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Cinema isn’t just about the latest Disney/Pixar project or Star Wars spin-off. Memorable storytelling is happening all over the film industry, from Hollywood’s box-office-busting superhero smashes to small, innovative indie experiments. The Verge’s film section is here to help you sort through the latest Hollywood news and reviews, from favorite genres like sci-fi, fantasy, and horror to the independent movies that matter.

Can you see everything?

What three hours of a documentary looks like to someone who spent four months at the Holmes trial.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige is returning to theaters in 70mm film and on IMAX.

The re-release debuts on January 29th.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Star Wars is (sort of) coming to the Super Bowl.

Star Wars Funday Football will be a real-time, animated telecast of Super Bowl LXI that will animate the players as Star Wars characters, just before the original cut returns to theaters on February 19th.

Anthony Daniels will voice C-3PO, and it’ll stream live on the Disney Channel and Disney Plus. Will it be weird? Judge for yourself with this Simpsons version in 2024, or other versions for the Australian Open, NBA, and NHL.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Taika Waititi says his Star Wars film is “on ice.”

The planned film was announced in 2020, but Waititi tells Inverse that he and screenwriter Tony McNamara are “going to actually put it on ice and we’re working on a different thing together.”

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Watch Adam Savage nerd out with legendary ILM model maker Lorne Peterson.

In the latest episode of Adam Savage’s Tested the former model maker sits down with Lorne Peterson who discusses the earliest days of ILM, his work on Star Wars, and how off-the-shelf model kits were integral to the design and construction of iconic vehicles like the Millennium Falcon and Jawa Sandcrawler.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
You Can See Everything has the biggest opening weekend for a doc in 20 years.

Nathan Fielder’s three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes raked in $15 million in its opening weekend. That’s double expectations and enough to place it in second place at the box office this weekend, behind only Street Fighter. What’s more, it’s the largest opening for a non-music or concert documentary since 2004’s Fahrenheit 9/11.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
What’s your favorite documentary feature film?

There are two hugely hyped docs out right now that I am eager to see — Musk and You Can See Everything. But it’s rare for a feature-length documentary to get this much attention and a wide theatrical release. So, what are your favorite docs that others might have missed?

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
The Musk documentary’s TikTok ad account has ‘been restored after an error.’

Yesterday it was reported that the TikTok account for Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary had been “permanently suspended.” Today, TikTok US spokesperson Mahsau Cullinane told The Verge, “I can confirm that the advertising account has been restored after an error,” which was described as technical.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Batman Part II is getting some help from Steven Soderbergh.

Production on the film has been paused while director Matt Reeves focuses on a family matter, but Steven Soderbergh offered to help with the “final weeks” of principal photography on the movie.

“Matt and Steven will work closely together with the actors and crew to fulfill Matt’s vision of the film,” according to a statement published by Deadline. The movie is scheduled to debut on February 18th, 2028.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Skydrop.

As reported by Variety, the newly listed Skydance (SKYD) currently has a market cap of around $40 billion, which is less than half of the sum of the $77.7 billion and $11 billion market caps that Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance had before their merger.

The tech backlash is now in theaters

Between The Social Reckoning, You Can See Everything, Musk, and Artificial, filmmakers are taking Big Tech to task.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Mummy 4 has a title.

The Mummy: Book of the Dead debuts in theaters in exactly one year: October 15th, 2027. The date was moved up earlier this year from a planned May 2028 release.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Watch the Wildwood scene Laika says took five years to make.

The “Crows” scene from the upcoming stop-motion fantasy film is less than two minutes long. Wildwood production designer Nelson Lowry told Variety it’s “the largest and most complex film” Laika has ever done. It comes out in theaters next week on October 23rd.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Greta Gerwig is bringing the heat to Narnia.

As much as haters not might not be willing to admit it, the more we see of Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew movie, the more the looks like it might be a generational banger when it premieres on February 12th, 2027.

A Narnia poster depicting the silhouette of a lion as well as two children riding on the back of a. winged horse.
Image: Netflix
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Just show us King Ghidorah already.

The latest teaser for Godzilla Minus Zero gives us a glimpse of Ghidorah’s gravity beams, but no shots of the kaiju itself. Thankfully, we won’t have to wait much longer, as Godzilla Minus Zero hits theaters on November 6th.

Horror is big business

The genre has become a tentpole across gaming, film, and television.

Andrew Webster
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Remember when Tom Hanks incredulously roasted Sony at its own CES keynote?

Good times. Hit play and bask in the glory that is Tom Hanks giving absolutely zero fucks.

The full-length version lives here.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
David Zaslav secures $606 million payout from WBD merger.

The former Warner Bros. Discovery CEO will receive the massive windfall after WBD officially merged with Paramount on Tuesday. It consists of more than $224 million in WBD shares sold by Zaslav, as well as $381 million held in stock options, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Real people faced off inside a giant Street Fighter arcade cabinet in Times Square.

As far as publicity stunts go, this is a pretty solid one. Performers dressed as Ryu and Ken battled inside an arcade cabinet, complete with oversized joysticks and buttons. Interestingly, it only has three buttons, rather than the traditional six, with one of them reminiscent of the pressure-sensitive buttons on the original Street Fighter.

Artificial is a wicked satire that also sticks to the facts

According to The Verge’s senior AI reporter, Luca Guadagnino’s dark comedy hit all the familiar tech milestones.

Hayden Field
Xbox is launching a new film and TV divisionXbox is launching a new film and TV division
Jay Peters and Tom Warren
What The Social Reckoning gets right — and wrong

Spoiler alert: The Facebook Files are still more interesting than Aaron Sorkin’s new thriller.

Lauren Feiner
The Social Reckoning is a tepid thriller that reminds us of how we got here

Aaron Sorkin’s follow up to The Social Network puts the Facebook Files scandal on the timeline.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Fable is trying to get its AI film an Oscar.

Though AI studio Fable has not yet announced which distributor will put its animated Gods Don’t Give Gifts feature into theaters, Variety reports that the project is now slated to premiere on December 4th — which would make it eligible for submission for the upcoming Oscars.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Transformers, under Steven Spielberg’s eye.

The acclaimed director, who worked on the first two Transformers films, will focus on “all creative aspects” of the next live-action movie that’s in the works at Paramount, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Michael Bay, who directed the first five movies, is “in talks” to direct this planned eighth film. Shia LaBeouf isn’t expected to return.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is free to stream on Luna if you’re a Prime subscriber.

The game has an excellent single-player campaign, though if you hit any hitches due to Luna’s cloud streaming, they could be frustrating because Galactic Racer basically requires split-second reflexes. Check out my review of the game, which I played on PS5, if you want to learn more about it.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Avengers: Endgame is the highest-grossing movie in history. (Again.)

With its encore theatrical release ahead of Doomsday, Endgame has inched past Avatar to retake the throne as the highest-grossing film with $2.925 billion, versus $2.923 billion. Endgame overtook Avatar in 2019, only for James Cameron to retake it in 2021 with a rerelease ahead of Avatar: The Way of Water.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Sony Pictures might pick up a movie adaptation of Battlefield, starring Michael B. Jordan.

Revisiting rumors from earlier this year, Deadline and TheWrap report the adaptation of EA’s long-running FPS series would be directed and written by frequent Tom Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie. According to TheWrap, Sony is a “frontrunner,” following a bidding war that also included Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon MGM Studios, Universal, and Netflix.

Paramount, meanwhile, is already working on a film version of Call of Duty.

Netflix is pivoting away from prestigeNetflix is pivoting away from prestige
Charles Pulliam-Moore