Today marks the official theatrical debut of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the fourth film in the MCU Spider-Man series starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker, in much of Europe plus China and Brazil (US theaters are getting it on July 31). As part of the final press interviews, IGN spoke with Holland himself on the red carpet, and the actor revealed that a lot of the movie's fight scenes were heavily inspired by Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man 2. A lot of the action, a lot of the finishing moves were inspired by it. I was actually playing the game last night. I […]

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Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

Right now, everyone is watching Microsoft and Xbox with bated breath to see just how severe the reported layoffs will be, and while we wait for that inevitable announcement, Xbox is seemingly doing everything possible to distract from it. Like how Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and other high-ranking Xbox executives spoke to Entertainment Weekly in a new interview, which confirms that a Sea of Thieves movie adaptation is in the works, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day director Destin Daniel Cretton attached to it as a producer. That nugget of information came as part of a larger interview about the ongoing […]

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Nintendo has struck theatrical gold with 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie, that's for sure. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and produced by Universal's award-winning animation studio Illumination, the film leveraged an ensemble cast featuring renowned actors like Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, and Seth Rogen to set new box office records, quickly becoming the biggest gaming adaptation ever with a final tally of $1.36 billion gross. Eventually, the movie was only barely surpassed by Barbie as 2023's highest-grossing film. As you'd expect, Nintendo and Illumination immediately began work on a sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, […]

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Weapons director Zach Cregger is set to make his mark on the Resident Evil franchise with his own cinematic take on the popular horror franchise, and today we got our first proper peek at what that'll look like with the film's first teaser trailer. The trailer reveal also arrived alongside Cregger diving a little more into his thought process on developing the film in different interviews, particularly answering why he didn't just try and adapt a pre-existing Resident Evil story. "I wanted to tell a story that could take place in the Resident Evil world, but wasn't telling a story […]

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We're not even a calendar month away from the release of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and it looks like Nintendo and Illumination already have a third movie set for 2028, according to an updated version of Universal's schedule on its Spanish website. Spotted by VGC, the updated schedule now lists "Untitled Illumination/Nintendo Event Film (April 2028)" on April 12, 2028. That could, of course, be the next Super Mario movie after Galaxy, or it could be the start of a new series like the rumoured Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and Metroid films. While we've not yet seen Samus appear […]

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Potential buyers of Letterboxd include Versant, the parent company of CNBC and MS NOW, and Hollywood media company The Ankler, according to Semafor.

We have a Call of Duty movie on the way, and EA clearly decided it wasn't going to let Activision have the box office to itself. Now, a report from The Hollywood Reporter indicates that a Battlefield movie is in development, with Christopher McQuarrie set to write and direct the film, and Michael B. Jordan set to produce and potentially even star in the film. The long-standing rivalry between the two first-person franchises is officially jumping over to another medium, though with this production just being announced now, the first strike will seemingly come from the Call of Duty side, […]

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Ex Machina, Civil War, Warfare, and 28 Years Later writer Alex Garland is leading the charge on an upcoming Elden Ring movie being made by A24 with Bandai Namco collaborating - this much we've known since May 2025. Now, the latest update from Garland and company is that the film has a release date set for March 3, 2028, and the full cast has been selected, though it's unclear what roles everyone will be playing. In a press release Bandai Namco confirmed that the film is in production (though that much was already obvious after footage of the set leaked […]

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Almost a decade ago, Activision was looking like it would be moving forward with a Call of Duty movie. But it wasn't too much longer before that project was put on hold, and years later, here we are with no film based on the long-running military shooter franchise. Now, after rejecting a pitch from legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg, Activision will look to make a film that "feels really real and infuses that with epic scope" off the backs of Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan and Battleship director Pete Berg in time for June 30, 2028. That's the latest update on the […]

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Like its predecessor, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie seems destined to go down as one of this year's most divisive films, which is kind of odd when you think about it. These generally inoffensive crowd-pleasing movies based on a near-universally-beloved IP, carefully shepherded by Shigeru Miyamoto himself, probably shouldn't be getting folks so riled up, and yet! Following in the footsteps of 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie, professional reviews for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie have been witheringly negative, and to listen to some folks, the flick represents nothing less than the demise of cinema. An egregious example of […]

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A new report from The Hollywood Reporter reveals that a Metal Gear Solid movie is in development, with Final Destination duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein behind it. The film is part of a new set of movies Lipovsky and Stein will be making for Sony, as the pair have just been signed to Sony Pictures. Details on the film are still entirely unclear, though the promotional image from Columbia Pictures suggest that it'll be an adaptation of the first Metal Gear Solid game, though it's realistically all still up in the air at the moment. "Metal Gear Solid was […]

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is yet another box office success for Nintendo and Universal's Illumination, becoming the biggest theatrical debut of the year in the United States. According to NBC's estimates, the film earned $131.7 million in the first three days, rising to $190.8 million in the first five days. Internationally, the movie also earned an estimated $182.4 million (including previews), bringing the total earnings to around $372 million. It narrowly failed to surpass its predecessor, though. The Super Mario Bros. Movie had earned $204 million domestically and $377 million worldwide. Still, there's more than reason enough to celebrate […]

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is officially out and in theatres across the globe, and unsurprisingly, fans have flooded theatres in droves to see it over its opening weekend. As reported by Deadline, the film brought in a whopping $372.5 million at the global box office, which, you might recall, is actually a bit behind the first movie, which reached $387.8M in its opening weekend. But it's still good enough to make the Super Mario Bros movie franchise the biggest box office hits for film adaptations of video games. That's just one of the records that has been broken by […]

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Nintendo hosted its fifth Nintendo Direct event of 2026, which was an event dedicated to the Super Mario Galaxy Movie ahead of its premiere this coming April 1, 2026. The event showed off the final trailer for the film, and revealed some of Nintendo's plans for Mario Day tomorrow, and the lead-up to the film's premiere. The trailer for the film showed off a couple of the characters the recent poster revealed, like the character Wart, who is being played by Luis Guzmán. We also learned that Honey Queen will be in the film, and voiced by Issa Rae. The […]

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Earlier this week, Nintendo hosted its fourth Nintendo Direct event of 2026, and considering that we're only a few days into March at the time of this writing, that's a pretty condensed window for the Mario company to be setting up what players can look forward to for the year. Today, Nintendo has already announced it will host a fifth Nintendo Direct event next week, but it's not the kind you were hoping for. Instead of following up Tuesday's Indie World Showcase Direct with a larger, general Nintendo Direct like Nintendo has in the past, the very next Direct event […]

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The BioShock movie adaptation has been in discussion for a long time. Less than a year after the original game's debut, publisher Take-Two Interactive announced that it had signed a deal with Universal Studios for a film that would have been directed by Gore Verbinski (The Ring, the first three Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Lone Ranger) and written by John Logan (Gladiator, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Skyfall, and Spectre). The tentative theatrical release window was 2010, but the project kept being put on hold for various concerns, including budget and the director's insistence on […]

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