Author: Hanry Dawson

The announcement came at the National Eisteddfod — Wales’s most important cultural festival — which tells you everything you need to know about how seriously Lucasfilm is treating this project. “Star Wars: A New Hope” is getting its first-ever Welsh-language dub, retitled Star Wars: Gobaith Newydd, and it will air on Welsh broadcaster S4C from Christmas Day 2026 onward, ahead of the original film’s 50th anniversary in 2027. The partnership brings together Lucasfilm and Disney, S4C, and the Welsh Government through its Creative Wales fund — the same government body that helped attract major film and television productions to Wales…

Two police officers respond to a reported break-in at a house in the Stockholm archipelago. Nothing seems out of the ordinary. The next morning, both are found dead — and that’s just the opening move. Netflix released the official trailer for Blood Sacrifice Monday, putting a full release date behind one of the platform’s most anticipated international thrillers of the summer: all five episodes drop globally on August 20, two weeks from today. The series was previously titled The Case before Netflix rebranded it ahead of this trailer launch, What’s on Netflix reported. The show comes from George Kay, the…

Harvey Keitel did it in New York. Nicolas Cage did it in New Orleans. Now it’s Shun Oguri’s turn — and this time the city is Tokyo, the director is Takashi Miike, and the teaser that landed Monday morning makes the case that the wait was worth it. Neon released the first official teaser for “Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo” today, confirming the film will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September ahead of a domestic theatrical release at a date still to be announced. The film is the third installment in the loose anthology series Abel…

Eli Roth has a specific answer when people ask what “Ice Cream Man” reminds him of. “A Pee-wee’s Playhouse episode on crack — with blood.” That’s the pitch. The film opens in theaters August 7, and Roth has spent the past week doing press for it in a way that makes clear he’s genuinely excited about this one in a way that feels different from his usual promotional cycle. The Most Independent Film of His Career Produced under The Horror Section, the banner Eli Roth launched with Media Capital Technologies in May 2025, Ice Cream Man is being released without…

He had just finished the film. That was the thing his brother kept coming back to in the days after — that Justin Hardy had crossed the finish line on the project that defined the last chapter of his career, and was weeks away from watching it premiere, before a heart attack took him on the night of July 31. He was 61. Hardy spent more than thirty years building a career across British television and independent film, accumulating BAFTA and Emmy nominations along the way, teaching screenwriting at University College London in his later years, and quietly becoming something…

Sony had been projecting $195 million domestically. The actual number came in at $360 million. Even the people who believed in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” weren’t ready for that. The fourth Tom Holland Spider-Man film crossed the finish line Monday morning as the biggest domestic opening weekend in box office history, surpassing the seven-year record held by “Avengers: Endgame” — which had opened to $357.1 million in April 2019 and looked, for years, like an immovable benchmark. Add $572 million from 66 international markets and the global total lands at $932 million, the second-biggest worldwide opening of all time, still…

Before pitching the project to Hasbro and Working Title, Simon Hatt called in a favor from a stunt crew. The result was a pre-visualized fight scene — fully choreographed, shot on spec, entirely on their own time — built to show exactly what kind of movie they had in mind. It worked. Action Man is officially in development. Variety confirmed the news Monday morning: Working Title Films and Hasbro Entertainment are developing a live-action feature based on the iconic British toy franchise, with Hatt and “X-Men ’97” writer Anthony Sellitti co-writing the script and Jeremy Latcham producing. Both Hatt and…

Season 3 of “House of the Dragon” has been the show’s most action-packed run yet, and HBO is not letting it go out quietly. The network released the official preview for Episode 8 on Sunday, giving viewers their first look at what the Season 3 finale has in store when it arrives next week. The preview opens with unsettling news reaching Rhaenyra about Aegon’s movements, followed by Daemon urging someone toward a major decision. “You have an absolute power within your grasp,” he says. From there the footage moves through large-scale confrontations, dragon fire, and what appears to be the…

Hanna Bergholm’s debut feature “Hatching” built its entire horror around a mother’s suffocating obsession with her daughter, literalized as a creature that hatches from an egg the daughter nurtures in secret. It was blunt, physical, and deeply uncomfortable in exactly the ways it intended. Her follow-up, “Nightborn,” which debuted on Shudder yesterday, aims for a similarly unsettling approach, though critics remain split over how successfully it delivers on that ambition. The film stars Seidi Haarla as Saga, a Finnish woman who moves with her British husband Jon (Rupert Grint) into the remote forest house where she grew up. She becomes…

Taylor Sheridan runs one of the biggest empires in television. On Sunday, he’ll also be acting in it again. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Friday that Sheridan is returning as an on-screen cast member in “Lioness” Season 3, which premieres August 2 on Paramount+ — tomorrow. The news didn’t come from a studio announcement. It came from co-star Thad Luckinbill, who plays CIA paramilitary officer Kyle McManus and couldn’t quite contain his enthusiasm when asked about working alongside the man who created the show. “He’s involved. I mean, he has a role, which is great,” Luckinbill told The Hollywood Reporter. “And…