Editorial
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Features
Most "best kids' movies" lists are useless for parents of autistic children, because they never answer the only question that matters: what happens at minute three when the soundtrack spikes? An estimated 70–90% of autistic individuals experience heightened…
Features
Hollywood has been telling stories about veterans coming home since before "PTSD" existed as a diagnosis. The films span every clinical era — "combat fatigue" in 1949, the unnamed torment of the post-Vietnam wave, the DSM-informed portrayals of…
Features
For most of Hollywood's first century, LGBTQ+ characters were an accounting entry the studios refused to make. They existed on screen — coded, implied, punished — but never on the books as something a studio would greenlight, market,…
Box Office
Supergirl arrived in June carrying the biggest promotional partner campaign in DC Studios history. Five weeks later, it's carrying something else: a nine-figure loss for Warner Bros. Deadline says $125 million. A source close to the film says $80-85 million. Our reconstruction of the ledger says both are generous — the realistic theatrical loss is north of $200 million. Here's the complete cost stack, the math the low estimates are skipping, and why that headline-grabbing "$100 million promo campaign" was never money at all.
Box Office
Spider-Man: Brand New Day opened to $355 million domestic and $927 million worldwide — the second-biggest debut in history on both scoreboards. It fell an agonizing $2.1 million short of dethroning Avengers: Endgame. Here's why Sony still won the weekend by every measure that pays the bills.
Box Office
Obsession and Backrooms have Hollywood chanting "horror is hot" again, armed with the genre's favorite party trick: the box office multiple. But a multiple is a headline, not a financial statement. Here's why the industry's most-quoted number is also its most misleading — and which metrics actually tell you whether a scary movie made money.
Business
The Headline Numbers Letterboxd is on the market at a floated valuation of roughly $250 million, in an auction process run by boutique investment bank LionTree, according to reporting from The Ankler and Puck. That figure represents a…
