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Weapons is set to make its HBO Max debut on October 24th, which might get folks intrigued about the spinoff prequel director Zach Cregger has in development.

Avatar actress Zoe Saldaña was just talking earlier this week about wanting James Cameron to make a documentary about how much human artistry goes into films made with motion capture. And now, there’s a new trailer for Disney Plus’ upcoming Fire And Water: Making The Avatar Films doc out on November 7th.

The Apple-produced Brad Pitt vehicle will stream on Apple TV Plus, which Apple has just quietly rebranded to Apple TV, available on the Apple TV app, which you can stream using your Apple TV hardware. Nope, not confusing at all.

This weekend, you can see a 4K restoration at select cinemas around the US. I revisited the film a couple years ago when it was on the Criterion Channel and guess what? The movie that inspired the Hunger Games, Fortnite, and countless other “battle royales” still holds up. It should still look awesome on a big screen, too.

One of my favorite movies out of TIFF this year was No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook’s surprisingly slapstick dark comedy about a man just trying to get a job. You can get a feel for it in the new trailer; it hits select theaters on Christmas before going wide in January.

It was already exciting to know that Rebecca Sugar is making a Steven Universe follow-up series for Amazon, but Annapurna just announced that Sugar has also signed onto a new Moomin feature that will adapt a number of Tove Jansson’s classic stories for the big screen.

In Bugonia’s latest trailer, Emma Stone’s pharmaceutical CEO character can’t fathom why her kidnappers think she might be from another planet. But the more she insists that she’s just a very rich and powerful executive, the more they’re convinced she’s, you know, not human.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, which combines the two volumes of Kill Bill and adds a seven-and-a-half minute animated sequence, is hitting theaters on December 5th.

Fortnite wasted no time cooking up its KPop Demon Hunters collaboration that will see the Huntr/x girls squadding up to slay monsters in a movie-inspired version of the game’s Horde Rush mode running from October 2nd to November 1st. Naturally, Rumi, Zoey, and Mira skins will also be coming to the Fortnite Shop.

We’re getting a new trailer for the Netflix film tomorrow, and as a teaser the streamer put out this poster that provides the best look yet at Jacob Elordi as the creature.

It’s set to debut on July 23rd, 2027, just about 20 years after the premiere of the first Simpsons movie in July 2007. I remember seeing the first in theaters, so now I feel really old.

President Donald Trump’s nebulous plan / threat to impose an 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the US never materialized when he trotted it out earlier this year. But Trump has begun banging that drum once again, which could mean Hollywood is in for a new way of production-related headaches.

Lionsgate has been hyping up generative AI ever since it partnered with Runway to build a model trained on the studio’s IP. But TheWrap reports that the companies have been struggling to get the model to generate anything usable because the “Lionsgate catalog isn’t enough to create those kinds of large-scale projects.”

Avatar: Fire and Ash’s villanous Na’vi clan believes that Eywa has forsaken them in the movie’s latest trailer, but all the shots of Pandora’s bioluminescent creatures rising up in revolt make it seem like the planet’s collective consciousness isn’t gone — it has just been waiting to make a move.

The Netflix film has an intriguing premise: “When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.” The trailer is mostly people looking very emotional in control rooms, and yet it’s still pretty intense. It streams on October 24th.

Though all of Oz is atwitter in Wicked: For Good’s final trailer, there’s a (literal and metaphorical) storm on the horizon that’s going to pop off when Glinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) are reunited.

This interview goes wildly off the rails, starting just before this anecdote:

In addition to a new trailer for OD and a poster for Physint, Kojima Productions also showed off the first look at its animated Death Stranding project, under the working title “Mosquito.” It’s being written by Raised By Wolves creator Aaron Guzikowski, with Hiroshi Miyamoto from ABC Animations as director.

In an effort to help folks consume as much streaming content as possible, Tubi has just released Productubity, a new Chrome extension designed to make it easier for you to hide the fact that you’re watching movies or shows when you’re supposed to be, you know, increasing shareholder value.