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He’s withdrawn financial backing from the bid, which may leave it floundering, and the Warner Bros. board has recommended shareholders reject the hostile offer. It looks like everyone involved is beginning to realize what The Verge’s own Liz Lopatto pointed out yesterday: “What Paramount is doing doesn’t make any fucking sense.”

The third movie in the whodunit series is now streaming on Netflix. You can also check out my review of Wake Up Dead Man (it’s good!) and an interview with director Rian Johnson about why he doesn’t plan in advance and why the movies are always rooted in the present.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer, which is launching in 2026, looks like the Star Wars Episode I: Racer successor I’ve always wanted. While it seems to focus more on various Star Wars vehicles than just podracers, the trailer includes a brief shot of Sebulba and the iconic sound of his podracer. I know my main already.

Everyone’s favorite movie-rating social media platform has entered the video rental game. Unlike other rental services, this one is highly curated, launching with just nine films. Of those, four have never been released. Prices are a little all over: some movies, like 1991’s Poison by Todd Haynes, are only $3.99 for a 48-hour rental, while Unreleased Gems like the recent SXSW fave It Ends are $19.99.

We’re still waiting for news about the remake of the first Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, but as part of a huge report digging into court filings about why KOTOR II for Switch never got its Restored Content DLC, Game File found mentions of a KOTOR II remake in development as recently as March.

Warner Bros. has a long history of bad buyouts and mergers, but maybe Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has been watching a little too much Arrested Development on his own platform.

We just found out that the original Star Wars theatrical cuts are returning to theaters in February of 2027. Not to be out-nerded, the extended cuts of the Lord of the Rings films will be hitting the big screen to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the premiere of The Fellowship of the Ring. You’ll only have two weekends to relive the magic (or pain, depending on your opinion of the extended cuts), so you might want to get your tickets now.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’s latest trailer makes it look like the movie might spend some time in the world beyond the quarantined British Isles where humanity’s still chugging along. But if that’s the case, we’re probably going to see quite a few more people get infected.

Rian Johnson might not be open to a Knives Out feature starring The Muppets, but he seems to have given his blessing to Netflix’s new Sesame Street short about detective Beignet Blanc investigating the disappearance of Cookie Monster’s triple berry pie.

Though Club Chalamet started off as just another stan account, The Wall Street Journal reports that Simone Cromer — the woman behind the Timothée-obsessed page — has found new success on Substack where she has generated enough revenue to “cover the cost of her summer vacation to Italy” with just a few hundred subscribers.

The first trailer for Mother Mary — the latest from The Green Knight director David Lowery — promises that it’s neither a ghost story nor a love story. But it sure looks like a little of both, as well a love letter to the power of pop music (and a good dress). It hits theaters next spring.

Not every day you get to physically own a meme!

Fortnite’s next major event takes place on Saturday, followed by an all new chapter, but a day later something weirder and more interesting happens: an animated Kill Bill short will premiere in the game, built using Unreal Engine and Fortnite characters.

The digital movie rental shop is slated to debut in early December. Letterboxd describes it as “curated shelves instead of just scrolling lists endlessly without being able to make up your mind on what to watch.”

The new trailer for Amazon MGM’s adaptation of Alex Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary teases a bit more of the catastrophe that’s imperiling Earth, but it’s mostly about the friendship that’s going to develop between astronaut Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) and an alien that looks like a pile of rocks.

Here’s a couple of facts for you, apropos of nothing: it has been less than a decade since Moana hit US theaters, and not even 12 months since Moana 2 followed it. And yet, here we are.

The concept of a live-action Moana adaptation feels pretty premature until you remember that the original animated movie came out almost a decade ago. The new movie hits theaters on July 10, 2026.

Apropos of it being Monday, Nintendo has just shared a handful of new photos from its upcoming live-action The Legend of Zelda movie starring Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan. The pics don’t tell us much about the movie’s story, but Zelda’s blue outfit suggests it’ll involve elements from the Breath of the Wild timeline.

The final trailer has arrived for what my colleague Andrew Webster calls Benoit Blanc’s “darkest and most complex” outing yet, which sees the detective solving a murder inside a small church community.

I mean, it was probably inevitable, right? The Hollywood Reporter reports that Sony has snapped up the film rights for the weird little toys, though no director or writer are attached just yet.