Four hundred million on a ten-million film
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.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2026
TopicEntertainment
Games became the safest bet
Adaptations were a running joke for two decades. They are now the closest thing to a reliable franchise pipeline the studios have.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
How a Vine kid and a Netflix editor built a monster for the app age
RYDE strips the vampire myth down to a rideshare pickup, and the filmmakers behind it learned storytelling inside the same attention economy the film weaponizes.
AUGUST 23, 2026
The repertory cinema is having its best decade in fifty years
Restored classics, anniversary runs, and 35mm programming are filling houses that first-run releases can't, and theater owners have noticed.
AUGUST 15, 2026
Why studios keep sending old movies back to theaters
Anniversary re-releases have become a reliable line of business, and the incentives reach from the vault to the marquee.
JULY 24, 2026
The practical effects comeback is really about trust
Audiences reward films that build what they show, and productions are relearning crafts the digital era nearly retired.
JUNE 29, 2026
The disc endures: physical media's stubborn second life
As streaming libraries shuffle and shrink, collectors and boutique labels have turned owning films into a movement.
JUNE 8, 2026