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Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 3:41 pm
Paramount must release 30 films a year or sell Miramax, the label behind its biggest hit of the year
Twelve states have signed off on Paramount buying Warner Bros., and the price is a promise about cinemas: thirty films a year, every year. The enforcement mechanism is the part nobody saw coming, because the studio has put up a label most people had stopped thinking about.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 2:52 pm
Avengers: Endgame Encore has two runtimes, and the cheaper ticket gets three minutes less
Disney puts Avengers: Endgame back in cinemas on Thursday with new footage the Russo brothers say builds a bridge to Doomsday. How much of that bridge you actually get to see depends on which ticket you buy, and the gap between the two versions has now been measured to the second.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 1:36 pm
Taylor Tomlinson's first book is a list of opinions she has reversed, and she names the one she never will
Taylor Tomlinson has spent fifteen years telling audiences exactly what she thinks about God, therapy, dating and her own family, with the certainty of someone who has worked the bit out on stage. Her first book is a list of the times she got it wrong, and one position she says she will defend to the grave.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 1:21 pm
Lanterns episode 6 put Carol Ferris at Hal Jordan's funeral, 15 years after Blake Lively played her
Three people came to Hal Jordan's funeral in Lanterns episode 6: two old girlfriends and a colleague who could not stand him. One of those girlfriends has been part of Green Lantern comics since 1959, and what she becomes there would make her the most powerful person at the graveside.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 12:32 pm
NBC's Line of Fire premieres tonight with two reviews that praise and condemn the same scenes
Peter Krause has led six television series since 1998, and the seventh arrives tonight with two reviews that cancel each other out. Neither critic had the decisive figure: the showrunner has already broken a typical episode down by percentage, and the number explains exactly where the two of them parted company.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 8:47 am
It took five Swedish unions to make Activision Blizzard blink
The people behind Microsoft's most reliable money printer asked for the most ordinary thing a Swedish worker can ask for — and now there's a countdown clock ticking in Stockholm.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 8:16 am
Marathon is turning into Destiny and Bungie should just say it
Bungie's rescue plan for its struggling shooter sounds suspiciously like a game you already played for a decade — the studio just refuses to use the word.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 7:38 am
I don't know who funds games like Hyper Light Drifter anymore
One of indie gaming's most decorated studios did everything right for thirteen years, and what happened to it anyway should terrify anyone who loves strange little games.
Daniel Okafor
September 21, 2026 7:12 am
Build A Rocket Boy spied on its own staff and still couldn't ship
The studio that promised to out-GTA GTA is winding down for good, and the game turns out to be the least damning thing it built.
Daniel Okafor
September 17, 2026 8:36 pm
The Kardashians season 8 trailer puts Kim in a hospital bed, and the word she says is not cancer
Kim Kardashian says the word esophagitis from a hospital bed, and the camera cuts to her mother, who cannot finish her sentence. Her father died of oesophageal cancer in 2003, two months after his diagnosis. Those are two different illnesses, and the trailer does not say otherwise.