Friday, June 13, 2025

Business

“Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning” Has a Week of Daily Declines, Still Not at $100 Million After a Week

"Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning" opened to previews a week ago last night. The Tom Cruise epic three hour adventure film cost $400 million, at least....

Win! Taylor Swift Gets Back the Albums Scooter Braun Bought, then Sold, to Shamrock Holdings

Taylor Swift has been able to buy back the albums Scooter Braun took from her, then sold to Shamrock Holdings. She writes on social media: “To...

Swag Alert: Watch Patton Oswalt Unbox Apple TV’s Emmy Gifts Worth At Least $700 for Seth Rogen’s “The Studio”

The Swag Season is here. This is the time when the TV companies send out expensive gifts to promote their shows for Emmy nominations. On social...

“Lilo,” “Mission” Combine for $260 Mil Memorial Weekend, Higher and Lower than Expected

The four day Memorial Day weekend -- really a five day weekend counting Thursday -- brought surprises. "Lilo & Stitch" over performed like crazy. Disney...

Is This Tom Cruise’s Final Reckoning? Steep Declines Every Day for “Mission Impossible” Spell Trouble

Tom Cruise is not having a good weekend. Each day of this weekend so far "Mission Impossible: FInal Reckoning" has had steep declines at the...

“Mission Impossible” Scores $24 Mil Thurs-Fri, Looking at Low-ish $75 Mil Opening Weekend

Is the mission impossible? "Final Reckoning" only made $16 mil on Friday night. Adding the $8 mil from previews, opening comes to $24.8 mil. It's good...

Movie Biz: A24 Closes Documentary Division A Year After $75 Mil Investment from Jared Kushner’s Brother

A24 is facing some trouble. Today the standalone indie film company announced its closing their documentary division. Five talented people are out on the street. A24...

Hollywood Has a New Power Player: Streamer MUBI Picks Up 9 Cannes Films, Owned by Actual Young Turk Efe Cakarel

This week I mentioned MUBI to a couple of people. They'd never heard of it. I said, "They made The Substance with Demi Moore....