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A 'Detective Chinatown' prequel and a 'Ne Zha' sequel are just two tentpoles amid a holiday line-up packed with sequels and prequels for some of China's biggest hits and most popular recent successes.

Neither film is opening terribly high this MLK weekend, but Sony's R-rated, star-driven, non-franchise comedy's solid launch marks the first happy surprise of 2025.

Meanwhile, 'Babygirl' joined 'Anora' and 'Den of Thieves 2' in the "just over $30 million worldwide" club and 'Nosferatu' has earned over $155 million globally.

Will fear of a temperamental, performatively reactionary president create offline consequences for online controversies and thus cower an entire entertainment industry into preemptively acting contrary to their own financial interests?

Matthew Belloni Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, and happy M.L.K. Day, college football national championship game day, and Trump Inauguration Day. (In that order? I guess it depends on if you’re hoping to merge your large, financially challenged media company.) Given the embarrassing holiday weekend at the box office, let’s just […]

With the strikes and Covid a distant (if bitter) memory, Hollywood is primed for a return to the old normal. Maybe? What will it take for this year to be The One?

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Steven Soderbergh and David Koepp's 'Presence' is a haunted house melodrama unlike any you've seen. It is so compelling that you won't care that it's not scary.

Sure, Oscar nominations can give any individual movie a boost—see: last year's ‘The Zone of Interest'—but unless a big mainstream hit is catching a lucrative second wind, they don't mean as much as they did pre-streaming.

Sure, Oscar nominations can give any individual movie a lift—just ask last year’s ‘The Holdovers.’ But unless a big mainstream hit is catching a lucrative second wind, it doesn’t boost the total business the way it did pre-streaming.