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Slow Horses adds five actors for season seven as season six wraps on Apple TV
Slow Horses has added Varada Sethu, Ethan Moorhouse, Tuppence Middleton, Merab Ninidze and Joshua McGuire for season seven, with James Callis back as Claude Whelan. The new season adapts Mick Herron's Bad Actors, and season six was scheduled to wrap on Apple TV on October 21.
October 22, 2026 10:34 am
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
Wildwood review counts four Laika Oscar nominations, but the studio is five for five
Deadline's London Film Festival review leaves out The Boxtrolls. It also misspells the book illustrator's name and calls Caleb Deschanel new to animation.
October 15, 2026 12:43 pm
Greig Fraser says Project Hail Mary was harder to shoot than Dune or The Batman
The Oscar-winning Australian says Project Hail Mary beat Dune and The Batman for difficulty. The $200 million film, built around a puppet on tiny sets, has made $684.5 million worldwide.
October 12, 2026 11:27 am
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
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
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
Martin McDonagh Has Never Won a Golden Lion, and One Live Report Still Says He Just Did
A report published five days ago says Wild Horse Nine won the Golden Lion at Venice. It did not. Martin McDonagh has never won a Golden Lion, and the article is still up with no correction.
September 21, 2026 8:02 am
Fatih Akin Opens San Sebastian With a Festival Record There of Exactly Nothing
San Sebastian opens with Fatih Akin's Ghost Song. He has a Golden Bear, a Cannes screenplay prize and a Venice jury prize — and, at 52, has never once competed for the Golden Shell with a feature.
September 19, 2026 3:49 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
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
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
Money can trump a bad script in Hollywood, Morgan Freeman admits
Oscar winner Morgan Freeman got candid about how he chooses movie roles — and what can, sometimes, outrank a flawed script.
August 14, 2026 6:05 am
Only weeks to go until Ryan Reynolds’ next big movie before his MCU return
Ryan Reynolds’ next film before his Marvel Cinematic Universe return is only weeks off, with Apple TV+ readying its next original release.
August 6, 2026 3:22 am
Craving Sherlock? ABC’s Will Trent is the bingeable fix you need right now
A sharp, twisty cousin to Sherlock is newly back on streaming this week, making it the ideal palate‑cleanser for anyone still pining for 221B brilliance.
August 2, 2026 1:21 am
Roger Ebert’s Harsh Take on The Raid: Redemption Sparks Debate
Roger Ebert’s scathing review of The Raid: Redemption left fans stunned, especially as the film’s influence on action cinema rivalled even John Wick. Discover why his verdict still divides audiences.
January 26, 2026 9:46 am
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