A $44M body-horror villain origin film wins the domestic box office with $24M and an A- CinemaScore. The win matters less than what the budget tells us about DC's only viable path forward.
A $9.5M second weekend and a 69% drop confirm what the opening numbers hinted: Street Fighter (2026) is not a recovery story. It is a loss-management exercise now dependent on ancillary revenue.
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Captain of the Nostromo, Top Gun's Viper, the Reverend of A River Runs Through It, the Emmy-winning sheriff of Picket Fences: Tom Skerritt, who has died at 93, made quiet authority into a six-decade career.
A decade after twelve episodes permanently changed sports anime, queer representation, and MAPPA's trajectory, the one-night theatrical anniversary that arrives without the promised film forces a reckoning with what "unfinished" actually means.
Twenty-five years of Western critical deference to Spirited Away has calcified it into a monument rather than a film. What that canonization cost — to Ghibli's other work, and to the broader anime it displaced — is the story the anniversary should actually be telling.
Eva Marie Saint, the oldest living Oscar winner, has died at 102. Between On the Waterfront and North by Northwest she played the two women 1950s Hollywood kept apart, and refused the cliché inside each.
Twenty years on, The Departed endures not just as a crime masterpiece but as a symptom — of what Hollywood calls wisdom when it really means despair, and why the Academy finally said yes to Scorsese for his most morally vacant film.
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Marvel's February 2027 solicitations confirm Midnight Spider-Man, Midnight Fantastic Four, and Midnight X-Men are each deepening their independent horror logics ahead of a crossover still months away.
Charli xcx put Scorsese on her album cover. Now he's put her on his call sheet. How a conceptual gesture became the most precise career move in pop right now.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has launched to an 86 Metascore — the franchise's best critical reception since 2011's Modern Warfare 3, with 227K Steam players at launch and 100% of OpenCritic reviewers recommending it.
TV Asahi has revealed a teaser trailer, key visual, and January 2027 premiere window for Akane-banashi Season 2 — along with two new cast additions as the series enters its Zenza Arc.
Two years in, Absolute Batman #25 lands with 775,000 preorders and the series' biggest story moment yet — but the real question is how Snyder and Dragotta sustain momentum at this scale.
System of a Down, Slayer playing Reign in Blood in full, Deftones, Evanescence: the Las Vegas festival's first Texas edition is sold out at Fort Worth's Texas Motor Speedway. The real test isn't the crowd — it's what comes after.
Helen Chiang — Xbox's first-ever COO — lasted three months in a role built to unify content, hardware, platform and services under a single P&L. Her exit memo was two sentences. No successor named.










