For almost 50 years, a new live-action Star Wars movie has generally arrived in theaters with an aura of inevitability. That day is no more. Even when the franchise became divisive, even when reviews were mixed, even when fan enthusiasm was fractured... the box office...
Disney’s unusual marketing strategy for Avengers: Doomsday seems to be paying off for Marvel in a big way. Marvel attached a character-focused teaser trailer to Avatar: Fire and Ash screenings over a four-week period. A few days after their theatrical debuts, the teasers were posted online. Insiders have told The Hollywood Reporter that the four teasers for next December’s entry in the MCU have already hit a combined 1.02 billion views across YouTube and social media.
James Cameron has revealed that Avatar 4 might be in trouble. For more than a decade, the Avatar franchise has existed in a rare Hollywood category: too big to fail. Massive budgets, decade-long production timelines, and unprecedented technical ambition were treated...
Ubisoft is being Sued — and this time, the company's legal trouble isn’t coming from players or regulators, but from inside the company’s own executive ranks. The French video game publisher Ubisoft is facing a $1.3 million CAD lawsuit filed by longtime executive...
What began as a pair of damning reviews by Nerdrotic and The Critical Drinker quickly turned into a full-scale embarrassment for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy — and a powerful demonstration of how decisively New Media now outperforms legacy Hollywood. Within the same...
Darkseid, one of DC Comics’ more formidable villains, has been cast for James Gunn’s DC Universe (DCU). But fans shouldn’t expect to see him on the movie screen anytime soon. According to comicbookmovie.com, Mister Miracle showrunner Tom King said in a recent interview with Word Balloon that the character will first appear in his animated TV series.
Saturday Night Live managed to do something it hasn’t consistently pulled off in years: land a sketch that actually connects with the audience. Unfortunately for SNL, that also meant triggering the internet’s most reliable reflex — outrage....
Netflix has officially secured the exclusive streaming rights to The Legend of Zelda movie following its theatrical and home media releases, cementing the platform’s growing role in the future of big-budget franchise films. The move guarantees that once the film...
For years now, audiences have sensed something was off about Netflix’s original movies. They look expensive, they feature major stars, and yet many of them feel strangely hollow—over-explained, oddly paced, and forgettable almost the moment the credits roll. Now,...
Speaking with Deadline in an exit interview, Kathleen Kennedy effectively acknowledged that Indiana Jones has no active future at Lucasfilm following the commercial collapse of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. During the interview, Deadline directly challenged...
David Ellison has taken the battle for Warner Bros beyond boardrooms and court filings. It has gone international. According to a new report, David Ellison — CEO of Skydance Media and the driving force behind Paramount Skydance — has embarked on a full-scale European...
Lucasfilm is once again playing cleanup duty — and this time, the spotlight is squarely on Dave Filoni, Andor, and long-simmering rumors that the series succeeded in spite of the studio’s internal creative hierarchy rather than because of it. Following a recent report...
Hollywood’s media class has a familiar response whenever a high-profile franchise release fails to resonate with audiences: the problem isn’t the show, it’s the fans. That narrative is once again being deployed following the debut of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, as...