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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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Verify a viral company announcement in four checks
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ticket bots and scalpers: how the resale market really operates
Automated buying programs can sweep ticket inventory in seconds, feeding a resale market whose prices venues never see — a practice US law banned in 2016 and courts have repeatedly been asked to police since.
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How awards voting actually works: academies, ballots and the envelopes
The Oscars are decided by roughly ten thousand Academy members voting in ranked rounds, counted in secret by PwC — the same firm whose envelope mix-up in 2017 showed how manual the finale really is.
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Video game leak culture: insiders, datamines and the rumor mill
Game leaks now come from studio insiders, courtroom filings, retail listings and code datamines — a mix that ranges from verified to fabricated, driving an economy of accounts that monetize guesses.
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Reality TV editing: how the cut and frankenbiting rewrite what happened
Unscripted shows record hundreds of hours per episode and then construct a narrative in the edit — frankenbiting, selective framing and manufactured storylines are core tools, not exceptions.