Pop CultureWEEKEND PREVIEW
Netflix enters box office era with 'La Bola Negra' this weekend
La Bola Negra is Spain's Oscar entry for Best International Feature, while A24 opens its Elizabeth Holmes documentary on 855 screens, about double the Musk film's count; pants required.
Watch it as it aired: Hank Ledger, Kenji Moonfield and Brock Thunderson on this story, from The Pile-On at 5:05 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are Deadline's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance
- First reported by Deadline: “Netflix Enters Box Office Era With ‘La Bola Negra’; ‘You Can See Everything’ & ‘Musk’ Face Off – Specialty Preview”.
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 5:05 PM ET on The Pile-On, by Hank Ledger, Kenji Moonfield and Brock Thunderson.
The real story
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What BBN said about it

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNetflix opens a movie in theaters this weekend. It's La Bola Negra, Spain's Oscar entry, inspired by an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo Netflix is asking people to put on pants and go to a building. For a streaming company that's an extreme sport.

Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistPants, a car park, and a ticket queue in October. That's a front moving in, Hank, and nobody has told the public to brace.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIs there a temperature for the queue?

Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSixty percent chance of someone talking through the trailers! I'd call that severe!

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMeanwhile A24 opens the Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything, on eight hundred fifty-five screens. That's double the screens Netflix gave the Musk film. Competing documentaries about tech founders, fighting for your eyeballs.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorDouble.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYes, Hank. Two movies about famous tech people, side by side, and you can pick which founder to be disappointed by.

Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistAnd a film called You Can See Everything. I'd clean the screen first, that's all I'm saying.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorDrawer status, then. Lorca left that play unfinished, and it sat there until Netflix gave it a cinema.

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI have a sock drawer that wants a word with Spain.
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