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Ben Stiller posted ten words from Kier Eagan and a pixelated frame of Mark S. and Helly R. running. Every outlet read it as a production-start tease. What made it more than a tease is that Apple TV's own account amplified it — and the man posting day-one photos isn't directing this season. Kogonada is.

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' premiered in Los Angeles on Monday, four days before release. Holland says he'll keep going — then added, 'If this movie does good, I guess we'll see!' First reactions praise a grounded film that drops the multiverse. The casting says more about the tone than any adjective does.

'Avengers: Doomsday' took $16.5 million in advance sales on day one — from roughly 1,000 premium screens, double what 'Deadpool & Wolverine' managed across every format. The reason those screens carry a new 'Infinity Vision' badge is that 'Dune: Part 3' opens the same day and has IMAX locked for three weeks.

Marvel has not recast Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa. It has aged up the boy revealed in the final scene of 'Wakanda Forever' — and cast David Jonsson to play him. Coogler returns to direct, with Letitia Wright and Denzel Washington also aboard.

The first teaser debuted at Comic-Con with Callum Turner as Case and Briana Middleton as Molly. Ten episodes, starting January 22, 2027. William Gibson's 1984 novel invented the word cyberspace and has defeated every previous attempt to adapt it.

Kevin Feige announced the 2028 film at Comic-Con with Gosling and director Shawn Levy on stage. The two are already making 'Star Wars: Starfighter' together, and that is where Gosling started pitching his take on Johnny Blaze.

Lucasfilm Publishing's Comic-Con panel laid out eleven titles running from September through spring 2027, timed around the 50th anniversary of 'A New Hope.' Highlights: a Rebecca Roanhorse 'Andor' prequel sequel, Luke and Leia training together after 'Jedi,' and a three-perspective retelling of the original film.

Josh Greenbaum's comedy landed on Apple TV+ with no theatrical run, a stacked bench — Ed Harris, Mary Steenburgen, Patton Oswalt, Chloe Fineman, plus McEnroe and Roddick as themselves — and a premise that anyone who has been near a community court will recognize immediately.

Russell died Wednesday at his home near San Diego. Across three decades he rescued the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, made Jim Carrey a movie star, gave Cameron Diaz her first role and handed Dwayne Johnson his first lead.

The new Comic-Con trailer gives the first look at Ulrich Thomsen's Sinestro, brings Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner over from 'Superman,' and names the threat: the Manhunters, shape-shifters who can look like anyone. Eight episodes, starting August 16 on HBO.

The French action thriller about the GIGN hit No. 1 on Netflix worldwide within hours of its July 22 premiere and has charted in 104 countries. Star Tomer Sisley says a second season is being worked on — and that France's real counterterrorism unit is willing to open its barracks again.

Shuttered since the pandemic collapsed ArcLight Cinemas in 2021, the geodesic Hollywood landmark on Sunset Boulevard will be renovated and reopened by Sony-owned Alamo Drafthouse. Work starts next month, with a reopening targeted for early 2028.

Musk says his xAI platform Grok Imagine will generate a full-length Odyssey 'true to the art of Homer' before 2026 is out — a direct shot at Christopher Nolan's newly released epic and the casting fight Musk has been waging for months.

The first full trailer for Cregger's Raccoon City reboot dropped ahead of his Comic-Con panel, introducing Austin Abrams as a courier trapped in one nightmarish night. Then the director revealed a real-explosion sequence that came a single step from killing Abrams for real.

The rapper plays a Greek bard in the opening seconds of Nolan's epic, a part he took with zero acting experience and, by his own account, plenty of nerves. Now he's turning the moment into a first-look film deal at Paramount under his Cactus Jack banner.

The horror director says he had the origin story for Amy Madigan's Aunt Gladys 'in his pocket' before Weapons even opened — and that the prequel will be very different from the film that made her a breakout villain.

Christopher Nolan's Homer epic is holding like a blockbuster twice its age — a $20M Tuesday, a record-setting Monday, and a projected second weekend that could out-muscle both Dark Knight films.

Nolan's Homer adaptation opened to $124.5M in North America and $257.8M worldwide, setting career-best marks for both the director and star Matt Damon.