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Those banking on a David Leitch film to teach them the intricacies of illegal financemaxxing will have to wait a little while. Per Deadline, How To Rob A Bank, the Leitch-directed actioner starring Nicholas Hoult and Zoë Kravitz, has been bumped from its original September release date to November 13. The film, which features a crew of social media influencers dominating the bank-robbery space via viral videos of their crimes, was initially scheduled to open on September 4. According to Deadli

People worried that Christopher Nolan might back down in the face of online anger fomented by Elon Musk and his cadre of “I care a lot about Greek culture when it lets me be mad at Black and trans people” types should reassure themselves: You’re not going to scare a director who cut his teeth defying the spit-flecked desires of rabid Batman fans. This is per a new interview the Odyssey director gave to The Telegraph this week, in which Nolan not

James Bond will always be a white-first, penis-forward franchise, according to the woman who cast the last 14 movies. Despite some criticism that the face of England’s declining empire should be more inclusive toward those living in its crumbling nation, Debbie McWilliams, the casting director who’s been doling out 007 assignments for the last four decades, says the character won’t be recast as a non-white, non-cisgender man. “No, I don’t think so,” McWilliams

A London jury has found actor Micheal Ward not guilty on charges of rape and sexual assault, Variety reports. Ward—who gained public recognition (and a BAFTA Rising Star award) for performances in projects like British crime thriller Top Boy and Blue Story, and who most recently appeared in front of American audiences in Ari Aster’s Eddington—was ultimately found not guilty on five charges: two counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration, and one coun

Following the April death of longtime Storage Wars star Darrell Sheets, the Lake Havasu City Police Department began looking into cyberbullying allegations made by Sheets in a note found near his body. Police found the 67-year-old’s body on April 22, and the Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that he died by suicide. Per NBC News, which obtained an incident report yesterday, police found a handwritten note in a bathroom closet in the room next to Sheets’ body, w

There was a time when Rotten Tomatoes was actually kind of helpful. A time before audience reviews, troll campaigns, and weighted scores that mean a five out of 10 can be both Fresh and Rotten. It was a time before it was gobbled up by IGN, once a subsidiary of the Fox Corporation, and later swallowed by Comcast—now Versant after Comcast cut its non-streaming entities loose for not providing shareholders with the growth they deserve. The result was a platform that’s more favorable to studi

Consider the plight of the modern music video director. Like everything else, music videos have been reduced to content, indistinguishable from a Hot Ones interview, a movie trailer, or a clip of a streamer saying something provocative, just grist for the algorithm. Add to that the complication of being a derivative work—few show up for the filmmaker, but instead for the artist featured, who is also likely struggling in a landscape that’s devalued their work. The solution has been to make

By pretty much any metric, Obsession is one of Hollywood’s biggest success stories. As we reported last night, Curry Barker’s directorial debut has become the highest-grossing film made for less than $1 million (unadjusted for inflation), and it did it in just eight weeks at the box office, thanks in large part to good, old-fashioned, strong word-of-mouth. It’s currently the seventh highest-grossing film of 2026 globally, beating out both a Star War and a Disney-Pixar joint. Th

The Chosen, the crowdfunded series centered on the life of Jesus, is accused in a new lawsuit of squeezing out smaller investors in the production, The New York Times reports this morning. Puck first reported the news last week. Minority shareholder Christopher Garabedian, who invested $300,000 in 5&2 Productions (then operating as The Chosen Productions) in 2019, filed a class action lawsuit last month alleging that the company had forcibly cashed out more than 16,000 shareholders against t

Bad art is everywhere, but the studio behind Sharknado has made an art out of making cheap movies fast. Like Roger Corman’s American International Pictures or Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma, The Asylum has found an audience hungry for scrappy, low-budget films, like riffs on public domain properties, disaster pictures like the Sharknado franchise, or Temu knock-offs of the latest tentpoles, affectionately known as mockbusters. Its recent slate includes “sounds like” titles like Fr

About a decade ago, Emmy Rossum was in a well-publicized struggle to be paid like the lead (or co-lead) of Shameless that she effectively was. What was less well-publicized was the fact that she had spent years trying to get equal pay for her work, and was repeatedly brushed off… until said struggle became so well-publicized, and then Showtime, not wanting to look bad, folded “within a day.” This is how Rossum relates the episode in a recent appearance on Call Her Daddy, explainin

I like to play unfinished games. I suspect that says something about me—a disproportionate focus on novelty, maybe, or a deficit in delayed gratification skills—but it also says something about the games. Serialization came late to the world of gaming, brought about mostly by the internet, and now we all live in a world where “true endings” arrive in patches months after release, narrative satisfaction delivered like just another update to weapon balance. I get the frustration this engenders, th

It was obvious that Harvey Weinstein was looking to kill two birds with one stone when he bought the North American rights for Shaolin Soccer. Still smarting over missing out on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon—which became a critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning, box-office smash when Sony Pictures Classics released it in the U.S. in 2000—the soon-to-be-disgraced movie mogul went on an Asian-cinema-acquiring tear in the early aughts, picking up several Hong Kong titles he thought would garner Miram

The quality of any Cape Fear adaptation rests in large part on the strength of its central villain—and I’m not pleased to report that with each new episode, this version of Max Cady gets a little less interesting. Javier Bardem is still in fine form, conveying whatever emotion the script asks of him, but the character is beginning to wear out his welcome. Behavior that was once unsettling now just comes across as kind of irritating, especially because most of the ambiguity in his motivations is

There’s nothing new in noting that horror tends to be a pretty good return on investment. The annals of movie history are full of films that dropped a couple million dollars on a few gallons of red paint and whatever else was required to execute on some fucked-up, interesting ideas their creators had kicking around in their heads, then reaped huge profits at the box office. Even within that world of low-risk, high-return, high-splatter moviemaking, though, Curry Barker’s Obsession is

Look: We know we make a lot of fun of Netflix for its bold and innovative drive to invent things that already exist—see, for instance, reports from earlier this week about the streamer attempting to beat YouTube by sifting its way through the video hosting network’s old leftovers. But we’re now starting to genuinely worry that folks over at the streamer’s HQ don’t realize how relentlessly they seem to be drawn to reinventing wheels that have been spinning for the better p

Even though it’s a few years in the rearview at this point, Warner Bros.’ decision to kill a fully completed Batgirl movie back in 2022 remains a frankly bizarre move from a major studio, one that CEO David Zaslav has never really lived down. And that’s not just us saying it: J.K. Simmons, who c0-starred in the film as part of his short tenure as that version of the DC comic book movie universe’s Commissioner Jim Gordon, briefly addressed its cancellation in an

Two years after announcing the live-action adaptation of the popular anime Naruto, director Destin Daniel Cretton has launched a global search for an actor to fill out his Team 7 for the movie. Casting Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura is underway as Cretton is looking for a young performer who can run while bent over with their arms outstretched behind them. “Kishimoto-sensei’s stories have inspired generations of fans around the world, and it’s an honor to bring his world and characters to th

Great news today for fans of 10 Cloverfield Lane and Prey director Dan Trachtenberg who were sad their kids weren’t old/cool enough to hang with Trachtenberg’s highly violent films about aliens killing everybody: He’s apparently getting into kids movies. This is per THR, which reports that Trachtenberg recently announced he’d signed on for a currently untitled animated film based on Freddy The 13th, a family-friendly indie horror comic from Yehu

After three years in streaming jail, Paul Feig returned with the blockbuster thriller The Housemaid. As a reward for his success, Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Platinum Dunes are giving him Detention. This is per Deadline, which reports that the logline is still under wraps, but the movie is an “even darker” thriller than Housemaid. Based on the production houses involved, including James Wan’s Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes, we’ll assume t