FRIDAY AFTERNOON: This weekend belongs to Sony, at least the top two spots do with Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s fourth frame of $35M at 4,006 sites and Blumhouse/Atomic Monster/Stage 6’s Insidious: Out of the Further opening to $23M at 3,303 theaters.
The Department of Justice has secured a $400M settlement in its Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) case against TikTok.
The Stuart Price rework of the summer's biggest club hit — unveiled at WorldPride Amsterdam — hands Madonna a fifth U. K. dance chart-topper in 15 weeks.
Zach Hickerson tells TMZ he and Brian Hickerson performed CPR on the actor after finding her unconscious in a Greenville, South Carolina, Airbnb.
A group of Hollywood filmmakers, executives and actors has spent the last three years secretly meeting with Silicon Valley executives to try to address a simmering issue in the industry: how to define where AI is useful in the context of a human-controlled creative process.
College football’s Week 0 kicks off next Friday, while the 2026 NFL season gets underway September 9. A potential carriage dispute between DirecTV and Indiana’s Circle City Broadcasting could make it much harder for Indianapolis football fans to watch any of it if it isn’t resolved by Monday, Au...