Bradley Hope

Paramount × Skydance is nearly locked. Fewer buyers, faster greenlights, and franchise math rule the new studio playbook. Inside: who wins, who loses, and why pitch windows are closing fast.

Superman lands, F1 holds, and Jurassic claws for premium screens—plus a crucial AI contract vote that could reshape future deals.

Legacy IP surges to $88M, but Pixar's Elio flops. Exec shakeups, TikTok hacks, and docu-events reshape summer’s media landscape.

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.

Pixar stumbles, streamers bet on 30-min thrillers, and Netflix, Apple, Paramount shuffle key execs. TikTok fuels new aesthetics and chart-topping audio. Plus: July’s must-know events, from M3GAN 2.0 to Paramount’s merger vote. No noise—just the signal.

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.