Drake's Three New Albums Sell 687,000 in First Week, Below Forecasts
Iceman 463K + Habibti 114K + Maid of Honour 110K = the first artist ever to debut three top-three on the Billboard 200, but the Kalshi 725K wager paid NO.
Camille Beaumont
Bureau: Los Angeles
'Mandalorian and Grogu' Tops $100 Million; Worst 'Star Wars' Opening Since 1983
Disney exceeded its own tracking, beat Solo by a hair, and still printed the smallest live-action Star Wars opening in forty-three years adjusted for inflation.
Sony Pictures Classics Stays Silent on Almodóvar's 'Monsters' Charge
Sony Pictures Classics has spent five days saying nothing about a director it acquired in August; the post-festival week's actual transcript is in the AI-rights deals.
Sony Pictures Classics Stays Silent on Almodóvar's 'Monsters' Charge for Five Days
Five days after the Bitter Christmas press conference, Sony Pictures Classics has still not addressed Almodóvar's monsters framing or named a U.S. release date.
Cannes Film Market Closes With Only Two Major Sales
A24's Club Kid and Amazon-MGM's Pumping Black are still the year's only mid-cap Marché checks; the streamer pullback is the structural baseline.
Yoko Ono Has Not Answered Meta Credit on Soderbergh's Lennon Documentary
Six days after the Cannes premiere, the Meta technology-partner credit on Soderbergh's Lennon doc holds; Sean Ono Lennon blessed it, Yoko Ono has not spoken.
Trade Press Picks Sebastian Stan for Oscar Within a Day of Cannes Win
Variety, Deadline and Gold Derby framed Stan's Fjord performance as a Best Actor frontrunner inside one news cycle; Neon now owns the Q4 specialty release.
Carlo Petrini, Who Built Slow Food From One Roman McDonald's Into a Movement of 150 Countries, Dies at 76
The Italian gastronome who founded Slow Food in 1986 against the opening of a Roman McDonald's died Friday in his Piedmont hometown of Bra; the movement now spans 150 countries.