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Courtesy of The Film and TV Charity
Bullying and harassment hold at 48% in UK film as screen-sector mental health improves
The Film and TV Charity’s fifth Looking Glass survey finds mental health across UK film, TV and cinema improving from a low base. On film productions, bullying, harassment and discrimination have not moved since 2024.
- Bullying and harassment hold at 48% in UK film as screen-sector mental health improves
- Guy Pearce thriller The Marshal reportedly sells to 13 territories as AFM opens
- Norway’s film institute backs two Second World War resistance films with NOK24m ($2.55m)
- Godzilla Minus Zero opens at No. 1 in Mexico with MXN43.2m ($2.3m)
- Busan competition drama Laut Bercerita passes 1 million admissions in Indonesia in 11 days
- Çakallarla Dans 8 opens at No. 1 in Turkey with less than half its predecessor’s opening
- Agbara Nla: The Return loses Nigeria’s No. 1 spot to Loving Itohan by NGN183,499 ($137)
- Prime Video and Scanbox plan new Hamilton films and series from Jan Guillou’s spy novels
Local hits are rewriting the floor while franchises still buy the ceiling
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
- Premiere recordThe Remarried Empress: Disney+ and Hulu local-original ranking worldwide; first three days from 3 November; no view count
- Est. $23.5mRamayana: Part One: ₹221 crore worldwide gross, 5–6 November; tracker estimate, including early figures outside India
- $80m+Sunrise on the Reaping: North American opening forecast as of 6 November, informed by presales; not a presales total
Different territories, windows and units. No combined ranking.
Sources: Disney; Sacnilk; Deadline. Full data and method below.
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Courtesy of Sony Pictures
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
The week in the business
Box Office
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Busan competition drama Laut Bercerita passes 1 million admissions in Indonesia in 11 days
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.
Festivals & Markets
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Paraguay’s Narciso and Chilean documentary Monguen win Sanfic’s top prizes
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.
Money & Policy
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Skydance warns Warner Bros. slate will cut fourth-quarter studio profit by up to $200m
The first results since the Warner Bros. Discovery takeover name no titles, but set out how the new owner will run the studio, and promise an HBO Max and Paramount+ bundle for early 2027.
Distribution & Streaming
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Amazon MGM starts releasing its own films in French cinemas with The Thomas Crown Affair
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.
Across the regions
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Ramayana: Rise of a Legend becomes the first Indian film to top the UK box office
The Indian epic opened with £2.1m ($2.8m) in the UK and Ireland. In North America, final figures lifted it to $8.9m and trimmed Godzilla Minus Zero to $30.6m.
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Çakallarla Dans 8 opens at No. 1 in Turkey with less than half its predecessor’s opening
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%.
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Ramayana: Rise of a Legend becomes the first Indian film to top the UK box office
The Indian epic opened with £2.1m ($2.8m) in the UK and Ireland. In North America, final figures lifted it to $8.9m and trimmed Godzilla Minus Zero to $30.6m.
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Çakallarla Dans 8 opens at No. 1 in Turkey with less than half its predecessor’s opening
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%.
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Brazil’s R$12 week for local films draws 461,000 admissions and R$6.1m ($1.1m)
Brazilian films took 29.7% of admissions during the exhibitors’ first Festival do Cinema Brasileiro, almost double the week before. A holiday weekend helped.
The number
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
The World of Love opens in Japan
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One researched analysis of the companies, deals and routes to audiences behind the week’s news.