Superman can lift up collapsing buildings, Godzilla-sized monsters and, now, the box office.

“Superman,” the newly rebooted comic book adventure starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel, flew to $122 million in its first weekend of release. Those are strong ticket sales, enough to rank as the year’s third-largest debut after “A Minecraft Movie” ($162 million) and “Lilo & Stitch” ($146 million).

Turnout was slightly softer-than-expected at the international box office with $95 million from 78 markets, bringing its global tally to $217 million.

Warner Bros. and DC Studios have a lot at stake, and not just because “Superman” cost a hefty $225 million to produce and roughly $100 million to promote. The superhero film is the first entry in the relaunched DC Universe and has the colossal responsibly of igniting a new interconnected comic book universe for the studio. James Gunn and Peter Safran took over the leadership of DC Studios in 2022 after its last iteration...

The weekend's box office numbers are in, and Superman came in just slightly below expectations domestically with a $122 million debut - but surpassed initial $210 global estimates by some margin.

The movie's domestic tally was still high enough to give it 2025's third-largest bow after A Minecraft Movie ($162 million) and Lilo & Stitch ($146 million), as well as the biggest opening weekend ever for a Superman movie.

With another $95 million from overseas markets, James Gunn's Dcu reboot is off to a strong start with a $217 million worldwide debut.

Superman had a reported production budget of $225 million (prior to additional marketing costs), so it still has a ways to go if it's to be considered a success for DC Studios. Positive reviews (82% on Rotten Tomatoes) and word-of-mouth will likely ensure the movie keeps packing them in for at least a couple of weeks, but stiff competition is just over ten days away when...

Spoiler Alert: This article contains minor spoilers for “Superman,” in theaters now.

James Gunn has high praise for Bradley Cooper, which is why he needed him for a very important cameo in “Superman.”

In the opening moments of the DC tentpole, Cooper appears as Jor-El, the father of Superman. The role was first brought to the big screen by legendary actor Marlon Brando in the original 1978 “Superman.” During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Gunn said he cast Cooper with Brando’s performance in mind, knowing he could keep with the foremost portrayal of Jor-El.

“I needed somebody who could play Jor-El, who had the stature of what we imagine that character to be,” Gunn explained. “Somebody that could walk in the footsteps of Marlon Brando.”

Gunn previously collaborated with Cooper on the “Guardians of the Galaxy” trilogy, in which the “Silver Linings Playbook” star played Rocket Raccoon. The director...

In 2025, there is no excuse for a film set to be anything other than fully safe and secure. Obviously, accidents will happen. Just as sure as you might take a stumble while out for a walk, or put a foot wrong while walking up the stairs, people will get hurt performing stunts. What should never, ever occur, however, is a miscue that leaves someone seriously injured or, god forbid, dead. When there is a fatal accident on set, it is almost certainly due to gross negligence, as was the case when Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a live round from a prop gun during the filming of "Rust."

Fortunately, there have been relatively few instances of such incompetence over the last couple of decades, but during the silent and early talkies eras, fatal accidents were much more frequent. Airplane stunts went awry, fires got wildly out of control,...

If you are looking for proof as to why Gerard Butler is the undisputed king of modern trash cinema, look no further than the "Has Fallen" franchise. The films -- "Olympus Has Fallen, "London Has Fallen," and "Angel Has Fallen" -- are modern-day throwbacks to the politically incorrect action fare of yesteryear, with Butler's Secret Service agent, Mike Banning, blasting and stabbing his way through terrorists while protecting the President of the United States. A fourth film, "Night Has Fallen," is currently in the works, but the franchise has also expanded into the world of small-screen entertainment with a spin-off set in France.

"Paris Has Fallen" doesn't feature Butler's one-man army, but it's still an entertaining, violent thriller that will appeal to fans of the film saga. The story follows Vincent Taleb (Tewfik Jallab), a protection officer to France's Defense Minister, and Zara Taylor (Ritu Arya), an MI6 agent,...

Across four movies, John Wick has killed almost 500 people, wounded countless others, and left a trail of absolute devastation across the globe. While he's mostly dispatched his enemies using his ferociously efficient gun-fu fighting style, Keanu Reeves' assassin has also offed adversaries in a variety of ingenious ways, including pencils to the neck and books to the face. From 2014's "John Wick" to 2023's "John Wick: Chapter 4," we've seen the hitman lay waste to thugs using every form of weapon and using every type of physical combat. And to think, if losef Tarasov (Alfie Allen) had just left that poor puppy alone none of this would have happened.

As any fan will know, John Wick set out on his murderous rampage simply because the son of a Russian crime boss killed his Beagle puppy, Daisy. That puppy happened to have been given to the retired assassin by his deceased wife,...

Remember the time in which we were promised that streaming services would eliminate the cost and need of cable? Nowadays, you need approximately 10 streaming services to watch everything you want, and if my math is correct, that's more expensive than cable ever was -- oh, and there are ads now too! Yeah, streaming has become like cable, but somehow much worse.

With the rising cost of life and the economy being about as stable as a one-wheeled tricycle, a lot of people wonder what's necessary and isn't -- especially when it comes to entertainment. Unquestionably, Netflix remains the granddaddy of streaming services, but does it justify a subscription? If you consider the below 15 shows, yeah, it does. These might not be the highest-ranked series on Rotten Tomatoes, nor the most-watched programming according to Tudum, but they're the Netflix shows that make it easier to say, "Okay. I'll pay for one more month.

This post contains spoilers for "Superman."

It's been more than a decade since Superman, one of the most recognizable superheroes on the planet, had a solo movie. The movie in question was Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" in 2013, which kicked off the former Dceu. But with the release of director James Gunn's "Superman" over the weekend, the Henry Cavill era is behind us and the David Corenswet era is now upon us. Gunn's vision for the world the character inhabits is, admittedly, different. It's rich with characters, both familiar and now.

Gunn wasn't afraid to bring in new characters like Edi Gathegi's Mr. Terrific, as well as tried and true characters like Lois Lane, played in the new DC Universe by Rachel Brosnahan. One fascinating decision that Gunn made was to not cast big-name, A-list actors for Pa Kent and Ma Kent, with Pruitt Taylor Vince...

For young audiences who have seen Tom Cruise star in little but just "Mission: Impossible" movies and would-be franchise starters for the past 25 years, it can be hard to imagine when the President of Movies was not just a big box office draw but also a very sought after dramatic actor who worked with the finest directors in the industry.

Indeed, back in the '90s, Tom Cruise starred in a string of commercial and critical hits, acclaimed movies from proven auteurs that made money and got accolades, from "Days of Thunder" and "The Firm" to "Interview with the Vampire" and "Eyes Wide Shut." But for as many movies Tom Cruise was in that were hits, there are also movies Cruise was at some point or another attached to but ultimately was not a part of. One such movie is the notorious box office bomb that ended up becoming a cult classic,...

Created by "Immaculate" writer/director Michael Mohan and Ben York Jones, "Everything Sucks!" only lasted a single season on Netflix, but it arrived in the same year Sydney Sweeney made waves with recurring roles in "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Sharp Objects." And while those shows were firmly in the "prestige TV" category, it was actually this quirky, heartfelt '90s throwback that first made me pay serious attention to Sweeney's work. Set in the fictional, appropriately named town of Boring, Oregon, in 1996, "Everything Sucks!" followed a group of high schoolers trying to make a movie while also navigating the messy, awkward, and often painful realities of adolescence. Jahi Di'Allo Winston leads the cast as Luke O'Neil, a freshman who joins the A/V club and quickly develops a crush on the principal's daughter, sophomore Kate Messner, played by Peyton Kennedy.

But there's a major problem for Luke. Kate comes...

Taylor Sheridan loves to cameo in his own stuff as much as he loves horses and creating characters in shows that make no sense. In the case of the "Yellowstone" universe, for example, the world-builder appeared across centuries when he starred in both the flagship series, "Yellowstone" as Travis Wheatley and also his best prequel series, "1883," as Charlie Goodnight, providing one of the rare occasions when fact and fiction collided.

Starring as two different characters in the same universe was something Sheridan should have been used to, though. Long before his name on a script meant as much as it does now, the go-to scribe for Paramount did double duty in another show in 1994 that housed massive talents in the making like Neve Campbell, Matthew Fox, and Jennifer Love-Hewitt. The show was "Party of Five," which spanned six years and spawned a spin-off series of its own (albeit a...

František Klišík, protagonist of Better Go Mad in the Wild, has died just hours after the documentary won the main Grand Prix prize at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Klišík was found dead in a pond in the town of Ohrobec near the Czech capital Prague on the morning of Sunday, July 13, according to several Czech media outlets. He was 62 years old.

Czech radio station Radiozurnal announced the death on Sunday, July 13. Klišík had attended Karlovy Vary just three days previously for the film’s world premiere on Thursday, July 10.

Last night it became the first Czech film for eight...

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It's one thing to tell a story that captivates, and it's another to build a universe that could last longer than its creators dared to dream. In science fiction, fantasy, and the world of superheroes, the struggle for immortality comes with the territory. The universe your characters struggle to thrive within has its own rules, history, and myths. If you're J. R. R. Tolkien writing "The Lord of the Rings," it'll be that and more. It's a sprawling challenge for creators, but the results can be fantastic.

In science fiction, reality offers a kickstart; stories like "The Matrix" and, to a subtler extent, "The X-Files" start with the world we think we know. Then they veer wildly. It becomes speculation, asking what people will be like when the world evolves. These fictional universes become aspirational, or they can serve as warnings.

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Scarlett Johansson is one of the biggest names in Hollywood. If there is an A-list, she is unquestionably on it, right alongside the likes of Tom Cruise, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, or anyone else one cares to name. Thanks to the recent success of "Jurassic World Rebirth" at the box office, Johansson is now literally the highest-grossing lead actor of all time. That comes from decades of work dating back to the mid-'90s. But long before she was mixing it up with dinosaurs, she once tangled with giant spiders in an oft-forgotten creature feature.

The movie in question is "Eight Legged Freaks" which, as the name suggests, is all about giant spiders. Directed by Ellory Elkayem, the film centers on the residents of a rural mining town. A chemical spill combined with the inhabitants of a local exotic creature...

Superman’s costume is as iconic as the character himself, in all its red, blue, and (sometimes) yellow-belted glory. The latest version donned by David Corenswet is a visual step back to a more traditional depiction of the suit, after Henry Cavill and television’s Tyler Hoechlin’s versions ditched its most-discussed aspect. I’m speaking, of course, of the red trunks — or underpants, as they are often referred.

To underwear or not to underwear, or how to underwear, has been a focal point of virtually every Superman production. In the last big “Superman” adaptation, filmmaker Zach Snyder did away with the trunks, which he said he couldn’t make “cool.”

“I did fight to keep them, but let’s not forget that the red trunks are left over from Victorian-era strong men, who had to wear flesh-colored leotards and trunks over it so they didn’t look naked. So...

Reaching the conclusion of your favorite show can be a crushing experience. What are you supposed to do when you get to the end of all those episodes? Well, in the age of streaming, there's more opportunity than ever for spin-offs, and some of the biggest hits on various platforms have other shows that fit neatly into the universe you've gotten yourself hooked on. "Hazbin Hotel" exploded onto Prime Video a few years ago, and it's going to be a while still before season 2 hits the airwaves, but you can sink yourself into the beloved spin-off, "Helluva Boss," in the meantime. In fact, there are two seasons ready to roll for you to stream at your leisure for absolutely free.

For those not familiar, "Hazbin Hotel" is a wildly-popular animated musical series created by Vivienne Medrano and tells the story of Charlie Morningstar (Erika Henningsen), the daughter of Hell's king Lucifer (Jeremy Jordan) and,...

The hype around Stephen King's magnum opus "The Dark Tower" is more real than ever thanks to the upcoming adaptation by fellow horror master and serial King adaptation-maker Mike Flanagan. Granted, Flanagan's "The Dark Tower" TV series is taking pretty long, and there's no telling when we'll actually see the show on Amazon Prime Video. As such, patience is needed -- though this may actually be a good thing since even an experienced King adapter like Flanagan will require plenty of time to wrangle the vast source material into a cohesive and hopefully great series.

That last part is imperative, because "The Dark Tower" already has one infamous entry in the failure category. The 2017 "Dark Tower" movie is a fantasy flop that ultimately found an audience on Netflix but was nigh-universally hated by critics. Understandably, people have been keen to learn what King thought about that bomb, and in a 2017 interview with Vulture,...

In the early '90s, "The Lord of the Rings" was just that weird cartoon from Ralph Bakshi, the most famous Kate was "heroin chic" supermodel Kate Moss, and Kiwi director Peter Jackson was only really on the radar of gorehounds thanks to his splattery, low-budget horror comedies like "Bad Taste" and "Braindead." That all began to change with the arrival of "Heavenly Creatures" in 1994, a fantastical period drama about a sensational but mostly forgotten true-life crime.

Distributed internationally under the Miramax banner (with "In a World" voiceover master Don Lafontaine doing his thing on the trailer), "Heavenly Creatures" was the first Jackson film you might actually take your mum to watch at the cinema. It also introduced the world to two young unknown actresses, Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, playing a pair of schoolgirls whose retreat into an imaginary world leads to obsession, insanity, and murder.

"Heavenly Creatures" was...

James Gunn is celebrating the success of “Superman,” the long-awaited debut feature of his revamped DC Studios.

Gunn took to Instagram Threads Sunday to revel in the open numbers for his superhero tentpole. “Superman,” released July 11, had the third biggest domestic opening of the year, earning $122 million over the weekend. The film currently sits at a global tally of $217 million.

“I’m incredibly grateful for your enthusiasm and kind words over the past few days,” Gunn wrote. “We’ve had a lot of ‘Super’ in ‘Superman’ over the years, and I’m happy to have made a movie that focuses on the ‘man’ part of the equation – a kind person always looking out for those in need.”

He added, “That that resonates so powerfully with so many people across the world is in itself a hopeful testament to the kindness and quality of human beings. Thank you.”

Warner Bros. Discovery...

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After a polarizing 3rd season and a brief break, FX and Hulu's "The Bear" has finally returned for a fourth outing that feels almost like an apology to fans. As Carmen Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) makes amends for all the emotional damage he's caused himself and others on his quest for culinary greatness, the show itself has made up for its own forgivable missteps by delivering an emotional feast of a season that refines its experimental elements into a stunning final product comparable to a fine dining experience.

Suffice it to say, season 4 of "The Bear" does more than whet one's appetite for TV shows of this kind -- especially half-hour, episodic dramedies that manage to depict all the little complexities of life while keeping the dramatic ingredients fresh and surprising. In considering both series that follow those in...

If it wasn't clear by this point in his career, Tom Cruise has a need, and that's the need for speed, as shown in the "Top Gun" movies, "Days of Thunder," and many high-speed, nail-biting sequences in the "Mission: Impossible" film series. It makes sense, then, that in one of the greatest dad movies in recent memory, "Ford v Ferrari," Cruise chose not to pick up the keys for this true-life story of man and high-speed machine simply because there wouldn't be much driving for him to do.

Long before Matt Damon and Christian Bale starred as car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles, respectively, in the James Mangold-directed film, Cruise was eyeing the project with plans to star opposite Brad Pitt. In an interview with The National, the "F1" star explained that while he would consider the idea of his character sharing the road with Cruise's Cole Trickle from "Days of Thunder,...

If you heard that a new 20-screen complex was about to hit New York City, you’d expect that it would likely be a cluster of large rooms screening a Nicole Kidman commercial dozens of times a day. But Tim League, the man behind the film lovers’ favorite Alamo Drafthouse, has something entirely different in mind. Coming soon — exact date to be determined — Metro Private Cinema will provide an experience that lives up to its name.

“It’s a night out,” League told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “If you’re going to casually catch ‘The Legend of Ochi,’ you’re probably going to go to the IFC Center, you’re going to go to the Alamo, to the AMC. But if you want to have what we’re trying to create, a very special experience with dinner, friends and a movie, I think there’s an audience for it here.

Whenever a Hollywood epic gets so drunk on its own cultural importance that it attempts to pre-legitimize itself by casting every available star in town, you can be quite certain that the finished product will be either a terminal bore or a full-blown disaster. Darryl F. Zanuck's "The Longest Day" is very much the former, a 178-minute grind that tries and largely fails to thrust moviegoers into the middle of the D-Day invasion via docudrama techniques; it's often technically impressive, but it quickly turns into a game of spot-the-star, which pulls us straight out of the movie. And then there's 1967's "Casino Royale," a celebrity-studded James Bond parody that feels like watching an exclusive, booze-fueled bash from the house across the street.

There are obvious exceptions, but they come with the caveat of knowingly satirizing Hollywood's insularity (Robert Altman's "The Player") or simply being a hot project that...

It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s a box office hit!

At least that’s how Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is touting the initial results for “Superman,” which climbed to $122 million domestically and $217 million globally in its opening weekend.

The comic book adaptation, starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, marks a vital reset in the DC Universe. After its last iteration of superhero adventures combusted with four major money losers in “The Flash,” “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” “Shazam: Fury of the Gods” and “Blue Beetle,” Zaslav hired Gunn and Peter Safran in 2022 to overhaul DC Studios. The duo has outlined a 10-year-plan of interconnected stories and spinoffs, including 2026’s “Supergirl” and “Clayface,” as well as a new take on “Wonder Woman” that is being developed.

“Three years ago, I hired James Gunn and Peter Safran to...

I'm not sure how David and Alex Pastor's "Carriers" holds up today — after nearly two decades that have given us various memorable zombie movies, like "Train to Busan" and "The Girl With All the Gifts" — but in 2009, the Chris Pine-led post-apocalyptic horror was an unlikely and underrated gem. The writer-director duo clearly wanted to jump on the metaphorical zombie hype train after Danny Boyle's iconic "28 Days Later" and Paul W.S. Anderson's "Resident Evil" made a fortune at the box office a few years earlier. "Carriers" aimed to ride that same wave before its production company, Paramount Vantage, delayed its release for three years before actually sending it to cinemas.

Though the shooting of the movie in New Mexico and Texas wrapped in 2006, the studio was hesitant to release it, likely because it hadn't featured one standout star. At the time, Chris Pine wasn't as widely...

“Knives Out” director Rian Johnson is opening up about his scrapped “Star Wars” trilogy.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Johnson, who directed 2017’s “The Last Jedi,” lifted the curtain on his long-rumored “Star Wars” trilogy that never got off the ground. He explained that at the time, he and Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy were developing ideas for the three-film saga. However, after “Knives Out” came along, Johnson’s focus largely shifted to the murder mystery blockbuster.

“Nothing really happened with it,” Johnson said. “We had a great time working together, and they said, ‘Let’s keep doing it.’ I said, ‘Great!’ I would kick ideas around with Kathy. The short version is ‘Knives Out’ happened. I went off and made ‘Knives Out,’ and was off to the races, busy making murder mysteries. It’s the sort of thing if, down the line, there’s an opportunity to do it,...

As Netflix's animated movie "KPop Demon Hunters" shatters all kinds of streaming records, millions of viewers worldwide are being introduced to its South Korean cast and their musical talents. This includes Ahn Hyo-seop, who plays Jinu, the leader of the movie's demonic rival pop group the Saja Boys, with Andrew Choi providing Jinu's singing voice. Of course, Ahn has been a live-action lead actor for years and has starred in several popular K-dramas (the blanket term for South Korean scripted television shows). For those looking for a rom-com featuring Ahn after his charismatic turn in "KPop Demon Hunters" and its chart-topping success, they should check out "Business Proposal."

Premiering in 2022, "Business Proposal" stars Ahn as Kang Tae-moo, the newly installed CEO of a major food corporation in Korea. At the behest of his grandfather, who runs his corporation's parent company, Tae-moo goes on a blind date with Shin Ha-ri...

It’s been 11 years since Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson completed his “Hobbit” trilogy. He has not directed a narrative feature since, though he certainly has not been stagnant.

He did, however, direct the Beatles’ docuseries “Get Back” and the 3D WWI doc “They Shall Not Grow Old,” which colorized and restored wartime footage. He also wrote and produced “Mortal Engines” in 2018, and he was listed as an executive producer on the anime “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” in 2024. But since he completed his last ode to J. R. R. Tolkien, he has not led a film set. Jackson, though, insists that he is not out of the game.

“No, no. I’m certainly not retired,” Jackson told ScreenRant in an interview. “We are currently working on three different screenplays. I’m at the moment writing three different scripts.”

The “District 9” director teased that more...

“Superman” ruled the box office as the comic book adventure touched down with $217 million globally.

That breakdown includes $95 million overseas and $122 million domestically. Attendance was slightly softer than expected at the international box office, though box office watchers believe that’s partially due to Superman’s deeply patriotic roots. His motto, after all, is “Truth, justice and the American way.”

“Superman has always been identified as a quintessentially American character and story,” says David A. Gross, who runs the FranchiseRe movie consulting firm. “And in some parts of the world, America is currently not enjoying its greatest popularity.”

James Gunn directed the well-reviewed “Superman,” starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. In the new movie, the optimistic hero is trying to prove to the world that he’s fighting for good after the evil tech billionaire Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) attempts to sway public opinion against him.

"Friends," aka one of the best sitcoms of all time, follows a group of buddies who hang out in New York City. Whether they're drinking coffee in Central Perk or watching nude exhibitionists walk around their apartments, it's a show about a group of pals who are connected at the hip, supporting each other through thick and thin, and having fun along the way. 

What's more, that sense of camaraderie existed behind the scenes, as the sitcom's cast -- Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and the late Matthew Perry -- had a ritual to pump each other up before filming each episode. Cox recalled the experience during an appearance at the Inc. 5000 conference, as documented by People:

"We'd get in a huddle and we would say, 'Alright everybody! Good luck!' And we'd give each other a hug and a high five."

It's been over...

Critics, more than ever these days, tend to lean into the same opinion of a movie. More and more, the collective wisdom rules. “Superman,” however, may be a singular exception. It’s not just that a lot of the reviews, like mine, have been unabashedly enthusiastic, while a not-so-small contingent of critics, like this one, have slammed the movie as an overcooked debacle. It’s that when I look at the divided reviews of “Superman,” it’s as if I’m taking in the response to two entirely different movies.

One of them — my “Superman” — is a ripping good yarn, a brash, jaunty, clever, sweet, rooted-just-enough-in-the-real-world adventure that conjures some of the deadpan serial nuttiness of the Superman comics of the ’60s and ’70s. The other “Superman,” the one that’s gotten kicked in the blue-spandex shins, is too fast, too frenetic, too snarky, too overstuffed, too empty of soul and emotion and conviction.

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If you've watched "The Big Bang Theory" in its entirety, you probably know what I'm talking about when I mention "the painting." On the massively popular CBS sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, Penny (Kaley Cuoco) is initially the only woman on the series, but in season 3, two more female leads join the cast: Mayim Bialik's Amy Farrah Fowler and Melissa Rauch's Bernadette Rostenkowski. Amy is immediately infatuated with and fascinated by Penny, and in the season 5 episode "The Rothman Disintegration," this comes to a head when Amy buys Penny an astonishingly large painting of them for no real occasion (it's ostensibly to "thank" Penny for being a good friend). When Amy unveils the painting, Penny is horrified, and apparently, Cuoco felt that way in real life too.

In a behind-the-scenes video filmed on the set...

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Spoilers for "Superman" follow.

With James Gunn's "Superman," Warner Bros. is beginning a movie series based on DC Comics and is starting with the original superhero. Sounds familiar, right?

But Gunn's "Superman" and Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" are as much worlds apart from each other as Earth and Krypton are. Where Snyder's film was downbeat and pretentious, Gunn's is happily corny, brimming with mile-a-minute exuberance. This is the type of movie where a kaiju rampage is just another day in Metropolis. Yet while he exists in a much zanier world, David Corenswet's Clark Kent is a much more human character than Henry Cavill's "realistic" Superman ever was.

This Clark is not a silent, scowling god who carries expectations like a burden; he's a goodhearted guy just trying to do the right thing. Clark's humanity,...

San Diego Comic-Con is rolling out its schedule for the 2025 convention this week, which runs from July 24–27. It will likely be a quieter convention this year, since neither Marvel Studios nor DC Studios are planning a major panel covering their upcoming projects. But for the first time in its history, “Star Wars” creator George Lucas will appear in person at the largest annual fan gathering in North America, to give a first look at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which is expected to open in Los Angeles in 2026. He’ll be joined in Hall H by director Guillermo del Toro, visual designer Doug Chiang and moderator Queen Latifah.

“We are beyond thrilled to welcome George Lucas to Comic-Con for the very first time,” said Comic-Con’s chief of communications and strategy David Glanzer in a statement. “Nearly five decades ago, ‘Star Wars’ made one of its earliest public appearances at our convention,...

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The villains of the "Star Wars" universe tend to be Sith Lords, Imperial bureaucrats or Separatist droids. Every so often, though, the galaxy far, far away produces something that defies definition. One of the most powerful villains to grace the "Star Wars" galaxy was a true eldritch horror, boasting such power that the Jedi and Sith were forced to work together to defeat her. A godlike dark side entity born millennia before the events of the Skywalker Saga, who plagued the galaxy after the fall of the Empire in "Star Wars" Legends, this monster was known as Abeloth.

Currently, Abeloth exists only in Legends -– the old "Star Wars" Expanded Universe continuity, which was discontinued and replaced by the new canon when Disney acquired Lucasfilm. However, Abeloth's roots lie in one of the most talked about story arcs featured on...

For David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan, their chemistry read as Clark Kent and Lois Lane — or Superman and Lois Lane — was over and done as quickly as it started.

Corenswet told People that he met “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Emmy winner “in sort of a flurry of handshakes and hellos.” It was summer 2023, Brosnahan had flown into Los Angeles from New York City, and she was due back for a performance of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” on Broadway.

“We said a quick hello, and he was… very nice and very tall, and we read the scene together,” Brosnahan told People. The scene in question, Corenswet remembered, was on the long side, 10-12 pages, and ended up being shot again for the final film.

“Neither of us quite knew what we were doing,” he said. “We had each done the scene with other people, so we weren’t...

“Jaws” icon Richard Dreyfuss was forced to drop out of this weekend’s SharkCon in Tampa, Fla., after he was diagnosed with viral bronchitis.

Dreyfuss delivered the news of his diagnosis and his exit in a video post shared to the SharkCon Instagram on Saturday.

He said, “Hello, fellow cons. I am very, very sorry to tell you that I’ve been diagnosed with viral…viral…What is it?”

His wife, Svetlana Erokhin, then clarified off-screen that Dreyfuss had been infected with viral bronchitis.

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Dreyfuss continued, “I’ve been told by my doctors I cannot fly, and I would have to fly five hours to get [to SharkCon]. I’m terribly sorry because I had planned to be there and had been looking forward to it. But I’m unable to do so. I don’t want to get anyone else sick,...

If there's one thing you can expect from a Spike Lee Joint, it's the unexpected. He's brought his controversial and confrontational filmmaking style to every genre under the sun, from gritty dramas to satirical comedies, musicals and vampire flicks, and everything in between. So, when Lee brought his cops and robbers flick "Inside Man" to theaters in 2006, he did what was really unexpected: He made a straight down the middle Hollywood picture starring his trusty leading man Denzel Washington, albeit one with Lee's characteristic verve.

Taking inspiration from Sidney Lumet's classic crime thriller "Dog Day Afternoon," which the filmmaker has called one of his favorite movies of all time, Lee used the bank robbery film as an opportunity to assemble a microcosm of New York City's melting pot diversity among the bank's hostages. As the standoff drags on and on in "Inside Man," we get to see just how...

Anyone who's ever watched "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" — or, frankly, the ABC procedural "High Potential" — knows exactly how funny Kaitlin Olson is. The actress, who earned fame and acclaim as "Sweet" Dee Reynolds throughout her time on "It's Always Sunny" — the show where she also met her husband Rob Mac, who created the series with co-stars Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day — is preternaturally hilarious, and her sense of comedic timing is second to none. Naturally, this extends to her physical comedy, which is why I'm not surprised that she nailed a tricky season 15 stunt in a single take.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly ahead of the episode, which is appropriately titled "Dee Sinks in a Bog," Olson got right to the point. "We shot an episode this season where Dee sinks in a bog, which I was very excited about, because it sounds hilarious," she told Derek Lawrence.

The Palestinian drama “All That’s Left of You,” directed by and starring actor/filmmaker Cherien Dabis, premiered at Sundance this year to solid reviews and played festivals from San Francisco to Sydney and, now, Karlovy Vary. It still hasn’t announced a U.S. distributor, and with its unflinching and emotional look at the context that explains the ongoing decimation of Gaza, that’s sadly unsurprising given the industry’s timidity around the subject.

But the strong Karlovy Vary audience response buoyed hopes that this film will be seen more widely. Amid cries of “Free Palestine!” during the lengthy applause for “All That’s Left of You” at the Czech Republic festival, Palestinian-American Dabis seemed the most moved. She waved at audiences in the balcony of the packed 1,131-seat Grand Hall theater in Hotel Thermal, known for its healing waters in a spa town that boasts more than a dozen mineral springs,...

Superman has arrived and the early indications in North America are good as the reboot, a DC Studios test case for the reconstituted studio’s first release, scored a solid $122m launch through Warner Bros on more than 10,000 screens in 4,135 locations.

The latest entry in a long-running series of adaptations delivered Warner Bros’ second debut of over $100m this year after A Minecraft Movie on $162.8m; the third best opening of 2025 so far behind the aforementioned and Lilo & Stitch on $146m;the second best opening for a Superman film behind Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice on $166m in 2016; the...

In spite of being remembered as a show about nothing, "Seinfeld" was anything but, as Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld pitched their sitcom to NBC as a show about how a comedian gets their material. For the first seven seasons, these two were responsible for heralding their groundbreaking comedy series from humble beginnings at Desilu-Cahuenga to one of the best sitcoms ever made. "Seinfeld" only grew in popularity with each passing season as audiences became more and more endeared to the bizarre misadventures of Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander), and Kramer (Michael Richards). When it came time to start working on the eighth season, however, there was a regime change that challenged the show's viability.

In the wake of killing off Susan Ross (Heidi Swedberg), George's fiancee, in the season 7 finale, David finally put his foot down and decided to leave the show to work on...

James Gunn's "Superman" is finally here, and it's the movie fans of the Man of Tomorrow have been waiting for. The film is unapologetically earnest and intentionally corny in a way no live-action comic book movie has been in the last decade or so. Gunn has crafted the perfect antithesis to the last 12 years of Superman-as-villain stories like "The Boys" and "Brightburn" (funny since Gunn produced that last one), and stories where Superman is a Jesus-like martyr who can never be embraced by humanity.

Gunn makes the smart choice of avoiding Superman's origin story and yet another extended prologue on Krypton. Instead, the movie takes a similar approach to The CW's "Superman & Lois" and catches up to Clark Kent (David Corenswet) three years into his career as Superman. It is a simple choice that lets the movie explore a world where everyone already has an opinion of the Man of Steel,...

Just three months ago, certified Hollywood heartthrob Pedro Pascal turned 50 years old — his 2025 has been so abuzz with hits, most have probably forgotten that he was in “Gladiator II” and “The Wild Robot” not even a year ago. After years of largely working under the radar, he told AP that he can hardly believe his luck.

“It is the best time of my life,” he said. “Just, I don’t know… look around, and it’s an incredible reflection of… what I’m experiencing right now. I’m having a really amazing time.”

Following the success of the romantic drama “Materialists” last month, “The Last of Us” star is front and center as Mr. Fantastic in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” out in theaters July 25. He said that he does not take the responsibility of leading a brand-new Marvel Studios feature lightly, emphasizing that he knows that the massive, hardcore fan base is watching.

Taylor Sheridan's streaming empire expanded late last year when "Landman" (which he created with Christian Wallace) premiered on Paramount+. The drama stars Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, a petroleum landman for an energy company looking to dominate the oilfields of West Texas. As he's demonstrated throughout his career with "Yellowstone" and its spinoffs, Sheridan has a nighttime soap writer's love for big rural business and the big families that run them, and his sizable fan base can't get enough of the "Dallas"-esque power struggles and betrayals that come with this big money territory.

"Landman" was an instant hit, which was great news for Sheridan, but the fervor the show generated has left fans impatiently awaiting Season 2. Though they can take heart in knowing that production started on the new season last April, Paramount+ has yet to announce when the next round of episodes will air. Hopefully, the...

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Ongoing

Doc Edge Film Festival, New Zealand - June 18-July 31

Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, South Korea - July 3-13

Fid Marseille, France - July 8-13

Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland - July 8-13

New York Asian Film Festival, US - July 11-27

Golden Apricot International Film Festival, Armenia - July 13-20

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Copenhagen Headliner Film Festival, Denmark - July 17-24

Fantasia International Film Festival,...

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Kaley Cuoco is still, to this day, best known for her role as Penny Hofstadter on "The Big Bang Theory," a show that defined her career for its 12-season run from 2007 to 2019. While this makes sense, I can also see why Cuoco probably wanted to explore very different projects after playing the bubbly blonde who ends up befriending a bunch of dorks and marrying one of them (Johnny Galecki's Leonard Hofstadter), and as it turns out, she had a huge post-"Big Bang Theory" audition that didn't go her way.

In a 2022 cover story with Glamour (one penned by Jessica Radloff, who also wrote "The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series"), Cuoco opened up about the fact that she really wanted a role in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," the sequel to...

"South Park" is one of the best cartoons of modern times, full of biting commentary, hilarious situations, and a whole town's worth of memorable side characters. The show's humor has made it kind of a cultural Rorschach test for over a quarter of a century, having earned legions of defenders but also people who have tried to ban it and yielding many opinions on whether the satire is effective or just plain offensive.

Part of the appeal of "South Park" is the way it parodies pop culture and celebrities, which have had mixed reactions by its subjects. Reportedly, Tom Cruise hated his portrayal, as did Ed Sheeran, while others loved to be a part of the show, like most of the Jonas Brothers and George Clooney (the latter of whom was an important early supporter of the series).

One of the show's best parodies is its three-episode "Game of Thrones" parody,...

Lena Dunham isn’t just making a comeback with her Megan Stalter-starring Netflix romantic comedy series “Too Much” — she also has a movie she wrote and is directing set to premiere on the platform, and starring Oscar-winner Natalie Portman. In fact, it would appear that Netflix really wanted “Good Sex,” also a rom-com which co-stars genre stalwart Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, and Rashida Jones. After all, the streamer paid a reported $55 million for it.

Dunham, though, isn’t precious about the movie forgoing a theatrical release to go straight to the platform. To her, that’s someone else’s battle.

“I really just want people to sit on a couch with their moms and their besties and lean in,” she said in an interview with Variety. “I love watching other filmmakers fight for the theatrical-release element — but I don’t think this will live or die by that.”

“Good Sex...

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The rightfully beloved "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" anime follows two brothers — Edward and Alphonse Elric — chasing the Philosopher's Stone across the nation of Amestris. Their main obstacle in this task are the Homunculi, artificial humans with names and powers reflecting the seven deadly sins.

The Homunculi's Father wants to use the Elric brothers as "hitobashira" (best translation is "human sacrifice") for his evil plan. Hiromu Arakawa, the Fullmetal author, naming her bad guy "Father," feels influenced by her love for "Star Wars" and Darth Vader. The movie homages in the anime don't end there, including when it comes to Father's pride and joy.

"Fullmetal Alchemist" introduces the Homunculi gradually. The earliest episodes/manga chapters feature only Lust, Gluttony, and Envy. Then, near the end of the series' first cour, it introduces Greed, Sloth, and Wrath. The reveal of Wrath is especially...