The Business
The Paramount-WBD Merger Is the Media Deal of the Decade (If the DOJ Lets It Happen)
$111 billion. One deal. The last real rival to Netflix. The valuation is the headline. The subscriber count is the actual story.
Streaming
Euphoria's Final Season Is HBO's Biggest Bet Since Game of Thrones
The show that broke a generation and nearly broke itself. Season 3 drops April 12. Zendaya's in it. It has to actually be good this time.
Box Office
Super Mario Galaxy Hit $188M Opening Weekend and the Rest of Hollywood Has Questions
Not a Disney movie. Not a superhero. Just Mario. $188M opening weekend, best animated film of 2026, and a reminder that Nintendo doesn't need anyone's help.
Streaming
Severance Season 2 Finale Sets Apple TV+ All-Time Viewing Record
Best show on Apple TV just had its biggest episode ever. Season 3 is coming. Eventually. Probably. Get comfortable waiting.
Awards Season
A24's The Drama Is the First Real Oscar Contender of 2026
$14M opening. 84 minutes. No explosions. Just two people talking and A24 doing it again.
The Business
Amazon Dropped the Boys Finale on a Tuesday and That's All You Need to Know
Their biggest show. Series finale. Tuesday in April. Prime Video's relationship with cultural moments in one scheduling decision.
Development
Snow White Has Disney's Live-Action Slate in Trouble (Again)
Three weeks. $56M domestic. We're past asking if it failed. Now we're asking why Disney keeps making the same one.
Streaming
Every Streamer Is Chasing the Same Sports Rights and It's Getting Expensive
Netflix. Apple. Amazon. All of them. Bidding on the same packages. Sports might be the only thing that can actually save this business and everyone knows it.
Development
Christopher Nolan Is Making a WWII Epic and the Scale Is Reportedly Insane
After Oppenheimer, he's going back to the war genre. Reports say the scale is unprecedented even for him. Good.
Streaming
Netflix's Password Crackdown Worked and the Analysts Were Wrong About All of It
Everyone said it would kill them. It added millions of subscribers. The industry is still trying to figure out what to do with that information.
The Business
The SAG Strike Was a Year Ago. Here's What Actually Changed.
Contracts signed. Studios made promises. Productions restarted. A year later, the honest answer about what stuck and what was just good PR.
Profiles
Blumhouse at 25: Paranormal Activity. Get Out. The Black Phone. How?
25 years of spending almost nothing and making films that actually matter. Hollywood still can't copy it. Jason Blum is not complaining.