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Is Sadie Sink Playing Jean Grey In Spider-Man: Brand New Day?
UPDATE: A leaked trailer description offers the first real footage context for Sadie Sink’s rumored Jean Grey — including her ties to MJ and the Hulk. Read the full breakdown here. Is Sadie Sink playing Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day? For now, Marvel still isn’t saying. Sink is confirmed for the movie, but…
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Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Watch: The Russos’ Latveria Tease, Decoded
UPDATE: While the Russos’ green teases led to coffee instead of footage, Marvel finally gave Doomsday some shape with an official Disney synopsis teasing three colliding universes, backed by comments from the New Avengers cast. Now the footage fans were chasing has leaked, with a pixelated bootleg clip widely believed to be real giving the…
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James Gunn Reveals Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor Warsuit In Man of Tomorrow First Look
James Gunn has released the first look at Nicholas Hoult in Lex Luthor’s Warsuit for Man of Tomorrow. Gunn posted the image from the set on social media with the caption: “Fit check. Live from the set of Man of Tomorrow.” The image shows Hoult’s Lex standing in a massive green armored suit with a…
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Zack Snyder To Direct Reimagining Of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York
Zack Snyder is taking a run at Escape from New York. Snyder is set to write and direct a reimagining of John Carpenter’s 1981 dystopian action classic, with StudioCanal and The Picture Company behind the project. Snyder also reacted to the news on Instagram with a simple “LFG,” so he’s clearly fired up about it.…
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Who Is Kane Parsons? The 20-Year-Old Behind Backrooms
Kane Parsons went from posting creepy YouTube videos as a teenager to directing the biggest opening in A24 history. Known online as Kane Pixels with a YouTube following of more than 3 million, Parsons turned his viral Backrooms series into a theatrical horror smash, with Backrooms opening to a reported $81.5 million domestically and $118…
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Backrooms Makes Kane Parsons The Youngest Director Ever To Top The Box Office
Backrooms didn’t just give A24 its biggest opening ever. It may be the clearest sign yet that YouTube-bred directors are taking over theaters. The horror movie opened with a reported $81.5 million domestically and $118 million worldwide, putting 20-year-old Kane Parsons at No. 1 and making him, according to A24, the youngest director ever to…
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Lupita Nyong’o Is Helen of Troy in The Odyssey — And That’s Only Half Her Role
Lupita Nyong’o has one of the most talked-about roles in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and it turns out she is playing two characters. Nolan has confirmed Nyong’o plays Helen of Troy and Helen’s sister, Clytemnestra, in the upcoming adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic. Her casting is also one of the most debated parts of the movie.…
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Who Is Curry Barker? How the Obsession Director Went From $800 Movies to a Box Office Hit
The director behind 2026’s biggest horror surprise didn’t come up through film school or the studio system. He came up on YouTube. Curry Barker, the writer-director of Blumhouse’s breakout hit Obsession, went from sketch comedy and a found-footage horror movie made for $800 to helming a film that has become one of the year’s biggest…
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Jason Blum Wants Blumhouse To Be “The Disney Of Horror”
Jason Blum has a new goal for Blumhouse, and he isn’t being shy about it. He wants to build the Disney of horror. Speaking with THR amid the box office success of Obsession and Backrooms, the Blumhouse founder laid out a five-year plan to turn his company into the kind of name audiences trust on…
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Obsession Box Office vs. E.T.: The Comparison Nobody Saw Coming
Obsession isn’t just a horror hit. It’s doing something at the box office that reportedly hasn’t happened in more than 40 years. Curry Barker’s Blumhouse horror movie has now risen two weekends in a row, gaining ground in its second weekend and again in its third. Producer Jason Blum says no movie has pulled that…
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Emma Corrin Wants Marvel Return After Deadpool & Wolverine: ‘Her Story’s Not Over’
Emma Corrin is ready to return to Marvel as Cassandra Nova after Deadpool & Wolverine, even though the villain appeared to die at the end of the Marvel movie. UPDATE: The Deadpool & Wolverine cameos keep generating buzz, as Henry Cavill’s Wolverine variant is now getting his own Marvel Legends figure from Hasbro, alongside continued…
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Emilia Clarke Laughs Off Marvel’s Secret Invasion, Star Wars, and Terminator Flops
Emilia Clarke is being blunt about her rough run through some of Hollywood’s biggest franchises, including Marvel, Star Wars, and Terminator. In a new interview with Variety, the Game of Thrones star addressed the poor reception to Secret Invasion, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Terminator Genisys, admitting the projects didn’t land with fans. “I…
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Chris Hemsworth’s Weight Loss and the Thor Exit Theory: What’s Actually Going On
Chris Hemsworth weight loss talk is picking up after the Thor actor posted new photos from his next movie, Kockroach. Hemsworth shared the black-and-white images on Instagram and announced the film has wrapped. The pics show him looking much leaner than his usual MCU frame, which has fans talking about his future as Thor before…
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Is Elliot Page Playing Achilles In The Odyssey?
Latest Update: June 4, 2026 — Universal and Christopher Nolan still have not confirmed Elliot Page’s role in The Odyssey, but the Achilles rumor continues to circulate ahead of the film’s July 17 release. Is Elliot Page playing Achilles in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? For now, the answer is simple: Elliot Page has been rumored…
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‘A Minecraft Movie Squared’ Revealed As Kirsten Dunst Enters The Game As Alex
Warner Bros. and Mojang have officially revealed the title for the Minecraft sequel, and it’s not just A Minecraft Movie 2. The follow-up is titled A Minecraft Movie Squared, with the announcement coming in a new set video from New Zealand featuring Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Kirsten Dunst, Jared Hess, and Mojang Studios’ Jens Bergensten.…
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House of the Dragon Season 3 Trailer Breakdown: Every Warning in ‘The Throne Knows No Mercy’
HBO has released the official trailer for House of the Dragon Season 3, with the Dance of the Dragons heading into its bloodiest stretch yet. The third season of the Game of Thrones prequel debuts Sunday, June 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and will stream on HBO Max. The eight-episode season will roll…
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The Mandalorian and Grogu Bombs — Disney Needs To Stop Avoiding Luke Skywalker
Variety has now confirmed what the weekend numbers already made clear: The Mandalorian and Grogu is collapsing, and the fix is the one thing Disney keeps refusing to do: bring back Luke Skywalker. The film earned only $6.5 million on its second Friday, a 70% drop from opening day. Rival studio estimates now have the…
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Supergirl Now Faces Feminist Backlash Over Milly Alcock Comments
Supergirl is now facing a new round of backlash over Milly Alcock’s comments, this time from the feminist side of the conversation. Following the controversy over Milly Alcock’s Variety interview, YouTuber Grace Randolph sounded off on the Supergirl star’s comments, the marketing, the costume talk, the lack of research, and the direction of the movie.…
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Star Wars Falls to #3 Behind Two Horror Movies — The Box Office Numbers Disney Can’t Spin
UPDATE: The box office trouble has now been quantified into an 85 percent audience collapse since the Disney-era peak, and the editorial case is that Lucasfilm’s reported fix would only make things worse. The Mandalorian and Grogu is looking like a box office disaster for Disney and Lucasfilm. The Star Wars movie dropped to #3 on its…
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Danny Boyle Hopes To Film 28 Years Later 3 After Bone Temple Bloodbath
Danny Boyle is still hoping to film the third 28 Years Later movie, even after The Bone Temple collapsed at the box office. The director claims the delay is due to timing, not a lack of interest. “We ran out of time,” Boyle said, explaining that the movie is set in an area of Britain…