Live Q&A: Hollywood brought the heat this summer. Can it last?

Aug 18, 2026 08:36 PM - 1 hour ago 3

Stars from "The Odyssey" movie astatine the film's premiere.

"The Odyssey" formed gathered for the movie's U.S. premiere successful New York City. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Universal Pictures

It's been a basking summertime successful Hollywood.

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" had a record-breaking opening weekend, bringing successful $360 million.

Fans were shelling retired arsenic overmuch arsenic $600 and walking thousands of miles to drawback "The Odyssey" connected premium Imax screens.

And, if you deliberation backmost to early June, the scary films "Obsession" and "Backrooms" shocked — and thrilled — manufacture insiders by beating retired "Star Wars" astatine the container office.

But will this winning streak proceed into the fall? And moreover if it does, is it capable to prevention an manufacture that's been successful diminution for years? (Business Insider's Peter Kafka argues it's not.)

Dan DeFrancesco, lead writer for BI Today, digs into the business of Hollywood successful a unrecorded Q&A pinch MoviePass CEO, Stacy Spikes, astatine 2 p.m. ET Wednesday.

Tune successful to perceive astir the large movies headed to screens this fall, and get an update connected MoviePass itself. Spikes will beryllium answering your questions astir the movie manufacture too; driblet those questions successful the chat erstwhile you tune successful live.

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