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      <title>What a First-Look Deal Actually Is (and What It Doesn&apos;t Buy)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[First-look deals buy an exclusive window on a producer's projects, not the projects themselves — mechanics, fee tiers, and why the trimming cycles keep coming.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:57:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How Packaging Fees Actually Work — and Why the WGA Killed Them</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For decades, talent agencies collected a cut of a show's budget for assembling its cast and writers instead of commission from their clients — here's the mechanism, and why the Writers Guild spent three years dismantling it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:51:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Record $430 Million Weekend Tests AMC&apos;s Billion-Dollar Theater Bet</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A historic industry-wide box office weekend, powered by premium-format sellouts, is the clearest evidence yet that theater chains' years of renovation spending are starting to pay off.]]></description>
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      <title>The $23-an-Hour Median: How Actors and Directors Actually Get Paid</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Government wage data and the actors' union's own cost schedule show why so much entertainment income comes from short gigs and staggered checks, not steady paychecks.]]></description>
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      <title>How Residuals Actually Work — and Why the Checks Got Smaller</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Residuals paid per use until streaming swapped the basis to subscriber-tier tenure; the 2023 strikes repriced the difference without restoring the principle.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:57:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Universal Spent $25.7 Million Selling Oppenheimer To Oscar Voters</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Awards season runs on paid media, not just prestige. Here is how studios budget, spend and sometimes skip the campaign that decides who gets nominated.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:51:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>WGA Sues to Block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The WGA sued to block Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. deal on July 14, 2026; a judge paused the merger on July 20. Here is what is at stake.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Anna Reed</dc:creator>
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      <title>Super Mario Galaxy Movie Becomes First Billion-Dollar Release of 2026</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Super Mario Galaxy Movie became 2026's first $1 billion release in its tenth weekend, per AP. Here is what the box office money means.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Marco Bellandi</dc:creator>
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      <title>DOJ Clears Paramount&apos;s $110 Billion Warner Bros. Acquisition</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The DOJ cleared Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition on June 12, 2026. Here is what the approval does and does not settle.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Marco Bellandi</dc:creator>
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      <title>Cannes 2026 Market Feels the Squeeze as Streamers Tighten Checkbooks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cannes 2026 ran May 12-23 while the film market tightened: too many packages, a reported $17 million lead deal, and streamers buying selectively.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Warner Bros. Shareholders Approve Sale but Reject Executive Pay</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WBD shareholders approved the $110.9 billion Paramount sale on April 23, 2026 but rejected Zaslav's executive pay packages in the same vote.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alice Bay</dc:creator>
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      <title>Netflix Raises US Prices Again, Pushing Standard Plan to $19.99</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Netflix raised all US plan prices on March 26, 2026 — standard to $19.99 — its second hike in under a year. Here is what the money means.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Netflix Exits and Paramount Signs a $110.9 Billion Warner Bros. Deal</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Netflix declined to raise its Warner Bros. offer on February 26, 2026; Paramount signed a $110.9 billion, $31-per-share deal a day later.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 04:21:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Marco Bellandi</dc:creator>
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