Movie news
Daniel Okafor
November 10, 2026 3:41 pm
Disney's banned Song of the South turns 80 — and its few viewers say you're missing nothing
November 12 marks 80 years since Disney's most locked-away film premiered in Atlanta. The racism is documented. The other open secret is that the movie is dull.
Crush of the day
Tatiana Santos
November 10, 2026 1:02 pm
James Gunn said Adria Arjona would be a great Wonder Woman. In three weeks it won't be his call
James Gunn once said out loud who'd make a great Wonder Woman, and the timing on that compliment just got a lot more interesting.
Daniel Okafor
November 10, 2026 11:24 am
DC swapped its f-bomb guy for a 'meat and potatoes' boss — Peacemaker fans, start worrying
The sentence that should scare you isn't in the press release. It's in THR's reporting on what the new owners want DC to taste like.
Hannah Whitlock
November 10, 2026 11:06 am
Elsinore is based on a true story that starts when Daniel Day-Lewis walked off Hamlet mid-run
The new Andrew Scott drama is built on one of the strangest nights in London theater history, and the actor who caused it never shows up on screen.
Hannah Whitlock
November 10, 2026 9:23 am
When Harry Met Sally's original ending has no New Year's Eve speech in it at all
The most quoted love confession in romantic comedy wasn't in the first draft. In that version, Harry and Sally say a polite goodbye and leave in opposite directions.
Daniel Okafor
November 10, 2026 9:07 am
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's least-loved novel. Russell Brand's sentence just made it her most relevant
A judge called Brand "clever... funny and charismatic" while sentencing him to 10 and a half years. Austen spent a whole novel in 1814 explaining why that sentence is a warning.
Daniel Okafor
November 10, 2026 7:52 am
James Gunn's DC replacement is the Marvel producer who helped hire him for Guardians
In 2012, Jeremy Latcham championed a risky director for a space movie about a talking raccoon. In 2026, he's taking that director's job.
Hannah Whitlock
November 9, 2026 3:52 pm
Why is Wild Horse Nine called that? Martin McDonagh's answer has nothing to do with the CIA
Martin McDonagh made a spy movie with a title that sounds like a classified file. Ask him what it means, and you get the shortest answer of the press tour.
Tatiana Santos
November 9, 2026 3:34 pm
Who is Elizabeth Holmes and what did she do? Her $9 billion company had one machine, and it never worked
The investors who made Elizabeth Holmes a billionaire on paper included a media mogul, a future Secretary of Education and the family behind Walmart.
Tatiana Santos
November 9, 2026 2:07 pm
Twilight movies in order: TikTok's new viral order turns Bella's human life into a flashback
Fans on TikTok have rearranged the Twilight saga so that the first movie, the one with the biology class and the meadow, now comes third.