News Summary

• As the box office heats up this summer, The Verge reflects on the magic of theaters.
• When Bumblebee transformed into a Dodge Challenger, the entire crowd erupted in applause and cheering with people leaping out of their seats.
• For me, it was seeing Batman Begins at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood on opening night.
• The experience of sitting in the resplendent theater with live music was so luxurious that it reframed what it could be to be asleep midway through a movie — something that didn’t even occur to me to begin with.