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Archives for August 2025

KPop Demon Hunters was this year’s biggest surprise, but can Netflix do it again?

The streamer has already ordered a sequel, but part of what made the first movie a sleeper hit was that no one saw it coming.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
A brief glimpse at Return to Silent Hill.

If last year’s Silent Hill 2 remake wasn’t enough, here’s an early look at the upcoming film adaptation. The trailer is short, but does include a look at our old friend Pyramid Head. It hits theaters on January 23rd, which should be enough time to play Silent Hill F beforehand.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
RRR director S. S. Rajamouli is bringing two of his classics back to theaters.

To commemorate the 10 year anniversary of his 2015 action / epic Baahubali: The Beginning, S. S. Rajamouli is releasing a new five-and-a-half-hour-long version of the film that combines it with its 2017 sequel, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion. The new movie, Baahubali: The Epic, hits theaters on October 31st.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters Sing-Along streams tomorrow, one day after sold-out theatrical showings.

Variety and THR are reporting that a two-day special event showing of the animated hit pulled in $18 to $20 million from 1,700 theaters in North America this weekend. And now, Netflix has announced the sing-along version of KPop Demon Hunters will be available for streaming at home starting tomorrow, August 25th.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Paramount’s “full movie” YouTube stream of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning transmits the script in Morse Code.

Yes, Paramount just trolled everyone waiting for its Mission Impossible livestream and links you to purchase the movie online instead.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The Duffer Brothers are joining the Paramount family.

The Duffer Brothers will still be able to oversee their in-development Netflix projects when their current contract with the streamer is finished next year. But Deadline reports that the Stranger Things creators are jumping ship to Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, after signing a new production deal.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Fire bad, theatrical release date good.

Before Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein hits Netflix on November 7th, the movie will screen in select theaters beginning on October 17th.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Paramount, a “painful” layoffs corporation.

Now that Paramount and Skydance’s mega merger is complete, Paramount president Jeff Shell is letting the public know that a “painful” round of job cuts are coming in order to help the company save $2 billion in operating costs.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
HBO Max is adding a bunch more Japanese animated films.

The streamer will add Your Name, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Ghost Cat Anzu, and more titles starting September 1st. It’s also bringing Shin Godzilla and other films like the 1985 sci-fi flick Angel’s Egg to the platform later this year and into next.

Kevin Nguyen
Kevin Nguyen
Amazon’s movie disaster used real-life natural disasters.

I watched the new War of the Worlds movie because my colleague Marina dared me to. (You can read about that “experience.”) But commenter justintyler pointed me to a video that reveals the film took actual disaster footage and CGI’ed over them with unconvincing aliens — actual wildfires, actual plane crashes, actual tsunamis. Is it insensitive? Lazy? Both??? Anyway, watch the TikTok video: