Dated film news filed as it breaks: release-date moves, casting, directors attaching, financing closes, trailers, ratings and confirmed running times.
Hollywood employment has rebounded from the 2023 strikes, but motion-picture jobs remain well below pre-pandemic peaks and the recovery has favored some crafts over others.
The theatrical window that once lasted 90 days now routinely ends within six weeks, and everything a film earns afterward flows through a completely different set of pipes.
Three circuits control most North American screens, the biggest of them survived bankruptcy threats through stock sales, and more consolidation is the base case.
In an economics where marketing a film costs as much as making it, a title audiences already recognize is the cheapest insurance a studio can buy.
The 2026 release calendar was rebuilt by a handful of studio scheduling decisions, led by Marvel pushing Avengers: Doomsday out of May and into December.
The number studios never put in the trailer is the one that decides profitability: a global campaign for a tentpole can cost as much as the picture itself.