https://calculatemine.com/blog/The news desk of CalculateMine — three editions a day, Morning, Midday and Evening, plus a 24-hour Breaking Desk. No ads.enFri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500 https://calculatemine.com/blog/wild-horse-nine-opening-day-mcdonagh-malkovich-review/https://calculatemine.com/blog/wild-horse-nine-opening-day-mcdonagh-malkovich-review/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Marcus HaleThe Arizona Republic gave it four stars, and the verdict that'll follow this film all season: Malkovich is as good as he's ever been. Two CIA men, one dying, take a work trip to Easter Island in 1973, while the Allende government falls behind them. https://calculatemine.com/blog/sony-q2-earnings-profit-up-45-percent-spider-man-nintendo/https://calculatemine.com/blog/sony-q2-earnings-profit-up-45-percent-spider-man-nintendo/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Marcus HaleSony posted ¥622.3 billion ($3.95 billion) in quarterly operating profit, up 45% and well above forecasts, crediting games and movies including "Spider-Man: Brand New Day." It raised its full-year outlook 9%. Nintendo, reporting in the same cycle, went the other way. https://calculatemine.com/blog/ai-movie-awards-london-2026-finalists-five-to-watch/https://calculatemine.com/blog/ai-movie-awards-london-2026-finalists-five-to-watch/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Ada NowakThe second AI Movie Awards runs November 7–8 at the Institution of Engineering and Technology on Savoy Place, with winners announced Sunday night. Thirty films made the cut from more than 500 entries. This is a ranked watch list — ranked by one thing only: what each film has already done in rooms like this one. https://calculatemine.com/blog/russell-brand-appeal-process-two-clocks/https://calculatemine.com/blog/russell-brand-appeal-process-two-clocks/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Priya RamanA conviction in England starts two different countdowns, and they don't start on the same day. Brand's lawyers have 28 days from the verdict to challenge the convictions — a clock already ticking — and 28 days from Monday's sentence to challenge the sentence. Going the other way, anyone at all can ask the Attorney General to argue the sentence is too low, on a deadline that can't be extended by a single day. https://calculatemine.com/blog/grammy-voting-how-winners-are-picked/https://calculatemine.com/blog/grammy-voting-how-winners-are-picked/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Remy DelgadoGrammy winners are picked by peers, twice — the Recording Academy's voting members, working performers, songwriters, producers and engineers, cast a first-round ballot that sets the nominees and a final-round ballot that picks the winners, with an accounting firm holding the results in sealed envelopes until show night. https://calculatemine.com/blog/how-tony-awards-voting-works/https://calculatemine.com/blog/how-tony-awards-voting-works/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Celia Vance857 designated voters chose the 2026 Tony winners across 26 categories — Broadway League members, American Theatre Wing board members, union and guild boards, critics, and the touring presenters the business calls the road. https://calculatemine.com/blog/biggest-box-office-surprises-2026-top-10/https://calculatemine.com/blog/biggest-box-office-surprises-2026-top-10/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Bea Sandoval and Marcus HaleOpening weekend is the loudest number in the business, and it's often the least honest one. These ten films didn't win their first weekend. They won every weekend after it — ranked by how many times over they multiplied their opening. https://calculatemine.com/blog/highest-grossing-tours-2026-so-far-top-10/https://calculatemine.com/blog/highest-grossing-tours-2026-so-far-top-10/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Bea Sandoval and Remy DelgadoPollstar's mid-year scorecard is in, and it's a rout at the top: Bad Bunny at $225.2 million, Lady Gaga at $209.4 million, and then daylight. Here's the full top ten, counted the Pollstar way — reported ticket money only. https://calculatemine.com/blog/broadway-priciest-tickets-top-10-latest-week/https://calculatemine.com/blog/broadway-priciest-tickets-top-10-latest-week/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Bea Sandoval and Celia VanceOne seat at Broadway's priciest show averaged $301.23 last week — more than two and a half times the cheapest seat in this top ten. Celia Vance walks the top ten as a buyer's guide: what the money buys, who's on stage, and why people are paying it. Week ending November 1, 2026. https://calculatemine.com/blog/best-selling-games-2026-so-far-top-10/https://calculatemine.com/blog/best-selling-games-2026-so-far-top-10/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Bea Sandoval and Jake PruittBasketball just took the crown from survival horror. Here's the full U.S. top 10 for 2026 so far, counted down from 10 to 1 — ranked by dollars, not copies, and that's not a footnote, that's the whole game. https://calculatemine.com/blog/michael-ian-black-sinscents-spokesman/https://calculatemine.com/blog/michael-ian-black-sinscents-spokesman/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:30:00 -0500Marcus HaleNobody has ever needed this job. Michael Ian Black announced Friday that he's taken it anyway — spokesman for Sinscents, a tiny candle company whose sales he puts at "exactly zero" and whose upside he prices, in his own capitals, at SEVERAL HUNDRED dollars. https://calculatemine.com/blog/cat-in-the-hat-opening-day-hader-forecast/https://calculatemine.com/blog/cat-in-the-hat-opening-day-hader-forecast/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0500Marcus HaleWarner Bros.' animated Seuss arrives with a voice cast built to sell it and a tracking story that slid from October's $40–50 million talk to TheWrap's $20–22 million. The book it expands is 1,626 words long. The film's problem was never the source; it's the weekend. https://calculatemine.com/blog/godzilla-minus-zero-opening-day-forecasts-japan-record/https://calculatemine.com/blog/godzilla-minus-zero-opening-day-forecasts-japan-record/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0500Marcus HaleThe trades don't agree on the number — $25 million, $30 million or $35 million, depending on whose model you read — but they agree on the shape of the weekend: a subtitled Japanese film is favoured to finish first in North America, four days after opening in Japan to ¥910 million. https://calculatemine.com/blog/nbc-news-wins-midterm-election-night-ratings-kornacki-cam/https://calculatemine.com/blog/nbc-news-wins-midterm-election-night-ratings-kornacki-cam/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0500Marcus HaleFour years ago NBC finished fourth of six on midterm night with 3.1 million viewers. On Tuesday it finished first with more than 6.5 million — and its data livestream outdrew everything, ran past ten hours, and ended with its host walking off at 3:26 in the morning. https://calculatemine.com/blog/kj-apa-jimmy-stewart-biopic-opens-kelly-stewart-harcourt/https://calculatemine.com/blog/kj-apa-jimmy-stewart-biopic-opens-kelly-stewart-harcourt/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0500Marcus Hale"Jimmy," the biopic covering Stewart's 1941 Oscar win, his wartime service as a bomber pilot and the road to George Bailey, opens wide today. On set throughout was Kelly Stewart Harcourt, the actor's daughter, whose verdict is the quote the film will be marketed on: "He's kind of channeling Dad." https://calculatemine.com/blog/florence-and-the-machine-everybody-scream-tour-live-album/https://calculatemine.com/blog/florence-and-the-machine-everybody-scream-tour-live-album/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0500Remy DelgadoTwenty-two tracks, recorded across the Everybody Scream arena tour — London's O2, Glasgow's Hydro and the rest of the run — arrive Friday via Republic Records. The band has released live music before. It has never bottled a whole tour like this. https://calculatemine.com/blog/olivia-rodrigo-take-me-home-4-christmas-release-day-numbers-watch/https://calculatemine.com/blog/olivia-rodrigo-take-me-home-4-christmas-release-day-numbers-watch/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0500Remy Delgado"take me home (4 christmas)" was released Thursday at 5 p.m. PT, with its video, its cassette and its Target-exclusive B-side all live. As of Friday morning, no named source has published a first-day streaming figure — because the chart machinery that produces one runs on a weekly cycle, not a news cycle. https://calculatemine.com/blog/harry-potter-cursed-child-cast-changes-felton-grint/https://calculatemine.com/blog/harry-potter-cursed-child-cast-changes-felton-grint/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0500Celia VanceThe Lyric Theatre is staging a relay race of film faces. A new company starts November 10, Felton's Draco hands the wand to the tour's original Draco on January 5, and in February Rupert Grint — Ron Weasley himself — takes over Ron. Playbill has the full calendar of who plays whom, and when. https://calculatemine.com/blog/soulframe-open-preludes-november-6/https://calculatemine.com/blog/soulframe-open-preludes-november-6/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0500Jake PruittDigital Extremes is done with the velvet rope. From Friday, anyone on PC can download the Soulframe launcher and walk into the Preludes — the free fantasy action game's long-gated alpha — alongside the Verse of the Veilands update: wolf mounts, fishing, and a headless horseman. https://calculatemine.com/blog/nintendo-switch-2-sales-26-35-million-earnings-november-2026/https://calculatemine.com/blog/nintendo-switch-2-sales-26-35-million-earnings-november-2026/Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 -0500Jake PruittNintendo's new numbers, out Thursday: 26.35 million Switch 2s sold worldwide, the original Switch at 157.20 million — and a half-year where profit jumped 49% while the money coming in fell 12%. Both halves of that sentence are true. Here's how they fit together.