This summer, Universal Pictures is stealing a page from Disney’s profitable “remake a beloved animated movie in live action” playbook with How to Train Your Dragon, which looks like a shot-for-shot redux of the 2010 film. Word out of CinemaCon 2025, where the film screened early, is that director Dean...
Peacemaker season 2 has a big Superman connection and… a second Peacemaker
Peacemaker season 2 is coming to Max on Aug. 21, DC Studios announced Friday, and a new trailer for the best live-action DC superhero show ever made is hinting at big things to come. That includes appearances from Nathan Fillion’s Guy Gardner, Isabell Merced’s Hawkgirl, and Sean Gunn’s Maxwell Lord....
Marvel’s X-Men movie may have found its director*
While Marvel Studios doesn’t officially have an X-Men movie on its slate yet, it’s definitely happening at some point. Probably very soon. And Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier may be the one to helm it, both The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline reported. Schreier is said to be in early talks to...
Every tease Marvel still needs to pay off, in theory
Over the past 17 years, Marvel Studios has focused as much on the continuity of its ongoing mega-story as it’s focused on the content of any given superhero film. The 23-film Infinity Saga was never just about individual movie narratives — it was about the buildup to Avengers: Infinity War...
John Wick’s director breaks down how he got to design action on Lazarus, ‘the funnest job’ he’s ever done
When two artists who admire each other’s work unexpectedly get to collaborate, it’s a wonderful thing. That’s exactly what happened when anime legend Shinichirō Watanabe and his team reached out to John Wick franchise director Chad Stahelski and his team. Watanabe was hoping someone at Stahelski’s boutique Hollywood action studio...
Bob from Thunderbolts* is Tom Hiddleston’s Loki 2.0
Thunderbolts*, the newest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has a lot of elements that align it with the Avengers movies. (That’s a good thing, in my opinion.) Some of them are broader strokes, like the kinds of storytelling beats that made the Avengers so appealing: It’s a team-up tale...
Thunderbolts*’ post-credits scenes are the first real win for Marvel teasers in years
Thunderbolts* is the final film of Marvel’s Phase 5, which was more or less marked by insecurity. Starting with 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and snaking around some of the roughest news cycles for the Cinematic Universe, Phase 5 is now giving way to a (seemingly) more confidently laid-out...
Should Andor have killed [redacted]? Let’s discuss
Andor is a series built on tragedy. From the show’s very first episode, we knew exactly how our hero’s journey would end: on the beach of a planet on the verge of being eradicated by the Death Star, content in knowing he completed his mission. [Ed. note: This post discusses...
Netflix’s anime adaptation Rose of Versailles speedruns a story that needs more time
Even before I fully became an anime fan, I knew about The Rose of Versailles, one of the greats of the shoujo genre. I’d seen pictures of gender-nonconforming aristocrat Oscar François de Jarjayes in her French military uniform, luxurious blond hair tumbling over her svelte shoulders. Even without knowing much...
Mamoru Hosoda’s newest film gets a first teaser and December release date
Legendary anime director Mamoru Hosoda is back at it again — and his latest project, Scarlet, features a pink-haired warrior princess battling enemies through a wasteland. According to the YouTube description, she’s the titular Princess Scarlet and she wakes up in a mysterious “Land of the Dead” and must avenge...