Universal Pictures, Illumination, Nintendo Universal, Nintendo and Illumination’s animated “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” has debuted to record numbers both domestically and around the world. Sunday morning estimates now have the film pegged at a domestic opening weekend haul of $131 million for the three-day and $190 million for the five-day. The five-day take is […]

Warner Bros. Pictures Every now and then comes word, usually from interviews with the man himself, that master filmmaker Steven Spielberg is a big fan of a recent cinematic work. Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus One” and David Leitch’s “The Fall Guy” are two such films that Spielberg has reportedly expressed adoration over in the past. […]

HBO Filming is now underway in Guadalajara, Mexico on “Carol” and “Velvet Goldmine” director Todd Haynes’ new film “De Noche,” and the first set photos of star Pedro Pascal in costume and shooting scenes have gone online. Pascal’s “The Last of Us” co-star Danny Ramirez co-stars in the film in which Pascal steps into the […]

Sky In December came the news that German actor Lars Eidinger (“Babylon Berlin,” “All the Light We Cannot See”) had been cast as the villain Brainiac in James Gunn’s “Superman” follow-up “Man of Tomorrow”. Gunn writes and directs the film, which will see the return of David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman, Nicholas Hoult as Lex […]

Paramount Tied to the 60th anniversary celebrations of the franchise, IDW Publishing has announced “Star Trek: Red Shirts – Ghost of the 21st Century,” a five-issue limited horror comic series. The comic will explore one of the most famous tropes in all of “Star Trek” – ‘red shirts’. It’s an informal term given by fans […]

Bioware, EA Over six months ago, Netflix’s longtime head of North American scripted series Peter Friedlander was named head of global television at Amazon – replacing Jennifer Salke who was appointed to the position in 2018. Salke had a mixed track record under her run – generating two major hits “Reacher” and “Fallout” along with […]

A24 Two of the most famous sword-swinging fantasy properties in gaming are getting live-action movie adaptations in the near future with both titles in production. Of the two, “The Legend of Zelda” is much further along. The Wes Ball-directed title has been filming in New Zealand since November and is expected to wrap in the […]

Screenshot: Warner Bros. Pictures Though there have been some good guesses, no-one is quite sure what Matt Reeves’ “The Batman – Part II” is about. The most revealing stuff so far has been the casting choices with Sebastian Stan as Harvey Dent, Scarlett Johansson in a role believed to be Harvey’s wife Gilda, and the […]