Film

We’re getting a new trailer for the Netflix film tomorrow, and as a teaser the streamer put out this poster that provides the best look yet at Jacob Elordi as the creature.

It’s set to debut on July 23rd, 2027, just about 20 years after the premiere of the first Simpsons movie in July 2007. I remember seeing the first in theaters, so now I feel really old.

President Donald Trump’s nebulous plan / threat to impose an 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the US never materialized when he trotted it out earlier this year. But Trump has begun banging that drum once again, which could mean Hollywood is in for a new way of production-related headaches.

Lionsgate has been hyping up generative AI ever since it partnered with Runway to build a model trained on the studio’s IP. But TheWrap reports that the companies have been struggling to get the model to generate anything usable because the “Lionsgate catalog isn’t enough to create those kinds of large-scale projects.”

Avatar: Fire and Ash’s villanous Na’vi clan believes that Eywa has forsaken them in the movie’s latest trailer, but all the shots of Pandora’s bioluminescent creatures rising up in revolt make it seem like the planet’s collective consciousness isn’t gone — it has just been waiting to make a move.

The Netflix film has an intriguing premise: “When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.” The trailer is mostly people looking very emotional in control rooms, and yet it’s still pretty intense. It streams on October 24th.

Though all of Oz is atwitter in Wicked: For Good’s final trailer, there’s a (literal and metaphorical) storm on the horizon that’s going to pop off when Glinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) are reunited.

This interview goes wildly off the rails, starting just before this anecdote:

In addition to a new trailer for OD and a poster for Physint, Kojima Productions also showed off the first look at its animated Death Stranding project, under the working title “Mosquito.” It’s being written by Raised By Wolves creator Aaron Guzikowski, with Hiroshi Miyamoto from ABC Animations as director.

In an effort to help folks consume as much streaming content as possible, Tubi has just released Productubity, a new Chrome extension designed to make it easier for you to hide the fact that you’re watching movies or shows when you’re supposed to be, you know, increasing shareholder value.

If you missed James Gunn’s reboot of Superman in theaters, which kicks off a new era for DC’s film ambitions, the movie hits HBO Max this Friday.

Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery have been slapping AI companies left and right with lawsuits alleging blatant copyright infringement. And now, Reuters reports that the three studios are setting their sights on Chinese AI firm MiniMax and its Hailuo image / video generator.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the newly merged Paramount Skydance Corporation is thinking about making a majority cash bid to acquire the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery — a move that would consolidate two of the world’s largest media conglomerates into a single entity run by billionaire Larry Ellison’s son.

The anime classic from Satoshi Kon is coming back to theaters on October 3rd, with an all-new 4K remaster. You can find tickets here.

The latest Tron: Ares trailer is mostly a delivery system for new Nine Inch Nails music, but it also does a pretty good job of making it seem like the movie’s going to do some wildly cool stuff with Light Jet dogfights.

There’s a whole lot going on in the new trailer for Bryan Fuller’s upcoming horror thriller Dust Bunny, but the main takeaway is that Sigourney Weaver is going to look cool as hell blasting people to smithereens with a pair of deadly stilettos. The movie’s out on December 5th.

Nobody wants to fess up to murder in the latest teaser for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, but Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc knows that there’s a killer in his midst — one whose identity will be revealed when the film hits theaters on November 26th.