How box office numbers actually get counted
One company measures nearly all North American ticket sales — and this year, the business changed hands for $70 million.
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Rolling entertainment coverage: release dates, casting, trailers, tour announcements and press-tour fallout, filed as they land and clearly dated.
Verify a viral company announcement in four checks
Entertainment obituaries: who confirms a death and why false ones happen
A public figure's death is confirmed by a named authority — family, official representative, or police — and republished only after at least two independent outlets verify it; false death reports trace back to a single unverified post multiplied by aggregation speed.
Box office "records" without context: inflation, formats and fine print
"Biggest opening ever" claims quietly swap gross for ticket sales, narrower categories and pricier formats — the same dollars buy fewer admissions every year, which is how modern films break records while selling fewer tickets than hits of the 1990s.
Hollywood PR statements decoded: what the formulas really mean
"We are aware," "we disagree with the characterization," "we wish them the best" — entertainment PR statements are written by lawyers and publicists to concede nothing, and each formula carries a precise meaning.
Film rating rumors: who actually assigns age certificates
In the US, movie age ratings come from a private industry board at the MPA whose raters are anonymous parents — not the government — and a film's rating is only official when the board or its published database says so.