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Swift's Showgirl was the world's biggest selling album of 2025 and won nothing at the 2026 Grammys
The Life of a Showgirl recorded the largest album sales week in modern American history and was named the biggest selling album of 2025 by the global
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Swift's cinema release party closed at US$50.1 million, and ten months later it still has not streamed
The three day theatrical event tied to The Life of a Showgirl finished on US$34.1 million in North America and US$50.1 million worldwide, above the fi
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Lopez's Zemeckis thriller wrapped nine months ago and Netflix still has not dated it
The Last Mrs. Parrish, the New York shoot Jennifer Lopez was filming last October, finished principal photography in November 2025 and has no release
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After the Hunt lost roughly US$60 million in cinemas, then went to number one on Prime Video
Luca Guadagnino's campus drama, which Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri premiered at the London Film Festival last October, took US$9.5 million in North
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Deepika Padukone's fight over eight hour shifts has outlasted the search rankings
The IMDb list that crowned her India's most viewed star was published in May 2024 and stopped counting in April 2024. What has actually reshaped her c
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Shah Rukh Khan is not the world's richest actor, and Hurun now values him below its 2025 figure
The Hurun India Rich List valued Khan at Rs 12,490 crore (about US$1.4 billion) in October 2025, making him the first Indian actor in its billionaire
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Chandni Bar sequel holds its December 2026 date while the fight over the title stays unresolved
Legend Studios still intends to release a reimagined sequel on 3 December 2026, a quarter century after Madhur Bhandarkar's original. Bhandarkar has c
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Thamma recovered its budget and little more, and the Maddock horror universe has slipped a year
Ayushmann Khurrana's Diwali vampire film took about Rs 170 crore worldwide against an Rs 145 crore budget and drew the weakest reviews in the series.
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Kantara: Chapter 1 closed near Rs 850 crore, and Rishab Shetty has confirmed a third film
The prequel finished as the second highest grossing Kannada film and the second highest grossing Indian film of 2025. Shetty took a double award at th
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Disney sued Midjourney and licensed 200 characters to Sora, and the Sora deal lasted 103 days
Disney announced a three-year Sora licensing agreement with OpenAI on 11 December 2025, covering more than 200 characters and a US$1 billion equity in
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Netflix's price for Ben Affleck's 16-person AI startup was $587 million, disclosed in a July filing
Netflix bought InterPositive in March 2026 without disclosing terms. A securities filing on 17 July 2026 put the price at about US$587 million in cash
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The Academy's AI rules test human authorship, the Golden Globes' demand a written disclosure of every use
The Academy's rules for the 99th Oscars, announced 1 May 2026, require screenplays to be human-authored, require acting nominees to be demonstrably pe
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Hollywood's site blocking bill builds a court process most blocked sites will never attend
The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act, introduced on 29 January 2025 as H.R. 791, gives a foreign website 30 days to contest a blocking petition. Suppor
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A vacated New York conviction is why a California court has ordered Weinstein resentenced
On 26 June 2026 California's Second District Court of Appeal upheld Harvey Weinstein's Los Angeles conviction but set aside the 16 year sentence, beca
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The It Ends With Us case ended on privilege and employment status, not on the facts
Both sides claimed vindication. Judge Lewis J. Liman decided narrower things: that allegations in a lawsuit cannot be defamation, and that a performer
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