Film Industry Pulse

• Once Upon a Time in Harlem takes the $200,000 Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for its 1972 footage of surviving creators at Duke Ellington’s party...

Reconstructing Bruce Lee's truncated Game of Death through the documentary reveals his core ambition: using martial arts cinema as a path to personal...

Private investors in the UK and EU ask the exact same questions about returns and risk as their US counterparts.

Yet the article highlights a deeper...

Producer success begins with judging what can actually be made, financed, marketed, and delivered. The first skill is not loving a story but...

UCM.ONE uses the Leipzig Film Art Fair to give theater operators early screenings of three upcoming releases, directly shaping arthouse theatrical...

Is Netflix’s next challenge not subscriber growth, but keeping audiences sufficiently engaged to justify its valuation?

• Wells Fargo downgrade: Cut...

TIFF thrives amid industry gloom by blending high-stakes premieres with genuine public celebration.

The author notes thousands still gather to make,...

Sustained Catalan government funding has surged from €12.5 million in 2019 to €30.2 million, powering a new wave of larger-scale, genre-infused...

More than 530 projects from 82 countries submitted to the 2026 MIA edition point to a strong and diverse international pipeline for film and television development.

Snyder's push to adapt The Dark Knight Returns shows how franchise nostalgia and fan campaigns can linger years after a creator's exit.

• Fan...

Marvel and Sony appear positioned to ease Peter Parker into a supporting role while elevating Miles Morales, preserving the franchise's broad...

Haiwaan’s early run shows a front-loaded trajectory with sharp drops after day 3.

• India net reached 9.85 crore (11.63 crore gross) over seven...

Several titles from this year's festival stand out as potential awards and conversation starters in indie and arthouse circles.

• Club Kid broke out...

The Batman Returns Batmobile, the franchise's most historically significant screen-used vehicle operated by Michael Keaton, heads to auction with a...

SuperCinema launches as an indie studio in Burbank, aiming to produce, market, and theatrically distribute films directly to audiences. By keeping every stage in-house, it seeks tighter grip on project economics from development through release.

August 2026 delivered ₹1,768 Cr in domestic grosses, the third-best month ever and the year's strongest.

Key highlights:

• Jan-Aug total reached...

Mediaset Distribution's licensing pact with Suspilne delivers Italian miniseries and classics—including titles with Romy Schneider, Marcello...

• Audience Reach: iQIYI's QIYIGuo TV leads with 141M monthly active devices, reaching ~130M daily viewers via 2.6 per TV.
• Deeper Engagement: Users...

DC is testing genre hybridity by turning a Superman spin-off into a true-crime mockumentary, with Jimmy Olsen star Skyler Gisondo calling it a...

The Climate Film Festival's East Coast premiere of House of Fish sold out immediately, with additional weekend screenings also filling up rapidly, signaling robust local audience engagement with independent cinema on climate themes.