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.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a spectacularly silly tribute to the franchise’s explosive past.
Apparently we’ve got some prospective cast members for a new Street Fighter movie, so it’s time to revisit Polygon’s classic Chris Plante feature about the 1994 film’s production trainwreck. RIP Raul Julia.
The film, called Ancestra, “is directed by Eliza McNitt and blends emotional live-action performances with generative visuals, crafting a deeply personal narrative inspired by the day she was born,” according to a description from the movie’s trailer.
If nothing else, the Jurassic Park franchise has done a solid job of coming up with reasons for people to keep returning to dinosaur-infested islands. The latest example is Jurassic World Rebirth, which has Scarlett Johansson searching for some life-saving dino DNA. It also looks like a mix of a number of film franchises — a little Alien, a little Indiana Jones — and it hits theaters on July 2nd.
The new trailer for Hulu’s Predator: Killer of Killers gives a little bit too much of the plot away, but it also makes the movie seem like it’s going to be kinda fantastic when it premieres on June 6th.
If you didn’t catch co-writers / directors Sam and Andy Zuchero’s Love Me during its theatrical run last year, worry not: the movie’s coming to Paramount Plus (with Showtime) on June 16th.
If you didn’t see Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 during its theatrical run, you can catch it on Max starting May 23rd.
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The update puts a focus on Formula 1 racing in promotion of both upcoming Apple movie F1 and the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix race happening later this month. The update is full of special Monaco Grand Prix-related things, including little renders of Formula 1 cars at the pits and road closure advisories.
Not that any of us will ever use it — this is basically an update for Apple exec and known sports fan Eddy Cue, right?
Alongside a shiny rebrand and airline integration, Google is expanding the range of trackers in its Find Hub network. But not with boring practicalities like better battery or more accurate tracking — no, we get Baby Yoda, thanks to a new set of Disney-themed tags from Pixbee.
While the MCU is riding high on Thunderbolts, Marvel is about to bring another recent movie to streaming: Captain America: Brave New World hits Disney Plus on May 28th.
Here’s one more trailer before the John Wick spinoff Ballerina hits theaters on June 6th. The new clip plays all of the Wick hits — pulsing nightclub, hotel shootout, bulletproof jackets — but with Ana de Armas as the new trained killer. It also hints that we might get an answer to how John is still actually alive.
Now they’ll be following up last year’s The New Empire with another buddy kaiju movie called Supernova. Details are slim, but the movie is currently in production, and expected to hit theaters on March 26th, 2027.
Some Star Wars fans build their own lightsabers, but YouTuber Maker Mac70 instead devoted a significant amount of time recreating the Millennium Falcon’s Holochess table. Built using six small LCD screens and a special plate from a Japanese company called ASKA3D that creates a floating holographic effect, the table features a single-player version of the game because of a limited viewing angle.
In addition to a video, more details about the build are available through Hackster.io.
A Thom Yorke side project is catching unnecessary flak. The artist explains how it came to be.
Return to Silent Hill, a film adaptation of Silent Hill 2, had its US rights picked up by Cineverse, and the movie will come to theaters in America “at a date to be announced,” Variety reports. It’s directed by Christophe Gans, who directed the first Silent Hill movie.
Well, soon we will, at least. Warner Bros. has confirmed that A Minecraft Movie will be available digitally on May 13th, though there’s no word on when it might hit streaming platforms.
The first trailer for The Long Walk, the latest Stephen King adaptation, starts out pretty cheerful and wholesome before fully revealing its much darker premise. It’s being directed by Francis Lawrence, best-known for his work on The Hunger Games series, and hits theaters on September 12th. It’s also not the only dystopic King film in the works, as Edgar Wright is making a new version of The Running Man due out in November.
Fair warning: the new trailer for Michael Shanks’ Together may only be two minutes long, but it’s full of body horror moments that will stick with you. The movie hits theaters on July 30th.
Here’s the first, very brief, teaser for Highest 2 Lowest, which has Denzel Washington and Spike Lee working together once again. The thriller is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, only set in New York in the present, and it also stars Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, and A$AP Rocky. It hits theaters on August 22nd before streaming on Apple TV Plus on September 5th.
The MCU’s new crossover tentpole is focused on trauma, bad jokes, and getting the movie franchise back on solid footing.
After premiering at last year’s TIFF, R.T. Thorne’s post-apocalyptic thriller 40 Acres is finally making its way into movie theaters this summer on July 2nd.
It has been 30 years since A Goofy Movie first hit theaters, and to celebrate the film’s anniversary, Disney just uploaded an immersive, virtual reality version of the Powerline concert sequence that features 360 degree audio and a handful of new easter eggs.
