Movies
Golden Globes rule Michael is not a musical and send it to drama, where Bohemian Rhapsody won
The Golden Globes have denied Lionsgate's bid to run Michael as a comedy or musical, even with a letter from director Antoine Fuqua. The studio loses the category it asked for, but the drama room has the better record: Bohemian Rhapsody won Best Picture there.
October 21, 2026 9:47 am
Street Fighter opens to $31 million while Whalefall's $60 million sea thriller sinks to $8 million
The video game adaptation cost $82 million and drew a B- CinemaScore. 20th Century, which released the 2009 Street Fighter film, opened Whalefall the same weekend.
October 19, 2026 10:18 am
Steven Soderbergh will finish shooting The Batman Part II, a film first dated for 2025
Matt Reeves stepped away for a family matter in early October. The sequel's second planned release date had been October 2, 2026.
October 18, 2026 10:42 am
Other Mommy opens at No. 1 with a D+ CinemaScore and an 18% Rotten Tomatoes score
Jessica Chastain's horror film made $27.5 million in North America and $45.1 million worldwide on a $19 million budget, despite a D+ from the audiences who saw it.
October 15, 2026 10:16 am
Jimmy tells James Stewart's war story, which started before America was in the war
James Stewart's daughter has praised KJ Apa's performance. The film's synopsis has Stewart enlisting at the start of the war; his record shows a private in uniform nearly nine months before Pearl Harbor.
October 14, 2026 9:52 am
MatPat moves from a Five Nights at Freddy's cameo to adapting Amanda the Adventurer for Blumhouse
The YouTuber who played a waiter in Five Nights at Freddy's is adapting a horror game trilogy that Deadline describes as a single 2023 indie title.
October 13, 2026 10:41 am
Brad Bird's Ray Gunn premieres in London, and Bird says it did not really take 30 years
Brad Bird's animated noir premiered at the London Film Festival. The coverage calls it a 30-year journey; Bird says he didn't work on it for 30 years, and the real obstacle was who owned it.
October 12, 2026 9:48 am
Francis Ford Coppola puts Megalopolis back in theaters on October 24 with a live Q&A
Coppola's self-financed epic returns for simultaneous screenings across Reading cinemas. It cost $120–136 million and grossed between $12.3 million and $14.4 million, depending on the source.
October 11, 2026 10:23 am
28 Years Later: Part III is on the back burner, ten months after Sony's reported green light
Danny Boyle says the third film needs financing and is waiting on Alex Garland. In December, Sony was reported to have green-lit it. In between, The Bone Temple made $58.5 million on a $63 million budget.
October 10, 2026 9:37 am
