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Toronto Finally Admits It Is a Market, on Government Money That Runs Out
Toronto has been where films get sold for forty years without ever admitting it. On 10 September it admits it: a formal market opens at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, funded by a one-off C$23 million government cheque, pitched partly on the argument that buyers would rather not fly to the United States.
September 11, 2026 1:15 am
Korea Spent Its Biggest Budget Ever on Hope. Na Hong-jin Made More Money With $8 Million.
Na Hong-jin has not released a film since The Wailing in 2016. His return, Hope, opens in the US on 9 September on the biggest budget in Korean cinema history — and has so far taken less money at home than the film he made for a fraction of the price.
September 10, 2026 1:10 am
Ryan Reynolds' Best Reviews in a Decade Depend Entirely on Which Website You Open
Ryan Reynolds' Mayday landed on Apple TV at 88% on Rotten Tomatoes — his best score in about eleven years. On Metacritic the same reviews produce a 60, which is lower than Deadpool. Both numbers are real. Only one of them is being reported.
September 9, 2026 1:15 am
Two Star Wars Films Just Reappeared on Paper. Neither Has a Date.
A trade listing dated 3 September put both Star Wars: New Jedi Order and Dave Filoni's long-dormant crossover film back on paper — the first sign of life from either in about a year. It is not a greenlight, and Lucasfilm has said nothing. But these are the two films Kathleen Kennedy pointedly did not discuss on her way out the door.
September 8, 2026 1:10 am
Band of Brothers Turns 25, and the New Documentary Can Only Interview the Actors
Band of Brothers turns 25 on Wednesday, and HBO is marking it with a documentary called Legacy. In 2001 the series came packaged with a film in which the real men of Easy Company told their own story. This one interviews the actors. Not by choice — there is nobody else left to ask.
September 7, 2026 1:05 am
Tarantino Called Black Hawk Down the Best Film of the Century. Ridley Scott Says No.
Quentin Tarantino called Black Hawk Down the best film of the 21st century. Nine months later, Ridley Scott was asked whether he agreed and said: "No." Then: "I wonder what he was on, because whatever it is, I want some."
September 6, 2026 1:10 am
Spider-Man Needs $45M for the All-Time Record. Its Lead Over Star Wars Is Shrinking.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day sits at $891.5M domestic after five weekends at No. 1. It needs $45.1M more to take the all-time record from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Every outlet is treating that as a formality. The weekend-by-weekend numbers say otherwise.
September 5, 2026 1:20 am
Norman Reedus Wrapped Daryl Dixon in June. He Already Has an Apple TV Thriller.
Norman Reedus has joined Apple TV's Disavowed as a series regular opposite James Marsden. His role is undisclosed. It is his first announced series since he finished shooting the last of Daryl Dixon in June — sixteen years after he first played the part.
September 4, 2026 1:15 am
The Lord of the Rings Producer Is Starting a New Fantasy Franchise at 82
Barrie M. Osborne, one of only three producers credited on all three original Lord of the Rings films, is launching a new fantasy franchise called Wars of the Drakons. It is his first producing job in more than a decade, and he is 82.
September 2, 2026 1:35 am
Guy Pearce Says Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 2 Shoots Next Year
Guy Pearce has given a timeline for the sequel to 1994's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: cameras in 2027, cinemas in 2028. It will be the first Priscilla film without Terence Stamp alive to see it — and the first with him in it anyway.
September 1, 2026 4:20 am
Adaptations That Are Better Than the Book, and Why
Fighting words, deployed carefully. "Better" here means the adaptation does something the source couldn't, rather than simply being more popular.
August 31, 2026 8:37 am
Teyonah Parris Joins Apple's Running, Which Already Has Brian Tyree Henry and Rhea Seehorn
Teyonah Parris is joining Running, the Apple Original Films project from director Gavin O'Connor, per Deadline. She joins a cast that includes Spike Fearn, Brian Tyree Henry and Rhea Seehorn.
August 30, 2026 7:27 am
Comfort Shows, Ranked by How Little They Ask of You
Some evenings you have the capacity for a nine-hour Scandinavian investigation into municipal corruption. Other evenings you have the capacity for approximately none. This list is organized by effort required, ascending.
August 29, 2026 2:21 am
Adèle Exarchopoulos Is Joining Zoë Kravitz in Megan Park's Apple Mystery
Apple's untitled mystery from My Old Ass director Megan Park has landed Adèle Exarchopoulos in a lead role opposite Zoë Kravitz, per Deadline. What she's playing hasn't been disclosed. Apple declined to comment, which is Apple's default posture on everything short of a hardware launch.
August 28, 2026 3:18 am
Video Game Adaptations Stopped Being a Punchline. Here's What Changed.
For roughly twenty-five years, "video game movie" was shorthand for guaranteed disaster. That's over, and the reasons are specific rather than mysterious.
August 26, 2026 11:00 pm
Charles Melton Is in Talks to Play Kakashi in the Live-Action Naruto Movie
Destin Daniel Cretton's Naruto adaptation has been circling for a while, and this is the casting that will decide whether the fandom gives it a chance: Charles Melton is in talks to play Kakashi Hatake.
August 26, 2026 8:17 am
Six Shows That Should Have Stopped After One Season
Not a criticism of the first seasons. A criticism of what came after. Some stories are complete and get extended anyway, because a hit is an asset and assets get exploited.
August 25, 2026 5:22 am
Ridley Scott Wants the Kid From Adolescence and Hugh Grant for His Treasure Island
Scott already has Hugh Jackman attached to his Treasure Island. This week he named the two people he'd like next, and one of them is a genuinely inspired idea.
August 24, 2026 8:37 am
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