Movie news
Daniel Okafor
November 1, 2026 5:18 pm
Remember when The Odyssey was going to flop for being 'woke'? It just passed Furious 7 overseas
Christopher Nolan's epic was declared dead on arrival over its casting. It's now Universal's biggest international release ever, and Elon Musk's AI answer to it is seven minutes long.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
November 1, 2026 4:41 pm
I wrote Clayface off as DC's Morbius too. Its international numbers say I was wrong
A week ago, the DCU's cheap body-horror experiment looked like a third straight dud overseas. Now it may be the first Gunn-era DC movie the rest of the world actually showed up for.
Hannah Whitlock
November 1, 2026 1:36 pm
Where was Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol filmed? You can buy a ticket to Depp's Victorian London
Johnny Depp's Scrooge needed a convincing Victorian London. Part of it is an old Royal Navy dockyard in Kent, open most of the year for £29.
Hannah Whitlock
November 1, 2026 11:08 am
Pinocchio: Unstrung deaths: who dies, who survives, and whether Geppetto is really dead
The Blood and Honey team took a puppet whose nose grows when he lies and gave him a body count. Turns out the nose is the most useful weapon in the film.
Hannah Whitlock
November 1, 2026 10:31 am
Is Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol a prequel? Johnny Depp's Scrooge comes with a young Scrooge too
Paramount is selling Ebenezer as the story you don't know, which is a bold pitch for one of the most adapted stories in the English language.
Daniel Okafor
October 31, 2026 3:18 pm
The Hunger Games just did what Fantastic Beasts couldn't: a prequel fans actually want
Warner Bros. spent three movies shrinking the Wizarding World. Lionsgate's second Hunger Games prequel is tracking to outopen the last film of the original series.
Daniel Okafor
October 31, 2026 1:29 pm
'Blast Processing all over again': Marvel's Infinity Vision badge on Avengers: Doomsday isn't fooling anyone
The new Doomsday one-sheet wears a logo that didn't exist a year ago, in the corner where an Avengers poster usually wears IMAX. The story of how it got there is the story of a screen war Marvel already lost.
Daniel Okafor
October 31, 2026 12:53 pm
Skydance says Tom Cruise's Digger cost $250 million — and wants you to know whose fault it was
The new owners of Warner Bros. are feeding the press an $800 million bill with their predecessors' names on it. The films actually being measured for the chopping block haven't come out yet.
Hannah Whitlock
October 31, 2026 11:39 am
Whalefall movie real story: one diver really was swallowed and lived
The man who knows best what it feels like inside a whale watched Whalefall from a theater seat that tilted, shook and sprayed him with water.
Hannah Whitlock
October 31, 2026 10:26 am
Is The Social Reckoning based on a true story? Sorkin didn't invent the whistleblower
The heroine of The Social Reckoning got to read her own script before anyone saw the movie, with Aaron Sorkin's notes all over it.