Movie news
Daniel Okafor
October 28, 2026 10:34 am
Rachel Weisz is back on The Mummy set 27 years later — Universal stopped trying to replace her
Set photos have reunited Evelyn and Rick O'Connell for the first time since 2001. Universal tried continuing The Mummy without Weisz twice, and both versions were the franchise's last for years.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
October 28, 2026 9:58 am
'Then why make a Call of Duty movie?': gamers respond to a director who doesn't want shootouts
Peter Berg says his Call of Duty film is about the cost of war, not the body count. Paramount has already tested a game adaptation that kept its distance from the game, and it lasted two seasons.
Hannah Whitlock
October 28, 2026 9:31 am
Insidious: Out of the Further saves its most twisted scene for after the credits
The sixth Insidious film ends, the credits start, and then the movie goes back for someone it left behind. Director Jacob Chase originally had the scene in the film itself.
Daniel Okafor
October 28, 2026 8:49 am
The DGA snub just made Nathan Fielder's doc a Best Picture contender
The Directors Guild ruled that You Can See Everything isn't a feature film. The ruling removes it from every list that makes Oscar season predictable.
Hannah Whitlock
October 28, 2026 8:36 am
Is Wicker based on a book? Olivia Colman's wicker husband didn't start on screen
Olivia Colman's new film is about a woman who orders a husband from a basket weaver. The story behind it spent nearly 20 years getting to a cinema, starting in a campsite notebook.
Daniel Okafor
October 28, 2026 8:22 am
Warner wrote off Coyote vs. Acme for taxes. Its Oscar nomination will be Hollywood's most embarrassing write-off
The movie Warner Bros. deleted from its own books is now eligible for Best Animated Feature — the same week the modern voice of Looney Tunes died.
Hannah Whitlock
October 28, 2026 8:09 am
Godzilla Minus Zero lands November 6 — the sequel to the ending Minus One never explained
Godzilla Minus One won an Oscar and then spent its last minute raising two questions it never answered. Takashi Yamazaki's sequel is built on both of them.
Daniel Okafor
October 28, 2026 8:00 am
Releasing the Musk documentary after the midterms makes it the most pointless movie of the year
Alex Gibney spent years on a four-hour portrait of the world's richest man. It reaches most of its audience 72 hours after the election it was clearly built for.
Tatiana Santos
October 27, 2026 2:51 pm
What happened to Alexandra's son in Wildwood? His first death wasn't his last
Wildwood's villain is a grieving mother, and every terrible thing she does in the film traces back to one boy. Before the story is over, he dies more than once.
Tatiana Santos
October 27, 2026 2:14 pm
Wildwood ending explained: the movie doesn't end the way Colin Meloy's book does
Laika optioned Colin Meloy's Portland fairy tale in 2011 and spent the next 15 years turning it into what Variety called the studio's most ambitious feature to date. Book readers will recognize every step into the woods until the last act, and so did Meloy, who had to write a new end-credits song.