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Features09.07.26
Cregger's Resident Evil hits theaters September 18. Features desk inventories the marketing countdown: previews, AMA, tickets, Fantastic Fest, IMAX. Not another thirty-minute grade.
Theories09.07.26
Tomorrow's Zelda anniversary Direct is thirty minutes. The Switch 2 Ocarina remake and the April 30, 2027 film both want the oxygen. Packaging theory: sequencing is the crown.
Movies09.07.26
Neon opens Na Hong-jin's Hope on September 9. Rotten Tomatoes sits around 72 and Metacritic around 67 as of this filing. This is a ticket grade of the public sheet, not a private screening.
Announcements09.07.26
Direct week has wheeled Wes Ball's live-action Zelda into every preview carton. Nintendo has not pressed play. Miyamoto's April 30, 2027 date remains the public stamp.
Announcements09.06.26
Deadline put Brand New Day in the $900M domestic club on Friday. World of Reel's Labor Day math leaves Force Awakens roughly fourteen million ahead. The announcement is the chase.
Features09.06.26
VIZ's Amazon-exclusive 24-movie collection lands November 24 in a display case with a hinge. Features desk reads it as nostalgia SKU, not a streaming login.
Theories09.06.26
Cregger's AMA says you will count the magazine and feel the miss. Preview rooms already talk like players. Theory: game feel outranks the mascot roster.
Movies09.06.26
Sony screened Zach Cregger's opening half hour on September 1. The rooms sounded sold. This filing reviews the preview, not a Tomatometer I refuse to invent.
Theories09.05.26
Waldron told TheWrap a Nova story would have to reckon with Thanos wiping the Corps. The theory is premise-only: the dangling Infinity War atrocity is the movie's real cold open.
Announcements09.05.26
TheWrap's September Nova chat, plus Feige's Comic-Con shrug, turns early development into a Saturday announcement. Rich Rider is the name. The date is still missing.
Movies09.05.26
Mirzapur: The Movie opened Friday at 197 minutes. The Hindu, India Today, and trade notices agree the cast bites. The craft fight is length, politics, and whether OTT chaos survives a ticket stub.
Features09.05.26
Mirzapur Day-1 Hindi net landed around the mid-20s crore mark per Sacnilk and Saturday trade flashes. The feature is the platform-to-multiplex bet, not the craft grade.
Movies09.04.26
Bratton's Paramount historical thriller opens Friday with mixed grades and a reverse Green Book argument. The craft is loud. The pedagogy is the fight. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is the SKU.
Announcements09.04.26
McDonagh's CIA Easter Island dark comedy premiered to a Sala Grande ovation. Malkovich is the early critical comet. The theatrical date is the announcement.
Features09.04.26
Viva Kids opens Zhang Gang's Chinese co-production wide on Friday. The cat and mouse still sell the poster. The mythology sells the runtime. That is the kids-IP shipping container in 2026.
Theories09.04.26
Sony screened thirty minutes. The trailer finally said Raccoon City. The theory is Outbreak logic, not a roster remake, seventeen days before September 18.
Features09.03.26
Street Fighter Combo Challenge is not just a clever ad. It is a trial run for turning trailers into rooms you stay inside. The arcade came back wearing YouTube.
Theories09.03.26
The new Street Fighter trailer teases Satsui no Hado and a purple fireball. Theory: Paramount is not selling a tournament. It is selling Ryu's almost-fall in period dress.
Movies09.03.26
Day after Fall 2: Deadpoint, the craft argument is cleaner than the grades. The Spierigs still know how to erase the floor. The script keeps trying to invent a reason.
Announcements09.03.26
Street Fighter Combo Challenge hits YouTube Playables as the first full-length movie trailer you can play. World Warrior Tour Tokyo was the stage. October 16 is still the date.
Theories09.02.26
At Comic-Con he called it a cap on You're Next and The Guest. Same New Mexico pin. Same black-budget programs. Dan Stevens wears a new face. The town stays cursed.
Movies09.02.26
Wingard's A24 desert siege opens September 4 with a mid-70s Tomatometer and a mid-60s Metacritic. The craft is loud. The payoff is the argument. Adria Arjona is the SKU.
Announcements09.02.26
Deadpoint hits theaters September 2 after a Netflix-era sequel boom. The Spierigs directed. Mann still owns chapter three. The tower became a catalog.
Features09.02.26
Gal Gadot's The Runner hits Prime Video today: eighty-four minutes, Kevin Macdonald, Damian Lewis on the line. Variety called it energetic but uninspired. Amazon called it Wednesday.
Movies09.01.26
James Watkins' Speak No Evil is the public rehearsal for October's R-rated Clayface. The remake made money as hospitality horror. The melting man is not a villains reel on this evidence.
Announcements09.01.26
Vertical and Protozoa dropped the Pendulum teaser today. Mark Heyman's R-rated directorial debut, produced by Darren Aronofsky, opens nationwide January 1, 2027 as a New Mexico retreat head trip.
Features09.01.26
Mayday hits Apple TV September 4 with Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the Honor Among Thieves duo, deliver a Cold War buddy comedy shaped like a multiplex tape for a password premiere.
Theories09.01.26
Paramount bills Street Fighter Filmed for IMAX on October 16. Clayface lost that language and opens October 23. Cosmic Book News' Quorum chart says interest still prefers the melt. Theory: the premium format is the SKU.
Announcements08.31.26
Sony and Columbia are putting The Social Reckoning in theaters October 9 with Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg, Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen, and Jeremy Allen White as Jeff Horwitz. Sorkin wrote and directed a companion to The Social Network. The product on the shelf is the 2021 leak, not another dorm-room origin.
Features08.30.26
Jacob Chase flipped The Further. Amelia Eve can bring what lives there into the real world. Mixed reviews, an $18 million budget, and a second weekend still on a marquee. The SKU is the dead coming out.
Reviews08.30.26
Dave Green's live-action and animation hybrid is in theaters. CinemaScore posted an A. Rotten Tomatoes and PostTrak agree the room liked the night. Friday covered the vault. Sunday grades the movie.
Features08.29.26
Spider-Man held a fifth No. 1. Coyote vs. Acme is looking at a Ketchup record. The Dog Stars, Ridley Scott's Heller adaptation with Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin, is opening like a shrug.
Reviews08.28.26
Netflix unlocks James Ashcroft's Alex North adaptation today. I have not screened it. Deadline, the Los Angeles Times, and Metacritic already argue the case: a 90s crime picture in a 2026 login, honest at roughly 111 minutes, haunted by men who go silent until a child is gone.
Movies08.27.26
Prime Video's new trailer for Ali Hazelwood's BookTok STEM romance sells fake dating, lab goggles, and Reneé Rapp. The real pitch is a studio slate built out of TikTok shelves.
Movies08.26.26
Geetu Mohandas sent a Rs 50 lakh film toward the Oscars. Today she opened a reported Rs 500 crore Yash picture to mixed-to-negative notices and a Day 1 that is printing like a midnight drop.
Features08.25.26
Lee Chang-dong spent a decade on two marriages and a mass firing. KOFIC picked the film Tuesday. Netflix paid when Korean theaters could not.
Features08.24.26
Week six put Nolan past The Dark Knight at home and past Deadpool & Wolverine worldwide. IMAX did the lifting. The translator he cited is still not clapping.
Features08.19.26
Gunn’s DCU is sending a melting man into theaters on September 11. For once the ‘it’s actually horror’ line is the honest one.
Reviews / Movies08.18.26
Holland’s third solo outing works because it is smaller. The machine around it is already trying to make it huge again.
Theories08.16.26
D23 gave us RDJ’s Doom, returning faces, and a December 18 date. The footage looks expensive. The mood feels like a wake they sold tickets to.
Announcements08.15.26
Comic-Con handed the keys to a flaming skull and to David Jonsson as T’Challa’s son. Different movies. Same tell.