A Few Good Men and Other Desert Cities, starry new revivals on the Broadway stage, sold out their performances last week, with the latter production (starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe) hitting the upper reaches of the box office chart with a gross in excess of $2 million.

As impressive as that number is, it still falls well short of the week’s top earner: The ever-popular Hamilton, newly recharged with the return of original cast member Christopher Jackson to the cast, grossed an amazing $3,090,634.

All three shows, along with Billy Crystal’s new 860, Oh, Mary! (now starring Bowen Yang) and Chicago (with Reece Weaver), helped push the total receipts for the 29 Broadway productions for the week ending October 11 to $35,292,434, a whopping increase of 27% over the previous week.

Total attendance for the week was 248,496, about 10% more than the previous week.

A new infusion of star power contributed to the strong figures. A Few Good Men, the non-prof Lincoln Center Theater revival of Aaron Sorkin’s classic military courtroom drama, stars Sorkin’s old West Wing buddy Bradley Whitford (along with Tom Blyth and Krysta Rodriguez) and sold out its first three previews for a gross of $555,367. Official opening night is set for Thursday, October 29.

Other Desert Cities, the Jon Robin Baitz play directed by John Benjamin Hickey, grossed $2,157,355, selling out eight previews at the Hudson. Opening night is October 18.

Crystal’s solo show 860 – the title refers to the address of the comedian’s longtime home that burned down in the Pacific Palisades fires – filled 92% of its seats at the Imperial, a noticeable improvement over the previous week’s 83%. The gross for the seven previews was $1,173,760. Opening night is October 21.

Another recent arrival doing well is non-prof Roundabout’s The Imaginary Invalid starring Bill Irwin, filling 90% of seats at the Haimes and grossing $429,863. Opening night is October 22.

Some other notable numbers:

In the 20th week of the 2026-27 season, Broadway has grossed $628,508,592 season-to-date, down about 8% from last year at this time, with total attendance of 5,155,377 down 3% year-to-year.

All figures courtesy of The Broadway League. For more box office information visit the League’s website.

Tony Gilroy and Pedro Pascal have hit the BFI London Film Festival, and the director believes he wouldn’t be here without the success of Andor.

Gilroy, of the Bourne franchise and Rogue One fame, was the creator, showrunner and executive producer on the Star Wars prequel’s spinoff series from 2022 to 2025 at Disney+.

His latest feature film — the American’s first in eight years — stars Pascal as Alex Serian, a gifted cellist who returns to Los Angeles after 20 years away to care for his ill mother. He soon finds himself investigating the aftermath of his relationship with a violinist, played by Eva Victor, who he dated 16 years prior. Olivia Wilde, Will Arnett, Hank Azaria and Alexa Swinton all co-star.

“Look, I want to gamble,” Gilroy said to The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet outside London’s Royal Festival Hall Tuesday night. “I want to keep pushing. I never want to do the same old thing. And we certainly didn’t do the same old thing with Andor. And I was like, when you’re winning, you press your bets. And so I want to do something out there. And I had this, and I knew it might work. I’m going to keep gambling as long as they let me play. I’m going to gamble.”

The success of the Emmy-winning Andor, widely considered the most creatively substantive of the recent projects churned out by LucasFilm, actually helped Gilroy make Behemoth! He said an adult drama that might have otherwise been a hard sell. “I’ve been at Disney now for 10 years on three very eccentric projects, and we’ve been gambling together. It’s kind of odd. It’s not the common perception, and your mileage may vary, but for me, they stretched a little bit to make this movie,” he added about the Searchlight feature. “It’s a little bit of a stretch that they made to make this, and I’m sure it has a lot to do with Andor.”

Adapting C.S. Lewis’ beloved children’s book series The Chronicles of Narnia is no easy task, and certainly one that’s primed for some online controversy.

So it’s probably no surprise that the trailer (below) for Netflix‘s adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew — chronologically the first novel in Lewis’ seven-book series — is getting some strong reactions on social media.

The adaptation was already receiving some early pushback among conservative media figures before the trailer dropped given that the Christian allegory is being adapted by Barbie writer-director Greta Gerwig, who also made the sacrilegious-to-some decision to cast Meryl Streep as the voice of the franchise’s Jesus-figure, Aslan.

Now the Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew trailer has dropped in all its glittery glam rock glory, set to the tune of Led Zeppelin’s famously difficult-to-license “Stairway to Heaven,” and reactions are all over the place.

The most common pushback concerns the trailer’s psychedelic space-rock visuals, with many comparing the project to a Marvel movie. Some quips from the official YouTube video and across Reddit and X: “Narnia: Rangarok,” “They managed to Thor: Love & Thunder Narnia,” “Guardians of Narnia’s Galaxy,” “Aslan the Lion will return in Avengers: Doomsday.”

Many said they loved the trailer and that it surpassed their expectations.

“The trailer for The Magician’s Nephew is, hands down, the best trailer I’ve seen in years. They’re definitely leaning into the pagan side of Narnia.” Another: “Man people were preemptively fuming over this one but I recognize just about every scene and every line [from the book]. Looks to be a very faithful adaptation with a sort of rock opera twist.” And: “Greta Gerwig going full ‘Jim Henson’s Dark Crystal/Labyrinth + Chris Columbus’ Harry Potter + Led Zeppelin + blockbuster budget’ was not on my bingo card, but it looks fantastic.”

Some agreed that they liked the trailer — just not as a Narnia adaptation.

“Visually stunning trailer but nothing really jumped out to me indicating that this is a Narnia movie,” wrote one. And: “This might be the most conflicted I’ve ever felt about a trailer. It looks dope af and honestly like it’s going to have this ethereal awestruck quality to it. I just wish it wasn’t Narnia she was doing this with.”

Others just wholesale bagged on the trailer.

“Who’d have ever guessed that giving a legendary, beloved book series like The Chronicles of Narnia to modern Hollywood would result in a bizarre, disastrous fever dream interpretation with some of the worst looking CGI backgrounds ever put on film?” And: “This is a prime example of how something can lose its soul to CGI overuse …The visuals of Netflix’s butchering of Narnia literally looks like it was made with AI.” And: “I am extremely unimpressed. This is not Narnia. This is Thor: Love and Thunder and Barbie had a baby. They make the boy a coward, they make the girl the adventurer, and Aslan is supposed to be the pinnacle of masculinity.”

The cast includes David McKenna, Beatrice Campbell, Emma Mackey, Carey Mulligan, Ciarán Hinds, with Daniel Craig and Meryl Streep, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Denise Gough and Susan Wokoma. Netflix will release Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew in theaters and Imax on Feb. 12, 2027.