Indian moviegoers are abuzz in regards to the Gen Z romantic comedy “Saiyaara” that has lit up the field workplace in Bollywood and past.

On at the moment’s episode of “Day by day Selection,” Selection correspondent Naman Ramachandran provides the backstory on “Saiyaara” and why it’s the primary rom-com to hit large in Bollywood for years.

On the North America entrance, “Superman” held up properly in its second weekend, as Rebecca Rubin, senior movie and media reporter, explains. And senior TV editor Brian Steinberg discusses the fallout from CBS’ monumental determination to attract the curtain on “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert” after the 2025-26 season.

With “Saiyaara,” which interprets to “Wandering Star” in English, the film touched a nerve, and distributor Yash Raj Movies took an uncommon strategy to advertising and marketing the film, Ramachandran says.

“They adopted the less-is-more technique. They let the content material do the speaking,” Ramachandran says. “In order that they put out the songs. They put out the trailer, which was a really well-cut trailer. They saved the lead pair [of actors] pretty quiet. It’s solely the director who spoke to the media, together with to Selection. Stars Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda didn’t do any promotional appearances. They didn’t go to malls. They didn’t go to cinemas. There have been no influencer appearances, they usually weren’t throughout social media. So, there was a thirst for folks to know extra.”

“Saiyaara” is contributing to a 14% year-over-year acquire for the Indian field workplace, Ramachandran provides.

As for “Superman,” Rubin says the second weekend of its run was strong however there are nonetheless questions on whether or not it’s sturdy sufficient to put the muse for 10 years’ value of films to come back. Subsequent yr Warner Bros. and DC will look to construct on the momentum with “Supergirl” and “Clayface.”

“The second weekend reveals that there’s real curiosity on this film. It’s been properly acquired, which is essential by way of incomes again the goodwill of DC followers, however it’s actually not this runaway, simple smash,” Rubin says. “So there’s nonetheless this wait-and-see factor about how a lot pleasure there might be for the franchise with out Superman because the marquee character.”

In monitoring the response to the bombshell July 17 information that CBS will ax “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert” after the 2025-26 season, Steinberg says this information has hit a lot tougher than most cancellations due to what it says in regards to the state of broadcast community TV. And the Trump issue — the truth that CBS dad or mum firm simply reached at $16 million settlement with the president — is not possible to disregard, given Colbert’s historical past of skewering Trump.

“Sure, there’s nonetheless some debate over whether or not CBS canceled this due to this upcoming merger with Skydance and Stephen’s tendency in the direction of anti-Trump humor, or simply as a result of late-night’s not doing so nice,” Steinberg says. “However the reality of the matter is, this present goes away. CBS goes to get out of this enterprise. They’ve been getting out of it for the final couple of months, canceling the 12:30 present with Taylor Tomlinson. And now this program as properly. It’s a sizeable shrinking of late evening TV as we all know it. And an indication {that a} very important piece of Americana — late evening TV — is having a troublesome time staying related in at the moment’s digital world.”

(Pictured: “Saiyaara”)

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