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It wasn’t initially clear whether Cillian Murphy might return for Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later. But Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman revealed to Deadline that we can expect to see Murphy show up in a “a surprising way and in a way that grows,” when the movie hits theaters on June 20th, 2025.

Remember that 15-year-old Tolkien fan movie that Warner Bros. pulled from YouTube last week for sharing the same name as its upcoming Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum title? Well, it’s back!

Adrian Webster, who played Aragorn in the fan-made film, told IGN:

“Perhaps it was an automated copyright block due to the same title. It’s not quite clear. Anyway, we’re happy it’s back online again just now.”

Deadline reports that Blumhouse’s follow-ups to Megan (originally due out May 16th) and The Black Phone (originally due out June 27th) have had their premieres pushed back to June 27th and and October 17th, respectively. At least we also know the Five Nights at Freddy’s sequel now has a December 5th, 2025 premiere date.

MoviePass, MovieCrash — director Muta’Ali’s documentary chronicling how two growth-obsessed executives ran the innovative theater subscription service into the ground — made a spash at this year’s SXSW. And now the movie’s slated to make its streaming debut on Max later this month.

Love Me, co-writer / directors Sam and Andy Zuchero’s new feature about a satellite and an ocean buoy falling in love after humanity’s fall, was one of the most fascinating films playing at this year’s Sundance film festival. And Deadline reports that it’s finally making its way to theaters some time early next year.

Corman died at his home on May 9th, reports Variety. From the 1950s on, he produced (and sometimes directed) a long string of influential indie movies like Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Death Race 2000 (1975), and Piranha (1978).

He’s also been credited for launching or revitalizing several Holywood careers, including those of directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorcese, and actors Dennis Hopper, Vincent Price, and Sandra Bullock.

Details about Universal and Monkeypaw’s new psychological thriller Him from director Justin Tipping are still a bit scarce. But a Jordan Peele produced horror starring Marlon Wayans as a legendary quarterback training a new footballer on a remote compound sounds intense and promising as hell.

After announcing the new live-action Fantastic Four leads, Marvel revealed that Julia Garner will play a new version of the Silver Surfer, now Deadline is reporting that they’ll all be beefing with Ralph Ineson’s Galactus when the movie hits theaters.

The first A Quiet Place featured a fair number of shots showing off the movie’s terrifying looked like up close, but the franchise’s latest entry seems like it’s going to spotlight what groups of the creatures can do in packs judging from the looks of this new trailer.

Universal could have pulled off one of the funniest bits possible by releasing Twisters — a movie about swirling vortexes of earth, wind, and fire — on September 21st. But film’s latest trailer is a reminder that studios hate fun, and Twisters is out July 19th.

In its first teaser, the new LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy (on Disney Plus September 13th) goes where no Star Wars production has gone before by entering Darth Jar Jar into the canon.

Just kidding, it’s not canon. But it does look like a fun DC Elseworlds or Marvel’s What If...? kind of approach, which I’d like more of (no multiverse though, please).

We already knew what Warner Bros.’ new live-action Clark Kent (David Corenswet) would look like out of costume, but now we know what to expect from a fully suited-up Superman. Seems like James Gunn has gone for an aesthetic that’s classic, if a little baggy in the shoulders.

I haven’t been following Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, so heading into this first clip, I had no clue what was going on. I still don’t.

It seems like Adam Driver is testing his apparent ability to stop time, but I feel like there are better ways to do that. Megalopolis debuts at Cannes on May 17th. No word yet on a wider release.

Here’s your reminder that Disney’s latest animated anthology series, Star Wars: Tales of the Empire, started streaming today.

The six-episode miniseries may not quite be enough to tide everyone over until The Acolyte’s June 4th release, though — the longest episode clocks in at just 19 minutes.

The contest (rules here) runs from May 4th through June 4th. Autodesk provides certain assets like the Star Wars alphabet and symbols, as well as 30 day free trials of Autodesk software.

Prizes include Autodesk fabricating the winning overall droid and a paid trip for the winning designer (with lodging and a plus one!) to San Francisco to tour Industrial Light and Magic Studios.

Star Wars Day doesn’t technically kick off until May 4th, but Apple is celebrating the event a bit early with a precision finding-focused iPhone 15 ad spot starring a squad of (cosplayer) Mandalorians.

Welp, since Star Wars Day falls on a Saturday, it makes sense that Fortnite would finally release it’s long-teased Star Wars collaboration today. Star Wars is expanding across the entire Fortnite ecosystem. There are new skins in Battle Royale, new builds in LEGO Fortnite, special decals to unlock in Rocket Racing, and a Mos Eisley cantina stage in Fortnite Festival.

Private equity firms are a blight on society, but Sony is hoping that its offer to buy Paramount for about $26 billion with the help of Apollo Global Management will be tempting enough to get the studio to consider biting — something Skydance and its private equity partner Redbird Capital Partners haven’t been able to do just yet.

Sources tell The Wrap that the high costs stemmed from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s “chronic lateness,” along with inexperienced production execs:

“It should look like a $200 million-plus movie, but it doesn’t, because more than half goes to buyouts of the stars and the above the line,” the production insider said. “Amazon MGM have so many movies that nobody’s concentrating on what actually needs to get done. Given their volume, they can’t concentrate.”

Danny and Michael Philippou — the former YouTubers who directed the excellent horror film Talk To Me — are teaming up with A24 again for a mystery project called Bring Her Back. All we know now is that it’ll be scary, star Sally Hawkins, and starts production this summer. (Don’t worry: the Talk To Me sequel is still in the works, too.)

In addition to announcing CEO Bob Bakish’s departure, Paramount said its streaming service added 3.7 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2024, some of whom probably signed up to watch the Super Bowl LVIII.

While it might still be a while before you can stream The Boy and the Heron on Max, you’ll be able to buy digital copies beginning June 25th, and limited edition 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD steelbook edition will be available on July 9th.

Given the success of Disney’s “live-action” remake of The Lion King, a prequel seemed inevitable, so here we are with Mufasa. It looks a lot like the original, only this time they added an ice level and a villain voiced by Mads Mikkelsen. It hits theaters on December 20th.