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BUDGET FORENSICS - WHAT’S ON THE SCREEN: A GUY, A DOG, and $82 MILLION?
Heart of the Beast is a good movie with a budget its story never needed. Here is what $82 million bought, and what $47.5 million could have.
After each long day of shooting in New Zealand, David Ayer says, he and Brad Pitt would look at ea...
BONUS POST: SKYDANCE IS ABOUT TO LAY OFF THE NEXT GREAT STUDIO
A bonus post this week, because the “synergies” have started.
Paramount Skydance closed its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery last Tuesday, October 6th.
Now comes the part every merger memo calls synergies.
It has star...
DIGGER LOST. THE SWING WAS STILL RIGHT.
Warner Bros.’ cheap originals beat the industry. Its expensive ones did not. The 2026 box office shows which originals pay, and who should be carrying the risk.
Last Weekend
THE CREDIT YOU CAN’T BANK
A federal credit would keep productions in America that are leaving today. As written, Producers can’t bank it before the shoot. Congress still has time to fix that.
THE DEAL
RIP WB, THAT BIG BEAUTIFUL FIRST STUDIO I WORKED FOR
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