Dated film news filed as it breaks: release-date moves, casting, directors attaching, financing closes, trailers, ratings and confirmed running times.
The video-game adaptation delivered the largest opening of 2025 to date and a demonstration of what a four-quadrant family title still does to a release calendar.
From a paid submission through the Rating Board to a two-thirds vote on appeal, the process that puts a letter on every theatrical release runs on rules the Motion Picture Association publishes in full.
Sunday grosses are two-thirds count and one-third forecast — and opening-weekend estimates have run 6.38% above the real figure on average, per published research.
Studios' Sunday morning weekend estimates overstate the eventual actual gross by an average of 6.38%, a Stanford study of more than a thousand releases found, and the gap is largest in a film's first weekend.
Talent agency consolidation has cut Hollywood's Big Four to a Big Three owned largely by private money, reshaping leverage for everyone whose career runs through a representative.
Event cinema has grown from a niche opera experiment into a billion-adjacent business, with concerts, theatre broadcasts and live sports now filling multiplexes on slow nights.