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Wicker: Olivia Colman orders a husband, and Mark Kermode signs for the delivery (fantasy film).
Mark Kermode is a fan of Wicker, Olivia Colman's fable of a village outcast who orders a husband from the basket weaver. Here's…
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October 2026
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A24 reportedly spends $200 million on Elden Ring, which is a lot of runes to farm in Snowdonia (film news).
The Wall Street Journal reports that Alex Garland's Elden Ring film has cost nearly $200 million, which would make it A24's most expensive…
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Jumanji: Open World (trailer 2): the game has followed us home.
Sony has released a second trailer for Jumanji: Open World, the third and, we are assured, final outing for the Dwayne Johnson, Kevin…
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Ebenezer: Ti West turns A Christmas Carol back into a ghost story, with Johnny Depp in the nightshirt (film news).
Ti West's Ebenezer, with Johnny Depp as Scrooge, turns A Christmas Carol back into a ghost story. In cinemas on 13 November.
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Chiikawa the Movie is beating Hollywood in Korea, which is good going for a creature who needs a licence to pull up weeds (anime news).
Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island has topped the Korean box office for a third weekend, passing 2.2 million admissions,…
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Elon Musk’s AI Odyssey arrives seven minutes at a time, and Nolan’s $1.78bn epic needn’t lock the doors just yet (AI film news).
Grok Imagine has posted Episode 1 of its AI-generated Odyssey on X: seven minutes, three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length "historically…
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Wildwood scores 100% and a box-office kicking, as Travis Knight says Amazon let He-Man down too (film news).
Laika's Wildwood has 100% from critics and an estimated $11m–12m US opening on a budget said to be over $100m, as Travis Knight…
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Lizard Music: Benny Safdie’s Daniel Pinkwater adaptation lands on Christmas Day 2027, with Dwayne Johnson as the Chicken Man (film news).
Amazon MGM has dated Benny Safdie's Lizard Music, adapted from Daniel Pinkwater's novel, for Christmas Day 2027, with Dwayne Johnson as the Chicken…
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D’Orc: Sony buys Brett Bean’s half-dwarf, half-orc comic hit, wisecracking shield and all (comic book movie news).
Sony Pictures has bought the live-action film rights to D'Orc, Brett Bean's bestselling Image Comics fantasy, with Bean writing the script himself.
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Peter Jackson: Gollum is two weeks from wrapping, and Tintin 2 has finally been written (film news).
Peter Jackson says The Hunt for Gollum has two weeks of filming left, Shadow of the Past is being scripted, and Tintin 2…
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Laika’s Wildwood: Fifteen years, nine thousand feathers and one very cross eagle (trailer).
Laika's stop-motion epic Wildwood reaches cinemas on 23 October, fifteen years after the studio bought the book and 9,000 hand-crafted feathers later.
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Pan’s Labyrinth Gets a Third Dimension and Absolutely No Goddamn AI
Twenty years on, the Pale Man is coming back to British cinemas, and this time he can reach out of the screen for…