Fans of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie may be able to watch it on streaming at home sooner than expected. According to When to Stream, the blockbuster is slated to arrive on digital platforms May 5—roughly one month after its theatrical debut. Universal Pictures has not officially confirmed the date, and release plans could still change.
Weeks after his divisive Super Bowl halftime show—which Nielsen data shows continued a decline in viewership—Bad Bunny is back in the news. Deadline reports that the singer has been cast in his first leading film role. Titled Porto Rico, it will be the feature directorial debut of rapper René “Residente” Pérez Joglar.
Disney’s decision to shut down The Hunt for Ben Solo is raising new questions about the company’s long-term strategy for the Star Wars sequel era — and whether the studio has quietly moved on from those characters altogether. According to director Steven Soderbergh,...
A Harry Potter-themed drone show has been announced for Miami, Florida, in March 2026, with organizers confirming it will take place outside of the state’s major theme park complexes. The series of three performances, called DroneArt Show: Harry Potter, will be hosted...
For years, Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary struggled to finance traditional films. Then he added two letters to his pitch: AI. In an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience, Roger Avary, the co-writer of Pulp Fiction, shared his experience. He explained that it seems like it’s almost impossible to “get stuff made” through the traditional channels after writing a script and figuring out the budget. “Then I built a technology company over the last year,” Avary said, “basically making AI movies and all of a sudden—boom like that—money gets thrown at it.”
The battle over Warner Bros. Discovery’s future is no longer confined to corporate boardrooms — it’s now playing out in Washington between Paramount's David Ellison and Netflix. In a detailed letter to Senator Cory Booker, Skydance CEO David Ellison issued a sweeping...
Margot Robbie says she makes films for ticket buyers, not critics. “I consider audience always,” she said. “I’ve never, ever been on set and thought, ‘What are the critics going to think of this?’” That philosophy now faces an early test. Weekend box office results for her latest film, “Wuthering Heights”—which Robbie both starred in and produced—will tell the full story.
For most of Hollywood’s history, copyright disputes were fought studio to studio, or studio to platform, over distribution, windowing, and piracy. Generative AI shifted the battleground. Now the question is not just who distributes a movie or a song, but whether a...
Nine days after the disappointing Super Bowl spot, Disney has released a full trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu. It does exactly what a trailer is supposed to do: it introduces the characters and the world, and gives a sense of the stakes. Whether it will be enough to draw audiences who are burned out on the franchise — or on star Pedro Pascal — remains to be seen.
Hot Rod did nothing wrong. Yes, you heard me, I said it, darnit! By now you’ve likely seen the news that Hasbro is rolling out a tongue-in-cheek 1986 Apology Tour for the 40th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie (1986). What are they apologizing for, you may...
Hollywood executives watched in stunned silence as clip after clip generated by Seedance 2.0 flooded social media feeds. Familiar characters. Recognizable celebrity likenesses. Entire cinematic styles were replicated in seconds. Now — after mounting legal threats and...
On its 35th anniversary, some of the creatives behind The Silence of the Lambs want to apologize for certain aspects of the iconic film. While long celebrated as one of the greatest horror/thrillers of the ’90s—if not all time—the film has raised concerns about reinforcing negative stereotypes when viewed through a contemporary cultural lens.
Hollywood has lost one of its last true giants. Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall, whose career spanned more than six decades and helped define the very fabric of modern American cinema, has passed away. He was 95. Few actors could command the screen with the...