Movie news - Page 3
Hannah Whitlock
November 11, 2026 9:12 am
Why did Snow turn evil in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes? Tom Blyth says it happened in three stages
Coriolanus Snow doesn't wake up one morning as the president who poisons his rivals, and Tom Blyth can point to where each piece of the boy breaks off.
Crush of the day
Daniel Okafor
November 11, 2026 8:44 am
If a profitable $618 million Superman isn't a hit, what DC movie will Skydance ever call one?
The new owners fired DC's leadership over numbers that include the studio's biggest film in six years turning a nine-figure profit. Someone should check what the bar is, because the market stopped selling it years ago.
Tatiana Santos
November 10, 2026 4:37 pm
Is Bill Murray a nice guy? Richard Dreyfuss and Lucy Liu answer that differently than his fans do
Ask the strangers who've met Bill Murray, then ask two actors who've shared a set with him, and you'll get stories that don't sound like the same man.
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.
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.