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Batman and Mission: Impossible Have the Same Owner as of Today. Here Is What the Paramount and Warner Bros. Merger Means for the Movies.
Paramount's roughly $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery is set to close today under a new name, Skydance. Here is who runs the movies now, the promise it made to theaters, and what happens to HBO Max and Paramount+.
Sorkin Goes Back to Facebook, DC Goes Full Horror, and a Diver Gets Swallowed by a Whale. Here Is October 2026 in Theaters, Week by Week.
Tom Cruise opens the month in prosthetics, Clayface moved in from September, and Shyamalan's Remain moved out to 2027. Here is every major October 2026 release, what the early reviews say, and which weekends are worth planning around.
The Best-Reviewed Video Game Movies, Ranked. The New Number One Opens Tomorrow, and the Billion-Dollar Ones Are Nowhere Near the Top.
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil landed at 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes this week, the highest score any video game adaptation has ever posted. Here are the ten films it beat, and why the ones that actually made money are mostly at the bottom.
Hope Is the Most Expensive Korean Movie Ever Made. It Just Lost the Weekend to Practical Magic 2 by Nine to One. Go Anyway.
Na Hong-jin waited ten years after The Wailing to make a 157-minute alien invasion with Michael Fassbender in motion capture. It is playing on 1,560 screens right now to almost nobody. Here is the case for buying a ticket before it is gone.
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