Film
A game adaptation broke the opening record. Again.
The studios stopped treating games as risky source material somewhere around the third billion-dollar weekend.
Entertainment
Screens, stages and the business of attention.
Film
Hard science fiction is a blockbuster genre now
Two of the year's top three openings asked the audience to follow actual physics. The audience followed.
Awards
Awards season is rewriting its own rulebook
Eligibility windows, streaming counts and a very public argument about what a release even is.
Television
Streaming's quiet shift back to weekly episodes
Bingeing was never the business model. It was the land grab.
Music
The tour that sold out in nine minutes, explained
Dynamic pricing met a fanbase that does arithmetic, in public, with spreadsheets.