Michael is seeing an explosive box office opening that Hollywood’s gatekeepers weren't expecting. After a swell of mixed-to-negative critic reactions, Lionsgate’s Michael has surged into full-blown blockbuster territory, with opening weekend projections now landing...
President Trump is once again pressing the idea of Film Tariffs, signaling that he still wants to impose penalties on movies made outside the United States while simultaneously proposing a financing mechanism aimed at bringing film production back to Los Angeles. In...
As Marvel Studios ramps up production on Avengers: Doomsday, one of the film’s key production partners is quietly shedding staff with mass layoffs. AGBO, the independent studio founded by Joe and Anthony Russo, has confirmed layoffs impacting roughly 15% of its...
Star Wars fans who were anticipating a standalone Rey movie may have a long wait. In an interview with USA Today promoting her new zombie film, We Bury the Dead, Daisy Ridley suggested that a return to the galaxy far, far away may not be on her immediate schedule. When asked if fans could expect any news this year, Ridley said, “I don’t know about 2026,” adding, “In the future sometime, yeah.”
Ryan Reynolds is reportedly pressing hard for Deadpool 4, and not simply because audiences love the character. Increasingly, the move looks like a calculated attempt to anchor himself to the one franchise that has never failed him — just as his carefully curated...
The possibility of Avengers: Secret Wars being split into two films appears increasingly likely. It’s a rumor that’s been circulating since May 2025, when sources told WDW Pro that the Russo Brothers and Marvel want to make Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars into a trilogy. At the time, Pro questioned if there were growing concerns at Marvel about the introduction of Doctor Doom and the overall health of the franchise.
Call it bad luck, call it strange PR... whatever the case might be, we've basically never seen a Hollywood musical drop as harshly as Wicked: For Good. All discussions of spinoffs and prequels are over, and while Ariana Grande can keep making music, both she and...
The Avatar box office story is taking an unusual turn as a segment of the franchise’s most dedicated fans begin openly encouraging repeat theatrical viewings of Avatar: Fire and Ash in an effort to boost its global total. After five weekends in theaters, Fire and Ash...
Rose Tico actress Kelly Marie Tran is weighing in on the Kathleen Kennedy departure from Lucasfilm — and in doing so, she appears to frame the longtime executive’s exit less as a business or creative shift and more as a symbolic loss tied to identity and longevity....
A small vocal segment of the fandom is calling for a Star Wars Celebration boycott. The 2027 event is being organized by ReedPop, a subsidiary of RELX. The protesters argue that since RELX holds government contracts that work directly with the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Star Wars community is being “used as a shield for corporate complicity in state violence.”
The narrative surrounding Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande being snubbed by The Oscars flipped dramatically after a new explosive rumor out of News Nation made the rounds this week. After early momentum, Golden Globe recognition, and months of awards chatter...
The newly released Masters of the Universe trailer quietly but decisively outperformed the trailer for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu on YouTube—and not by a narrow margin. Within just two days of release, the Masters of the Universe trailer surged past 16...
Among the many notable absences during last spring’s Doomsday chair stream was Chris Pratt. In a recent interview with Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the actor said that he’d be happy to come back to the MCU as Star-Lord and has even made a pitch to Marvel. “I personally have a really strong vision of what I would want him to do,” Pratt said. “And I think it’s f***ing great.”