Author: Hanry Dawson

Spider-Man just keeps swinging past the competition. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is set to cross $700 million at the domestic box office Wednesday, doing so in less than three weeks — a pace that has box office watchers seriously discussing whether it could become the first movie in history to cross $1 billion domestically, according to Screen Rant. That would be a genuinely unprecedented feat. The current all-time domestic record belongs to “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” which finished its 2015 run with $936.6 million. No film has ever crossed the billion-dollar mark on North American ticket sales alone. It’s…

Ryan Gosling has taken plenty of big swings over the years, but few have connected quite like this one. Nearly five months after its theatrical release, “Project Hail Mary” is still being talked about as one of the best studio films of the year, and the numbers back it up. The film has settled at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes from more than 400 reviews, with a matching 95% audience score, according to a detailed breakdown from Bamfuzzle. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and adapted by “The Martian” screenwriter Drew Goddard from Andy Weir’s 2021 novel, the film follows…

Paramount has locked in a release date for one of the more unexpected remakes on its slate. Parker Finn’s “Possession,” a new take on Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 cult classic, opens in theaters June 11, 2027, the studio confirmed this week, with cast details also coming into focus, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s a curious pick for a studio tentpole. The original “Possession” was never a commercial hit — it built its reputation over decades as an unsettling, hard-to-categorize arthouse film, one that earned Isabelle Adjani the Best Actress prize at Cannes for a performance still considered one of the…

Nicholas Hoult has a new role, and it’s a doozy. HBO’s “Harry Potter” series has cast the “Superman” star as Gilderoy Lockhart for Season 2, Deadline first reported, with the rest of the trade press confirming it within hours. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the character will. Lockhart shows up in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” as a preening, self-published wizard-celebrity who lands the Defense Against the Dark Arts job at Hogwarts — and turns out to have no idea what he’s doing. Kenneth Branagh played him in the 2002 film. The Hollywood Reporter has more…

Disney has confirmed that Demi Lovato is stepping back into the role that made her a star. Just two days before “Camp Rock 3” premieres, the studio revealed the singer-actress will appear on screen as Mitchie Torres, closing the book on months of fan speculation about whether the original leading lady would return, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The reveal marks a notable reversal from how the sequel was first pitched to fans. When Disney Branded Television first announced Camp Rock 3, it confirmed that Joe, Nick, and Kevin Jonas would return as Connect 3. Demi Lovato, however, was involved…

“House of the Dragon” has spent three seasons dominating the fantasy conversation, and it’s easy to see why — dragons, court intrigue, a slow-motion civil war between siblings who used to trust each other. But the genre’s current boom didn’t start or end with Westeros. Streaming platforms have quietly built out an entire library of fantasy television that rivals anything HBO is doing, some of it wrapped up already, some of it still unfolding. Here are eight shows worth clearing space for, complete with cast, story, category, where to stream, who’s behind the camera, and every season currently available. ‘A…

Josh Brolin was set to play two versions of the same character in Fox’s scrapped “X-Force” movie, according to Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld, who revealed the previously unknown detail this week in an exclusive conversation with The Direct at MultiCon 2026. Liefeld confirmed that Brolin, already locked into a multi-picture deal to play Cable, would have taken on a dual role in the unmade film — reprising Cable while also playing Stryfe, a clone of the character and one of the X-Men universe’s more ruthless villains. Per ComicBasics, Liefeld said Brolin was genuinely enthusiastic about the opportunity, describing the chance…

Reggie Bannister, the actor best known for playing the shotgun-wielding, guitar-playing hero Reggie across all five “Phantasm” films, died Sunday at his cabin in Crestline, California, in the San Bernardino County mountains. He was 80. His wife, Gigi Bannister, confirmed his death to TMZ, saying he died peacefully at home early Sunday morning after his health had declined significantly in recent months, leaving him largely immobile and in need of round-the-clock care. According to TMZ, Gigi said Reggie’s own physical limitations, combined with her own medical issues, had made it unsafe for her to continue caring for him at home…

“PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie” opens in theaters August 14 carrying a solidly positive early critical score, sitting at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes from 11 reviews as of this week, according to ComicBasics. That places the third theatrical entry in the franchise well ahead of the “rotten” territory some critics predicted for a film built as heavily around merchandise as story. The plot sends Ryder and the pups off course during a storm, landing them on an uncharted island still populated by dinosaurs that survived past the Ice Age. There they meet Rex, a paraplegic pup who’s been stranded on…

Apple TV has given a straight-to-series order to “Ascension,” a new psychological horror thriller from Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón, with “Outlander” star Caitríona Balfe attached to lead and executive produce, according to Apple TV’s own announcement Monday. The one-hour series is inspired by Adam Nevill’s novel “Last Days” and centers on Rose, a documentary filmmaker and recently divorced mother skilled at exposing other people’s secrets while struggling to face her own. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Rose sets out to make a film about a mysterious 20th-century group called the Church of Ascension, and initially finds unexpected comfort in its teachings…