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Jennifer Lopez Dazzles At Othello ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Jennifer Lopez, a multi-hyphenated personality in Hollywood, attended Othello’s opening night in New York City in a stunning outfit, leaving us breathless. She gave a quick peek of her glamorous outfit check before appearing at the Broadway with her child Emme, who also looked quite dashing in a pantsuit. For those who don’t know, Othello stars Denzel Washington, and Jake Gyllenhaal along with Emme.

Lopez took to her Instagram handle and shared a series of pictures from getting ready for the event with the caption, “Othello premiere with the best date ever.” Her hairstylist can also be seen in one of the snaps, making sure the songstress’s look doesn’t budge. As she looked like a gorgeous diva, we could not stop ourselves from decoding her lookbook. So, without any delay, let’s dive in.

Jennifer Lopez slayed in...

The newest Mummy film has recruited one of the stars from the Transformers franchise as its new lead, but it doesn't sound like he will be the titular Monster. In December 2024, shortly before the release of Nosferatu and Wolf Man, it was announced that Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin was set to make TheMummy reboot for the newly combined Blumhouse and Atomic Monster. However, Cronin's take on the character would not be an official Universal Monster: instead, a version was created for New Line Cinema, the same studio behind Evil Dead Rise.

Deadline now reports that Jack Reynor has been cast in the lead role for The Mummy. The Deadline story states that Reynor is not expected to wear the mummy bandages, implying he will be the human protagonist that the Mummy terrorizes. The actor is best known for his roles in 2014's Transformers: Age of Extinction and the...

More than 200 years after “Frankenstein” was published, Mary Shelley has never been hotter. The hulking character that the Gothic novelist conjured up — half man, half beast, all monster — will feature prominently in two upcoming movies from A-list directors that debut mere months apart.

The first, “Frankenstein,” is courtesy of Guillermo del Toro, a master of the macabre whose credits include “The Shape of Water” and “Crimson Peak.” It launches on Netflix in November and stars Mia Goth and Oscar Isaac. The second, “The Bride,” will be directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is following up her acclaimed feature directing debut, “The Lost Daughter,” with a $90 million creature feature inspired by “The Bride of Frankenstein.” Warner Bros. will open this one in theaters on March 6, 2026 with Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale playing the undead couple. It was originally slated to debut on September 26, 2025, but the studio pushed it back this week, giving...

Warner Bros. has made some changes to its release calendar. Among the movies receiving new release dates is Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, which features Christian Bale as Frankenstein's Monster.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has pushed The Bride! back almost six months, moving the monster movie out of 2025 completely and into the first quarter of 2026. Instead of Sept. 26, 2025, The Bride! will now open in theaters on March 6, 2026. The other five movies from the studio that saw their release dates change include Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, which is moving back from Aug. 8 into The Bride!'s old Sept. 16 release spot. Zach Cregger's hotly-anticipated Barbarian follow-up Weapons is moving up several months, from Jan. 11, 2026, to the now-open Aug. 8, 2025, spot, while the animated The Cat in the Hat movie and David Robert Mitchell’s Flowervale Street are now set to hit theaters on Feb. 27, 2026 and Aug.

“Mickey 17,” Bong Joon Ho’s wacky sci-fi satire, is shaping up to be a major money loser for Warner Bros. following its rocky box office reception.

The film, which stars Robert Pattinson as a clone who works menial jobs in a futuristic dystopia, will likely lose between $75 million to $80 million during its theatrical run, according to three sources with knowledge of the economics of movies on this scale. A source close to the film disputes those estimates, saying the true losses are “significantly less.”

After two weeks of release, “Mickey 17” has earned $35.7 million domestically and $92.2 million worldwide. The film was projected to end its theatrical run with $175 million to $180 million worldwide — including $52 million domestically and $123 million internationally. But those estimates were recently revised down to $143 million worldwide — including $46 domestically and $97 million internationally. “Mickey 17’s” breakeven point is roughly $300 million. Most movies don’t earn a profit purely...

Warner Bros. Pictures has unveiled a first look at Paul Thomas Anderson's mysterious crime thriller One Battle After Another, which might well turn out to be one of this year's most surprising movies. The 21-second preview (video below) offers a glimpse of what's to come ahead of the official trailer that is set to release next week, and it seems that the modern take on Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland is going to involve plenty of gunfire, as bullets fly around an all-star cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Sean Penn.

The gun-toting teaser opens with DiCaprio's character "Bob" enjoying a seemingly peaceful moment, which is abruptly interrupted by the sound of gunshots. The barrage of bullets is coming from a pregnant woman who is wielding a machine gun. The sound of the ammunition being fired from the weapon continues, triggering a montage of clips – one showing DiCaprio running,...

Update: the first teaser has arrived ahead of a full trailer next week. See it and find the original story below.

A major summer release for Paul Thomas Anderson’s next feature was too good to be true. Warner Bros. has now delayed the film, his Vineland-inspired action/crime/comedy One Battle After Another, from an August 8, 2025 release to a September 26, 2025 bow, a similar timeframe that Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis occupied last year.

According to The Wrap, the film will still receive an IMAX release, including select theaters with 70mm along with a special release on VistaVision, a format recently used by Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. The shift will reportedly “give the studio more time to prepare VistaVision prints and projectors for the release.”

With a cast featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris, Alana Haim, Benicio del Toro, and Chase Infiniti, we recently...

Yesterday saw Warner Bros. make some big shifts to their 2025 and 2026 theatrical release calendars. Paul Thomas Anderson‘s “One Battle After Another” (now its official title) moved from August 8 to September 26 this year , Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s “The Bride!” got pushed to March 6, 2026, and Zach Cregger‘s “Weapons” moved up to the now-vacant August 8 slot.

Continue reading ‘One Battle After Another’ Teaser: The First Trailer For Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Film Premieres Next Week at The Playlist.

Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio are ready to go to war.

On Thursday, Warner Bros. released the first teaser trailer for One Battle After Another, the acclaimed filmmaker and star's first-ever collaboration. According to the studio, the full trailer will arrive next week.

Little is officially known about One Battle After Another – so much so that its title wasn’t revealed until Wednesday night when it was reported the studio had shifted the project's release date from August to the fall (more on that below). However, online scuttlebutt suggests the project, Anderson’s most expensive ever, is at least inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. That novel — set in 1984 but with flashbacks to the 1960s to contextualize the cultural clash in America during those decades — focuses on a former hippie named Zoyd Wheeler and his 14-year-old daughter as they attempt to stay ahead of a villainous federal official. Watching...

Warner Bros. has shifted its upcoming release rescheduling, resulting in new dates for three highly-anticipated genre titles.

Weapons, Zach Cregger‘s follow-up to Barbarian, has been bumped up to August 8, 2025. Previously scheduled for January 16 of next year, the summer release shows the studio’s confidence in the project.

Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan, and June Diane Raphael star in the horror epic about a small community after a group of kids mysteriously disappear overnight.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, originally due out on September 26, 2025, has been pushed to March 6, 2026; a time frame that WB has found success with big genre projects.

Inspired by Bride of Frankenstein, the monster movie stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, and Annette Bening.

Flowervale Street, from It Follows writer-director David Robert Mitchell, has moved from March 13, 2026 to August 14, 2026 in an effort to take advantage of late-summer audiences.

Warner Bros. seemingly has been going through damage control for the last few years. While the more notorious stories about the studio’s shake-ups come from their DC films department, David Zaslav’s reign has also included the way their streaming service alters its library and information, as well as the shockingly shortened theatrical release windows given to newly premiered films. As the company attempts to recover from the reported $100 million loss on films like Mickey 17, according to Deadline, the Water Tower studio is shuffling their schedule as a strategy to keep them in the black and out of the red.

A lot of the schedule changes were affected by the movies that the studio had already booked for IMAX theaters. Premium screens are coveted for big movie releases and Warners was careful not to lose the precious commodity. The company would also move potential tentpoles up into this...

The Bride!, an upcoming Frankenstein movie starring Christian Bale and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, has had its release date pushed back and will now come out in 2026 rather than 2025. The upcoming movie The Bride! will be set in 1930s Chicago and will follow Frankenstein as he seeks out Dr. Euphronius to make him a companion. In addition to Bale, the cast of the film includes Jessie Buckley, Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jake Gyllenhaal. This news comes not long after the reveal that reactions to the film's early test screenings were negative.

Warner Bros. reveals that The Bride!'srelease date has been changed from September 26, 2025 to March 6, 2026. Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another has now taken The Bride!'s previous release date, which is more ideal than an early 2026 release. These moves come alongside a flurry of schedule changes from the studio, which are as follows:...

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of Hollywood's most prominent icons, emerging from a child star to a heartthrob, and evolving into a gifted and talented actor who still commands box-office success. Following global superstardom in James Cameron's Titanic, he reinvented himself as a versatile and interesting leading man, and so far, DiCaprio has made six feature films with legendary director Martin Scorsese. Awards success followed, with DiCaprio winning numerous accolades throughout his acting career, including three Golden Globes from seventeen nominations, and a BAFTA Award.

However, despite several prominent Oscar snubs for DiCaprio, he has enjoyed success at the Academy Awards, where he has enjoyed six acting nominations; Best Supporting Actor for What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, and Best Actor for Blood Diamond, The Aviator, The Wolf of Wall Street, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and The Revenant, finally winning for The Revenant in 2016. He also received a Best Picture...

Several major movies have suffered release date delays, including Oscar-winner and Hollywood icon Leonardo DiCaprio’s upcoming mysterious crime thriller. Set to be helmed by Academy Award nominee Paul Thomas Anderson, the project has now been pushed back from August 8 to September 26, while Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein musical The Bride! faces an even greater delay, moving from September to March 6, 2026.

But, in some good news, while DiCaprio’s latest venture and The Bride! have been pushed back, Barbarian director Zach Cregger’s upcoming horror epic Weapons starring Josh Brolin and Julia Garner has been pulled forward. Originally set for release in January 2026, Weapons will now take the August 8, 2025, slot left by DiCaprio.

As per a report by Variety, Warner Bros. has likely delayed these tentpole projects “as the studio helps outfit U.S. movie theaters with VistaVision projection systems to accommodate their director’s vision,” insiders claim. It’s also...

In the wake of Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 performing poorly at the box office, Warner Bros moves a bunch of release dates around.

Around a week ago, a report surfaced claiming that Warner Bros’ upcoming slate was so commercially risky that the studio was pinning its future as a filmmaking entity on James Gunn’s Superman. While Warner Bros likely isn’t a favourite among film fans these days due to some lamentable business decisions, nobody will be cheering on the demise of another of Hollywood’s major studios.

Hopefully the stakes aren’t that high for Warner Bros, but a new report today certainly won’t stop the buzz around this topic.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the studio has announced a reshuffle of some of its expensive and commercially-risky projects, said to be the root of the problem with its 2025 slate. With several films releasing this year that are both expensive and original,...

Warner Bros. is making some major changes to its release slate ahead of its CinemaCon presentation in two weeks, as five films — including Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” — see shifts on the 2025 and 2026 release schedule.

“One Battle After Another,” a crime thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio, moves from an August 8 release to September 26. The film will still get its planned release on Imax screens — including select theaters with 70mm — and will now also get a special release on VistaVision, the extinct film format recently revived by the Oscar-winning drama “The Brutalist.”

Sources at Warner Bros. say the delay will give the studio more time to prepare VistaVision prints and projectors for the release. The move also situates the film in the more traditional period for awards contenders in the fall.

The film is one of several big, auteur-driven gambles for Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. is getting its ducks in a row before it presents its upcoming slate to theater owners at this year’s CinemaCon, which gets underway March 31 in Las Vegas.

Wednesday evening, the studio announced a number of high-profile changes to its release calendar, led by news that director Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s Frankenstein pic The Bride is relocating from Sept. 26, 2025, to March 6, 2026. The film stars Christian Bale opposite Jessie Buckley. The Bride has had a challenging postproduction period, according to sources, though others deny any challenges and note its post-process has nothing to do with the new date.

The studio says the movie is the sort of event film that will benefit from hitting theaters timed to the beginning of spring holidays and school breaks. This does not preclude the film from being an awards contender despite such an early release date.

In another notable move, the release of Paul Thomas Anderson...

Warner Bros has just made some razor-sharp release-date changes ahead of CinemaCon, ones that could potentially keep the Burbank, CA lot more toward the black this year than in the red.

In a year when there were four $100 million-plus auteur-driven movies — one of which, Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, recently misfired — Warners Bros distribution has taken the pressure off the studios’ schedule in that regard, and even placed a potential tentpole into the year: Zach Cregger’s anticipated genre movie Weapons on August 8.

Cregger’s next movie after Barbarian was previously scheduled for MLK weekend 2026, on January 16. What kept Warners from moving the pic starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner and Alden Ehrenreich was that the theatrical release was tied to Imax screens — can’t give up those auditoriums. In fact, what made all of the release-date changes feasible for Warners was that each was tied to Imax bookings. As...

Warner Bros. enacted some significant housekeeping around its film release schedule on Wednesday, including a new date for the highly anticipated Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Now officially titled “One Battle After Another,” the Anderson project is shrouded in mystery but said to be an American crime thriller. Previously dated for Aug. 8, the film will now open nationwide on Sept. 26.

Insiders familiar with the movie said the minor push comes as the studio helps outfit U.S. movie theaters with VistaVision projection systems to accommodate their director’s vision. A move out of August to late September also squeaks “One Battle” out of the summer box office season and places it closer to the awards corridor, Anderson’s natural habitat.. DiCaprio will costar with Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor.

Elsewhere on the Warners slate, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” will see a notable...

Warner Bros has confirmed that its Paul Thomas Anderson feature starring Leonardo DiCaprio is called One Battle After Another and pushed it from August onto September 26, bouncing Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! into March 2026.

This is a better awards season slot than the initial August 8 date, were the studio minded to go down that path and plan to capitalise on strong word of mouth from fall festivals. They have been an occasional entry point for the auteur: of his last five films, Inherent Vice debuted at New York Film Festival in 2014 and before that The Master premiered in Venice in 2012.

The Bride!

Warner Bros has confirmed that its Paul Thomas Anderson feature starring Leonardo DiCaprio is called One Battle After Another and has pushed it from August onto September 26, bouncing Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! into March 2026.

This is a better awards season slot than initial date August 8, were the studio minded to go down that path, particularly if it sees a path to capitalising on strong word of mouth from reviews and possibly the fall festivals, which have been an occasional entry point for the auteur.Of his last five films, Inherent Vice debuted at New York Film Festival in 2014 and...

Will “Snow White” be the fairest of them all at the box office?

Disney’s live-action remake of the 1937 animated classic is targeting $45 million to $55 million from 4,200 North American theaters in its opening weekend. Internationally, the film is estimated to collect $50 million for a global start above $100 million. Those ticket sales will easily be enough to lead the domestic box office, which is coming off the worst weekend of 2025 as Paramount’s action comedy “Novocaine” topped charts with just $8.7 million.

Based on projections, “Snow White” won’t reach the initial box office heights of prior Disney live-action remakes, including 2023’s “The Little Mermaid” ($95 million opening weekend), 2016’s “Jungle Book” ($103 million) and a trio of billion-dollar smashes, 2019’s “The Lion King” ($191 million) and “Aladdin” ($91 million), 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast” ($174 million). Instead, “Snow White” is tracking a similar start to 2019’s “Dumbo,” which took off with $45 million, only to stall out at $353 million,...

We knew that AI would continue to be a prominent entity in Hollywood even after the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes settled in 2023. Now, the industry is taking their issue to the White House, which just last month issued comment on the Artificial Intelligence Action Plan, which aims to “define priority policy actions to enhance America’s position as an AI powerhouse.” As a result, nearly 450 people within the entertainment industry are taking aim with a 12-page letter that calls out the administration for the move.

This week, Hollywood elite issued a 12-page letter to the White House over their AI policies, particularly as they relate to copyrighted material. Essentially, the Artificial Intelligence Action Plan would permit companies to use said material to enhance and advance AI, thus robbing rights owners of any compensation and forgoing copyright rules as we know them.

The joint letter reads, in part: “We firmly believe...

Major Hollywood figures are pushing back against OpenAI and Google’s appeals to the U.S. government to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted works.

Film, television and music figures including Ron Howard, Cate Blanchett, Cynthia Erivo, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Taika Waititi and Ava Duvernay have signed on to a letter expressing alarm at the tech giants’ suggestions in recent submissions to a White House office that they should be able to access publicly available intellectual property.

“We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” the letter states, adding that the arts and entertainment industry provides more than 2.3 million jobs and bolsters America’s democratic values abroad. “But AI companies are asking to undermine this economic and cultural strength by weakening copyright protections for the films, television series, artworks, writing, music, and voices used to train...

Over 400 US-based actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians and executives have signed an open letter calling on the US government to uphold copyright laws for the training of artificial intelligence.

Among the signatories to the letter are Guillermo del Toro, Natasha Lyonne, Paul McCartney, Cynthia Erivo, Cate Blanchett, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Cord Jefferson, Ben Stiller, Bette Midler, Cate Blanchett and Ava Duvernay.

The open letter has been sent to the White House Office of Science and Technology (Ostp) in response to the US AI Action Plan.

It is a response to recent submissions from OpenAI and Google that claim domestic law either...

It's a day ending in "y," which means David Zaslav has found a new way to trash Warner Bros.' proud 102-year history. This time, according to Deadline, Zaslav and WB has made the unconscionable decision to delete the entire 1930-1969 run of Looney Tunes shorts from the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service, Max. It's all gone, folks.

Since merging his reality-show-laden garbage heap of a network with the studio that's given movie lovers the world over a century of celluloid joy, Zaslav has exhibited a bizarre hostility towards what should be his corporation's crown jewel. He's permanently shelved finished films like "Batgirl," engaged in a petty slash-and-burn of Turner Classic Movies that hobbled (but thankfully did not kill) the cherished cable curator of cinema history, and unceremoniously wiped out loads of Cartoon Network programming without informing the shows' creators ahead of time.

Two years ago, Zaslav seemed to have...

The Oscars want more Conan!

After a rapturous reception at this year’s Academy Awards, emcee Conan O’Brien will return to the Dolby Theatre for the 98th Oscars on March 15, 2026.

The announcement comes from Bill Kramer, Academy CEO, and Janet Yang, Academy president, who also confirmed the return of the Emmy-winning producing team Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan, who will lead the show for the third consecutive year.

Using his signature humor, O’Brien quipped in a statement: “The only reason I’m hosting the Oscars next year is that I want to hear Adrien Brody finish his speech.”

Brody’s best actor speech for “The Brutalist” clocked in as the longest in the ceremony’s history.

“We are thrilled to bring back Conan, Raj, Katy, Jeff and Mike for the 98th Oscars!” Kramer and Yang said in a joint statement. “This year, they produced a hugely entertaining and visually...

As 2025 kicks off, several book to movie adaptations can be expected to move forward to completion, some with release dates already slated for the quarter century marker.

Mickey17, directed by Bong Joon Ho, arrived in theaters in early March. Netflix released it’s big-budget sci-fi film The Electric State, which is based on a graphic novel, March 14.

Edgar Wright’s The Running Man and Josh Boone’s Regretting You, which will likely follow in the footsteps of the Blake Lively-starring It Ends With Us and further pave a path for future Collen Hoover film adaptations like Verity and Reminders of Him.

Several other big screen adaptations of books are arriving on streamers and in theaters this year. Check out the full list of book to movie adaptations below:

Mickey7 by Edward Ashton – Theaters – March 7, 2025

Robert Pattinson in ‘Mickey 17’

Bong Joon Ho has directed an adaptation of Edward Ashton...

There are probably a lot of people who go up to an NYU film professor’s lectern on the first day and tell them that they want to be a filmmaker. Inbal Weinberg is maybe one of the few who has gone up and said, “I want to be a production designer.”

In a time before places like Interior and Films or One Perfect Shot spotlighted how design and composition affect film audiences — to say nothing of Google Search’s ability to find examples of production design in the space of a few seconds — Weinberg knew in her bones that the visual worldbuilding organized by the production designer was how she could help tell stories. Looking back now on her career of over 20 years and collaborations with everyone from Derek Cianfrance and Maggie Gyllenhaal to Pedro Almodóvar and Luca Guadagnino, she’s done exactly what she set out to do.

[Editor’s Note: this list was originally published in July 2017. It has been updated multiple times with new entries.]

Both on the awards circuit and in the public consciousness, HBO is widely regarded as among the first Hollywood heavyweights to recognize that television, as a medium, had the power to deliver sprawling, large scale stories on a smaller screen. From HBO’s ascent in the late 1990s through its dragon-aided roar across the 2010s, the network’s original series tackled universal stories, stretching across continents and decades.

The network hasn’t been without controversy, though. HBO faced questions about its lack of diversity in flagship series, including “Game of Thrones” and “Girls,” throughout the 2010s. And, unshackled from the restrictions of broadcast TV, the various steps the network took to push the limit of what’s allowed on screen garnered a fair share of pearl-clutching headlines; see “The Sopranos” in the ’90s and “Euphoria” just a few years back. And since the Warner Bros. and Discovery merger, there’s...

Warner Bros and Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie is looking at a $60M+ U.S./Canada opening. The movie hit three-week Nrg tracking today.

Whether this movie is good or bad, it doesn’t matter. Boys and kids love Minecraft and have been waiting for this movie for quite some time. The feature, together with Superman and Apple’s F1, could be part of a bailout for Warners after its commitment to $100M+ auteur movies such as Mickey 17, Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled Leonardo DiCaprio pic, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.

A Minecraft Movie has an unaided awareness of 13 — that’s the meter where those polled cite the movie as a want-to-see without being prompted by a pollster. That’s below The Super Mario Bros Movie‘s 20 but a notch higher than Pokémon Detective Pikachu, which opened to $54.3M in 2019. The Minecraft pic already...

There’s an old saying that goes, “A house built on sand won’t stand long,” but it seems Hollywood is trying to test just how shaky a foundation can be before it crumbles. Warner Bros. is knee-deep in risky territory with high-budget projects like Mickey 17 and The Bride!, and yet, here we are with the spotlight on the latter—the one that has the Hollywood elite shaking their heads.

Jessie Buckley in The Bride! (2025) | Credit: Warner Bros.

Maggie Gyllenhaal has been handed a $100 million+ budget for her take on a Frankenstein-esque story starring Christian Bale. But one Hollywood insider thinks it’s a leap too far. Gyllenhaal’s only other directorial project was an arthouse film, and now she’s stepping into the world of major budgets and even bigger expectations.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s bold leap: Is Warner Bros. betting too big on The Bride!

Now, let...

Universal Horror has taken a strange turn in the last decade. After seeing plans for a Dark Universe crumble to dust like a vampire in the sun when Tom Cruise’s The Mummy bombed, the idea of a shared monster universe was quickly abandoned in favor of something that has – mostly – proven to be more interesting to audiences. Movies that take classic creatures of the night and put them into new settings have led to success with The Invisible Man, Abigail, and Nicolas Cage’s Renfield. Next up is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! but rumored first reactions are not exactly electrifying for its box office chances.

Just like several other releases in recent years, The Bride! is under immediate pressure from another take on the same story being on the horizon. It is not the only Frankenstein-centric movie that is being released this year, with Guillermo del Toro...

Actor Christian Bale is best known for his performance as Bruce Wayne / Batman in the Dark Knight trilogy. In the second installment, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal played Bruce Wayne’s love interest. The former co-stars are now collaborating on a new movie, with Gyllenhaal serving as the writer and director.

Christian Bale in The Dark Knight (Credit: Warner Bros).

Bale is starring in Gyllenhaal’s upcoming The Bride!, which is being produced by Warner Bros. However, the project’s large budget has left some Hollywood insiders and top brass perplexed, especially given the studio’s recent cost-cutting practices. As a result, the movie is making waves for all the wrong reasons, and here is what’s going on.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new movie starring Christian Bale leaves Hollywood bosses frustrated

Former The Dark Knight co-stars Christian Bale and Maggie Gyllenhaal are collaborating on the upcoming monster film The Bride! The film...

The Warner Bros film division has had a rocky time – and it reportedly needs this summer’s Superman to be a hit in order to keep going.

As you’ll likely know, Warner Bros experienced an uneven 2024 at the box office, scoring some hits such as Dune: Part Two and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. But those successes were largely offset by dismal commercial performances of expensive projects such as Joker: Folie A Deux and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

As we move through 2025, the path ahead looks rockier for the studio given that it has bravely (and commendably) elected to invest in expensive, auteur-driven cinema. Ryan Coogler, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Thomas Anderson and more have all been working on pricey projects that may or may not draw in audiences to match.

The studio’s first experiment of 2025 in this vein isn’t what you’d call a smash hit, commercially at least.

Look, up in the sky! It's not a bird, it's not a plane, and it's not even Superman. What it is, incredibly enough, might be Warner Bros.' last chance at salvation amid a 2025 slate of risky blockbusters. As the fresh reboot that DC Studios needed to (mostly) wipe everything clean and start over from scratch again, James Gunn's impending "Superman" movie was always going to represent a major gambit to get things off on the right foot. But nobody could've anticipated the perfect storm of factors leading to the dire straits that the entire studio now finds itself in, particularly after a series of box office missteps in recent months. Now, rather fittingly, the future of all of Warner Bros. might very well rest on the shoulders of the Man of Steel. What else is new?

According to the latest edition of the Puck newsletter, written by industry veteran Kim Masters,...

The earliest reactions are in for The Bride, but they are not a good sign for the film. Maggie Gyllenhaal's new movie is one of two Frankenstein adaptations this year, with the other helmed by Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro. The Bride will take the world of Frankenstein to 1930s Chicago, where the titular character asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion, bringing a murdered woman back to life. Its leading cast includes Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Jake Gyllenhaal, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, and Annette Bening.

Per Puck, the early reactions have been revealed for The Bride. It's not looking positive, with the head of one production company saying, "to give her [director Maggie Gyllenhaal] anything more than $15 million to make the movie is irresponsible, as far as I’m concerned." Early test screenings have not been universally positive, with some reporting that the film might be too arthouse and...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film starring Leonardo DiCaprio — which, in quintessential PTA fashion, still doesn’t have an official title — packs a budget that’s not just several time higher than anything the 11-time Oscar-nominated director has ever worked with, but far bigger than his films have ever earned at the box office.

Some reports pegged it at $180 million, but an individual with knowledge tells IndieWire it’s actually $130 million. That almost as much as what Anderson’s most successful film to date, “There Will Be Blood,” made globally in 2007 ($76 million), if you factor in inflation ($143 million).

It’s also way more than the budget of his previous film, 2021’s “Licorice Pizza,” which seemed like a big gamble, even with $40 million. Turns out, it was: that film only grossed $33 million globally. But though Anderson has moved from MGM to Warner Bros., the same film chiefs gave Anderson both of...

Mickey 17 is the first major entry in WB’s auteur-driven 2025 lineup, which comprises releases from James Gunn, Paul Thomas Anderson, Joseph Kosinski, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Ryan Coogler. Unfortunately, the new Bong Joon-ho release, starring Robert Pattinson, isn’t exactly off to a flyer start, given its sizeable $118 budget.

Mickey 17 | Credit: Warner Bros.

Although the film has opened to a decent critical reception, it’s nowhere close to Joon-ho’s previous release, Parasite, which not only proved to be a critical darling but was also a dominant force at the box office. As for Mickey 17, the slow box-office start could lead to an underwhelming turnaround.

Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 is off to a cold start at the box-office

Apart from a few exceptions, the box office hasn’t been kind to big-budget productions in recent years, and unfortunately, Robert Pattinson‘s Mickey 17 hasn’t been able to avoid a cold beginning.

The 97th Academy Awards just ended, but it's never too early to start thinking about next year's Oscars. Awards Magnet hosts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng make their ridiculously early 2026 Oscar predictions.

The 2025 slate is more akin to the 2023 one than last year's with some big names and past Oscar players in the mix. James Cameron will unfurl Avatar: Fire and Ash in December. Leonardo DiCaprio leads Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. The filmmaker has 11 Oscar nominations and zero wins. Will this be the one to break the duck? Chloé Zhao is back with an adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel Hamnet starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. Both actors have another film in play: Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! for the former and Oliver Hermanus' The History of Sound for the latter. The Bride! is one of two Frankenstein films coming out this year, the...

Five years after making history with his Oscar triumph for “Parasite,” Bong Joon-ho has returned to Hollywood filmmaking with Warner Bros.’ “Mickey 17,” a star-studded sci-fi satire about how capitalism can create demagogues and cheapen human life.

But despite strong reviews, it faces an uphill battle to turn a profit against its reported $118 million budget. While not an original film — it is an adaptation of the 2022 Edward Ashton novel “Mickey 7” — it’s a film trying to win over adult audiences with a marketing campaign based around its darkly humorous concept and a go-for-broke lead performance by Robert Pattinson.

While not as acclaimed as “Parasite,” reviews for “Mickey 17” have been very positive, currently standing at 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film has also earned a $9 million 4-day opening weekend in Bong’s home country of South Korea, the best for a Warner release in six years.

But projections for the film...

Uncharacteristically, Warner Bros Discovery boss David Zaslav seems unhappy with the money the company is spending.

Take a cursory glance and Warner Bros’ slate for 2025 and you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was the ‘filmmaker friendly’ studio of old. The place where directors such as Clint Eastwood would set up shop and stay for decades, where trust and autonomy were foundational to the creative process.

Why is that? Because the studio’s slate for this year is packed with expensive, auteur-driven projects that are set to take creative risks: you’ve got Bong Joon-ho’s imminent Mickey 17, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film (at least $130m), Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride ($100m) and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (an estimated $90m).

While we get the feeling that studio chief David Zaslav wants to be seen as a steward of cinema, his actions have often betrayed a cynical streak towards art.

2013's White House Down is about to have a brand-new streaming home.

Per Peacock, the slate of films and TV shows being added to the streaming service's ever-expanding library officially includes White House Down starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx. White House Down will be available for streaming on Peacock beginning March 1.

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Directed by Roland Emmerich from a screenplay written by James Vanderbilt, White House Down stars Tatum as John Cale, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan turned Capitol police officer. When Cale's family tour of the White House just so happens to coincide with a brazen attack against the President of the United States, James Sawyer, as portrayed by Jamie Foxx,...

In the increasingly crowded streaming wars, Max stands apart by embracing its HBO roots. While competitors like Disney+ chase family-friendly fare and Netflix waters down content for mass appeal, Max continues serving up the bold, boundary-pushing projects that built its reputation. Though the platform offers wholesome content like Sesame Street and Studio Ghibli films, Max's true value comes from its dedication to raw, provocative storytelling.

The platform's commitment to mature content proves especially valuable as other services sanitize their libraries. Even as Max courts mainstream audiences with DC Comics and Cartoon Network classics, it remains fearless in exploring human sexuality and desire. From steamy documentaries to award-winning dramas like Euphoria and Game of Thrones, the service delivers heat that makes censors sweat and audiences swoon.

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Few literary characters have left as lasting an impact on sci-fi and horror cinema as Frankenstein's monster. Since Mary Shelley first unleashed her tragic creation onto the world in 1818, filmmakers have happily taken on its themes of hubris and the blurred line between life and death. Over the decades, Frankenstein has been adapted, reimagined, and parodied in countless ways, with some versions staying true to Shelley's original vision and others taking creative liberties that reshape the story entirely.

In fact, the story is a perfect archetype for all kinds of interpretations. With two major adaptations on the horizon -- Guillermo del Toro's long-awaited take and Maggie Gyllenhaal's unique reimagining -- now is the perfect time to revisit the best Frankenstein movies ever made. From classic Universal horror to modern reinterpretations, these ten films prove that Frankenstein’s monster is truly immortal.

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There's a certain kind of magic to seeing real life siblings sharing the screen. Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Donnie Darko. Chris and Luke Hemsworth in Thor: Ragnarok. Macaulay and Kieran Culkin in Home Alone. And soon to be joining that niche but ever eye-catching canon are Rooney and Kate Mara. Per Deadline's reporting, the sisters — stars of Carol and Black Mirror respectively — are set to lead Bucking Fastard, the latest movie from mellifluous German auteur Werner Herzog.

Despite their prolific screen careers, Emmy nominee Kate and two-time Oscar nomineee Rooney have never actually shared the screen with one another before. As such, Bucking Fastard — which Herzog is set to direct from a self-penned script — will be a first for the starring siblings, who are set to play twins here. While little has been confirmed regarding the plot for this one, with Deadline only stating that the sisters Mara will...

While there are plenty of theatrical releases that would fly under the radar and later become a hit on streaming, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight most certainly isn't one of those movies. The second film in Nolan's Batman trilogy will now have had the best of both worlds, being an incredible success in its initial release and now having streaming success with the #5 spot on the top 10 movies list on the Max streaming platform. It isn't hard to find a reason as to why The Dark Knight is trending again, as the film is a seminal work of art that would redefine how comic book movies are made.

Released nearly 17 years ago in July 2008, The Dark Knight would keep up the momentum from 2005's Batman Begins and further revolutionize the Batman mythos with an enthralling story as Christian Bale's iteration of Batman faces off against the Joker in...

Every year there are a few horror films that drastically exceed expectations from critics and audiences while also finding tremendous box office success, and one of the candidates to fill that slot in 2025 is The Bride. The upcoming monster horror thriller will be the latest from writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal. The film has been set for release on September 26 later this year, and now that it's less than eight months away, fans are sitting on pins and needles waiting for the first official trailer. Collider's Perri Nemiroff recently caught up with The Bride star John Magaro to promote his upcoming movie Omaha. During the conversation, she asked about him previously mentioning Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, as well as Young Frankenstein, Frankenstein, Bonnie and Clyde, andBadlands as inspiration for The Bride, to which he said: "That's just a few. There's probably even more stuff I could add in." When...

Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx's 2013 action thriller film White House Down can now be watched for free. The movie is officially streaming on Tubi as of Feb. 1.

White House Down's new streaming home comes directly after the Channing Tatum film left Netflix on Jan. 31 alongside 21 and 22 Jump Street. In the movie, Tatum stars as divorced US Capitol Police officer John Cale, who finds himself fighting to rescue his daughter and the President of the United States (Jamie Foxx) when a terrorist attack occurs in the White House. Other cast members in the film included Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins and James Woods.

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Jake Gyllenhaal fans have been eating good of late; the Oscar-nominated actor starred in Road House and Presumed Innocent in 2024, the former being a remake of the classic Patrick Swayze action film, and the latter being a legal thriller/procedural series that has already been renewed for a second season. Gyllenhaal is booked and busy in 2025 as he's been confirmed to star in The Bride, the upcoming horror film written and directed by his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal that also stars Christian Bale, and he'll team up with Guy Ritchie for In the Grey, the action thriller starring Henry Cavill. Gyllenhaal has a load of movies available to watch on various streaming services, but the biggest one of all is set to deliver a major blow to Gyllenhaal's fan base in just a few weeks.