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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.

By Camille Beaumont, Los Angeles May 25 6 min read

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'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.

By Camille Beaumont, Los Angeles May 25 5 min read

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Hungary Makes Magyar's Eurovision Return Pledge a Formal Directive

Hungary's prime minister moved from a campaign pledge to an instruction to the culture ministry; Orbán's office, MTVA, and the EBU all said nothing.

By Anna Weber, Berlin May 25 4 min read

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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.

By Camille Beaumont, Los Angeles May 25 2 min read

A Memorial Day Monday view of the empty Palais des Festivals exhibition hall in Cannes, vinyl banners rolled up against a wall, partitions cleared, no people.

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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.

By Camille Beaumont, Los Angeles May 25 2 min read

A Memorial Day Monday view of the marquee outside a Manhattan art-house cinema showing the John Lennon documentary's title card, the screening unannounced for the U.S. yet.

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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.

By Camille Beaumont, Los Angeles May 25 2 min read

A Monday morning view of the empty Neon distribution office in Los Angeles, Anora and Anatomy of a Fall framed Palme posters on the wall, late spring light through windows, no people.

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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.

By Camille Beaumont, Los Angeles May 25 2 min read