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This week’s IP Surveillance tracks July 2025 standouts: near-future satire, plastic-surgery noir, cult podcasts, true-crime face-offs, and eerie memoirs—plus a new spotlight on narrative-rich indie games primed for screen. All fresh, all unoptioned.
Superman lands, F1 holds, and Jurassic claws for premium screens—plus a crucial AI contract vote that could reshape future deals.
Jurassic hits mid-week, Spielberg draws an AI red line, and streamers race to grab holiday eyeballs. We’ve got the signals that matter as July 4th reshapes the summer slate—on screen and behind the scenes.
This week’s IP Surveillance spans diaspora family sagas, eerie psychological thrillers, PFAS coverups in Sweden, a tech philosopher’s quiet coup, and jaw-dropping true crime. All fresh, unoptioned, and primed for screen.
Dragon holds strong, F1: The Movie revs up with a $30M+ debut, and M3GAN 2.0 targets Gen-Z horror fans. With $3.85B YTD, theaters are surging—while cheaper gas may fuel even more foot traffic this summer.
June 2025 releases spanning multiple genres: literary mysteries (Flashlight), magical realism (The Phoenix Pencil Company), true-crime biographies (Harlem's Stephanie St. Clair), investigative articles about a CrossFit death and teen murders solved via Google searches, an avalanche survivor memoir.
UK production hit £5.6B in 2024 (+31%), led by global spend. Domestic commissioning fell, creating a feast-or-famine market. Tax breaks, Netflix investment, and studio demand shape the landscape. We map key risks, financing shifts, and near-term plays across scripted and unscripted.
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