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Mob Entertainment's Poppy Playtime Chapter 5 sold 275,000 units in its first week, proving indie horror's episodic model can generate sustainable revenue without AAA budgets or live service traps.
Queen II gets the deluxe boxed set treatment 52 years after its release. Brian May called it the band's biggest leap — and the reissue confirms what every legacy act already knows: catalog revenue beats new material every time.
Jocelyn Bioh and Whitney White reunite for the Broadway premiere of School Girls this fall, testing whether theater's interest in African stories extends beyond immigrant narratives to stories set in Africa itself.
The Oscars drew 17.9 million viewers despite Sinners and One Battle After Another leading the nominations — a four-year low that suggests blockbuster nominees can't save the awards show format anymore.
Five years prior to his death in 2025, Val Kilmer was cast as Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist, in “As Deep as the Grave.” But Kilmer, who was battling throat cancer, was too sick to ever make it to set. “He was the actor I wanted to play this role,” says […]
“Stranger Things” fans will soon be able to return to Hawkins through a whole new medium. Arrow Films and Netflix have teamed up to release “Stranger Things: The Complete Series” for Blu-Ray and 4K UHD, available for pre-order now. Releasing on July 27 in the UK and July 28 in the U.S. and Canada, t
Peter Thompson, the West End publicist who made Cats, Phantom, and Les Misérables into global phenomena, died at 81. His career defined an era when Broadway publicity was a craft, not an algorithm.
CBS News Radio is shutting down after nearly a century. The closure reveals how legacy media is dismantling the infrastructure that built its credibility — because trust doesn't scale like content.
Lily Allen's West End Girl show traded spectacle for theatrical intimacy, building a concert experience around emotional catharsis. It's the model pop stars are betting on now.
Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk's Firefly animated series is in advanced development — without studio backing. The revival shows how creator-owned IP can finally bypass traditional gatekeepers.
A Filmart panel made it clear: international co-production isn't about expansion anymore — it's survival. With AI disrupting production and box office returns unpredictable, the era of solo-financed tentpoles is over.
The doctors at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center will be getting an infusion of cash from the California Film Commission when they return for Season 3 of “The Pitt.” The show, which films in Burbank, will get $24.2 million in state subsidies, up from the $12.2 million awarded for each o
MBC Group's 28.5% revenue jump to $1.43 billion, driven by its Shahid streaming platform, shows how Middle Eastern broadcasters are using local content as infrastructure strategy against Netflix and Disney+.
Netflix's Adolescence landed 11 BAFTA TV nominations months after fading from cultural conversation — proof that awards momentum outlasts zeitgeist moments when you engineer a show for trophies, not longevity.
BTS is releasing an album, performing in Seoul, appearing in New York, and dropping a Netflix documentary — all in one week. That's not a comeback schedule. That's a product launch.
BTS performed at Spotify's Pier 17 event just 48 hours after their Seoul reunion concert — a 7,000-mile trip that signals streaming platforms are now essential infrastructure, not promotional partners.