Just when it appeared that Paramount Skydance had finally cleared the path to completing its massive acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, opponents of the deal have launched a last-minute attempt to intervene. The Block the Merger coalition filed an emergency...
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...
The battle between Paramount and Netflix over Warner Bros. isn’t over yet — not by a long shot. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Warner Bros. Discovery’s board is now actively weighing whether to reopen sale negotiations with Paramount Skydance after...
Plans for a sequel to the animated film KPop Demon Hunters are reportedly moving forward, but studio executives now indicate that the project will likely not be completed in time for a planned 2029 release on Netflix. Studio leaders have responded directly to...
A wild rumor lit up the comic book world this week — one that, on paper, felt almost inevitable given modern franchise cross-pollination — but according to industry trade reporting, fans may want to pump the brakes at least for now on the Star Wars galaxy meeting the...
Rachel Zegler’s next feature film, She Gets It From Me, is heading into production without a confirmed distributor and with what appears to be a modest independent budget. The project, which will co-star Marisa Tomei and is directed by Julia von Heinz, is structured...
Disney sent a cease and Desist letter to the Chinese company ByteDance over its Seedance 2.0 AI generation tool that has created a slew of viral videos over the last week. For years, The Walt Disney Company bent over backwards to expand its footprint inside China —...