A federal judge has thrown out most of the civil rights lawsuit Alec Baldwin filed against the prosecutors who charged him in the Rust case, but a few of his claims are still alive. U.S. District Judge Kea Riggs ruled on Sept. 30 that special prosecutor Kari Morrissey...
The soda fountain at your local KFC is about to look very different, and Mountain Dew Sweet Lightning may not make it through the change. KFC is dropping PepsiCo as its U.S. drink supplier and moving to Coca-Cola, ending a partnership that goes back four decades....
Po's kung fu class is out for now at Universal Studios Florida. Po Live!, the interactive Kung Fu Panda show in DreamWorks Land, closed on Oct. 3, and Universal hasn't said when it's coming back. The show's official page says it "will be temporarily closed starting on...
Rise of the Resistance is finally on the Extended Evening Hours list at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Disney's official benefit page now includes the Galaxy's Edge ride in the after-hours sessions, which are open to guests at Disney Deluxe Resorts, Deluxe Villa Resorts,...
Night City is headed for the big screen. Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie based on CD Projekt Red's open-world role-playing game, with Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura attached to produce alongside the Polish studio,...
Xbox and PlayStation console sales in the U.S. have fallen to historic lows, and higher prices look like the main reason. New Circana data shows Xbox console sales at an all-time low for the year through August 2026, while PlayStation is at its weakest point since...
Jingle Cruise at Magic Kingdom is coming back on Nov. 3, 2026. Disney's own schedule for the holiday overlay now lists operating hours starting that Tuesday, so the skippers of Adventureland will swap their usual river tour for tinsel, wrapped gifts, and a fresh load...
David Zaslav is out as the head of Warner Bros. Discovery, and he is leaving with a payout worth about $606.1 million from the company's sale to Skydance. That figure comes from the stock and options he gave up when the merger closed on October 6, 2026, and it does...
McDonald's burgers are shrinking, at least according to a fresh round of customer complaints online. A Reddit thread asking whether the chain has been quietly cutting portions while raising prices has fans swapping stories of "crazy thin" Big Mac patties. The official...
Star Wars finally has a racing game critics are falling over themselves for. Star Wars: Galactic Racer launched on Oct. 6 and is sitting at a Metascore of 88 on PlayStation 5, a number no Star Wars game has beaten since 2003's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic....
The first real look at what humans will eat in Monstropolis is here, and it comes with eyeballs. Disney has previewed the menus in development for Harryhausen's and the all-new Archie's Scare Pig Pizza, the two restaurants headed for the Monsters, Inc. land at...
Italy's competition and consumer authority is now leading a Europe-wide case over how Microsoft's games sell virtual currency. In a notice dated Oct. 8, 2026, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) said it is heading a coordinated action,...