The Odyssey Is Universal’s Biggest Film Ever, in Dollars Only
The Odyssey is now the biggest film Universal has ever released. In tickets sold, Jurassic World is still comfortably ahead, and will stay ahead for a long time.
September 15, 2026 11:52 am
Cars Is 20, and Disney Spent More on One Ride Than Pixar Spent on the Film
Cars is back in cinemas for its twentieth anniversary, which it is having three months late, on a date chosen because Lightning McQueen's race number is 95. It was the first Pixar film critics turned on. It is also the reason Disney spent $200 million on a single theme park ride and is currently demolishing a chunk of Magic Kingdom that has stood since 1971.
September 13, 2026 9:35 am
The Walking Dead Is Ending on Television and Nobody Is Going to Announce It
The Walking Dead: Dead City ends its third season on 13 September. There is no fourth season ordered. There is also no cancellation. After that Sunday, a television universe of seven series has exactly one unaired season left, with no premiere date — and nobody is going to make an announcement about any of it.
September 12, 2026 9:30 am
Nobody Knows Who the Next James Bond Is, Including the People Reporting It
Gary Oldman says the next James Bond has been picked. Puck says screen tests have not happened yet. Steven Knight, who wrote the film, says he cannot speak about it. Meanwhile the "shortlist of six" everyone is quoting came from one tabloid story, and the only actor a trade has confirmed actually auditioned is somebody nobody is writing about.
September 11, 2026 9:25 am
Marvel Spent Seven Years and Seven Writers on Blade and Never Shot a Frame
Mahershala Ali announced Marvel's Blade from a Comic-Con stage in July 2019, seven weeks after winning his second Oscar. Seven years, seven writers, two directors and four release dates later, the film has never shot a single frame — and Marvel has still never said it is cancelled.
September 10, 2026 9:20 am
The Office Spinoff Everyone Says Just Ditched Weekly Episodes Never Had Them
Peacock drops all ten episodes of The Paper season 2 on 9 September, and a lot of the coverage will tell you the Office spinoff has abandoned weekly releases. It never had them. The show has been a full-season dump since two weeks before it launched — and that is the least strange thing about how it has been sold.
September 9, 2026 9:15 am
Supergirl Hits HBO Max Two Days After Warner Bros. Sells You the Disc
Supergirl is expected on HBO Max on 10 September — two days after the 4K disc hits shelves, and 76 days after a theatrical run that ended well short of its own budget. It arrives mid-season of Lanterns, the 94%-rated DC series currently doing everything the $170 million film was supposed to do.
September 8, 2026 9:20 am
Netflix's Big Avatar Reveal Is a Character You've Already Met Twice
Netflix's first look at the final season of its live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender is a single photograph of Fire Lord Ozai and a release window that says only "2027." The actor has been in the show since 2024. The season stopped filming in November 2025. Everything the audience actually wants to know is still unannounced.
September 7, 2026 9:15 am
Star Trek Turns 60 on Tuesday With No Series in Production for the First Time in Nine Years
Star Trek turns 60 on Tuesday — sixty years to the day since "The Man Trap" aired on NBC on 8 September 1966. Paramount has built a week around it: 750 cinemas, a Guinness record attempt, a Walk of Fame ceremony, a Delta badge on the ISS. What it does not have is a single Star Trek series in production.
September 5, 2026 9:20 am
The Heated Rivalry Cottage Is Coming Back, and Its Owner Refused to Charge More
The Muskoka lake house that played Shane's cottage in the Heated Rivalry season one finale is coming back for season two — because its owner, a Toronto doctor, decided not to raise his price on a show that is now enormous.
September 1, 2026 10:20 am