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VisionQuest brings Ultron back as Marvel finally confronts Vision's identity crisis

Vision has died, returned and been rebuilt, but Marvel has rarely allowed him enough time to consider what those experiences mean. VisionQuest finally makes that question the center of the story. Launching on Disney+ across October 13 and 14, 2026, depending on the market, Terry Matalas' new series reunites Paul Bettany with James Spader's Ultron. Instead of simply confronting another enemy, Vision must investigate his own existence, with one of the MCU's most dangerous artificial intelligences living inside his mind.

By Yasmine
Series

Crystal Lake brings Friday the 13th back by putting Jason's mother in charge

For decades, Jason Voorhees has been the unmistakable face of Friday the 13th. The hockey mask, the machete and the isolated summer camp became so deeply associated with the franchise that its original killer was often reduced to a historical footnote. Crystal Lake reverses that arrangement. Peacock and A24's new horror series puts Pamela Voorhees at the center, giving Linda Cardellini eight episodes to explore a character whose importance to the mythology has rarely been matched by her screen time.

By Yasmine
Cinema

Jessie Buckley questions Hollywood's Oscar campaign priorities as emerging filmmakers receive vital support

How much should the film industry spend celebrating the movies it has already made, and how much should it invest in the filmmakers who are still trying to get their next projects off the ground? Jessie Buckley raised that uncomfortable question in London on October 14, 2026. Speaking during the BFI & CHANEL Filmmaker Awards, the actress challenged the weight given to Oscar campaigns while four emerging British filmmakers received practical financial support for their future work.

By Tori
Cinema

Other Mommy scares up $27.8 million despite brutal reviews

Critics were not impressed by Other Mommy, and audiences surveyed after opening-night screenings were hardly enthusiastic either. Yet Jessica Chastain's latest horror film has emerged as the clear winner at the North American box office. Released on October 9, 2026, Rob Savage's supernatural thriller earned $27.8 million over its first three days, providing another striking example of the horror genre's ability to attract audiences even when reviews turn against it.

By Tori
Cinema

The Social Reckoning brings Aaron Sorkin back to Facebook, but moviegoers aren't following

Sixteen years ago, The Social Network turned Facebook's origins into a riveting drama. Now Aaron Sorkin is returning to the company's history from a darker direction. The Social Reckoning explores the revelations that exposed concerns about the platform's influence on society. Yet its opening box office suggests that public interest in the controversy has not translated into an equally strong appetite for the movie.

By Tori
Games

Gears of War: E-Day Changes How We See Marcus, Dom and the Series' Origins

Fans already knew the consequences. What remained untold was the trauma itself. Available since October 6, 2026, Gears of War: E-Day returns to the moment the Locust emerged from underground. Beyond the spectacle of a monstrous invasion, The Coalition is exploring how Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago became the inseparable figures at the heart of the franchise.

By Vever
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Miracles of the ER Brings Taiwan’s Emergency Room Drama to Netflix on November 12

Excellent grades can get a young doctor through medical school. They cannot make an emergency room wait while that doctor figures out what comes next. Miracles of the ER, now dated for November 12 on Netflix, builds its eight episodes around that gap between academic promise, practical experience and the responsibility of making decisions when somebody else’s time is running out.

By Yasmine
Cinema

Confabulation Gives Tyler Perry a Hero Who Cannot Fully Trust His Own Story

The rescue mission at the center of Confabulation sounds straightforward until the man attempting it becomes the least reliable source of information in the room. Tyler Perry’s next Netflix thriller follows a firefighter determined to save a former love, only for his own fractured memories to begin challenging the story he believes he is living.

By Yasmine
Cinema

Avengers: Doomsday Has Already Cleared A$1 Million in Australian Presales

Avengers: Doomsday does not reach Australian cinemas until December 17, but Disney already has its first seven-figure talking point. More than A$1 million in tickets were sold during the first 24 hours of the latest presale launch. It is a notable measure of committed demand. It is not, however, a miniature version of the final box office.

By Tori
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ONE PIECE Gets Two More Netflix Extras to Go With Its LEGO Makeover

LEGO ONE PIECE already lets Usopp retell two seasons of adventures with considerably more plastic involved. Netflix has now added another layer to the experiment: two short extras in which the live-action cast meets the LEGO side of the franchise both on the table and inside the recording booth.

By Vever
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Black Mirror Season 8 Puts Emma Laird Among Some Very Familiar Ghosts

Black Mirror has never needed much encouragement to reference itself. New photographs from the Season 8 production now provide an unusually concentrated batch of callbacks, with Emma Laird filming near material invoking Striking Vipers, Arkangel, Bandersnatch and more. The clues are real. The grand unified theory is not — at least not yet.

By Yasmine
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Nocturne Puts Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Graham in the Same Trap

There is no mystery about who the monster is in Nocturne. Stephen Graham's Jurek Walter is right there, separated from his pursuers by prison glass. The tension in Apple TV's new trailer comes from a nastier question: how close will Liev Schreiber's Jonah Lynn and Zazie Beetz's Saga Bauer have to get before he gives them what they need?

By Yasmine
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Beyond Chandler: Netflix Unveils the Trailer for Its Matthew Perry Documentary

Telling Matthew Perry's story comes with an obvious problem: Chandler Bing is almost impossible to keep out of the frame. The trailer for Netflix's The One About Matthew Perry suggests the documentary will confront that problem directly, using the memories of the people closest to Perry to look past one of television's most recognizable characters.

By Yasmine
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Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ or HBO Max: On a Small Budget, the Best Choice Changes by Country

Choosing a streaming service on a tight budget once looked simple: compare four monthly prices. That no longer works in 2026. Netflix operates in more than 190 countries, Prime Video says it is available across more than 240 countries and territories, while HBO Max has expanded beyond 100 countries. Prices, catalogues and even the availability of ad-supported plans change from one market to another. For a small budget, the more useful question is which service manages to preserve its value across very different parts of the world.

By Tori
Cinema

Maha Harada's First Film Leaves San Sebastián with Two Awards

Maha Harada has spent much of her literary career writing about the spaces where art and ordinary lives meet. Her first feature as a director stays remarkably close to that territory. Muyou no hito, internationally titled In My Father's Room, has emerged from the 74th San Sebastián International Film Festival with two parallel awards before its Japanese theatrical release next January.

By Clarel
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Are K-Dramas More Profitable Than Netflix's Biggest Shows? The Market Tells a More Interesting Story

Netflix spends heavily in South Korea, yet the economics remain very different from endlessly producing US-scale prestige shows. Ampere Analysis estimates Korean content has accounted for roughly 8% to 9% of Netflix viewing since 2023. That efficiency helps explain the streamer's enthusiasm for Seoul. It is also creating a problem: the more successful the model becomes, the more Korean production costs rise.

By Tori
Cinema

Bona's First AI Feature Has a Date: Sanxingdui Reaches Chinese Theaters October 23

Sanxingdui: Future Memories is moving from technology showcase to theatrical product. Bona Film Group has set an October 23, 2026 Chinese release for its hyperrealistic AI-assisted science-fiction feature, months after the movie received the public-screening permit required to enter cinemas. That distinction matters: regulatory approval was the first threshold. A nationwide release puts the experiment in front of an actual market.

By Tori
Cinema

Asian cinema is thriving, sometimes more than Hollywood — just not in the way you might think

The interesting story in cinema right now is not that Asia has somehow defeated Hollywood. It is that the old hierarchy has become less reliable. Several of the world's biggest theatrical markets overwhelmingly prefer domestic films, Asian productions have expanded their share of global admissions, and a Chinese animation became 2025's worldwide box-office leader. At the same time, Hollywood has just enjoyed its strongest post-pandemic summer in North America. Both things can be true.

By Tori
Cinema

The Assassin(s) Takes Chuseok: 1.56 Million Admissions in Five Days in Korea

Several major releases were competing for Korean moviegoers over Chuseok. The Assassin(s) emerged with the largest audience. Released on September 23, Hur Jin-ho's new film finished its first weekend with 1,199,156 admissions and had already reached a cumulative 1,566,222 viewers by Sunday, according to the Korean Film Council.

By Tori
Cinema

Godzilla Minus Zero Was Hiding Its Second Monster: Ghidorah Has Entered the Battle

It took the lights going down at the New York Film Festival. After months of trailers referring only to a “new threat,” Godzilla Minus Zero finally showed its hand at its September 26 world premiere: Ghidorah is in the movie. And Takashi Yamazaki is not treating Godzilla's famous adversary as a tiny final-act surprise. The three-headed monster is directly tied to the new disaster striking Japan in 1949.

By Vever
Cinema

Lindsay Lohan Reunites with Mark Waters as Netflix Sets Return to You with Henry Golding

Netflix has found an unusually efficient way to sell a new romance before showing much of the movie itself: reunite Lindsay Lohan with Mark Waters. The director of Freaky Friday and Mean Girls will helm Return to You, starring Henry Golding opposite Lohan. The film is now in production, although Netflix has not announced a release date.

By Tori
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Tulsa King Season 4: Dwight Wants to Go Legit, but the New Trailer Is Preparing Him for War

A black sky, lightning, and Dwight Manfredi standing alone in the middle of the road: Tulsa King's new key art is not exactly advertising a peaceful retirement. Paramount+ has released the official Season 4 trailer ahead of its October 16, 2026 premiere, placing its aging gangster inside a familiar contradiction. Dwight wants to bring his empire into the light just as everything around him threatens to drag it back into the shadows.

By Yasmine
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The Groseilles and Le Quesnoys Are Back: Netflix's Series Has Started Filming

The comeback is no longer merely a project. ELEPHANT Story has announced the start of production on La vie est un long fleuve tranquille, Netflix's series adaptation of the 1988 French comedy. The names remain, as does the baby-swap premise, but the Groseilles and Le Quesnoys will now wage their class war under the Arcachon sun.

By Vever
Cinema

Marvel Studios Has Crossed $35 Billion, and Its Back Catalogue Is Still Working

Marvel Studios has another absurdly large number for the corporate history book. Disney says its 38 films have now generated a cumulative $35.075 billion at the worldwide box office. Avengers: Endgame Encore pushed the total over the threshold this weekend, but the more revealing story is how Marvel can use a seven-year-old blockbuster to sell tickets again while simultaneously advertising the next Avengers movie.

By Tori
Cinema

Forgotten Island Opens to $20.6 Million, Leaving DreamWorks to Bet on Staying Power

Forgotten Island had the reviews, the audience reception and the DreamWorks name. What it lacked on its first North American weekend was more moviegoers. Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado's film opened to $12.8 million domestically and brought its worldwide total to $20.6 million. For Universal, what happens after opening weekend is already becoming more important than the opening itself.

By Tori
Cinema

Brad Pitt Takes Heart of the Beast to a $50.1 Million Global Opening

Heart of the Beast did not win the weekend, but its first worldwide tally looks considerably stronger than its North American number alone suggests. Paramount's Brad Pitt vehicle opened to an estimated $50.1 million globally, with roughly 60% of that total coming from international markets.

By Tori
Cinema

Avengers: Endgame Returns to Theaters and Already Pulls In $86 Million

Seven years after its original run, Avengers: Endgame can apparently still fill theaters. Disney estimates that the Encore rerelease opened to $86 million worldwide, pushing the movie's lifetime total to roughly $2.885 billion and putting Avatar within striking distance once again.

By Tori
Cinema

Universal crosses $5 billion worldwide with three billion-dollar movies built on very different models

Universal has won a race that no studio officially enters but every major distributor watches. On September 25, its film business crossed $5 billion at the worldwide box office in 2026 before any competitor. The scale is impressive — $1.788 billion domestically and $3.218 billion internationally — but the composition is more revealing: Christopher Nolan, Nintendo and Illumination, a Lionsgate biopic distributed overseas, the Minions and a thriller made for less than $1 million.

By Tori
Cinema

Endgame makes $3.8 million again as Marvel turns a rerelease into paid Doomsday marketing

Avengers: Endgame is back in theaters as though 2019 never entirely ended. The Encore edition earned $3.8 million from North American Thursday previews and is currently projected to make more than $25 million over the weekend. Marvel is not simply putting its former box-office champion back on screens, however. Endgame has been rebuilt into a direct runway for Avengers: Doomsday, due December 18, with additional material designed specifically to connect the old event movie to the new one.

By Tori
Cinema

Rob Minkoff is circling Storm Dogs as Particle 6 pushes AI into a family feature

Particle 6 is trying to move its artificial-intelligence pitch from synthetic personalities into a conventional family-movie structure. Rob Minkoff, co-director of The Lion King and director of Stuart Little, is in advanced discussions to develop and executive produce Storm Dogs. The pairing is easy to understand: a filmmaker whose career repeatedly involved believable animal characters is being brought into a story carried by five photorealistic dogs and a two-year-old child. What is much less developed is the movie around that idea. There is no announced distributor, no public cast and only a 2027 production target.

By Tori
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The Traitors: New Blood reaches 6 million per episode, but NBC's headline only tells half the story

At first glance, the number is straightforward: roughly 6 million viewers for each of the first two episodes of The Traitors: New Blood. The route to that number is more revealing. Initial NBC audiences were considerably smaller, before repeats, delayed viewing and Peacock transformed the picture. The launch is therefore less a story about broadcast television suddenly roaring back than about NBCUniversal making one franchise move successfully between broadcast and streaming.

By Tori
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The Empress sets November 12 for Elisabeth and Franz's final season

The Habsburg court now has a date for its final audience. Netflix will release the third and final season of The Empress worldwide on November 12, 2026. The six-episode conclusion is not setting up a peaceful farewell for Elisabeth and Franz: war trauma, infidelity, declining health and a journey away from Vienna are all built into the official synopsis.

By Yasmine
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S.W.A.T. Exiles launches on Starz, proving CBS did not get the final word on Hondo

CBS ended S.W.A.T. after eight seasons, but Sony Pictures Television never treated that decision as the death of the property. S.W.A.T. Exiles is now streaming on Starz in the United States with Shemar Moore back as Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson. The more interesting story sits behind the premiere: Sony developed and completed the spin-off without a US network attached, then sold it to Starz and a long list of international broadcasters and streamers.

By Tori
News

Microsoft still wants Xbox to be both publisher and platform as Nadella backs the ongoing reset

Microsoft is still refusing the idea that Xbox must choose between publishing games and owning the platform they run on. In a September 25 interview, Satya Nadella described both as core ambitions and said the company still needs the right sustainable business model to reach more players. That strategy is being pursued while Xbox remains in the middle of a very tangible restructuring.

By Tori
Cinema

A seven-year-old Avengers movie is starting ahead of the new releases

Three new wide releases arrive with Robert Pattinson, Brad Pitt and an original DreamWorks animated film. The title currently ahead of all three was released in 2019. Avengers: Endgame Encore took roughly $3.8 million from North American previews, giving Marvel’s reissue an early lead over Primetime, Heart of the Beast and Forgotten Island. Preview figures are not perfectly comparable and they are not final weekend grosses, but they make for an unusually neat snapshot of the theatrical business.

By Tori
News

Electronic Arts in 2026: after the $55 billion buyout, where do EA and its licenses stand?

Electronic Arts has changed owners without changing the fundamental shape of its business. The PIF, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners consortium completed its roughly $55 billion acquisition on August 4, taking EA off the public market. Underneath that corporate change sits a portfolio built from two very different ingredients. EA can describe Battlefield as wholly owned IP. Madden NFL, EA SPORTS FC, F1, NHL, UFC, Star Wars and Iron Man all require outside rights in one form or another. That distinction matters more now that the company is private, more leveraged and less transparent.

By Tori
Games

Bethesda is no longer planning one next game, but an entire production pipeline

Bethesda Game Studios' roadmap is more interesting as an organizational document than as a release calendar. The dates remain scarce. What has changed is the production model: one giant RPG at the center, several franchise projects around it, outside studios working closer to Bethesda and a new technology platform intended to support more than one future game at once.

By Tori
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American Horror Story 13 Blends Murder House, Coven and Hotel — but Lady Gaga Is Sitting This One Out

American Horror Story: 13 is turning out to be more than an anniversary-season reunion. With its first three episodes now released, Ryan Murphy says the new installment was designed as a concentrated dose of the show's earlier DNA. Murder House, Coven and Hotel are the three reference points he names most clearly. One major Hotel figure, however, is absent: Lady Gaga is not part of Season 13.

By Yasmine
Cinema

The New Saw Movie Finds Its Director as Mike P. Nelson Enters the Game With James Wan

Saw's new ownership structure now has an actual movie attached to it. Mike P. Nelson will direct the next installment for Lionsgate and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, with James Wan, Leigh Whannell and Jason Blum producing. One detail in the first announcement is already worth preserving: the script shown on screen is labeled UNTITLED SAW.

By Tori
Cinema

Hollow Eyes Belmont Cameli for Brom Bones Opposite Sydney Sweeney

Hollow is beginning to put faces to a very old rivalry. Belmont Cameli is set to play Brom Bones opposite Sydney Sweeney's Katrina Van Tassel, according to Deadline, in a Sony project that rebuilds The Legend of Sleepy Hollow around a different point of view.

By Clarel
Cinema

Netflix Extends Sesame Street Through Season 62 and Adds a Film Project

Netflix has secured a much longer future with Sesame Street. Its deal with Sesame Workshop now covers new seasons through Season 62, while a separate film project brings Rideback into a partnership that increasingly looks like a broader franchise strategy.

By Tori
Series

There is now a new Glee script — but there is not a new Glee show yet

For months, the idea of more Glee consisted mostly of Ryan Murphy saying that he might like to revisit it. There is finally something more substantial than nostalgia on his desk. Murphy has completed a script with Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan and has started talking to members of the original ensemble. That still does not make it an ordered television series, and right now that distinction matters more than any reunion speculation.

By Tori
Cinema

Ray Gunn builds the future as if 1939 never ended

Ray Gunn has flying cars, robots and skyscrapers that appear to have forgotten when to stop growing, but nobody told Brad Bird that film noir was supposed to stay in the past. The first trailer finally reveals the central trick behind a project he has carried for more than three decades: this is not our future. It is the future a filmmaker in 1939 might have imagined, with an old-fashioned private detective dropped right into the middle of it.

By Clarel
News

AAA gaming in 2026 is not one crisis — it is a widening split between business models

There is no single AAA industry story in September 2026. Microsoft is deep into the largest restructuring Xbox has undertaken, Ubisoft is coming off a heavily loss-making year and Electronic Arts has become a privately owned company. At the same time, PlayStation is producing more operating profit, Nintendo is building a substantial Switch 2 installed base and Capcom has opened its fiscal year with another surge in earnings. The budgets are enormous everywhere. The underlying problems are not.

By Tori
Cinema

The Love Hypothesis is now on Prime Video as Amazon turns Ali Hazelwood's romance hit into a global streaming release

Prime Video has its major September romance. The Love Hypothesis is now available following its September 23 global release, with Lili Reinhart playing a Ph.D. candidate pulled into a fake relationship with Tom Bateman's intimidating professor. Amazon MGM Studios has turned one of Ali Hazelwood's best-known novels into a 112-minute streaming feature.

By Tori
Cinema

Hollywood's September 2026 release calendar: Resident Evil, Brad Pitt, Practical Magic 2 and more

September normally sits awkwardly between summer blockbuster season and the fall prestige push. Hollywood has filled that gap rather aggressively in 2026. Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II open the month with a crime thriller, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return for Practical Magic 2, Zach Cregger reboots Resident Evil, and Brad Pitt ends September stranded in Alaska with a combat dog.

By Tori
Series

House of David will end with Season 3 as Amazon turns its renewal into a planned finale

House of David is getting the third season Amazon promised in July, but it will not go any further. Wonder Project and Amazon MGM Studios have now confirmed that the episodes filming in Greece are the show's final chapter, completing the specific story its creators say they planned from the beginning: David's journey from anonymous shepherd to the throne.

By Tori
Series

Lizzie Borden goes straight to No. 1 as Monster opens with 12.1 million views

Netflix has changed the century, the gender of its central subject and almost the entire cast, but Monster still knows how to open quickly. The Lizzie Borden Story debuted at No. 1 on the global English TV chart with 12.1 million views. After Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers and Ed Gein, the anthology is showing that its audience may now be attached as much to the Monster label as to any individual criminal case.

By Tori
Games

Until Dawn 2 replaces the cabin teenagers with eight influencers who finally found a ghost they didn't pay for

The original Until Dawn group needed an isolated lodge and a remarkable collection of bad decisions. Until Dawn 2's cast arrives with cameras, a television contract and a habit of manufacturing its own ghosts. Firesprite is moving interactive slasher horror toward a generation that does not simply enter the haunted building. It tries to monetize it first.

By Yasmine
Cinema

The Family Stone becomes The Families Stone as almost the entire family returns 20 years later

Twenty years later, the Stone house is about to become overcrowded at Christmas again. Searchlight has officially announced The Families Stone, with Tom Bezucha returning to write and direct and almost the entire surviving principal cast coming back. The new family disruption belongs to Kelly this time: he has fallen in love, and he is bringing the woman into the Stone Christmas gathering.

By Yasmine
Series

Heated Rivalry Season 2 finally confirms the actor fans had already spotted

Heated Rivalry has confirmed a casting secret that had already become increasingly difficult to keep. Set photos had pushed David Tomlinson into fan speculation, and Crave has now made it official — while revealing one adaptation change book readers noticed immediately. Dallas Kent is now Cody Kent.

By Yasmine
Cinema

Independent cinema is not short on releases: seven films from around the world to watch right now

Independent cinema does not really have a single global Friday. One film opens in France on Wednesday, another begins in a New York theater two days later, and a third is still moving through festivals while distributors decide where it goes next. Late September 2026 is a particularly good example: the films are there, but their routes to an audience look completely different.

By Clarel
Cinema

Wednesday's International Cinema Releases: Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Refn and a Busy Korean Opening Day

There is no single worldwide movie-release day. On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, French cinemas are opening several international titles before their US or UK debuts, while South Korea is using its own midweek release cycle for an especially important pre-Chuseok slate. Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Nicolas Winding Refn, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Lee Min-ho and Lee Chang-dong all have films entering theaters today somewhere in the world.

By Tori
Cinema

Wildwood finally shows its full scale as LAIKA returns after seven years with a forest at war

Seven years without a new LAIKA feature is long enough to make Wildwood feel like a relaunch. The final trailer suggests the opposite. The studio is still committed to puppets, physical environments and frame-by-frame animation; it has simply made the playground much larger. Instead of one haunted house or one small town, Wildwood asks stop-motion to support an entire hidden civilization on the edge of war.

By Clarel
News

Ubisoft is clearly in crisis, but it is not on the brink: what the 2026 numbers actually show

Ubisoft does not need exaggerated headlines to make its position look difficult. Fiscal 2025-26 ended with more than €1 billion in operating losses and a 17.4% decline in net bookings. Yet corporate crisis and imminent insolvency are not the same thing. Tencent's investment has given Ubisoft considerably more financial breathing room. The unresolved issue is whether that time can be turned into sustainable cash generation.

By Tori
Series

Sweet Magnolias is ending after five seasons, but Netflix is keeping its creative formula alive

Netflix is done pouring margaritas in Serenity, but it is not moving away from the kind of television Sweet Magnolias helped define on the service. The series has ended after five seasons, while showrunner Sheryl J. Anderson is already setting up Ladies of the House at the same streamer with JoAnna Garcia Swisher producing. One show is gone; much of the creative logic behind it is staying.

By Tori
Games

PHYSINT casts Bill Skarsgård and looks increasingly like a movie before showing us the game

Hideo Kojima still is not introducing PHYSINT with a corridor, a suppressed weapon or a guard waiting to be bypassed. He is showing actors. Bill Skarsgård joins Charlee Fraser, Don Lee and Minami Hamabe in a project openly borrowing film-production tools and promotional language while continuing to define itself as an action-espionage game.

By Vever
Cinema

Sam Mendes' new Beatles just recreated A Hard Day's Night — and Beatlemania is becoming part of the story

Sam Mendes is not merely dramatizing Beatles history. He is rebuilding some of its most recognizable images. The latest set photographs from The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event show John, George and Ringo sprinting away from screaming fans in a recreation of A Hard Day's Night, only days after the four lead actors reconstructed the band's enormous 1964 homecoming in Liverpool.

By Clarel
Cinema

Cliff Booth is back in 1977, and David Fincher has turned Tarantino's fairy tale into a Hollywood crime story

The fairy tale is over. Netflix uses that phrase to describe The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, and it neatly explains what changes when David Fincher inherits Quentin Tarantino's character. Brad Pitt is still playing the same dangerously relaxed stuntman. The difference is that 1977 Hollywood has finally discovered a profession perfectly suited to him: fixer.

By Clarel
Series

Ewan McGregor still wants more Obi-Wan, and he has already pitched Dave Filoni a Yoda story

Ewan McGregor is no longer simply waiting for Lucasfilm to send him an Obi-Wan Kenobi script. Four years after the Disney+ limited series, he is coming up with possible stories himself. One of them would send Obi-Wan looking for Yoda after the Jedi Order's collapse. The important part is what has not happened: Lucasfilm has not put that project into announced development.

By Tori
Cinema

Adèle Exarchopoulos lives through eight years of alcoholism in Jeanne Herry's Garance

Garance is not introduced as a celebrity or as someone whose life has already collapsed. She works, moves apartments, falls in love, goes out and keeps functioning. Alcohol is simply always there — first as comfort and social fuel, then increasingly as something that reorganizes the rest of her life. Jeanne Herry follows that process across eight years in Garance.

By Yasmine
Cinema

Nicolas Winding Refn returns to theaters after 10 years with Her Private Hell

Nicolas Winding Refn has not made a theatrical feature since The Neon Demon in 2016, and Her Private Hell is not exactly a restrained return. The new film mixes science fiction, horror, serial-killer imagery, paternal anxiety and aggressively colored neon inside a futuristic city swallowed by a deadly mist.

By Clarel
Cinema

Sense and Sensibility returns to theaters with the Dashwood sisters taking priority over their suitors

Any new Sense and Sensibility has to share the room with Ang Lee and Emma Thompson's 1995 film. Georgia Oakley is not pretending otherwise. Her version finds its distinction by moving away from the simplest reading of one sensible sister and one emotional sister, instead treating Elinor and Marianne as two young women whose survival depends on learning from each other.

By Clarel
Cinema

Robert Pattinson turns To Catch a Predator into a thriller as Primetime reaches theaters

To Catch a Predator already had the structure of a thriller: hidden cameras, a trap, an unexpected confrontation and an arrest waiting outside. Primetime is interested in what happened when that structure became entertainment. Lance Oppenheim's first narrative feature stars Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen and opens in French theaters on September 23.

By Clarel
Cinema

Jacob Elordi could join Scarlett Johansson in Ari Aster's Scapegoat

Ari Aster has once again reached the stage where his cast is news before anyone knows what the movie is actually about. Scarlett Johansson is already attached to Scapegoat, and Jacob Elordi is now in negotiations to join her. His deal is not yet closed, while Aster is keeping the story almost completely secret.

By Tori
Cinema

Evan Rachel Wood wanted to return for Practical Magic 2, but Joey King inherited her role

Practical Magic 2 brings back Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing nearly three decades after the original. Evan Rachel Wood would have happily joined that reunion. The actress, who played Kylie Owens as a child in 1998, says she offered to return and was told the character was being recast with Joey King.

By Yasmine
Series

Meghan Markle in The Gentlemen? Season 3 is now official, but her casting still isn't

The Meghan Markle rumor has changed context in a matter of weeks. When reports first connected her to The Gentlemen, Netflix had not even renewed the show for a third season. That part is now official. Guy Ritchie's series is coming back. Markle's involvement, however, remains exactly where it started: in the negotiation column.

By Tori
Cinema

Barbie 2 is stuck on contracts because nobody signed up for a sequel the first time

The biggest film in Warner Bros. history has a surprisingly basic sequel problem: its key creative team was never obligated to make another one. Three years after Barbie earned more than $1.4 billion worldwide, the studio is still negotiating with Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and Noah Baumbach. Those talks have stalled.

By Tori
Cinema

La Bola Negra wins Toronto's audience prize after already taking Best Director at Cannes

La Bola Negra left Cannes with a directing prize. Four months later, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi have collected a very different signal from Toronto: audiences chose their film as TIFF's 2026 People's Choice Award winner. That matters not because it guarantees anything ahead, but because few festival prizes are watched as closely once awards season begins.

By Tori
Cinema

Resident Evil opens to $60 million as Zach Cregger obliterates the franchise record

Sony was already expecting a franchise record. The final estimate is much larger than that modest description suggests. Resident Evil has opened to roughly $60 million in the U.S. and Canada, compared with the $26.65 million record set by Afterlife in 2010, while giving Zach Cregger the biggest opening of his career.

By Tori
Cinema

Spider-Man: Brand New Day knocks Star Wars off the top with a record $936.8 million domestic run

A box-office record that survived for more than a decade has finally moved. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has crossed roughly $936.8 million in the United States and Canada, edging past Star Wars: The Force Awakens after only 47 days in theaters. It is an unadjusted record, but within the industry's standard nominal chart, Spider-Man now sits alone at number one.

By Tori
Series

Youth puts Sharon Horgan in the middle of a very crowded midlife reset

Alex is supposed to be reaching the part of life where there is finally a little more room for herself. Youth immediately makes that assumption look optimistic. Sharon Horgan's new HBO comedy premiered with two episodes on September 20 and gives its protagonist romance, family duty and an almost-grown son all at once.

By Yasmine
Games

Xbox is using TGS to widen its catalogue without betting everything on blockbusters

Xbox's Tokyo Game Show 2026 broadcast had enough major franchises to handle the obvious promotional work. The more revealing business story sat around them: Microsoft continues to add Japanese partners, Asian studios and mid-sized productions to an ecosystem that historically struggled to match Nintendo and Sony in that area.

By Tori
Cinema

The Inbetweeners 3 is actually filming, and all four disasters are back 16 years later

For years, another Inbetweeners movie sounded like a reunion everyone could imagine and nobody quite knew how to make. The cast could not plausibly go back to sixth form forever. Netflix has now found the simpler answer: let them grow up. Production on The Inbetweeners 3 is officially underway in the UK with the entire original quartet.

By Clarel
Series

Wonder Man logged 1.9 billion minutes watched, and Disney+ still canceled it

The raw number looks like the beginning of a success story: roughly 1.9 billion U.S. viewing minutes in the first half of 2026. Wonder Man was nevertheless canceled after Disney had already ordered another season. Luminate's audience analysis suggests the contradiction becomes less dramatic once retention, catalog viewing and estimated cost are added to the picture.

By Tori
Cinema

Best of the Best turns collegiate Bollywood dance into a combat sport for Maitreyi Ramakrishnan

Maya and Anjali think they are joining a college dance team. What they actually enter is a world of late-night rehearsals, bruising competition, creative obsession and enough internal drama to make class feel like the relaxing part of university. Best of the Best arrives on Netflix September 18 with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Priyanka Kedia leading a coming-of-age comedy built around collegiate Bollywood fusion.

By Yasmine
Games

Modern Warfare 4 finally makes Captain Price's red line the central conflict of its campaign

Since the 2019 reboot, Captain Price has repeatedly argued that rules become negotiable when the threat is serious enough. Modern Warfare 4 finally appears interested in what happens when his partners stop accepting that logic. The new TGS trailer does not simply present him as a ruthless hero. It makes him a fugitive hunted by the people he used to command.

By Vever
Cinema

Prime Video turns a million-book French romance into a global YA movie with You+Me

Prime Video does not have to introduce Alma and Vadim from nothing. Emma Green's Toi+Moi – Seuls contre tous trilogy has already sold close to one million copies in France. The movie arriving September 18 turns that established French readership into a much larger experiment: can a local YA romance travel globally with Vittoria Di Savoia and Lucas Barski in the lead?

By Tori
Series

Steel Ball Run rides again September 25, and the Devil’s Palm is already waiting for Johnny and Gyro

Steel Ball Run's opening episode started a race measured in thousands of miles and then left Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli near the beginning of it. Netflix is finally moving the journey forward. The 2nd and 3rd STAGE begin September 25 with eleven weekly episodes, a brutal desert crossing and a place called the Devil’s Palm that makes an already lethal horse race considerably less reasonable.

By Vever
Series

American Horror Story Season 13 is bringing everyone back: witches, Constance, Twisty and even Kai

After twelve installments spent changing houses, decades, monsters and occasionally its own rules, American Horror Story is finally doing something more dangerous: putting its history in the same room. Season 13 premieres September 24 with Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Emma Roberts and a collection of characters the anthology once left behind.

By Yasmine
Series

Below sends Josh Hartnett into the water to find what Newfoundland has been hiding

A house is being calmly transported across the water when something suddenly pulls the entire building beneath the surface. Below does not need to reveal its monster to establish the threat. On October 8, Josh Hartnett will try to protect a small Newfoundland community from whatever is in the ocean — and from secrets that have been waiting there for much longer.

By Yasmine
Series

MobLand returns today, and Paramount+ has already bet on Season 3

The Harrigans are going back to war with one unusually comfortable piece of information: Paramount+ has already decided they are worth another season. MobLand Season 2 premieres September 18, while Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren are already officially confirmed to return for Season 3.

By Tori
Cinema

Resident Evil is back in theaters, but Zach Cregger finally leaves the game heroes alone

Resident Evil cinema has already tried radical reinvention and a more literal return to the games. Zach Cregger is attempting a third route. His new film opens September 18 with Raccoon City intact but Leon, Claire, Jill and Chris nowhere near the lead role. Instead, Austin Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier having an exceptionally bad night.

By Vever
Cinema

Guru takes away John Abraham's most reliable weapon: knowing what is real

John Abraham usually plays characters who can identify the threat in front of them. Guru is giving him something less convenient. Principal photography has started on Ribhu Dasgupta's psychological thriller, where the central problem is not simply an enemy but a protagonist who can no longer trust his own memory.

By Clarel
Cinema

Sense and Sensibility shifts the focus: this time the Dashwood sisters come before their suitors

Sense and Sensibility has no shortage of romantic complications, eligible men and financial consequences attached to marriage. Georgia Oakley's new adaptation is nevertheless putting a different relationship first. Following its London premiere, the film is presenting Elinor and Marianne less as competing philosophies and more as sisters whose contrasting instincts gradually reshape each other.

By Clarel
Cinema

Sunrise on the Reaping puts 48 tributes in the arena and shows exactly what broke Haymitch

The arena is covered in flowers. Mountains rise behind it, sunlight fills the valley and everything looks almost absurdly beautiful. Then the Capitol sends 48 teenagers inside. The latest Sunrise on the Reaping trailer is leaning hard into that contradiction as Haymitch Abernathy enters the most notorious Hunger Games of his generation.

By Clarel
Games

Crazy Taxi hits TGS again as Sega tries to modernize arcade chaos without losing its punk pulse

Crazy Taxi never needed much context to become memorable. A city, a timer, a yellow cab and The Offspring were enough. Twenty-seven years after the arcade original, Sega is bringing the series back to Tokyo Game Show with a harder question: how do you expand a game whose identity came from having almost nothing between the player and the next reckless drive?

By Vever
Cinema

Hawaii Five-O is taking another shot at the big screen with Destin Daniel Cretton

Hawaii Five-O has spent decades trying to make the jump from television to theaters. Paramount is now assembling another attempt around Destin Daniel Cretton, although this one still comes with a significant caveat: the deal is not fully closed and the studio has yet to announce a cast, production date or release window.

By Tori
Series

The Diplomat Season 4 turns the White House into Kate Wyler’s biggest problem yet

The Diplomat has always treated marriage and foreign policy as two versions of the same unstable negotiation. Season 4 appears ready to push that idea much further, with Grace Penn and Hal Wyler building a dangerous partnership while Kate is left trying to contain both the international fallout and the personal one.

By Yasmine
News

Gaming Is Breaking Revenue Records While Its Industrial Model Starts to Crack

Video games are not dying. That is what makes the current contradiction so striking. Revenue is rising, the global audience is still expanding and investment is showing signs of returning, while studios close, restructure or retreat toward intellectual property that already has an audience.

By Tori
Series

Tom Hardy fired from MobLand? Pierce Brosnan calls the whole feud a “storm in a teacup”

For several months, the behind-the-scenes version of MobLand sounded almost more violent than the show itself. Tom Hardy had supposedly been fired. Producers were allegedly exhausted. Helen Mirren was reportedly frustrated. Pierce Brosnan was somehow pulled into the feud narrative too. Then Paramount+ renewed the series with all three stars returning. At the Season 2 premiere, Brosnan finally offered a much smaller description of the scandal: a storm in a teacup.

By Vever
Pop Culture

Liam Neeson and Stella Stocker held hands at TIFF — that still does not make them an official couple

Celebrity gossip rarely needs a press release when it has a hand to photograph. Liam Neeson and Stella Stocker arrived at TIFF together, dressed in coordinated black and holding hands on the red carpet. That part is straightforward. The part where they have therefore become Hollywood's newest couple is still being supplied by everyone except Neeson and Stocker.

By Vever
Games

NIKKE turns Guilty, Sin and Sugar into Bunny Girls, and the fanservice has become a tradition with its own continuity

Early in NIKKE's life, a bunny outfit could still feel like one seasonal event among many. Four years later, Coin Rush has become something close to its own miniature mythology. Locations return, old costumes reappear and every generation of characters eventually seems destined to spend some time at the casino. In 2026, Guilty, Sin and Sugar are getting the ears.

By Vever
Pop Culture

He quit Anthropic with an extinction warning, and the internet turned his resignation into a meme

The story begins like a technology thriller. A researcher who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic quits and says the people building the world's most capable AI systems genuinely worry the technology could kill humanity. Then the internet copies his solemn resignation format to complain about Looney Tunes tunnels, crypto trades and assorted fictional catastrophes. That transition took only a few days.

By Tori
Pop Culture

Dakota Johnson and MGK spent the night together in New York — the internet has already promoted them to couple

Apparently all Hollywood needs to manufacture a new couple is one black SUV, two recently single celebrities and access to Taylor Swift's apartment. Dakota Johnson and Machine Gun Kelly were genuinely seen spending time together in New York on September 12. The part where they are now dating is considerably less established. At the moment, there are photographs, a wonderfully gossip-friendly timeline and no confirmation from either person involved.

By Vever
Pop Culture

Jennifer Aniston and Jim Curtis took months to become a couple — now he is finally talking about what changed

For a Jennifer Aniston romance, Jim Curtis has offered an almost suspiciously uncinematic origin story. There was no instant declaration and no secret set romance. They talked. They became friends. They stayed that way for months. More than a year later, Curtis is describing the relationship with words that sound much quieter than the tabloid stories surrounding it: joy, presence, calm and partnership.

By Vever
Series

American Horror Story 13 opens the vault and turns fifteen years of nightmares into one giant crossover

American Horror Story spent twelve installments reusing its actors. Season 13 is reusing the entire universe. FX's new trailer has Fiona Goode, Cordelia, James Patrick March, Constance Langdon, Twisty, Madison Montgomery and characters from several other eras occupying the same event. Ryan Murphy is not hiding the strategy anymore: this is less a new anthology chapter than AHS assembling its own extremely dysfunctional Avengers.

By Yasmine
Series

Netflix cancels Ransom Canyon after Season 2 loses nearly half its opening audience

Ransom Canyon had recognizable stars, attractive scenery, an established book series and enough unresolved relationships to continue for years. What it did not have was a stronger second-season audience. Netflix will not move forward with Season 3 after the July return opened substantially below the show's first season and dropped out of the global Top 10 after three weeks.

By Tori
Cinema

Godzilla Minus Zero's new trailer returns to the wounds Minus One never really closed

Godzilla Minus One made its monster terrifying partly by giving viewers something worth destroying first. The full theatrical trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero suggests Takashi Yamazaki has not forgotten that lesson. The sequel is larger, its response operation is more organized and Godzilla looks considerably harder to kill, but the film is still beginning with people who had only just convinced themselves life could become normal again.

By Clarel
Cinema

Sebastian Stan invokes The Godfather Part II while keeping his Batman role firmly secret

Sebastian Stan says he does not want to inflate expectations for The Batman: Part II. His chosen method was to walk onto Matt Reeves' set and occasionally feel as though he might be making The Godfather Part II. It is an absurdly effective way to accomplish the opposite, but underneath the enormous comparison is a more useful observation: everyone involved appears acutely aware that this sequel has six years of expectation to justify.

By Clarel
Series

NCIS: New York wants to get dirtier without breaking the franchise that built it

CBS could have built NCIS: New York by changing the skyline and leaving everything else alone. The people making it are at least describing a more ambitious plan. LL Cool J is bringing Sam Hanna home, Scott Caan is starting over with a new character, the office sits in Brooklyn, and production is moving across the boroughs while showrunner Byron Balasco pushes at the boundaries of the network formula.

By Tori
News

Sony Music takes Anthropic to court as Claude faces a potentially multi-billion-dollar copyright fight

The music industry's fight with generative AI has escalated again. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in California federal court, alleging that tens of thousands of copyrighted compositions were copied to build and train Claude. With statutory damages of up to $150,000 sought for each willfully infringed work, the theoretical exposure becomes enormous very quickly.

By Tori
Series

Off Campus Season 2 is filming as Prime Video hands the romance to Allie and Dean

Briar University is already back in session. Prime Video has confirmed that Off Campus Season 2 is filming, but the more important change is sitting at the center of the story: Allie Hayes and Dean Di Laurentis are now the primary romance. Hannah and Garrett are staying in the ensemble, giving Amazon a chance to test whether its 36-million-viewer launch created loyalty to an entire fictional campus rather than just one couple.

By Tori
Pop Culture

Jennifer Lawrence finally joins Instagram and is already threatening to leave

Jennifer Lawrence has officially joined Instagram after years of keeping her public distance from social media. Her welcome message was less a grand digital reinvention than a warning: be nice, because she says one negative comment could send her straight back out the door.

By Vever
Games

Marvel Rivals picks Gorr for Season 10, and its God Butcher does not need his MCU face

Most mainstream audiences know Gorr through Christian Bale's performance in Thor: Love and Thunder. Marvel Rivals has no reason to reproduce that incarnation by default. Season 10 instead returns to the character's most useful comic-book idea: he is a walking problem for anyone unfortunate enough to qualify as a god.

By Vever
Series

Mike Flanagan's Carrie trailer makes the prom look like the end of a very long fuse

The new Carrie trailer spends surprisingly little time pretending viewers do not know where this story eventually goes. Mike Flanagan is more interested in the buildup: a sheltered teenager entering public school, a mother whose idea of protection is inseparable from control, cruelty becoming viral content, and telekinetic power arriving inside someone who has been taught to fear almost everything.

By Yasmine
Series

Nippon Sangoku is getting a sequel after its manga sales doubled in just one month

Nippon Sangoku will not end with the fall of Seii. A sequel is officially in production, and its announcement footage has already shown an older Aoteru Misumi. There is no release date and not even a confirmed format yet, but the speed of the decision makes considerably more sense once the numbers behind the first season are considered.

By Yasmine
Series

Boys of Tommen finally steps on screen as Prime Video builds its next YA franchise

Prime Video's next major young-adult romance already comes with an audience attached. The streamer has released its first official production images from Boys of Tommen, putting Nancy Surridge's Shannon Lynch and Conor Sánchez's Johnny Kavanagh on screen as filming continues on the adaptation of Chloe Walsh's BookTok-fueled series.

By Tori
Games

Polyarc is closing after a funding crisis it never managed to outrun

Polyarc has not given a specific reason for its September 11 closure. The previous six months nevertheless provide unusually clear context: a major project was canceled, replacement funding could not be secured, most of the workforce was laid off, and the remaining team pushed Moss onto conventional PC and console screens. That final release arrived in July. The studio will not make it to the end of the year.

By Tori
Cinema

Hope goes global after smashing a Korean presales record

Hope was never built to remain a Korean festival success. After Cannes, a record international presales run and one of South Korea's biggest theatrical launches of 2026, Na Hong-jin's first film in a decade is now being pushed overseas with the release strategy of a genuine global blockbuster.

By Tori
Games

Under Mythos is also a pitch for KADATH's unusual way of building JRPGs

The most revealing line in the Under Mythos announcement is not its 2028 release window. KADATH is still seeking partners for the vertical slice. Yoichi Miyaji has announced both a JRPG and the production model intended to make it: a small IP company assembling veteran creators from multiple organizations rather than maintaining a conventional permanent development team.

By Tori
Cinema

Hope already has a sequel script — Na Hong-jin is betting big on Korea's $74 million sci-fi gamble

Na Hong-jin did not wait for Hope to finish its global theatrical run before thinking about what comes next. He has already written a follow-up story, with Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander's extraterrestrial characters positioned for a larger role. The script exists. The green light does not — and that distinction matters for one of the most expensive films South Korea has ever produced.

By Tori
Games

WARDOGS turns one million wishlists into one million day-one sales

One million Steam wishlists has become one of PC gaming's favorite marketing trophies. WARDOGS has now produced the number that matters more: those expressions of interest converted into more than one million purchases on its first day of Early Access. A few hours later, a large portion of those customers attempted to log in at once.

By Tori
Cinema

Spider-Man 5 Can Wait: Even After $2.4 Billion, Sony Still Refuses to Set a Date

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has made more than $2.4 billion worldwide. The obvious studio response would be to date the next movie before the current one has even left theaters. Sony is doing something more unusual: admitting that it still does not know when Tom Holland's Spider-Man will return.

By Tori
Games

PHYSINT moves from PlayStation to Xbox — and Microsoft just won a major battle for prestige

PHYSINT has no release date, no announced platforms and almost no public gameplay. Its publisher switch is still one of the year's most striking industry moves. Microsoft is not merely taking over a project Sony no longer wanted to fund. It is inheriting something PlayStation itself introduced as the continuation of a 30-year creative relationship with Hideo Kojima.

By Tori
Series

Landman Season 3 adds Michael Kelly as a man built to make everyone else look small

Landman has never been short on rich people. Season 3 is apparently interested in finding out what happens when someone even richer walks through the door. Michael Kelly has joined the Paramount+ drama as a series regular, playing an oil executive introduced first and foremost through the scale of his power.

By Yasmine
Games

Double Fine avoided closure, kept its IP, and now has to relearn life without Microsoft

When Double Fine left Xbox in July, the announcement looked almost like the ideal corporate divorce: independence restored and ownership of its games returned. Two months later, the economics are clearer. The studio survived, but survival means fewer employees, less financial insulation and a much more conservative production strategy.

By Tori
Cinema

Netflix is finally going to show its box-office numbers

Netflix has spent years releasing movies in theaters while keeping one of the theater business's most basic numbers to itself. That exception is beginning to disappear. Starting with La Bola Negra, the streamer reportedly intends to disclose grosses for a selected group of theatrical releases.

By Tori
Games

Halloween lets us replay the 1978 movie from the worst possible point of view

For almost fifty years, Halloween has trained viewers to look past Laurie Strode and check whether Michael Myers is still standing somewhere in the background. IllFonic's new game reverses that relationship. For six single-player chapters, we are the thing people should have been looking for.

By Vever
Cinema

The Odyssey passes $1 billion overseas as Nolan’s epic keeps sailing

The Odyssey has now made more than $1 billion without counting North America. For a nearly three-hour Homer adaptation without a sequel number, superhero logo or decades-old movie franchise attached to the title, that is an unusual box-office milestone.

By Tori
Cinema

The US box office just delivered a record $4.76 billion summer

Hollywood finally has a post-pandemic milestone that does not require the phrase “best since 2019.” Domestic summer ticket sales reached roughly $4.76 billion between May 1 and Labor Day, narrowly surpassing the previous nominal record set in 2013.

By Tori
Series

The Drop picks up where Snowfall's drug economy gives way to West Coast rap

Snowfall chronicled the crack epidemic tearing through 1980s Los Angeles. The Drop: A Snowfall Saga moves forward into the 1990s, keeping Wanda Bell and Leon Simmons while changing the arena around them. Drugs have left the damage behind; West Coast rap is becoming the next force capable of reshaping the city.

By Vever
Cinema

The Weight brings Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe into a gold-smuggling nightmare

A prison camp, a desperate father and enough gold to make every man in the wilderness suspicious of the person walking beside him. The Weight has a deliberately old-fashioned setup, and Padraic McKinley seems perfectly happy with that. The Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe thriller is now screening at Deauville ahead of its September theatrical release.

By Clarel
Series

The Kane Chronicles gets another shot at adaptation as Disney+ takes over from Netflix

Carter and Sadie Kane have already survived angry Egyptian gods, magical politics and an embodiment of chaos on the page. Their screen adaptation has had a surprisingly difficult journey of its own. Netflix spent years developing Kane Chronicles movies and ultimately abandoned them. Disney+ is now trying again, this time as television.

By Yasmine
Games

Beautiful Life Show Makes Your Previous Deaths Part of the Cast

The star dies. The stage rewinds. Then the dead version walks back into the performance and repeats exactly what happened. Beautiful Life Show treats failure as both a puzzle mechanic and another actor in its increasingly unpleasant production.

By Clarel
Games

Duo Quest turns knowing your partner into a combat mechanic, and now you can do it online

Most co-op games measure teamwork through timing, aim or an ability to avoid screaming at the person holding the other controller. Duo Quest takes a more intrusive route. It asks what your partner thinks, rewards matching answers and turns familiarity into combat power. Its latest demo update finally lets that conversation happen properly over the internet.

By Vever
Games

Stranger Than Heaven is trying to tell a whole life, not simply make another Yakuza

The familiar RGG Studio ingredients are easy to spot in Stranger Than Heaven: dense cities, brutal street fights and an almost suspicious enthusiasm for music. The structure around them is different. Makoto Daito's story stretches from 1915 to 1965 and treats the changing country around him as part of his biography.

By Vever
Series

Maxton Hall Season 3 teaser puts Ruby's Oxford dream on the line

Maxton Hall is opening its doors one last time, but Ruby Bell enters the final season from outside them. Prime Video's new teaser begins with the consequence hanging over Season 3: Ruby has been suspended, Oxford is suddenly in jeopardy, and clearing her name may expose problems that go well beyond school discipline.

By Yasmine
Series

MobLand locks in Season 3 before Season 2 even premieres

For months, the biggest MobLand question was not what would happen to the Harrigans next, but whether Tom Hardy would still be there when it happened. Paramount+ has now removed the uncertainty by renewing the crime drama for a third season and confirming Hardy alongside Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan.

By Tori
Series

Kill Jackie trailer puts Catherine Zeta-Jones back in the business of surviving

Jackie Price has spent twenty years making her old life disappear. Kill Jackie starts when somebody decides that retirement has lasted long enough. AMC+'s first full trailer makes Catherine Zeta-Jones the center of an unusually glamorous manhunt ahead of the series' October 2 U.S. premiere.

By Clarel
Series

Heated Rivalry Season 2 adds Milla Jovovich where Ilya's story gets personal

Milla Jovovich is the headline name in Heated Rivalry's latest casting announcement, but the roles matter more than the celebrity upgrade. Together with Kevin Zegers and Paul Gross, she fills in three parts of Ilya Rozanov's next chapter: his mental health, his new hockey environment and the institution governing the sport.

By Yasmine
Cinema

Lincoln in the Bardo gives Meryl Streep four roles, not one

The new Lincoln in the Bardo casting announcement is less interesting as a list of famous names than as a clue to how Duke Johnson plans to handle George Saunders' crowded afterlife. Meryl Streep alone will voice four characters, while Bill Hader and Tom Waits each take multiple parts.

By Clarel
Pop Culture

The Original PlayStation Is Becoming a 1,911-Piece LEGO Set

The grey shell does most of the work. Before the logos, moving buttons or hidden game references become apparent, the new LEGO PlayStation is recognisable simply because Sony's first console had such a specific shape. Three decades later, that shape has become collectible material.

By Vever
Games

Bodycam is turning its viral visual trick into an actual design language

For most people, Bodycam arrived first as an image: warped lens, unstable framing, crushed highlights and a rifle moving with a body rather than floating beneath a conventional FPS camera. Version 0.8 is Reissad Studio's attempt to make the rest of the game speak that same language.

By Vever
Games

Sea of Thieves Is Becoming a Stage for Player-Made Pirate Stories

The classic Sea of Thieves story usually begins with a plan that went wrong. Custom Seas introduces the opposite possibility: decide in advance how many pirates will appear, where they will fight, who will referee the chaos and where the camera should be when everything explodes.

By Vever
Series

HBO Max is expanding in Japan without launching another standalone app

HBO Max is expanding its presence in Japan, but Warner Bros. Discovery is not asking viewers to install another streaming app. It has chosen two established gateways instead: Hulu Japan and Prime Video. The distribution strategy may be as important as the content arriving with it.

By Tori
Games

Haunted Chocolatier shows the rare luxury of developing without a public deadline

Most modern game campaigns work backward from a date. Haunted Chocolatier works in the opposite direction. Eric Barone builds, revises and tests without promising when any of it will become a commercial product. Five years after announcement, the missing schedule has become part of the project's identity.

By Tori
Games

Crescent Tower: RISING wants to revive more than the look of an '80s RPG

Pixels are the most visible form of nostalgia. Crescent Tower: RISING appears more interested in what used to sit behind them: dungeons that had to be understood rather than simply crossed, classes that fundamentally shaped characters and preparation that began long before the first combat command.

By Vever
Games

Cutout builds its horror from cardboard, stolen limbs and broken instruments

Cutout could simply have simulated paper on a screen. Instead, 906 Games appears to be building almost its entire identity around the material: environments resemble improvised dioramas, bodies can be cut and pasted together, and even the soundtrack uses instruments its composer sometimes deliberately does not know how to play.

By Vever
Cinema

The Mosquito Bowl turns a real 1944 football game into Peter Berg’s next war film

On Christmas Eve 1944, 65 Marines played football on Guadalcanal while preparing for a campaign that would take them to Okinawa. Fifteen of those players would be killed there months later. Peter Berg’s The Mosquito Bowl is built around the uncomfortable distance between those two events, and Netflix has now released its first proper look at the film.

By Clarel
Series

Apple’s 12 12 12 tells one Zurich heist across three clocks

Most heist stories save the robbery for the point where all the planning finally pays off or collapses. 12 12 12 has chosen a less orderly arrangement. Apple’s new series will keep moving between what happened before the vault was hit, what happened during those twelve crucial hours and the consequences already waiting on the other side.

By Yasmine
Series

Monster has already decided what kind of Lizzie Borden story it wants to tell

Monster is moving from Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers and Ed Gein to a case with a very different legal ending. Lizzie Borden was charged with murdering her father and stepmother and found not guilty. Netflix's new trailer seems far less interested in preserving that uncertainty.

By Yasmine
Cinema

Marvel’s Doomsday podcast turns five old MCU movies into an official refresher course

The MCU has accumulated enough movies and Disney+ shows to make “what should I watch first?” a genuine logistical question. Marvel’s new Countdown to Avengers: Doomsday Official Podcast answers it with an unexpectedly small syllabus: five films, one episode per week and a straight line from the original Avengers team to Endgame.

By Vever
Series

Sterling Point renewed after just two weeks as Prime Video moves quickly on its next YA bet

Prime Video did not wait until the end of summer to decide whether Sterling Point had a future. Megan Park's series, released on August 5, received a Season 2 renewal little more than two weeks later. Amazon describes it as a No. 1 global debut that captivated millions of viewers. The speed of the decision may be just as revealing as the unavailable raw numbers: YA and relationship-driven drama are becoming increasingly important alongside Prime Video's expensive action and fantasy franchises.

By Tori
Series

Top Gear is officially coming back, but the BBC still won't say who is driving

For months, a possible Top Gear comeback existed mostly as British television rumor: prospective hosts, anonymous reports and carefully noncommittal answers. The BBC has now settled the important part. Top Gear is returning. Almost everything about the people making that return remains deliberately unanswered.

By Tori
Pop Culture

Elon Musk really wants a Jurassic Park. He has not actually announced one

Elon Musk plus resurrected dinosaurs is an unusually efficient internet headline. There is also a real story underneath it: Musk genuinely loves the idea of a real-world Jurassic Park. What does not exist is an announced Musk-funded island, construction project or scientific program capable of bringing a T. rex back to life.

By Vever
Games

Son of Thanjai is treating 11th-century South India as more than an unusual backdrop

Medieval South India is rare enough in big-budget-style action games that Son of Thanjai could have relied on scenery alone to distinguish itself. Its Chennai-based developers are aiming for something more specific: a royal protagonist who has to lose his privilege before he can understand the kingdom beneath it.

By Vever
Series

Dan Stevens is Prime Video's new RoboCop

RoboCop finally has a face again. Dan Stevens will play Alex Murphy in Prime Video's eight-episode reimagining, bringing the franchise back to the same uncomfortable starting point that powered the 1987 film: a corporation convincing a city that technology can fix policing.

By Vever
Cinema

Toy Story 5 heads to Disney+ on September 23 after crossing $1 billion

Toy Story 5 is moving to Disney+ after already proving that audiences were still willing to leave the house for Woody and Buzz. Disney has set a September 23 streaming date for the Pixar sequel, which opened in theaters on June 19 and has since passed $1 billion worldwide.

By Tori
Games

MGS4 is back, bringing Metal Gear's most obsessive ending with it

Metal Gear Solid 4 never behaved like an ordinary sequel. It was a finale, a catalogue of returning characters and an extended argument with nearly everything the franchise had accumulated before it. Making it accessible again therefore restores more than a missing piece of software.

By Vever
Games

Rockstar turned a GTA VI gameplay reveal into a Netflix premiere

A major game reveal normally wants as little friction as possible: YouTube, social feeds, embeds and instant sharing. Rockstar tried something different with GTA VI. For six hours, the longest official look at the game belonged to Netflix subscribers first.

By Tori
Games

MGS4 is back, and its 2008 paranoia has aged strangely well

Metal Gear Solid 4 is eighteen years old, yet revisiting its central anxieties can feel less like video-game archaeology than expected. Its world runs on privatized conflict, networked control and military systems that decide who is allowed to use a weapon.

By Vever
Games

Metal Gear Solid 4 spent eighteen years tied to one console; its return finally repairs a hole in the series archive

Metal Gear has never been difficult to discuss. It has often been surprisingly difficult to preserve in a form people can simply buy and play. Guns of the Patriots was the most obvious gap: the enormous 2008 conclusion to Solid Snake's story remained attached to PlayStation 3 long after the rest of the series began moving across generations. That changes today.

By Vever
Games

Star Wars Zero Company turns the Clone Wars into a found-family story where the family can actually die

The Clone Wars usually looks enormous. Fleets, Jedi generals and whole planets make decisions measured in armies. Zero Company starts with people who have more immediate problems: Hawks is no longer a Republic officer, the company works for credits, several recruits have excellent reasons to dislike one another, and permanent death means the roster written at the beginning of the campaign may not be the roster that reaches the end.

By Yasmine
Games

Metal Gear Solid 4 has escaped the PS3, and its war economy is easier to recognize in 2026

In 2008, Metal Gear Solid 4 imagined warfare as a managed global business, with private military companies, controlled weapons and soldiers plugged into systems larger than any individual battlefield. Its politics were wrapped in the usual Metal Gear excess. The excess is still there in 2026. Some of the underlying vocabulary feels less remote.

By Vever
Games

Fable's Gamescom demo shows where Playground draws the line between reboot and inheritance

A reboot usually has an awkward heritage problem: preserve too much and it becomes a museum piece, discard too much and the title starts doing most of the work. Playground Games has been negotiating that problem in public for years. Its Gamescom combat demo offers a useful answer. Fable no longer fights like a game from Lionhead's era, but it still thinks in Strength, Skill and Will — and still believes turning an enemy into a chicken is a perfectly legitimate piece of RPG design.

By Vever
Games

Xbox is building a bridge from the used-game market into its digital ecosystem

The most interesting part of Xbox's new physical-media policy is what Microsoft chose not to eliminate. The disc survives. Lending and resale can survive with it. Instead of replacing the boxed market, Disc-to-Digital tries to attach that market to an account-based ecosystem built around PC, cloud gaming and devices that may never contain an optical drive.

By Tori
Games

Path of Exile 2 is putting an end date on its paid Early Access experiment

Grinding Gear Games has spent nearly two years charging players to enter a game it always intended to give away. That unusual sentence is not a contradiction in Path of Exile 2's case; it was the Early Access plan from the beginning. Gamescom has finally supplied the date when the temporary admission price disappears.

By Tori
Cinema

The Odyssey Has Become IMAX's Biggest Movie Ever

For The Odyssey, IMAX was never an optional premium badge added at release. It was part of the production, the marketing and even the advance-ticket strategy. Four weekends were enough for that approach to produce the biggest global gross in IMAX history.

By Tori
Cinema

Tim Curry's Frank-N-Furter Became More Than a Cult Character

A famous performance can survive inside a movie. Frank-N-Furter escaped his. Fifty years of costumes, midnight screenings, callbacks and shadow casts turned Tim Curry's role into something audiences repeatedly perform for themselves.

By Vever
Games

Metro 2039's Stranger wears Spartan armor, but Renegade is making sure nobody mistakes him for a hero

People in the Metro can look at the Stranger's Spartan armor and see salvation. 4A Games would rather make that assumption uncomfortable. The protagonist introduced for Metro 2039 is an exile with a violent history, little interest in freeing the population from Hunter's regime and enough determination to go through anyone standing between him and an unrevealed target.

By Yasmine
Games

Gamescom has sold every bit of its 2026 show floor, and 2027 now has a capacity problem

Gamescom's latest record is less glamorous than a giant trailer reveal, but considerably more useful for understanding the size of the event. All 233,000 square meters of gross exhibition space allocated for 2026 have been booked. The organizers have never reached that point before, and they are already discussing expansion concepts for 2027.

By Tori
Series

Ahsoka Season 2 Is Getting Bigger Now That Thrawn Is Finally Home

Season 1 spent eight episodes trying to find Grand Admiral Thrawn. Season 2 gets the harder job: dealing with what happens after he makes it back. Lucasfilm's early footage points to a broader conflict split between the New Republic and the characters still stranded on Peridea.

By Yasmine
Cinema

Disney+ Is Turning September 2 Into a Mandalorian Event

The Mandalorian and Grogu is heading home after its theatrical run, and Disney+ is giving the movie more than a standard catalog launch. September 2 will bring three separate releases built around Din Djarin and Grogu.

By Tori
Cinema

Cristian Mungiu has won Cannes twice, but the nineteen years between his Palmes tell the better story

Cristian Mungiu did not spend nineteen years trying to recreate the movie that won him Cannes. That may be the most useful way to read his second Palme d'Or. Fjord, a 146-minute drama set in Norway, looks geographically far removed from the Romanian story that gave him his first victory in 2007. Cannes has nevertheless kept finding reasons to reward the films between them.

By Clarel
Cinema

Eye Haïdara opened Cannes by asking what cinema is willing to look at

Cannes opening ceremonies are built to celebrate cinema. Eye Haïdara made the phrase slightly less comfortable on May 12. Before the jury, before Peter Jackson's Honorary Palme and before the opening film, she addressed people trying to resist and moved quickly to filmmakers who choose to point a camera toward things others would rather leave unseen.

By Vever
Cinema

Cannes opened with one premiere in the Lumière and more than 980 screenings across France

A Cannes opening film normally creates scarcity. A few thousand people see it first, photographs travel everywhere, and the wider audience waits for distribution to catch up. The Electric Kiss did almost the opposite on May 12. As Pierre Salvadori's film premiered inside the Grand Théâtre Lumière, French theaters were already screening the same opening-night program across the country.

By Tori
Cinema

Peter Jackson's Honorary Palme d'Or began with a 26-minute gamble at Cannes in 2001

Peter Jackson's most important Cannes screening may still be one that did not contain a complete movie. On May 13, 2001, seven months before The Fellowship of the Ring opened, Jackson brought 26 minutes of unfinished footage to the Croisette. On May 12, 2026, he returned to Cannes and accepted an Honorary Palme d'Or from Elijah Wood.

By Clarel
Cinema

Sylvester Stallone and Peter Farrelly remember the approval of I Play Rocky very differently

The awkward question around I Play Rocky is no longer whether Sylvester Stallone is officially making the movie. He isn't credited as its writer, director or producer in Amazon MGM's current materials. The stranger question is much smaller: did Stallone know Peter Farrelly was going to make it? Stallone and Farrelly have now supplied answers that do not fit comfortably together.

By Tori
Cinema

I Play Rocky is taking the underdog story to TIFF before its November release

Peter Farrelly has a very specific piece of history with Toronto. In 2018, Green Book arrived at TIFF for its world premiere, won the audience award and left with an entirely different place in that year's awards conversation. I Play Rocky will enter the same festival on September 12. That history makes the booking easy to notice. It does not make the outcome repeatable.

By Tori
Cinema

Camp Rock 3 hits Disney+ with a new class and plenty of old DNA

Camp Rock 3 is now streaming on Disney+. Its August 14 arrival turns one of Disney Channel's most recognizable 2000s properties into something more useful than a nostalgia special: a launchpad for another generation of performers.

By Tori
Cinema

Sebastian Stan filmed Avengers: Doomsday without ever getting the whole puzzle

Sebastian Stan is definitely in Avengers: Doomsday. He is apparently a considerably less useful source on what Avengers: Doomsday actually does. Asked about the movie by Le Journal du Dimanche, Stan said he never received the full screenplay and instead shot disconnected pieces of it. For Marvel, ignorance has one extremely convenient production benefit: it is difficult to leak a plot connection nobody told you about.

By Tori
Cinema

David Harbour said the one Tony Stark line Avengers: Doomsday was supposed to keep complicated

David Harbour was offered an almost irresponsible interview prompt: give Variety one line from Avengers: Doomsday with absolutely no context. He pointed, slipped into Red Guardian's Russian accent and said, “You… are Tony Stark.” That is a magnificent spoiler if it is a spoiler. It is also an extremely efficient joke if Harbour knew exactly which four words would cause Marvel fans to dismantle the internet for parts.

By Vever
Cinema

Avengers: Doomsday finally gives its enormous crossover a center: Doctor Doom

Avengers: Doomsday has never had a shortage of superheroes. Its harder problem was making that enormous cast look like one movie rather than several reunion specials arriving at the same time. Marvel's new D23 footage offers a surprisingly straightforward answer. Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom is becoming the point around which everyone else has to move.

By Clarel
Cinema

Dune: Part Three is a thriller because Paul Atreides has already won

The obvious version of a third Dune movie would simply make Part Two larger. More armies, more sandworms, a wider war and another enemy waiting at the end. Denis Villeneuve has spent a decade making these films and seems considerably less interested in the obvious version. His final chapter is a thriller, and the reason is built into Paul Atreides' new position: there is almost nothing left for him to conquer.

By Clarel
Cinema

Dune: Part Three is changing how Arrakis is photographed without abandoning digital

Dune already had one of the more unusual image pipelines in blockbuster filmmaking. Denis Villeneuve has decided that two movies were enough reason to change it. Part Three introduces Linus Sandgren, real 65mm acquisition and IMAX film cameras to the franchise, but stops short of turning film stock into a rule. Arrakis itself remains digital.

By Clarel
Cinema

Dune: Part Three turned an IMAX ticket drop into a stress test for AMC

The most revealing number from Dune: Part Three's August ticket drop is not a box-office total. There isn't one yet. It is three. AMC CEO Adam Aron says traffic across the chain's website and app reached roughly three times the level seen when Spider-Man: Brand New Day tickets launched, enough to slow and glitch the company's systems while fans competed for December IMAX seats.

By Tori
Cinema

Brad Pitt let the dog lead on Heart of the Beast

David Ayer did not want Heart of the Beast to look like Brad Pitt performing beside a well-trained prop. Odin had to feel like somebody James Belmont had survived with long before the audience met either of them. That meant giving the role to a real working dog, then accepting one inconvenient fact of animal filmmaking: the dog gets a vote.

By Clarel
Series

Leanne season 2 has found a harder family problem than divorce

Season one gave Leanne Murphy a problem she could point at: after 33 years of marriage, her husband left. Season two gives her something much less cleanly solvable. Her parents need help, they do not particularly want to need help, and family policy says they are moving into the house anyway.

By Yasmine
Series

Dark Matter season 2 has a bigger problem than getting Jason Dessen home

Dark Matter already completed the obvious mission. Jason Dessen crossed impossible realities, found the family that belonged to him and escaped the man who had stolen his life. Season two has to answer the less tidy question: what does someone do after learning that every life he did not choose is still sitting behind a door he knows how to open?

By Yasmine
Cinema

The Unknown gives Arthur Harari a deceptively simple body-swap problem

Arthur Harari has spent the years since Onoda becoming an Oscar-winning screenwriter, but his return to directing is not exactly modest. The Unknown takes a familiar body-swap device, strips away the comic instruction manual and asks Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider to make an impossible change feel physically credible for 140 minutes.

By Clarel
Series

One Hundred Years of Solitude saves its real ending for a feature-sized finale

One Hundred Years of Solitude has spent two seasons making repetition feel inevitable: names return, desires return, mistakes return. Netflix is giving the last repetition some extra room. Instead of releasing the entire second half at once, the adaptation holds back its final chapter until August 26, when Laura Mora delivers a special episode designed during pre-production as something closer to a feature film than a standard television installment.

By Yasmine
Cinema

Fjord no longer needs a country to open its International Feature Oscar path

For years, the International Feature race contained an unusually powerful gatekeeper: the national selection committee. The 99th Academy Awards loosen that structure. A small group of major festival winners can now reach the submission process through their awards, and Cannes champion Fjord is one of the first films positioned to use the change.

By Tori
Cinema

Cannes winner Fjord is now in French theaters, and its conflict starts at home

A Palme d'Or can make a film sound like homework before anyone has bought a ticket. Fjord has a much more immediate setup than that reputation suggests. Released in France on August 19, Cristian Mungiu's new film starts with two neighboring families in Norway and turns a child's bruises into a conflict that quickly reaches the school, the wider community and child-protection authorities.

By Clarel
Cinema

Matthew McConaughey discovered a bee allergy just before filming a movie full of real bees

The production problem arrived before the cameras properly got going. Matthew McConaughey was preparing to play an Oklahoma beekeeper when an actual bee sting revealed that he was allergic. Andrew Patterson's movie was still built around real hives, real beekeeping and one shot involving thousands of bees gathering on its leading man's arm.

By Clarel
Games

Pokémon GO keeps coming back to Mewtwo for its 10th anniversary

Pokémon GO has plenty of mascots available. For its tenth year, however, it keeps circling back to Mewtwo. The latest appearance is less theatrical than Times Square but considerably easier to take home: every Trainer can earn one through free Timed Research.

By Vever
News

NVIDIA's H200 is getting back into China, one government approval at a time

The oddest thing about NVIDIA's return to China's data center market is how little it resembles a normal sale. An H200 can require U.S. export approval, an American inspection process and Chinese permission before the customer even gets to decide where the hardware will operate.

By Tori
News

Anthropic is lining up more than $10 billion in credit before its IPO, and banks already want a seat

Anthropic is not publicly traded yet, but Wall Street is already positioning itself around the company. Bloomberg, as reported by Reuters, says Anthropic is negotiating a revolving credit facility targeting roughly $10 billion and potentially more. For participating banks, the opportunity is not simply to lend money: getting into the syndicate now could strengthen their chances of landing a much more valuable role when Anthropic goes public.

By Tori
Series

Wednesday Season 3 is heading to Paris, and Nevermore apparently can no longer contain its story

Nevermore remains the heart of Wednesday, but its walls are clearly becoming too narrow. While Season 3 remains in production in Ireland, Netflix has already confirmed that Jenna Ortega's Wednesday will take a detour through Paris. The new setting appears to support a broader ambition stated by the creators: expand the show's world without abandoning the mysteries of Nevermore and the Addams family.

By Yasmine
Cinema

The Odyssey is now Christopher Nolan’s biggest movie, and Batman has lost its record

Christopher Nolan set his previous worldwide record with Batman. He has now beaten it with Homer. Universal officially confirmed on August 10 that The Odyssey had become the highest-grossing film of the director’s career, and the theatrical run did not stop at that milestone: one week later, worldwide estimates were already around $1.29 billion.

By Tori
Games

Insomniac’s Wolverine does not want to replay his origin or imitate Hugh Jackman

Adapting Wolverine in 2026 means confronting an unusual problem: for a large part of the audience, the character already has Hugh Jackman's face and voice. Insomniac is deliberately moving elsewhere, not by retelling how Wolverine was created, but by presenting an established Logan whose missing memories, anger and relationships with other mutants form the center of the story.

By Vever
Games

Mortal Shell II was Playstack's biggest bet, and early reviews suggest it paid off

Mortal Shell II launches August 20 with an 85 OpenCritic average. Behind that strong reception is an equally interesting industry story: Playstack described the sequel as its largest-ever investment in a game, while Cold Symmetry expanded to an independent team of roughly thirty people to attempt a major increase in scale.

By Tori
Games

The latest GTA VI leak mixes cultural hacking, activism and cryptocurrency

A GTA VI leak is no longer an unusual event on its own. The material circulating since August 18 has a more distinctive feature: the people claiming responsibility are not simply publishing images. They are attempting to turn the enormous attention surrounding Rockstar into a platform, leverage and a promotional tool.

By Tori
Games

With Pokémon Champions, Worlds 2026 gives VGC a home of its own

The Pokémon competitive scene will gather in San Francisco from August 28 to 30 for Worlds 2026. For VGC, the event confirms a much larger strategic shift: Pokémon Champions is becoming the persistent center around which The Pokémon Company can organize and evolve competitive play.

By Tori
Games

Spider-Man now moves from movies to games without changing his identity

Two additional costumes in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 may sound trivial. Yet with one inspired by Brand New Day and another drawn from MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, the update also illustrates how Spider-Man has become a shared visual language across movies and video games.

By Vever
News

Wolverine Is Turning the PS5 Into Marvel Merchandise

A yellow PS5 slashed by claws, an Adamantium option for PS5 Pro, two DualSense controllers and several sets of console covers: ahead of Marvel’s Wolverine, PlayStation is treating the game as the center of a full pop-culture collection. Pre-orders open August 19 and the products arrive September 15 alongside the game. Commercially, the distinction between console hardware and licensed merchandise has rarely looked thinner.

By Vever