Movie news
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.
Crush of the day
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.
Daniel Okafor
October 31, 2026 7:00 am
'Bald-headed actor': Variety's Patrick Stewart tribute was so bad readers think a chatbot wrote it
Hollywood's trade paper of record opened its obituary of a knighted Shakespearean with his hairline, edited it without a word, and left the original running in its Australian edition.
Hannah Whitlock
October 30, 2026 2:37 pm
Clayface end credits: the Batman rumor, the Wayne Enterprises nod, and whether to stay
Clayface is set in Gotham, released by the studio that owns Batman and produced by the man who directed the last Batman movie, so of course people are sitting through the credits.
Hannah Whitlock
October 30, 2026 2:01 pm
What happened to Gary in Practical Magic 2 is worse than a breakup, and Aidan Quinn had no say in it
Practical Magic 2 brings back all four Owens women from 1998, and gives the man Sally finally fell for about as much screen time as a houseguest who left before dinner.
Daniel Okafor
October 30, 2026 12:13 pm
'The least Waititi movie he's ever released': why Klara and the Sun is flopping
Sony halved the screen count before opening day, Spain isn't getting the film in cinemas at all, and the director of an $854 million Thor just posted an $824 per-theater average.
Daniel Okafor
October 30, 2026 11:38 am
'Welcome back, Jennifer Lawrence': Hunger Games fans are buying Sunrise on the Reaping tickets for one scene
The new prequel is tracking to open at more than double what the last one managed, and the gap between the two campaigns comes down to a few minutes of screen time.