Movies
DC's third film is a $40 million R-rated horror picture set before its first one
DC's third film opens in three weeks. It is rated R, it cost about $40 million, it was shot in Liverpool, and it takes place before the first one. Mike Flanagan wrote it and is not directing it, which is not how most of the coverage reads.
October 1, 2026 10:29 am
Netflix still has a page saying it bought Warner Bros and it lost the auction in February
Netflix's own newsroom still carries a page headed Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Netflix withdrew in February. Paramount won, a federal court has blocked the result, and the trial does not conclude until April 2027.
September 30, 2026 2:07 pm
Endgame won the weekend seven years late and its famous last scene now has Loki in it
Avengers: Endgame won the American box office this weekend, seven years late. What Disney added is about four minutes: a changed ending that puts Loki in the Steve and Peggy dance, and three post-credits scenes that do most of the setup work for Doomsday.
September 28, 2026 1:52 pm
The Mummy is coming to Netflix on Sunday if you live in France
The Mummy trilogy is arriving on Netflix this Sunday, in France. In America it is on Tubi. Since January it has been reported as moving to four different services, and the sequel it is meant to be setting up changed its release year five months ago without most of the internet noticing.
September 26, 2026 2:22 pm
Brad Pitt did not set a Rotten Tomatoes record and his new film is not at 100 per cent
Two outlets called Heart of the Beast a perfect score and an all-time Rotten Tomatoes record. It opens Friday on 92% — a number that is genuinely the best of David Ayer's career and is not a record of any kind.
September 25, 2026 1:41 pm
Children of Men Is 20, and Its Most Famous Single Takes Were Six Pieces Each
Children of Men turned twenty this week. The one thing everybody knows about it — those unbroken single takes — is the one thing its own visual effects supervisor spent 2006 explaining was not true.
September 24, 2026 8:41 am
Hasbro Spent 40 Years Apologising for Killing Optimus Prime. Then Peter Cullen Died
Hasbro built a 40th-anniversary campaign around apologising for killing Optimus Prime in 1986. Three weeks before it opened, the man who voiced him died, and the tour became something else.
September 22, 2026 10:33 am
Netflix Has Two Different First Theatrical Releases, and Cliff Booth Took the Date Narnia Gave Up
The first trailer for David Fincher's Cliff Booth film arrived with a claim that Netflix has now made twice about two different movies — and the Thanksgiving slot it occupies belonged to the other one until recently.
September 21, 2026 3:52 pm
I Play Rocky Retells the Great Hollywood Underdog Story. The Studio That Told It First Says It Was Made Up
Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky premiered at TIFF built on the most famous origin story in Hollywood. United Artists' own former head of marketing says he made the best-known part of it up.
September 19, 2026 2:19 pm
