A horror picture directed by a twenty-one-year-old made more this summer than most studio tentpoles, and made its distributor the fourth-largest in America.
Krists Luhaers via UnsplashStones Throw marks three decades with a festival, two listening bars and a radio show. In a market with more music than anyone can hear, the product is judgement.
A coalition of 23 industry groups used Toronto to argue that the reach of global platforms is displacing the commissions that domestic storytelling depends on.
Streaming demand outgrew domestic capacity, and the work moved to wherever the trained crews were. The leverage moved with it.
Adaptations were a running joke for two decades. They are now the closest thing to a reliable franchise pipeline the studios have.
Hollywood did not ban synthetic performers. It priced them, which turns a question about art into a schedule of permissions and payments.
September 4, 2026California more than doubled its film incentive after years of losing shoots. The early numbers suggest the money works, which is the uncomfortable part.
September 4, 2026
