James Gunn responded to accusations of "lack of a unified tone" in the new DCU films and series and pointed out that "it was the same in the comics"
DC Studios boss James Gunn has jumped to the defense of the DCU, pushing back against complaints about tonal whiplash between its various entries. The debate kicked off after the premiere of Lanterns, a show...
Low-quality Chinese animated film Niu Lai grossed $2.5 million on a budget of around $200
The Chinese animated film Niu Lai ("Here Comes the Bull") pulled in more than 17 million yuan against a budget of just a few thousand yuan, giving it the best return-to-cost ratio of anything released...
Fans showed Sadie Sink, Inde Navarrette, Adam Driver and others as mutants for the new "X-Men"
After the official announcement of the new X-Men cast, fan art featuring the upcoming mutants started popping up online. Artists have already imagined how the actors might look in their new roles. Sadie Sink will...
Canadian built a cozy home theater in the style of The Lord of the Rings
The dream of any Middle-earth fan doesn't stop at rewatching the Peter Jackson trilogy for the tenth time. Some go further and turn a regular room with a projector into a portal to Tolkien's universe....
An enthusiast made a surprisingly high-quality Ring of Galadriel from The Lord of the Rings for his future wife
Proposing with a ring inspired by Galadriel artifact – now that's an idea as beautiful as it is bold. Nenya, one of the three elven Rings of Power in Tolkien lore, was never meant to...
Creators of Supergirl caught using AI for Lobo's design
Supergirl keeps generating controversy even after hitting theaters. This time the drama centers on suspicions that AI was used to create the visual design for Jason Momoa Lobo. A behind-the-scenes video briefly showed director Craig...
Google apologized for removing The Lord of the Rings from a user's library, but still asks to purchase it again
Google apologized to a customer after his purchased Lord of the Rings Extended Edition trilogy vanished from his library. He'd bought the bundle back in 2022, but support initially refused a refund, citing a rule...
Schoolboy destroyed a 26-million-ruble IMAX screen with a bubble tea ball
A single bubble tea pearl cost a movie theater in Khabarovsk, Russia a sum comparable to the value of a small business. A teenager shot the pearl at an IMAX screen mid-screening, and the venue...
Trailer and four minutes of footage from the Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse leaked online
A trailer and a four-minute clip from Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse have made their way around social media. The footage was originally shown at CinemaCon back in April, so someone sat on it for months...
Negotiations on "Barbie 2" have stalled – Gosling wants $20 million, and the rights will soon return to Mattel
Negotiations for a Barbie sequel have hit a wall, according to Variety – Warner Bros. and the original creative team both want to make the movie, but nobody can agree on the money. Director Greta...
How powerful is Galadriel – analysis of the might of the elf who conquered Dol Guldur
Trying to measure the "power" of Tolkien characters like some kind of anime power scale almost always ends in failure, because Middle-earth runs on completely different rules. Might here isn't about how much you can...
"The Odyssey" brought Christopher Nolan into the top-3 highest-grossing directors of all time
The film "The Odyssey" has already pulled in more than $1 billion worldwide, rewriting Christopher Nolan career stats in the process. Combined earnings across all his films now sit close to $7 billion, up from...
Spider-Man is raking in billions, but Marvel has created its own problem with this character
Marvel has run into an unusual problem for a franchise of this scale. Tom Holland has played Peter Parker in four solo movies now, but the character still hasn't gotten a personal villain whose rivalry...
BMW owners unhappy about the appearance of "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" advertising on their cars' central displays
BMW pushed a promo animation for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" to the screens of its cars and called it a special surprise for drivers. The campaign started on July 27, 2026 and runs through August...
Viewers of "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" lower their personal rating of the film after reflecting on plot and character flaws
A day after watching "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," one viewer posted a detailed breakdown explaining why his initial rating didn't hold up. He originally gave the film seven out of ten, but dropped it to...
Fans bring drawings and other works to Tolkien's grave in Oxford – it has turned into a place of pilgrimage for fans
The resting place of the man who created Middle-earth looks surprisingly modest for someone whose influence on fantasy culture is hard to overstate. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his wife Edith are buried at Wolvercote...
Second fan film about Vader released 8 years after the original, featuring Mace Windu
The second part of a fan-made Darth Vader short film dropped this week. Work on the sequel took nearly a decade and came with constant delays. The film was originally titled "The Amethyst Blade," and...
Mahershala Ali officially says goodbye to the role of Blade and explains why
Mahershala Ali confirmed that the Blade movie is officially done for him. In an interview with GQ, the actor stated that if Marvel Studios ever does make the film about the famous vampire hunter, it'll...
Dune: Part Three trailer reignites Zendaya casting debate
The trailer for Dune: Part Three has rekindled the long-running argument over Zendaya's casting as Chani. Denis Villeneuve's final chapter in his Herbert adaptation brings back Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides and Zendaya as Chani,...
The Housemaid sequel with Sydney Sweeney set to begin filming this fall
Director Paul Feig announced that the script for the The Housemaid sequel is complete, with filming scheduled to begin this fall. Feig confirmed that Sydney Sweeney and Michele Morrone will both return for their roles....
