Film

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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:

During an earnings call on Monday, AMC CEO Adam Aron hinted at plans to use AI for pricing, film scheduling, and customer service. “We’ve actually been talking and are in conversations right now about making small investments in some AI technology-enabled companies whose prospects are related to the movie industry,” Aron said.

Bambu now sells electronics to drop into your creations — remember my floating light bulb and TARDIS? This time, I’m using the $135 “Motion-Activated Sound and Light Props Kit” with Joel He’s double-bladed saber files, but you can design anything you like. Should I try a Zelda Master Sword next?

It’s apparently already time to start thinking about more than just your Halloween decor. Hallmark’s 2025 lineup of Keepsake collectibles includes a $99.99 Star Wars ornament recreating the scene aboard the Millennium Falcon where R2-D2 and Chewbacca play a game of Dejarik.

Sony decided to go the live-action route for its upcoming Spider-Verse spinoff series starring Nic Cage’s Spider-Man Noir, but Deadline reports that the studio is in the early stages of developing an animated Spider-Punk feature co-written by Ajon Singh (Primetime) and Daniel Kaluuya, who will presumably reprise his role as Hobie Brown.

In A24’s Highest 2 Lowest — a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low — Denzel Washington plays a music mogul (rather than a show company exec) whose son (Aubrey Joseph) is being held for ransom. The movie’s new trailer doesn’t spoil much of the plot, but it does make it seem like Highest 2 is going to be a tense watch when it hits theaters on August 5th and Apple TV Plus on September 5th.

Paramount and Skydance are set to finalize their merger on August 7th, and Deadline reports that the new corporate entity will be headed up by CEO David Ellison (Skydance’s founder) and president Jeff Shell (the former CEO of NBCUniversal.

A Quiet Place is about to become a trilogy, as John Krasinski has confirmed he’s returning to write and direct a third entry that’s expected to hit theaters on July 9th, 2027.

2027 will mark the 50th anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope’s debut, and to celebrate the occasion, Lucasfilm is putting the movie back in theaters beginning May 4th of that year — just a couple of weeks before Star Wars: Starfighter’s premiere.

The next Spider-Man movie from Sony Pictures is currently scheduled for release a year from now, on July 31st, 2026, to kick off a new trilogy of Holland-led movies in the MCU five years after the last entry, Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Amazon announced its Q2 earnings results today, and at the same time said that Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, See, Dirty Pretty Things) will be the writer of its first 007 movie, which Denis Villeneuve is already set to direct.

In director Uta Briesewitz’s upcoming thriller American Sweatshop, a social media content moderator (Lili Reinhart) can’t move on from a gruesome murder she’s forced to watch as part of her job. The movie’s trailer makes it look like a smart way to focus on the real horrors people have to endure to keep the internet running, which might make it a surprise hit when it hits theaters on September 19th.

Larry (Miles Teller) needs a few beats to figure out that he’s dead in the new trailer for director David Freyne’s metaphysical romcom Eternity. But once he does, Larry realizes that he has to figure out a way to convince his recently-deceased wife Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) to spend the afterlife with him rather than her first husband Luke (Callum Turner). No firm release date just yet, but the film’s out this November.

We knew the Looney Tunes flick was launching in 2026, but it won’t be until August 28th. The date was announced at San Diego Comic-Con, where a trailer was shown too, but it’s not online yet.

Train Dreams, which was one of my favorite films at the festival this year, is streaming on November 21st, and will also be coming to select theaters this fall. It’s an understated and heartbreaking movie about coping with loss and change, telling a story that spans a single lifetime and is buoyed by some incredible performances from Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones. You can get a feel for it in the new trailer below.

Oh, I had such high hopes for the Piaggio G1T4-M1N1 (“Gita Mini”). An officially licensed Star Wars bot that follows you around, dodging pedestrians while carrying 20 pounds of cargo and playing The Imperial March on its party speaker? Heck yes. But a single walk to the park showed me that this $2,875 bot doesn’t have enough smarts. (I couldn’t fit all its fails into one video!)

Good Fortune seems familiar on the surface — Keanu Reeves is an angel who tries to show the destitute Aziz Ansari that money isn’t everything — but the formulaic plan also appears to backfire when it turns out money does fix a lot of problems. You can check out the new trailer here, while the movie hits theaters on October 17th.

Well, at least “this weekend,” according to a post on X. You can see the trailer before showings of The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

We knew Predator: Badlands was going to tell the story of an outcast Yautja forced to prove its worth by surviving on a planet full of monsters. But the movie’s latest trailer reveals that the Predator’s human-seeming companion Thia (Elle Fanning) is actually a Weyland-Yutani android, and the pair are going to find themselves fighting what appears to be... alien dinosaurs.