Forgotten Island, DreamWorks' 50th theatrical feature, opened today at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes from 68 critics after debuting at a perfect 100%. I compared it to every original CG movie DreamWorks and Pixar have released since 2022, built my own ranking of the results, and explain why the studio's cheaper bets keep quietly winning.
Unabomber streams globally on Netflix starting today with Jacob Tremblay as a young Ted Kaczynski, and reviews from Variety to The Hollywood Reporter have landed rough. I fact-checked the Harvard experiment it leans on, and built the first side-by-side comparison of all three scripted Kaczynski dramatizations.
Heart of the Beast opens nationwide Friday with the best Rotten Tomatoes score of both Brad Pitt's and David Ayer's careers. I tracked how the number actually got there, dug into why Odin the dog is the real reason it works, and built my own ranking of every man-and-his-dog survival movie to see where it lands.
Paramount Skydance's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery cleared its last legal roadblock on September 21 and is expected to close in early October. Two days later, Semafor reported Paramount has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an equity investor. My own studio-by-studio breakdown, a personal tier list of what to watch, and why the Musk headline bothers me more than the price tag does.
Toy Story 5 closed its run at $1.144 billion worldwide, the highest-grossing Toy Story movie ever made. On September 26, a California WARN filing puts roughly 108 Pixar employees out of a job. My own side-by-side numbers table, a personal ranking of every Toy Story ending, and where I land on the two facts sitting together.
Avengers: Endgame Encore returns to theaters September 25 with about six new minutes bridging into Avengers: Doomsday, and trackers project it could out-open Resident Evil's second weekend. All four new post-credits scenes have already leaked. My own spoiler-risk ranking, a comparison to the 2019 rerelease, and why I think the stunt works.
Netflix dropped the first full trailer for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, David Fincher's follow-up to Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. DiCaprio's Rick Dalton is written out in a single joke, Timothy Olyphant is back, and we built our own cast-then-and-now table and director breakdown.
Sony's Resident Evil opened to an estimated $60 million domestic and $108.3 million worldwide, more than double the franchise's old record. We compare it with all seven earlier films, break down who bought the tickets, and run the math on how big it can get.
A living reference tracking Marvel Studios' Phase Six finale: why Avengers: Doomsday moved from May to December 2026, what that meant for Secret Wars, who's confirmed in the cast, and where the rest of the 2026-2027 slate stands.
Warner Bros. Discovery shelved the finished movie in 2023 as a reported $30 million write-off. After Ketchup Entertainment paid about $50 million to release it, the Looney Tunes hybrid has grossed $82.8 million worldwide through three weekends, with mid-90s Rotten Tomatoes scores and an A CinemaScore.
Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky, the story of how Sylvester Stallone got the original made, drew a standing ovation at TIFF and sits at 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics love Anthony Ippolito's Stallone and can't agree on much else, Stallone reportedly loved it, and TIFF's audience award lands Sunday morning.
Netflix and Empire just gave the first real look at Narnia: The Magician's Nephew. Meryl Streep is confirmed as the voice of a Bowie-nodding Aslan, the story moves from 1900 to postwar 1950s Britain, and Gerwig says she wanted a rock opera. It hits theaters February 12, 2027, seven weeks before Netflix on April 2.
The original Practical Magic made just $13.1 million on its entire opening weekend in 1998 before finding its audience for decades on cable. The sequel just opened to $30 million domestic and $46 million worldwide, dethroning Spider-Man — while critics and audiences walked out with two completely different verdicts.
Jurassic World finished its run in 2015 at $1.677 billion and nothing at Universal came close for over a decade. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey just closed its ninth weekend at $1.684 billion worldwide, becoming the studio's highest-grossing film ever, Nolan's biggest movie, and the highest-grossing R-rated release in history.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens held the domestic box office record for eleven years. On Tuesday, forty-seven days into its run, Spider-Man: Brand New Day finally slipped past it — closing at $936.77 million against Force Awakens' $936.66 million, a margin of about $110,000 on a chase that took over a decade to finish.
Six live-action Resident Evil movies came and went between 2002 and 2021 without ever cracking 40% on Rotten Tomatoes. Cregger's reboot, which skips every recognizable character from the games for an original story, is sitting at 96% from more than 70 critics the night before it opens wide.
Ten years, nine months and one very stubborn Star Wars movie stood between Sony's web-slinger and the all-time domestic box office crown. As of Wednesday, Brand New Day sits at $924.9 million with The Force Awakens' $936.6 million record finally within a single weekend's reach.
Five years after Jessica Lange said she'd never come back, FX reunited her with Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters for the franchise's biggest cast reunion ever. Ariana Grande's announced role never happened. My review, plus my own ranked scorecard of all 13 seasons.
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story opened at No. 1 on Netflix with about 12.1 million views in four days, even as Rotten Tomatoes scores slid into the 40s and 50s. Here's the split, the numbers, and my take on why this franchise is review-proof.
Netflix drops all ten episodes of the A Different World revival on September 24, exactly 39 years after the original hit NBC. Here's who's back, who's running it, and my honest take on whether Hillman can work without leaning on its own past.
BritBox and the BBC have confirmed a Ludwig Christmas special casting Sir David Suchet — TV's Poirot for 25 years — as a murder suspect rather than the detective. It arrives with Season 2 sitting at a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and Season 3 already filming, months after the earliest renewal in the show's history.
Alan Cumming's Highland murder-mystery swept seven Emmys in one night, the most a competition series has ever won in a single year. Two days later, Peacock renewed it through Season 8 — on top of an all-civilian spinoff already airing on NBC.
Outlander closed out eight seasons and a decade on Starz this May with a perfect 100% Tomatometer. Four months later, Outlander: Blood of My Blood — the only show left carrying that name — opened Season 2 to a 7/10 and a 6/10, a far rockier start than Season 1's Certified Fresh debut.
Netflix canceled the small-town drama after five seasons and 50 episodes. Deadline reports the cast's options lapsed Thursday night — the same night the streamer ordered Ladies of the House from the show's showrunner and star. Season 5 opened 30% below Season 4, and a Season 6 writers' room was never set up.
Apple TV's freshman horror-comedy swept to a record 14 Emmys across this year's ceremonies, one more than The Studio's mark last year, while The Pitt repeated as Best Drama Series and Rhea Seehorn finally won her first Emmy. But Matthew Rhys stole the night, becoming the first actor ever to win two lead acting Emmys at the same ceremony.
Two days after winning an Emmy for directing, and with an eighth season already locked in, Apple TV's spy drama returned under a new lead writer and a format it had never tried before — and turned in a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, its best-reviewed season yet.
Paramount+ renewed MobLand for a third season two weeks before Season 2 even premieres, confirming Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren will all return — closing the door on months of reporting that Hardy had clashed with a showrunner who nearly quit and might not come back at all.
Nicolas Cage's noir take on Spider-Man drew a 92% critics score and the most Emmy nominations of any Prime Video series this year, then got cut for cost reasons anyway — only to sweep five Creative Arts Emmy categories at the ceremony that followed two days later.
Silo closed out its origin-story third season on September 4 — and the same night, Apple TV dated the fourth and final season for July 9, 2027, the shortest gap between seasons the show has ever had.
EA went private on August 4 after a $55 billion sale to a Saudi PIF-led consortium, taking on $20 billion in new debt. A day later, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier flagged that the interest bill could outrun EA's entire annual profit — and EA had already cut staff three times in 2026 before the deal even closed. I built my own report card on the whole thing.
Konami's first-person Silent Hill spinoff launched September 24 to a "Generally Favorable" 81 on Metacritic. Critics love the fog and the dread; they can't agree on the stealth. I built my own comparison against the rest of Konami's revival and landed on a verdict higher than the aggregate score suggests.
Xbox cut 268 more jobs on September 22 and gave the next Halo to Activision, the Call of Duty publisher, while Ninja Theory faces a closure consultation. Here is who runs what now, in a table that fits your phone screen, plus my own letter-grade report card on every move and where I think the real danger is.
A living, regularly-updated list of every game Nintendo and its partners have confirmed for Switch 2, organized by when it's actually coming instead of when it was announced.
At a BAFTA event this week, the Office Space and King of the Hill veteran was asked a casual question about Grand Theft Auto rumors and answered it a little too honestly — confirming what fans had already worked out almost a year ago from a single line of trailer dialogue.
Sony ended a partnership with Kojima Productions that ran back through the original Metal Gear Solid and both Death Stranding games, offering fans only a "difficult decision" and no real explanation. Kojima says he found out in a short notice in mid-June. On September 9, Xbox announced it was taking over Physint — and a lot more than just the game.
Reviews landed Wednesday for Marvel's Wolverine, five days ahead of its September 15 launch, and the aggregate score settled at 77 — below all three of Insomniac's Spider-Man games. Critics agree the combat is the bloodiest thing the studio has ever made. They disagree, hard, on whether trading an open world for a straight line was worth it.
Neil Druckmann told The Washington Post that Naughty Dog has "a couple projects" still coming in The Last of Us franchise, even as he confirmed the studio had zero creative input on a Season 3 now filming without him for the first time since the show began.
Wednesday's showcase was the second Nintendo Direct in three days, and it opened with a Monster Hunter Wilds port before closing with the first look at Metroid Ravenous and Kirby and the World Beyond — bookends on a lineup of nearly 40 games heading to Switch 2 through 2027.
