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Rafe Spall's amnesiac Sherlock Holmes fills a three-year gap that took Conan Doyle ten years to close
The new Sky series is set between Reichenbach and The Empty House. Conan Doyle's readers waited almost a decade for that return.
October 18, 2026 12:27 pm
Miami Vice '85 adds Haley Lu Richardson to a film built on a pilot that aired in 1984
Joseph Kosinski's film with Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler is shooting in New Jersey for a May 2028 release, nine months later than first planned.
October 17, 2026 11:54 am
Resident Evil overtakes Weapons as Zach Cregger's biggest hit, but only worldwide
China lifted Resident Evil to $320.2 million worldwide, $8.5 million of it from Australia. At home and against its budget, Weapons still leads.
October 14, 2026 11:38 am
Penélope Cruz says she and Javier Bardem rarely work together, yet Bunker is their sixth film
At Deadline's Contenders London, Cruz explained why she and Bardem keep work and marriage apart. Florian Zeller's Bunker is the sixth time they have shared the screen.
October 13, 2026 12:17 pm
Bloodaxe sets a January premiere on Prime Video, with season two already filming
Michael Hirst's Viking saga, with Australian actor Levi Miller as Haakon, arrives on January 20, 2027. Amazon renewed it in June, before a single episode had aired.
October 11, 2026 12:41 pm
Tom Cruise's Digger takes fourth place by just $1,771 as loss estimates double
Iñárritu's political satire edged out an A24 film for fourth place on its opening weekend. Published budgets run from $125 million to nearly $180 million, and the loss estimates doubled in a week.
October 10, 2026 3:05 am
Resident Evil broke a franchise record by beating a number that was never an opening weekend
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil did set a franchise opening record. The $60.12 million it is being measured against is not an opening weekend at all — it is a sixteen-year-old film's entire domestic run.
September 27, 2026 1:38 pm
Crocodile Dundee turns 40 and two Australian lists cannot agree where it ranks
Forty years after it opened in America, Crocodile Dundee is still described as the highest-grossing film of all time in Australia. It is not, it never was, and the two bodies that keep the list cannot agree on whether it is 28th or 32nd.
September 26, 2026 10:39 am
San Sebastian says all 17 Golden Shell films are world premieres and Mike Leigh has played three festivals already
San Sebastian closes on Saturday with seventeen films competing for the Golden Shell, and the preview copy says every one of them is a world premiere. Mike Leigh's entry has already played Telluride, Toronto and New York.
September 25, 2026 5:33 pm
One Animated Release, Six Opening Figures, and the Two That Are Actually Wrong
Six figures circulated for one weekend of one animated release: $6.8M, $7.8M, $12.7M, $26.5M, $35.5M and $36.6M. Only two of them are wrong, and the trap is the one that looks right.
September 22, 2026 8:47 am
Warner Bros. Lost a Fortune on The Bride! and Signed Its Director Again Three Months Later
Maggie Gyllenhaal is presiding over the Venice jury this week. Six months ago her second film, The Bride!, opened to $7 million and a C+ CinemaScore on a budget somewhere between $80 and $90 million. Warner Bros. absorbed it and then, three months later, bought her the next one.
September 14, 2026 1:30 am
A Film About Refusing a Fortune Premieres at TIFF, and Nobody Can Say What the Fortune Was
I Play Rocky premieres at Toronto on 12 September — a film about a broke actor refusing to sell his script at any price. Sylvester Stallone says he had nothing to do with it and was never consulted. Peter Farrelly says he asked permission in person at the Beverly Hills Hotel and got it. And nobody can say what the money was.
September 13, 2026 1:25 am
Venice Picks Its Golden Lion Saturday, and the Frontrunner Story Falls Apart on Inspection
Venice awards the Golden Lion on Saturday. Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine is being written up everywhere as the frontrunner, on the strength of a standing ovation nobody can source and an awards conversation about a different prize entirely — while two films in the same competition are rated higher.
September 12, 2026 1:20 am
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
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
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
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