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Trades Digest: 28 September to 4 October 2026

Paramount-Warner becomes Skydance, exhibitors pour billions back into cinemas, streamers and distributors redraw their relationships with AI and…

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Criticism Digest: 26 September-2 October 2026

The Violinist prompts a reconsideration of the Singapore Story; New York Film Festival opens with monsters, metafiction and Elizabeth Holmes; and a week…

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Trades Digest: 21 to 27 September 2026

Paramount and Warner Bros.

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Criticism Digest: 19-25 September 2026

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Trades Digest: 14 to 20 September 2026

TIFF’s first official market closes with encouraging sales and growing pains, governments compete harder for production, independent producers confront…

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Trades Digest: 7 to 13 September 2026

The US summer box office breaks an all-time record, Netflix makes its biggest concession yet to theatrical exhibition, TIFF launches its first official…

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Trades Digest: 24 to 30 August 2026

The summer box office ends on a high but increasingly concentrated note, streaming platforms deepen their power, film financing find new outlets, and…

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Criticism Digest: 21-27 August 2026

Anthony Chen’s We Are All Strangers gets an international reading of contemporary Singapore; Sarajevo closes with films grappling with power, grief and…

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Criticism Digest: 14-20 August 2026

Nelson Yeo’s The House on the Moon meets its first critics at Locarno; Edinburgh introduces a new crop of films; and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey…

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Trades Digest: 10 to 16 August 2026

The theatrical rebound keeps accelerating, Paramount-Warner becomes a labour battle, indie financing faces a stress test, and Locarno closes as Sarajevo…

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Trades Digest: 3 to 9 August 2026

Successes in the theatrical window and box office, Warner Bros. merger in Europe, Locarno Pro round-up, and fall festivals. PLUS News from Singapore

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