Issue 2
The Week of June 29
Movies
Supergirl Opens to $38 Million, a Third of Superman's Debut
Milly Alcock's Kara Zor-El gives DC Studios its second film, a soft launch that lands well behind last year's Superman and asks how patient the new universe's audience really is.
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Cross-media
Hollywood Keeps Betting on Worlds, Not Stories
Supergirl, a record-breaking Harlan Coben series, a third Enola Holmes, a Street Fighter movie: this week is one long argument that the industry would rather expand a universe than start a new one.
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Look at the week as a single slate and a pattern jumps out. DC puts Supergirl in theaters. Netflix turns another Harlan Coben novel into its biggest new series of the year. A third Enola Holmes lands Tuesday. A Street…
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Sherlock Holmes Will Outlive Us All
Arthur Conan Doyle tried to kill Sherlock Holmes in 1893, pushing him off a waterfall because he was sick of writing him. It did not take. Public pressure forced a resurrection, and 130 years later the detective is still working.…
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More this week
Movies
Enola Holmes Returns Tuesday for a Wedding and a Kidnapping
Millie Bobby Brown's detective is back on Netflix on July 1, with a new director, a trip to Malta, and a Sherlock who needs rescuing for once.
Television
The Bear Plates Its Final Course
FX dropped all eight episodes of the restaurant drama's fifth and last season at once, and the reviews call it one of the best things the show has done.
Television
One Week, Too Much Television
The Bear ends, Avatar returns, Pokemon drops, a Legally Blonde prequel arrives: this single week is a small case study in how impossible keeping up has become.
Games
Hollywood's Next Decade Is Being Built From Games
A quiet news week for games is a loud one for game adaptations, with Street Fighter, Life is Strange, Tomb Raider and Mass Effect all in motion at once.
Books
Harlan Coben Breaks Netflix Again
I Will Find You drew 24 million views in four days, the biggest new series debut of 2026, and proof that the Coben formula is the most reliable engine on the platform.
Music
Lauryn Hill Gets Her Crown as the BET Awards Return
Cardi B leads the night with six nominations and Lauryn Hill takes the inaugural Living Legend Icon Award, as a new host steps in for a ceremony that doubles as a state of the union for Black music.
Music
Muse Reach for the Cosmos on The Wow! Signal
The band's tenth album, named for a 1977 radio signal that may or may not have come from space, lands to generally warm reviews as rock quietly stages a commercial comeback.
Cross-media
Seven Science Fiction Worlds Worth Disappearing Into
A cross-media guide to the invented universes that reward total immersion, from Arrakis to the rings of the Outer Wilds, across film, television, games and books.
Games
007 First Light Is the UK's Best-Seller as Summer Slows
With the release calendar thin, IO Interactive's James Bond game reclaimed the top of the British retail chart, a reminder that a strong single game can still own a quiet week.
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