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 October 26, 2025 |
Good morning. The French police made arrests in connection with the Louvre heist, the authorities said. We’ll start there, and then take a deeper look at the growing prominence of horror movies in Hollywood.
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| A forensic team at the Louvre. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters |
News from the Louvre
The police have made arrests in the Louvre jewelry heist, the French authorities said.
One man was arrested at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport as he was trying to leave the country, the Paris prosecutor said. It is unclear how many people were arrested in the robbery; she said that it was too early to provide further details and that she would provide more information after the police finish questioning the suspects.
It was not immediately clear if the police had recovered the jewelry, which is worth more than $100 million.
This is a developing story. Read updates here on the breakthrough in a case that has put an uncomfortable spotlight on security lapses at the museum.
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| A horror fan in California. Jay L Clendenin/Getty Images |
Favorite haunts
It’s the season for scary movies. After I put my kid to bed on Friday, I plan to watch “The Shining” for the 300th time. Maybe you’re planning a “Friday the 13th” marathon. The home screen of every streaming service is full of options this week.
But for Hollywood, spooky season is a year-round affair. As the movie industry struggles to get people into theaters, horror is a bright spot. The genre has accounted for a growing share of ticket sales over the past decade. And this year, it hit a new high — 17 percent of the U.S. box office, more than drama and comedy combined.
Why is horror soaring? I asked Brooks Barnes, The Times’s chief Hollywood correspondent, to help me understand.
Tom: First, we should establish some horror bona fides. Do you have a favorite scary movie? Is there a limit to how scary you can go?
Brooks: I have a gore limit. My horror sweet spot is probably creeping dread, like when Clarice descends into the basement in “The Silence of the Lambs,” or when the cemetery Rottweilers are circling in the original “Omen.” My first horror movie was “Children of the Corn,” which I rented on VHS in secret as a fifth grader and watched alone.
You must have been terrified by yourself! People like getting scared together at the movies, right? I checked the Times archives from 1974, after “The Exorcist” came out, and we wrote that the movie was “drawing long lines at box offices from coast to coast.”
Horror has helped float Hollywood for generations, from the classic monsters of the 1930s to the B movies of the 1950s to the slasher films of the ’80s to the current boom in what I would call auteur horror — complex originals like “Sinners” or “Get Out.” And the reason is simple: It’s fun to be scared with other people. These movies play well in a crowded, dark room. Date night is also a factor: I’m scared! Let’s hold hands!
So what is going on with horror now? What makes this moment different?
Horror has become one of Hollywood’s last reliable ticket sellers. Dramas have almost disappeared from theaters — people are happy to watch those on streaming — but it’s hard to replicate that group scare dynamic at home. So studios have started to make more horror movies, which have the added benefit of being cheap to produce. Thirty-five will arrive in wide release this year, up from 18 in 2018.
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| Source: the-numbers.com (Nash Information Services). Note: Figures for 2025 are at an annualized rate. Karl Russell/The New York Times |
How much horror is too much? Is there a limit?
Absolutely, and we’ve probably reached it. There have been big horror hits recently — “The Conjuring: Last Rites” is currently hovering around $500 million worldwide, and “Weapons,” an original about vanished children, has taken in $267 million. But there have also been a lot of flops. Those include “Wolf Man,” “M3GAN 2.0,” “The Woman in the Yard,” “Him” and “The Toxic Avenger.” Some of them were just bad movies, but the number of disappointments suggests market oversaturation.
At-home streaming and rentals are a big reason people stopped going to theaters. Do we know if horror movies are performing well there, too?
They perform OK in the home, in part because they’re perennials — people go looking for scary movies to watch around Halloween every year. Studios also time theatrical releases with home viewing in mind: “Weapons” and “The Conjuring: Last Rites” came out in theaters in August and September in part so they would arrive on streaming and rental platforms right about now. Over my husband’s objections, I paid $20 to rent “Last Rites” on Monday night.
Objections? Why?
$20 for a digital rental? That’s horrifying!
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“Joyride,” by Susan Orlean: Over the course of her four-decade career, Susan Orlean has written about animals and orchids, a library fire and a 346-year-old tree. The subjects of her books and her articles in The New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer, are eclectic, yet somehow we fall in love with them by the end. In “Joyride,” her rollicking memoir, Orlean turns a gimlet eye on her own life, from her childhood in suburban Cleveland to her first job at a weekly magazine in Portland, Ore., to her ascension to the highest ranks of journalism. Along the way, she delivers a masterclass on writing and the powers of observation that lead to sparkly prose.
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This week’s subject for The Interview is the legendary actor Anthony Hopkins, now 87, whose new memoir, “We Did OK, Kid,” will be published on Nov. 4.
We all have turning points in our lives, but you have a specific one. Can you tell me about what happened on Dec. 29, 1975, at 11 o’clock?
I’m always slightly reluctant to talk about it because I don’t want to sound preachy. But I was drunk and driving my car here in California in a blackout, no clue where I was going, when I realized that I could have killed somebody — or myself, which I didn’t care about — and I realized that I was an alcoholic. I came to my senses and said to an ex-agent of mine at this party in Beverly Hills, “I need help.” It was 11 o’clock precisely — I looked at my watch — and this is the spooky part: Some deep powerful thought or voice spoke to me from inside and said: “It’s all over. Now you can start living. And it has all been for a purpose, so don’t forget one moment of it.”
It was just a voice from the blue?
From deep inside me. But it was vocal, male, reasonable, like a radio voice. The craving to drink was taken from me, or left. Now I don’t have any theories except divinity or that power that we all possess inside us that creates us from birth, life force, whatever it is. It’s a consciousness, I believe. That’s all I know.
There’s another epiphany in the book that I’d like to go back to. You were driving in Los Angeles in the late ’70s, and you felt a pull to go over to a Catholic church. You went inside and told a young priest there that you had found God. What is God to you?
What happened that morning — when that voice said: “It’s over. Now you can start living and it has all been for a purpose” — I knew that was a power way beyond my understanding. Not up there in the clouds but in here. I chose to call it God. I didn’t know what else to call it. Short word, “God.” Easy to spell. I recently wrote a piece of music that was conducted in Riyadh, a goodbye on piano and orchestra. [The piece was called “Farewell, My Love.”] And as I was composing, it came to me that that’s it. We come full circle and we dip down to that’s all, folks, it was all a dream anyway.
Read more of the interview here. Or watch a longer version on YouTube.
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