Amazon MGM Studios plans to develop a live-action adaptation of FernGully: The Last Rainforest. The project revisits a film released more than three decades ago that focused on environmental themes within a fantasy setting. Jon Feinberg, a producer for the live-action...
Call it an unintended consequence of Disney fandom. According to CNN, Chinese e-commerce platforms have seen increasing interest — and prices — for the highly venomous blue Indonesian pit viper following the release of Zootopia 2. Gary De’Snake, a new character voiced by Ke Huy Quan, has become a worldwide phenomenon. Apparently it’s not just Gary merch that Chinese fans want to bring home.
KPop Demon Hunters has emerged as one of the most-nominated films at the 53rd Annie Awards, with 10 total nominations. The nominations tie it with Pixar’s Elio for the highest number of feature-film nods this year.
The DC Elseworlds is looking more like the golden age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with every new casting announcement. Deadline exclusively reported on Tuesday that Sebastian Stan was in talks for a role in Matt Reeves’ The Batman: Part II. If the deal works out, Stan, who played Bucky Barnes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, will likely be reteaming with MCU alum Scarlett Johansson.
Warner Bros. Discovery has formally escalated its resistance to Paramount Skydance’s takeover effort, urging shareholders to reject the amended $108 billion proposal and making it clear that the board sees the offer as both financially inadequate and structurally risky. As WB Rejects Paramount, the move illustrates just how far apart the two sides remain—and why Warner Bros. believes the bid poses long-term dangers to shareholder value.
For the first time in its 40-year history, Back to the Future is now firmly under the Disney streaming umbrella — a development that would have sounded unthinkable for decades. The landmark science-fiction trilogy, long associated with Universal Pictures and carefully guarded by its original creators, has officially landed on Disney+ through a new licensing agreement.
Marvel Studios has begun rolling out character-focused teasers for Avengers: Doomsday, a movie that absolutely must succeed at the box office after a string of uneven Marvel performances. One of the most recent trailers, now circulating after a theatrical leak, prominently features the Fantastic Four—or at least part of them. Notably absent from the latest Avengers: Doomsday trailer, however, is Pedro Pascal.
According to Variety, Barry Keoghan is expected to return as the Joker in Matt Reeves’ The Batman: Part II. The character was teased at the end of 2022’s The Batman — Keoghan was only credited as “Unseen Arkham Prisoner” — though Reeves later confirmed the character’s identity.
Is Kathleen Kennedy already out at Lucasfilm? A source for That Park Place says she’s essentially just a figurehead with a meaningless title at this point. And maybe we’re all just waiting for official confirmation she’s moved on when the timing is right for her… and Disney?
According to Matt McGloin of Cosmic Book News, James Gunn may soon step down as co-CEO of DC Studios. That possibility casts into doubt the future of the DC Universe (DCU), which Gunn has been leading since parent studio Warner Bros. shuttered the previous DC Expanded Universe (DCEU).
The X-Men trailer for Avengers: Doomsday was officially released Tuesday morning. Like the other teases we’ve seen for the upcoming epic, it leans heavily into the one thing the original Avengers films could not — nostalgia.
Industry projections for Supergirl and Clayface are not positive. Matt Belloni of Puck News included the DC Comics’ films on his list of red flags for Warner Bros. in 2026. Two films that would once have been treated as future blockbusters are now sharing space alongside financially risky or strategically questionable films. It’s less about whether or not the movies will be good, so much as when they will arrive given current trends and competition.
Kathleen Kennedy is on her way out at Lucasfilm and Dave Filoni could take the top spot if a major Hollywood news source is to be believed. This song and dance has been sung by the media many…many times before, but this time there appears to be some validity to the rumor.