Here we go! The hype for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part 3 has begun with the release of the anticipated first trailer, as well as new character posters. They reveal our first look at Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Zendaya as Chani, Anya Taylor-Joy as Alia Atreides, Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan, Isaach de Bankole as Farok, Jason Momoa as a returned Duncan Idaho, Javier Bardem as Stilgar, Robert Pattinson as Scytale, and Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica.
Included with the posters and trailer is a single image of Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, looking considerably changed. It’s clear that being head of House Atreides has worn him down physically and emotionally.
The Dune trilogy is based on Frank Herbert’s 1969 novel and a massive expansion as a sci-fi blockbuster franchise which includes the HBO prequel series, Dune: Prophecy. The two movies thus far, released in 2021 and 2024, have earned a combined $1.2B globally.
Casting on The Batman Part II is mostly completed, with only one major role yet to be filled: Christopher Dent, the abusive, alcoholic father to Harvey Dent aka the villain Two-Face. The latest rumor, from Batman On Film (via CoveredGeekly), says that Viggo Mortensen has been offered a role, which is likely to be Dent.
This would follow Brad Pitt, Stellan Skarsgaard, and Daniel Craig reportedly turning down offers already, while Liam Neeson was said to be next in line. Doesn’t seem like that panned out, either.
Whoever lands the Christopher Dent role will join a stacked ensemble of Robert Pattinson, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Paul Dano, and Andy Serkis.
If you ask me, Mortensen would fit this cast like a glove. He makes pretty much everything better, and we know he can play tough, even violent, patriarchal figures.
The Batman Part II begins production in May, and hits theaters on May 1st 2027.
When A Quiet Place 3 arrives in theaters next year, it’s going to have a substantially larger A-list cast. Writer/director and former star John Krasinski announced the returns of Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, along with Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe. They’ll be joined by new additions Jack O’Connell, Jason Clarke, and Katy O’Brian.
No details on the plot of A Quiet Place 3, but it’s presumably the end of a trilogy surrounding the arrival of monsters that hunt using sound, forcing the world’s human population to be quiet as church mice.
Krasinski directed but didn’t write 2018’s A Quiet Place, which went on to hit $341M worldwide. He took over writing and directing with the underwhelming 2020 sequel. Meanwhile, Michael Sarnoski directed the 2024 spinoff, Day One.
O’Connell is one of the most versatile actors around and was part of the Sinners ensemble that won multiple awards last night. He was also recently seen in 28 Years Later and its sequel, The Bone Temple. Clarke is best known for his roles in The Great Gatsby, First Man, and A House of Dynamite. O’Brian had an extremely busy 2025 with roles in Queen of the Damned, Christy, Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning, and The Running Man.
A Quiet Place 3 will hit theaters on July 9th 2027.
It’s been a couple of years since we learned of a sequel to David Cameron Mitchell’s hit indie horror, It Follows, and there hasn’t been much good news since. It was originally meant to shoot in 2024, then in 2025, but nothing came together. If you had quietly grown doubtful over it, well, cheer up.
Speaking at a recent Q&A event, star Maika Monroe confirms she will reunite with Mitchell for They Follow, with plans to shoot this summer. Financing has finally come together on the film, which takes place ten years later. Monroe says the script, likely by Mitchell, is “incredible”.
Released in 2014, It Follows starred Monroe as a woman who has sex for the first time with her boyfriend, only to learn that he has passed on a curse to her through intercourse. The curse, which will haunt and follow the carrier forever, can only be gotten rid of by passing it on to another by sleeping with them. The film cost virtually nothing and made a tidy profit with $23M globally.
Monroe can be seen right now in Reminders of Him, the latest Colleen Hoover adaptation. Coming up for Mitchell this August is The End of Oak Street, a sci-fi film starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor.
Perhaps Paramount Pictures got the message that fans aren’t quite ready for a new Max Landis project, especially as part of the GI Joe franchise. Variety reports that multiple sources say Landis’ script for a new movie based on the Hasbro toy line has been passed on by the studio.
Paramount still has other scripts for GI Joe in the works, including one from comedic actor Danny McBride.
Landis, who broke out with his screenplay for Chronicle, hasn’t had a major studio gig since 2016 when he was named as part of the #MeToo scandal. His last credit was for 2020’s Shadow in the Cloud, which was written by him before the allegations, and was subsequently rewritten by director Roseanne Liang.
That said, Landis had an interesting take on GI Joe. He revealed that it centered on the villainous organization, Cobra, “having successfully taken over the world and reduced GI Joe to a conspiracy theory.” Landis added that he was “tremendously grateful to have been given the opportunity”, and that everything came together “very serendipitously based on the coolness of the weird and subversive idea.”
Disney/Pixar’s Hoppers dropped just 37% in its second weekend, bringing in another $28.5M for $86.8M domestic, and $164M worldwide. Does Pixar have the next great franchise on the level of Toy Story and Finding Nemo? We’ll know in the coming weeks, but as of right now the film is already a success.
What can I say? Audiences love Colleen Hoover adaptations right now. While Reminders of Him‘s $18M debut is nowhere near the $50M of It Ends with Us, the number is better than last year’s Regretting You at $13M. The romance drama led by Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers survived a predictably low Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 56%. Audiences, who are likely already Hoover fans, have it at 90%. Worldwide, the film has $28M overall.
A24 dropped the buzzy podcasting horror flick undertone into 2,570 theaters and got $9.3M, beating the third week of Scream 7 to win the genre showdown. Interestingly, audiences hated the film, holding it at just 52% on RT, while critics were more favorable with 75%. That sometimes happens with more artsy horrors, while it’s the other way around for more mainstream stuff.
4. Scream 7– $8.3M/$106.5M
5. GOAT– $4.7M/$90.5M
6. The Bride!– $2.1M/$11.3M
Amid reports of a $100M budget and huge losses for Warner Bros., Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! dropped 70% in its second week and has just $11.3M stateside. Ouch. Globally, the feminist monster flick has just $21M.
7. Wuthering Heights– $1.6M/$81.9M
8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (re-release)- $1.4M
9. Kiki’s Delivery Service (re-release)- $1.14M
10. Crime 101– $1.13M/$35.5M
Also…Bleecker Street opened Amy Wang’s buzzy high school drama Slanted (review), about a Chinese-American teen who undergoes a procedure to become a white girl, into 588 theaters, earning $617K. [BoxOfficeMojo]
So it wasn’t a runaway night for Sinners after all, and my predictions were pretty much in flames after an hour. Despite the record-breaking 16 Academy Award nominations, Ryan Coogler’s film came away with a total of 4 wins, including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, and Autumn Durald Arkapaw becoming the first woman to win for Best Cinematography. Instead, it was Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another that won the night with 6 total victories including Best Picture, Best Director for Anderson, and Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn.
Elsewhere, Jessie Buckley completed her sweep by winning Best Actress for Hamnet, Amy Madigan won for Best Supporting Actress for Weapons, KPop Demon Hunters won for Best Animated Feature, and Sentimental Value won Best International Feature.
The full list of winners is below!
Best Picture
“Bugonia”
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme” “One Battle After Another”
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”
Achievement in Directing
Chloe Zhao, “Hamnet”
Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme” Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”
Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon” Michael B Jordan, “Sinners”
Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”
Actress in a Leading Role Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet”
Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”
Renata Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”
Emma Stone, “Bugonia”
Actor in a Supporting Role
Benicio Del Toro, “One Battle After Another”
Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”
Delroy Lindo, “Sinners” Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”
Stellan Skarsgard, “Sentimental Value”
Actress in a Supporting Role
Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value” Amy Madigan, “Weapons”
Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners”
Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”
Original Screenplay
“Blue Moon” (Sony Pictures Classics) Written by Robert Kaplow
“It Was Just an Accident” (Neon) Written by Jafar Panahi
Script collaborators – Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
“Marty Supreme” (A24) Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
“Sentimental Value” (Neon) Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier “Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Written by Ryan Coogler
Adapted Screenplay
“Bugonia” (Focus Features) Screenplay by Will Tracy
“Frankenstein” (Netflix) Written for the Screen by Guillermo del Toro
“Hamnet” (Focus Features) Screenplay by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell “One Battle after Another” (Warner Bros.) Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
“Train Dreams” (Netflix) Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
Casting
“Hamnet” (Focus Features) Nina Gold
“Marty Supreme” (A24) Jennifer Venditti “One Battle after Another” (Warner Bros.) Cassandra Kulukundis
“The Secret Agent” (Neon) Gabriel Domingues
“Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Francine Maisler
Animated Feature
“Arco”
“Elio” “KPop Demon Hunters”
“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
“Zootopia 2”
Production Design “Frankenstein” (Netflix) Production Design: Tamara Deverell Set Decoration:
Shane Vieau
“Hamnet” (Focus Features) Production Design: Fiona Crombie Set Decoration:
Alice Felton
“Marty Supreme” (A24) Production Design: Jack Fisk Set Decoration: Adam Willis
“One Battle after Another” (Warner Bros.) Production Design: Florencia Martin Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
“Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Production Design: Hannah Beachler Set Decoration: Monique Champagne
Cinematography
“Frankenstein” (Netflix) Dan Laustsen
“Marty Supreme” (A24) Darius Khondji
“One Battle after Another” (Warner Bros.) Michael Bauman “Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Autumn Durald Arkapaw
“Train Dreams” (Netflix) Adolpho Veloso
Costume Design
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” (Walt Disney) Deborah L. Scott “Frankenstein” (Netflix) Kate Hawley
“Hamnet” (Focus Features) Malgosia Turzanska
“Marty Supreme” (A24) Miyako Bellizzi
“Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Ruth E. Carter
Film Editing
“F1” (Apple) Stephen Mirrione
“Marty Supreme” (A24) Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie “One Battle after Another” (Warner Bros.) Andy Jurgensen
“Sentimental Value” (Neon) Olivier Bugge Coutté
“Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Michael P. Shawver
Makeup and Hairstyling “Frankenstein” (Netflix) Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey
“Kokuho” (GKIDS) Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi
Nishimatsu
“Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry
“The Smashing Machine” (A24) Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein
“The Ugly Stepsister” (Independent Film Company/Shudder) Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg
Sound “F1” (Apple) Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle,
Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta
“Frankenstein” (Netflix) Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson
Ferreira, Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern
“One Battle after Another” (Warner Bros.) José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio and
Tony Villaflor
“Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco,
Brandon Proctor and Steve Boeddeker
“Sirāt” (Neon) Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina
Praderas
Visual Effects “Avatar: Fire and Ash” (Walt Disney) Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and
Daniel Barrett
“F1” (Apple) Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert
Harrington and Keith Dawson
“Jurassic World Rebirth” (Universal) David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan
and Neil Corbould
“The Lost Bus” (Apple) Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen and
Brandon K. McLaughlin
“Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter and
Donnie Dean
Original Score
“Bugonia” (Focus Features) Jerskin Fendrix
“Frankenstein” (Netflix) Alexandre Desplat
“Hamnet” (Focus Features) Max Richter
“One Battle after Another” (Warner Bros.) Jonny Greenwood “Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Ludwig Goransson
Original Song
“Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless” (MasterClass/ Greenwich Entertainment), Music and Lyric by Diane Warren “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” (Netflix) Music and Lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick,
Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park
“I Lied To You” from “Sinners” (Warner Bros.) Music and Lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson
“Sweet Dreams Of Joy” from “Viva Verdi!” (Viva Verdi!), Music and Lyric by Nicholas Pike
“Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams” (Netflix) Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner, Lyric by Nick Cave
Documentary Feature
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me In The Good Light
Cutting Through the Rocks Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor
International Feature
“The Secret Agent” (Brasil)
“It Was Just An Accident” (France) “Sentimental Value” (Norway)
“Sirat” (Spain)
“The Voice Of Hind Rajab” (Tunisia)
Animated Short Film
“Butterfly” (Sacrebleu Productions) Florence Miailhe and Ron Dyens
“Forevergreen” Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears “The Girl Who Cried Pearls” (National Film Board of Canada) Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
“Retirement Plan” John Kelly and Andrew Freedman
“The Three Sisters” (Polydont Films/Rymanco Ventures) Konstantin Bronzit
Live Action Short Film
“Butcher’s Stain” (Tel Aviv University Steve Tisch School of Film and Television) Meyer Levinson-Blount and Oron Caspi
“A Friend of Dorothy” Lee Knight and James Dean
“Jane Austen’s Period Drama” Julia Aks and Steve Pinder “The Singers” (Netflix) Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt “Two People Exchanging Saliva” (Canal+/The New Yorker) Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata
Documentary Short Film “All the Empty Rooms” (Netflix) Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
“Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud” (HBO) Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo
“Children No More: ‘Were and Are Gone’” (Sky) Hilla Medalia and Sheila Nevins
“The Devil Is Busy” (HBO) Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir
“Perfectly a Strangeness” (Second Sight Pictures) Alison McAlpine
Okay, Browncoats, it’s time to rejoice! After weeks of Nathan Fillion dropping teasers with the Firefly cast, suggesting some kind of continuation of the beloved TV series and spinoff movie Serenity, the long-awaited announcement was finally made today at Awesome Con! Fillion confirms that a Firefly animated series is in the works and being shopped to buyers right now.
Fillion will be joined by original cast members Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin, Sean Maher, Adam Baldwin, and Summer Glau who are expected to voice their roles. Deadline reports Marc Guggenheim and Tara Butters will act as writers and showrunners.
So if you’re asking yourself how Tudyk can return when his character, starship pilot Wash, was killed in Serenity? The series will chronologically fit between the end of the original series run and the 2005 movie.
One person whose name you won’t see is creator Joss Whedon, who will have nothing to do with the show. He’s pretty much vanished from Hollywood after multiple allegations of being a jerkwad on Justice League, Agents of SHIELD, and other projects. Many of those allegations stem from actresses, putting a hammer to the man who fronted iconic female-fronted shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse.
It remains to be seen where this new Firefly animated series will call home, but hopefully one will be found soon.
James Gunn’s Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow, just added some major firepower. Green firepower. THR confirms Jeff Sneider’s report that Aaron Pierre, who plays John Stewart in the upcoming HBO series Lanterns, is joining the film that will find the Man of Steel teaming up with his archenemy, Lex Luthor.
Pierre has been red hot since his breakout role in Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge, which led to him starring in Lanterns alongside Kyle Chandler, who plays Hal Jordan. He also recently scored a role in Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter.
Superman: Man of Tomorrow is the fourth DCU feature following Superman, Supergirl (which opens on June 26th), and Clayface, which opens this October in time for Halloween. The story will find Superman and Lex Luthor teaming up to battle the alien threat of Brainiac, played by Lars Eidinger. Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, Isabel Merced, and Frank Grillo are also in the cast.
Before that happens, we’ll see Pierre as John Stewart in Lanterns, which hits HBO in August and appears to be more of a True Detective-style crime series than a high-powered superhero show. However, this news confirms just how closely the DCU TV shows and movies will be connected, and that’s pretty cool.
The Ocean’s 11 prequel may have finally found its director, and the search didn’t have to go very far. Deadline confirms an earlier report by Puck that Bradley Cooper, who entered talks to join Margot Robbie in the cast a few months ago, is now eyeing to direct, write, and star.
When first announced three years ago, Jay Roach was set to direct. After long delays, he dropped out and was replaced by Minari filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung. Chung exited just days ago, leaving a vacancy behind the camera. Cooper, who is still negotiating to replace Ryan Gosling as the co-lead opposite Robbie, now seems close to expanding his part in the production considerably.
Cooper is coming off three critically successful films as director: A Star is Born, Maestro, and Is This Thing On? If he boards Ocean’s 11 as writer as well as director, it’ll be interesting to see if he alters the rumored plot, set in 1960s Europe, with Robbie and Cooper playing the parents of Danny Ocean, the character played by George Clooney in three Ocean’s movies. Carrie Solomon (A Family Affair) wrote the most recent script draft.
