Movie news
Daniel Okafor
November 8, 2026 9:12 am
Two Disney originals flopped on Thanksgiving, and Hexed is tracking to be the third
The tracking numbers look fine until you notice the setup: a Disney original opening into a Hunger Games prequel's second weekend. Wish already ran this experiment.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
November 8, 2026 8:45 am
Godzilla Minus Zero outsold King of the Monsters' previews without even showing its real villain
Toho's sequel beat the Hollywood Godzilla's preview record while keeping King Ghidorah out of every trailer. Both halves of that sentence should terrify Legendary.
Hannah Whitlock
November 7, 2026 3:50 pm
Is Paper Tiger a true story? Here's how much of the Russian mob plot really happened to James Gray's family
James Gray has put a number on how much of Paper Tiger really happened, and it's higher than you'd expect for a movie with Russian gangsters in it.
Daniel Okafor
November 7, 2026 12:47 pm
The Elon Musk documentary flopped at home — now it's going where Teslas stopped selling
Alex Gibney's four-hour Musk portrait made $614 per screen in the US. Universal's answer is a tour of the countries that stopped buying the man's cars.
Hannah Whitlock
November 7, 2026 12:15 pm
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping ending explained — how Haymitch's story leads to Katniss's father and her mockingjay pin
Haymitch's Games end the way every Hunger Games fan already knows they will, and the last chapters still change how you'll watch Katniss's first reaping.
Daniel Okafor
November 7, 2026 11:37 am
COVID buried Birds of Prey. The Gallerist is Cathy Yan's second shot — and Sundance didn't help
Six years after her DC movie opened five weeks before the world closed, Cathy Yan is back with Natalie Portman, Jenna Ortega and a corpse passed off as sculpture. The reviews are already against her. The trailer isn't.
Daniel Okafor
November 7, 2026 9:04 am
If Dune is this generation's Star Wars, Paul Atreides is its Anakin — and Part Three is his Revenge of the Sith
A critic warned that Dune worships its hero. The sequel arriving December 18 is adapted from the book Frank Herbert wrote specifically to punish that reading.
Daniel Okafor
November 7, 2026 8:23 am
I was rooting for Hexed to break Disney's Thanksgiving curse. The tracking says it won't
Three weeks ago the forecasts promised the biggest original animated debut since Moana. The new number is below Pixar's most famous flop.
Hannah Whitlock
November 6, 2026 5:48 pm
Is November 1963 a true story? The JFK movie was written by a relative of Chicago mob boss
Most JFK conspiracy movies are built from files, theories and grassy-knoll diagrams, but November 1963 comes from the back seat of a mob boss's car.
Hannah Whitlock
November 6, 2026 3:22 pm
Is I Play Rocky a true story? Even Sylvester Stallone found out about the movie from the press
Hollywood once offered Sylvester Stallone $360,000 to walk away from Rocky, and now the man who said no gets to watch someone else play him saying it.