MARVELOUS‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Smashes Opening Day RecordMarvel’s ‘Avengers: Endgame’ previously held the record. Sarah-Jane Collins
SPIDEY SENSESSony Boss Reveals Real Reason China Banned ‘Spiderman’The Sony CEO revealed the conversation he had with the China Film Administration about its proposed changes.Eboni Boykin-Patterson
DEMON SUCCESS'Demon Slayer’ Crushes Box Office Records for Anime FilmThe company that produced ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ continued their streak of record-breaking animations with its newest anime. Annie Bang
SEARCH IS OVER‘Legend of Zelda’ Live-Action Has Found its Zelda and LinkGame creator Shigeru Miyamoto announced who will be playing two of the most iconic characters in the video game series.Jasmine Venet
SWITCHOVER CBS Loses Distribution Rights to Two Key Game ShowsA tentative court ruling has seen the network losing its distribution rights to the two beloved game shows to Sony.Yasmeen Hamadeh
PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ Venom Eats Heads and Sings ‘Dancing Queen’ in Bonkers SequelIn “Venom: The Last Dance,” Tom Hardy alternates his cranium chomping choreographed song-and-dance numbers. If that’s not an endorsement, we don’t know what is.Nick Schager
$$$Pink Floyd Sells Music Catalog for Nine-Figure PaydayThe band got a whopping $400 million for their catalog. Clay Walker
PRODUCT PLACEMENT‘Madame Web’ Is the Worst Pepsi Commercial of All TimeThe soda company clearly cut a fat check to producers of the maligned film, and it shows. It also—and this is a high bar—just may be the silliest aspect of the movie.Allegra Frank
‘DRASTIC’Dakota Johnson: ‘Madame Web’ Script Totally ChangedJohnson said she can’t even remember what the story was when she signed up for the project.Edith Olmsted
VIRTUAL VISIONSony’s VR Device Lets You Make 3D Designs in Real LifeCEO Kenichiro Yoshida told reporters at a Monday press conference that the device is a “new solution for spatial content creation."Tony Ho Tran
PURE MAGIC2023’s Animated Movies Were Unlike Anything We’d Ever SeenFrom fantastic hits like “Across the Spider-Verse” and “Boy and the Heron,” to gorgeous, inventive works from around the world, animation’s boundaries exploded this year.Barry Levitt