Warner buried Coyote vs. Acme for a tax break — it just crossed $82 million in theaters
In November 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery looked at a finished, test-audience-approved Looney Tunes movie and decided it was worth more dead than alive — roughly $30 million more, in tax write-off form.
The Souffleur ending explained: what Lucius finally accepts after the hotel is sold out from under him
There is a specific genre of Willem Dafoe performance I would watch on a loop forever: Dafoe as a man clinging with both hands to something the universe has already decided to take from him.
Is Hanging by a Wire a true story? Where the footage inside the cable car actually came from
Every once in a while a documentary comes along that plays like a disaster thriller some studio exec would reject as "too much." Hanging by a Wire is that documentary.
Tickets went on sale at noon for Artificial, the OpenAI movie that doesn't start with Sam Altman
Everyone has filed it as the Sam Altman movie: Andrew Garfield, the hoodie, the five November days that nearly ended OpenAI. Then the festival premiering it published a synopsis, and the film turns out to begin twenty years earlier, in a Toronto lab, with a different man entirely.
Hayden Panettiere's screen work runs 32 years, from a 1994 soap to Sleepwalker — and two of her biggest roles were only her voice
America has been typing her name into search all day, and mostly one query behind it: what was she in. The answer runs from a soap opera in 1994 to a thriller released this January, and it takes in a cheerleader who could not be killed, a country star, and two roles that were only ever her voice.
A 9/10 review couldn't save Andrew Garfield's new movie from the emptiest theaters of his career
On paper, this should have worked. Andrew Garfield, a man who has suffered beautifully on camera for two decades, leading the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 for Paul Greengrass, the guy who made shaky-cam a love language. R-rated. Swords. Righteous class fury. September counter-programming.
The A24 SCP Foundation V/H/S movie backlash, explained: the studio bought "worldwide rights" to something no one can own
There is something deeply, cosmically funny about a studio announcing it has secured exclusive rights to a fictional universe whose entire premise is "some things cannot be contained." A24, the tastemaker factory that turned liminal hallways into a nearly $400 million hit with Backrooms, boarded V/H/S: SCP on Friday.
