Photo: Dean Rogers. Courtesy of Big Talk Studios and Altitude
Inward investment fell by two-fifths and high-end TV by a fifth. The steep part of the drop came in the third quarter, after a first half that looked steady.
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A Korean streaming record, an estimated $23.5m Indian start and an $80m-plus Hollywood forecast put local IP in the same buying conversation. The measures remain different.
Read the analysis: Local hits are rewriting the floor while franchises still buy the ceilingThree markers, three different measures
Demand does not arrive in one unit
Different territories, windows and units. No combined ranking.
Sources: Disney; Sacnilk; Deadline. Full data and method below.
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Box office outside North America and China is back in dollars, not tickets. Who’s winning?Photo: Nielsoncaetanosalmeron / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
Skydance and Netflix job cuts, Hello Sunshine’s reported layoffs: where does the money go?Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios
Prime Video says it pays its way. Japan is where Amazon is testing what it buys next
Toho’s sequel sold 553,530 tickets from Thursday to Sunday to end La venganza del Charro Negro’s two-weekend run at the top. The Mexican animated film has now passed MXN232m ($12.4m).
Marcelo Martinessi’s Narciso won the international competition and the late Antonio Caro’s Monguen the Chilean one. Two works in progress took six of the nine WIP prizes.
The broadcaster now expects full-year advertising to fall 2–3% and has trimmed its 2026 programme budget to about £1.2bn, while ITV Studios waits on a heavy fourth quarter.
The studio takes French releases back from Sony, its interim partner, from March 2027, with two more films planned for 2027 and five for 2028.
Epic Pictures has reportedly placed Andrew Baird’s Newfoundland-shot thriller across Europe, Latin America, Australia, Korea and the Middle East. No US deal has been announced.
Yosep Anggi Noen’s adaptation of Leila S. Chudori’s novel is the 20th Indonesian film past the mark this year, and it led the market for two straight weeks in a season usually owned by horror.
The eighth film in Murat Şeker’s comedy series opened on 35% fewer screens than the seventh. Across the market, tickets fell 14% on a year earlier while takings in lira rose 14%.
Brazilian films took 29.7% of admissions during the exhibitors’ first Festival do Cinema Brasileiro, almost double the week before. A holiday weekend helped.
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Premiere record
The Remarried Empress: Disney+ and Hulu local-original ranking worldwide; first three days from 3 November; no view count
The diary
Coming up: markets, festivals, release dates
Festival
IDFA, AmsterdamMarket
IDFA Forum, AmsterdamMarket
Golden Horse Film Project Promotion, TaipeiFestival
Doha Film FestivalMarket
WAVES Film Bazaar, PanajiRelease
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