Dominic Preston
Wake Up Rick Astley.
Did the new Knives Out’s impressively ornate seminary gym seem a little familiar? It’s not just you, it was one of the world’s subtlest Rickrolls.
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Archives for December 2025
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Meredith Haggerty
The Avengers: Doomsday teaser trailer is online.
The short MCU clip that premiered exclusively before Avatar: Fire and Ash is finally accessible. See Chris Evans’ former Captain America drive a motorcycle, wear a jacket, and hold a baby. Didn’t Steve Rogers retire?
The film will be out on December 18th, 2026, so we have a year to wonder.
It took director Park Chan-wook 16 years to make this film. He explains how it became more timely than ever.
May Jeong
Terrence O'Brien
Superman’s next bigscreen villain will be Lars Eidinger as Brainiac.
Superman: Man of Tomorrow is scheduled to hit theaters in 2027, and James Gunn has found his big bad. Lars Eidinger is relatively unknown in the US, but he has been nominated for a European Film Award and appeared in Noah Baumbach’s White Noise.
Jay Peters
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Stop and smell the Bugonia.
Not nearly enough people are talking about Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone’s masterpiece of a film, Bugonia. But that should change once the movie makes its Peacock streaming debut on December 26th.
Bugonia is a galaxy brained masterpiece
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Richard Lawler
YouTube shut down two AI slop channels that pumped out fake movie trailers.
The Screen Culture and KH Studio YouTube pages have suddenly disappeared, taking their fake clips with them, reports Deadline. An earlier Deadline investigation showed how they operated, mixing official movie footage with AI-generated images, which some movie studios were profiting from by claiming the ad revenue they brought in.
YouTube spokesperson Jack Malon provided this statement to The Verge:
After their initial suspension, these channels made the necessary corrections in order to be readmitted into the YouTube Partner Program. However, once monetizing again, they reverted to clear violations of our spam and misleading metadata policies, and as a result, they have been terminated from the platform.
Elizabeth Lopatto
Are we very sure this is not a trailer for a Succession sequel?
Boy, the creative choices here for the Melania doc... They feel familiar somehow. Even, and maybe especially, the music.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Free yourself, Jim.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, director James Cameron opens up about all of the non-Avatar he has and how he’s “a bit of a crossroads” about whether he wants the franchise to keep going or if he wants ” it to fail just enough that I can justify doing something else?”
James Cameron Is Ready to Move Beyond ‘Avatar’: “I’ve Got Other Stories to Tell”
[The Hollywood Reporter]
Dominic Preston
Even Jared Kushner thinks the Paramount WB bid sucks.
He’s withdrawn financial backing from the bid, which may leave it floundering, and the Warner Bros. board has recommended shareholders reject the hostile offer. It looks like everyone involved is beginning to realize what The Verge’s own Liz Lopatto pointed out yesterday: “What Paramount is doing doesn’t make any fucking sense.”
Update: The Warner Bros. board has recommended rejecting the Paramount bid.
Charles Pulliam-Moore