As the music community grapples with the enormous devastation wrought by the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles, the industry's power dynamics - which we examine every year in this issue - are the last thing on anyone's mind.

Mark Wahlberg stars in the genre pic, which marks Gibson's first directorial effort in nearly a decade. Elsewhere, Steven Soderbergh's artsy haunted house thriller 'Presence' opened in 1,750 cinemas.