Film

If you’ve been waiting for Warner Bros. Japan’s follow-up to Batman Ninja, some good news: (HBO) Max announced today that Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League is set to make its streaming debut this summer on July 3rd.

I’m dead excited to see Laika’s spooky 2012 stop-motion movie return to theaters for a one-week limited run, starting on October 25th in the US and October 23rd for other global screens. The re-run also includes the premiere of “ParaNorman: The Thrifting,” a new CG short film starring Finn Wolfhard and Anna Kendrick, who reprises her role as Norman’s sister, Courtney.

Apple CEO Tim Cook got to appear in a shiny Variety profile about F1 and Apple’s entertainment efforts. Poor Craig.

The distribution rights to Warner Bros. Japan’s animated adaptation of All You Need Is Kill — Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s 2004 sci-fi novel that inspired Edge of Tomorrow — have been acquired acquired by Gkids. The company plans to put the film in theaters “soon.”

If you’ve got an iPhone running iOS 18.4 or later, the Apple TV Plus tab of the TV app now features a trailer for the upcoming Brad Pitt F1 movie that’s now enhanced with vibrations created by the modern iPhone’s Taptic Engine.

In case you were wondering what sorts of new / returning series and movies are making their way to Apple TV Plus this year, the studio has just dropped a sizzle reel teasing some of what we can expect to see from Chief of War, Invasion season 3, Foundation season 3, Slow Horses season 5, and more.

It’s a major turn in the high-profile dispute between Baldoni and Blake Lively that spiraled into an entire genre of social media content. Baldoni had sued Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, for $400 million after Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment. A judge also dismissed Baldoni’s defamation suit against The New York Times, filed after its coverage of Lively’s claims.

It kicks off at 2PM ET tomorrow.

The public’s negative response to previous instances of major Hollywood firing up the generative AI slop machine might make you think that entertainment execs have cooled on the technology. But a new report from Vulture makes it sound like more and more studios are jumping on the bandwagon and trying very hard to keep it a secret.

Amazon MGM Studios is reportedly making a movie that will depict the rollercoaster couple of days in November 2023 when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted by the board, then pulled an “Uno Reverse” and was re-hired, after which nearly all of the board members in question subsequently departed.

If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of art, furniture, taxidermy, or other ephemera that was once owned and / or touched by the late, great David Lynch, Julien’s is running a massive auction beginning June 18th that you’re probably going to want to keep an eye on.

If you’re a celebrity promoting a new movie or your latest album, you used to follow a standard playbook of late night shows, magazine cover stories, or daytime talk shows. Now you have to do all that and eat chicken wings with YouTubers or give your hottest take while riding the subway. The New Media Circuit is a powerful driver of views, likes, and comments — but does it actually sell anything?

While you may have forgotten that Elio is hitting theaters next month, the film’s latest trailer makes it seem like Pixar has been listening to the ridiculous 100 men vs 1. gorilla hypothetical fight people have been debating about for the past few weeks.

For folks who’ve been salivating in anticipation of being able to (re)watch Ryan Coogler’s Sinners from their couches, Warner Bros. just announced that the film will be available to purchase on digital platforms beginning June 3rd ahead of its physical release on 4K UHD / Blu-ray / DVD on July 8th.

In writer / director Nacho Vigalondo’s Daniela Forever, the grief Nick (Henry Golding) feels over the sudden death of his girlfriend Daniela (Beatrice Grannò) leads him to a clinical trial for a drug that induces lucid dreaming. Nick’s drug-fueled dreams are meant to help pull him out of his depression, but as the movie’s new trailer teases, things go terribly (and beautifully) wrong. The movie’s in theaters July 11th.

Bluesky reminded me that John Carpenter’s Escape from New York has a deleted ten-minute opening sequence, and while I think he made the right choice cutting it, it’s a pretty fun short heist film that barely even requires having seen the film.

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.