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HBO’s Harry Potter Starts With $200M-Plus Budget
Earnings filings put setup cost for the seven-season HBO/HBO Max series at just over $200 million, on par with House of the Dragon.
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Focus Rushes ‘Elsinore’ to November After Telluride Ovation
Simon Stone’s ‘Elsinore’ went from shoot to Telluride in about 10 months, with Focus slotting a November release. What that speed says…
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Apple Sets ‘Tenzing’ For Oct 16 Streaming After Telluride Bow
Apple Original Films’ Everest biopic Tenzing premiered at Telluride and hits streaming October 16, with a limited theatrical run from October 9.…
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Kore-eda’s ‘Look Back’ Turns a Manga Hit Into Live Action
Variety reviews Hirokazu Kore-eda’s live-action ‘Look Back,’ adapted from Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga. What the double adaptation says about IP economics.
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Lionsgate Turns Capitol TV Into a Marketing Engine for Sunrise
Lionsgate is drip-feeding character teasers for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping through an in-world Capitol TV site. Here’s why the…
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Netflix’s Fauda Returns With Oct. 7 Episodes: What It Signals
Fauda’s 11-episode fifth season puts two episodes on Oct. 7, 2023 and lands globally on Netflix Sept. 8 — a test of…
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South Park Wins Animated Emmy, Then Trolls Trump Online
South Park won its first Animated Program Emmy in 13 years, then used the win to mock Donald Trump nine days before…
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Gender Gap in Film: The Numbers Behind Lumiere’s Warning
Six percentage points in 27 years. At the Lumiere Summit, studio and festival chiefs put hard numbers on film’s gender gap -…
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Ranabaali Teaser Set for Sept 9 Ahead of Dussehra Release
Ranabaali drops its teaser on September 9 ahead of an October 16, 2026 Dussehra release. Why the five-week runway matters for a…
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LoveHit Bets Microdrama Slate on Public-Domain Classics
LoveHit launches a vertical video app built on public-domain classics, shooting each title twice – 50-episode microdrama and 90-minute film for MIPCOM…