catalogue without betting everything on blockbusters
- Wonder Man logged 1.9 billion minutes watched, and Disney+ still canceled it
- Netflix goes deeper with Sega as Crazy Taxi, Sonic and Stranger Than Heaven launch a multi-title adaptation deal
- Resident Evil shocks the box office with $8.8 million before its first full weekend
- Valor Mortis is betting on being the second purchase: $39.99 to survive October's release traffic jam
- Prime Video turns a million-book French romance into a global YA movie with You+Me
- MobLand returns today, and Paramount+ has already bet on Season 3
- Netflix is bringing Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka voice back more than 50 years after the film
- Perfect Liars gives Prime Video a 140-million-read audience before the movie even premieres
- Reacher is officially becoming a franchise as Neagley gets her own Prime Video series
- The Gentlemen already has Season 3 as Netflix turns Guy Ritchie's crime world into a long-term series
- Netflix and SEGA shift up a gear as Crazy Taxi leads a new adaptation partnership
- Musk moves up its release as Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour documentary hits theaters October 9
- American Idol is leaving Hollywood after more than two decades and moving production to Georgia
- Game Pass reshuffles its catalogue again as Premium gains four games on the same day
- Lonesome Dove rides again as Netflix orders a new series from Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart
- Hawaii Five-O is taking another shot at the big screen with Destin Daniel Cretton
- Slow Horses launches Season 6 while Apple is already locking in Season 8
- EA and Savvy under one roof? PIF is reportedly considering an enormous gaming consolidation
- Gaming Is Breaking Revenue Records While Its Industrial Model Starts to Crack
- Polyarc is closing despite Moss, exposing how little prestige can protect a VR studio
- Max Verstappen starts P101 as Disney+ turns Silverstone into a giant chase
- He quit Anthropic with an extinction warning, and the internet turned his resignation into a meme
- Netflix cancels Ransom Canyon after Season 2 loses nearly half its opening audience
- NCIS: New York wants to get dirtier without breaking the franchise that built it
- PSYREN finally premieres October 5 — and the old Shonen Jump manga is supposed to get its complete story
- Sandra Bullock recalls auditions where men asked her to drop her pants — and why she walked away
- Sony Music takes Anthropic to court as Claude faces a potentially multi-billion-dollar copyright fight
- Team Falcons leaves Dota 2 one year after winning TI, and that says more than an ordinary roster change
- Off Campus Season 2 is filming as Prime Video hands the romance to Allie and Dean
- Frieren Season 3 waits until October 2027 — but Madhouse is keeping the team together for the Golden Land Arc
- Boys of Tommen finally steps on screen as Prime Video builds its next YA franchise
- Polyarc is closing after a funding crisis it never managed to outrun
- Hope goes global after smashing a Korean presales record
- Under Mythos is also a pitch for KADATH's unusual way of building JRPGs
- Hope already has a sequel script — Na Hong-jin is betting big on Korea's $74 million sci-fi gamble
- Busan goes bigger for 2026 with 246 films, 95 world premieres and a new Oscar route
- Emmys 2026 could make history for Jean Smart — and finally give Harrison Ford his first win
- The Inbetweeners 3 is finally filming at Netflix, and the yellow Fiat is back too
- WARDOGS turns one million wishlists into one million day-one sales
- Kendrick Lamar and the South Park creators' mystery movie has lost its release date again
- Spider-Man 5 Can Wait: Even After $2.4 Billion, Sony Still Refuses to Set a Date
- Hollywood Just Had Its Biggest Summer Ever — but the $4.765 Billion Record Needs Context
- Kaamelott Part 2 Has Not Been Delayed Again — but the November 11 Wait Is Still Much Longer Than Astier Wanted
- PHYSINT moves from PlayStation to Xbox — and Microsoft just won a major battle for prestige
- Netflix just paid seven figures for Understudy — before the project even has a cast
- Warner Bros. wants Get Smart again — and John Mulaney could be its new Maxwell Smart
- Double Fine avoided closure, kept its IP, and now has to relearn life without Microsoft
- The Italian Job is planning another heist, with Paul Feig in talks 23 years later
- Netflix is finally going to show its box-office numbers
- Prime Video is no longer just dubbing Maxton Hall — AI is changing the actors' lips too
- One million sales in three days: Dawnwalker is already turning Rebel Wolves into a franchise studio
- Avengers: Doomsday has already sold $50 million in tickets with three months still to go
- Onimusha's one-million launch gives Capcom exactly the proof its dormant-IP strategy needed
- Tires gets Season 4 as Shane Gillis' self-funded sitcom becomes a genuine Netflix fixture
- Supergirl hits HBO Max September 10, less than three months after theaters
- Disney+ lets Gargoyles turn back to stone as the live-action reboot is dropped
- Harry Potter hasn't premiered yet, but HBO is already casting Voldemort and planning the post-show
- CD PROJEKT RED has two secret games in production as its multi-project strategy takes shape
- Spider-Noir ends after one season, and Nicolas Cage is surprisingly fine with that
- Cygames launches CygamesEdge to make smaller games, and Where the Seeds Fall is its first test
- Resident Evil is already tracking for the biggest movie opening in franchise history
- Gary Oldman says the next James Bond has been picked — Amazon still isn't confirming anyone
- The Odyssey passes $1 billion overseas as Nolan’s epic keeps sailing
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day is only $13.7 million away from the all-time domestic record
- The US box office just delivered a record $4.76 billion summer
- Independent Again, Double Fine Is Turning Its Old Game Jam Into a New Business Model
- PAX Aus Is Giving Six Australian Indie Studios a Major Shop Window in October
- Mission Delta Missed the PAX Aus Showcase in 2024. Two Years Later, Its Tiny Melbourne Team Made the Cut
- Ink goes back to 1969 to show Danny Boyle's version of clickbait before the click existed
- Days of Thunder is racing back in 2028 with Tom Cruise, Anne Hathaway and a very deliberate IMAX plan
- Spider-Noir is done after one season, even after leading Prime Video with 11 Emmy nominations
- Hollywood just had a $4.6 billion summer, and movie theaters finally look busy again
- Supergirl hits HBO Max on September 10 after a theatrical run DC would rather not repeat
- PROJECT ZIRCON Takes a Sharp Turn: KONAMI's Web3 Co-Creation Project Is Now a Conventional Steam Game
- Star Citizen Hit 35,890 Concurrent Players as CIG Moves Another Piece of Its 1.0 Infrastructure Into Production
- Reacher has two episodes left, then Prime Video immediately hands the franchise to Neagley
- Aggro Crab is becoming a publisher without trying to build a traditional publishing machine
- Blue Beetle survived DC's reboot, but Xolo Maridueña did not know that until James Gunn called
- MobLand locks in Season 3 before Season 2 even premieres
- The Odyssey's IMAX 70mm run refuses to end with summer
- Sony's State of Play Looked More Like Portfolio Management Than a Hunt for One Megaton Reveal
- Warner Has Confirmed Another Hogwarts Legacy — and Its Place in the Company's Games Strategy
- Take-Two's GTA VI leak hunt is shifting from mass takedowns to identifying people
- HBO Max is expanding in Japan without launching another standalone app
- Haunted Chocolatier shows the rare luxury of developing without a public deadline
- Soul Chained shows what happens when an indie launch collides with platform review
- PlayStation is splitting its global showcase and Asian games into back-to-back State of Play broadcasts
- Apple TV is picking up Small Prophets after the BBC already turned it into a sleeper hit
- The Russo brothers say Endgame will be “required viewing” before Avengers: Doomsday
- Sterling Point renewed after just two weeks as Prime Video moves quickly on its next YA bet
- Top Gear is officially coming back, but the BBC still won't say who is driving
- Netflix orders The Gentlemen Season 3 before Season 2 even premieres
- Hulu renews Furious before Season 1 has even aired its finale
- Black Mirror Season 8 is filming, but Netflix is keeping the next set of nightmares quiet
- Toy Story 5 heads to Disney+ on September 23 after crossing $1 billion
- Ubisoft's Player Council brings outside feedback into projects before they are greenlit
- Rockstar turned a GTA VI gameplay reveal into a Netflix premiere
- Xbox is building a bridge from the used-game market into its digital ecosystem
- Path of Exile 2 is putting an end date on its paid Early Access experiment
- The Odyssey Has Now Made More Than $900 Million Outside North America
- The Odyssey Has Become IMAX's Biggest Movie Ever
- Spider-Man Passes Avengers: Endgame to Become the No. 2 Movie Ever at the Domestic Box Office
- Clive Owen Is the Father Anya Taylor-Joy Wants Dead in How to Kill Your Family
- Netflix Puts Kate Winslet and Maxine Peake on the Run in Jack Thorne's The Unheard
- Pokémon Pokopia's five million sales give the franchise a convincing case for diversification
- Sony's 49% stake in BRAVIA Inc. already comes with a staged exit mechanism
- CD Projekt is turning an eleven-year-old RPG back into an active product line
- Gamescom has sold every bit of its 2026 show floor, and 2027 now has a capacity problem
- Meta's youth social media trial may be heading toward settlement talks
- Marvel Is Sending Avengers: Endgame Back to Theaters to Sell the Road to Doomsday
- Disney+ Is Turning September 2 Into a Mandalorian Event
- Gamescom has sold every available exhibition area, while ONL makes its marketing model unusually explicit
- Cannes opened with one premiere in the Lumière and more than 980 screenings across France
- Sylvester Stallone and Peter Farrelly remember the approval of I Play Rocky very differently
- I Play Rocky is taking the underdog story to TIFF before its November release
- Camp Rock 3 hits Disney+ with a new class and plenty of old DNA
- Sebastian Stan filmed Avengers: Doomsday without ever getting the whole puzzle
- Dune: Part Three turned an IMAX ticket drop into a stress test for AMC
- Fjord no longer needs a country to open its International Feature Oscar path
- Take-Two is keeping its $8.0–$8.2 billion outlook even with GTA VI sitting in November
- GTA VI's leaks are now competing with Rockstar's own marketing calendar
- The Condor Daughter's 3,032-admission French opening comes with a major caveat
- Black Flag Resynced crossed 3 million sales in a week, but the useful business number stops there
- Prime Video briefly streamed all of Mutiny before its US theatrical release
- Insidious: Out of the Further leads France's new releases with 42,954 admissions
- Sony has a new box-office champion as Spider-Man: Brand New Day clears $2 billion
- NVIDIA's H200 is getting back into China, one government approval at a time
- Anthropic is lining up more than $10 billion in credit before its IPO, and banks already want a seat
- The Odyssey is now Christopher Nolan’s biggest movie, and Batman has lost its record
- With GPT-5.6 Luna, OpenAI is turning unlimited text into ChatGPT's new entry product
- Mortal Shell II was Playstack's biggest bet, and early reviews suggest it paid off
- Barely launched, the Palworld card game is already building a global competitive circuit
- The latest GTA VI leak mixes cultural hacking, activism and cryptocurrency
- After Palworld 1.0's huge comeback, Pocketpair is already resisting the content arms race
- With Pokémon Champions, Worlds 2026 gives VGC a home of its own