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Daniel Okafor
November 2, 2026 10:47 am
Nathan Fielder is a bigger draw than DC now — and Halloween proved it
A three-hour Elizabeth Holmes documentary just beat a superhero movie on its own holiday weekend, and the costumes told the same story as the grosses.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
November 2, 2026 9:23 am
Taika Waititi just pulled a Kevin Smith on Klara and the Sun's critics
The director answered a 26% Rotten Tomatoes score with an Instagram rant. The number that actually sank his movie is $701,059.
Daniel Okafor
November 2, 2026 8:00 am
The director whose Heat shootout Marines train on just shot himself in the leg at a range
Michael Mann built a 40-year reputation on firearms realism. On Halloween, his own holster filed a dissent, and Heat 2 fans felt it in the schedule.
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.
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.