Author: Alizee Ali Khan

Casting directors Lucy Bevan and Emily Brockmann are looking for a young actor to cast as Colin Creevey in Season 2 of HBO’s Harry Potter. Auditions are already underway, with some candidates reportedly being recalled. It’s a huge plus. Creevey appears in six of J.K. Rowling’s novels, making the Hogwarts student a real regular in any adaptation of the books, which will cover every novel. He is introduced in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and is seen around Hogwarts with a camera, excitedly covering Harry himself. The films largely gave up on him after Chamber of Secrets, but…

Ted Danson is apologizing again for one of the most controversial moments of his career. He said he will be apologizing “for the rest of my life” for a 1993 blackface roast of Whoopi Goldberg. The incident, which took place while the pair were romantically involved, was recently explored on W. Kamau Bell’s podcast, Who’s With Me? The event occurred during a roast at the New York Friars Club. The Cheers actor performed racist jokes and insults. Jokes about the couple’s sex life, leading to criticism from those in attendance and from figures such as David N. Dinkins, the city’s…

Crunchyroll is making one of its largest Anime Expo appearances. The anime streaming company has released its full programming lineup for the event. It will feature some of the industry’s biggest titles such as The Apothecary Diaries, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Gachiakuta, and Witch Hat Atelier. It will also feature newer series such as Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, Firefly Wedding, The Ogre’s Bride and Overgeared. It’s hard to ignore the magnitude of what Crunchyroll is aiming to do. The streaming service will “transform the Peacock Theater [in Los Angeles] into…

Devil May Cry is coming one final time. Netflix officially renewed the animated series on June 4, 2026, announcing that the third season will be its last. The renewal announcement comes just after Season 2’s launch, which landed and stayed in Netflix’s Global Top 10. The timing was swift, and not really surprising considering the numbers behind the series. Devil May Cry has spent four weeks in Netflix’s Global Top 10 across its two seasons, with the show’s inaugural season amassing 21.7 million views in 2025, while its second season garnered 6.4 million in just two weeks. Season 1 premiered…

DC Studios dropped the final Supergirl trailer on June 3, giving fans their last real look before the film hits theaters. In it, Kara Zor-El comes to grips with her sense of responsibility to help people across the cosmos, just like her cousin, Superman. While trying to drink away her pain after losing her planet and people, Kara stumbles across Ruthye Marye Knoll, a young girl whose father was killed by Krem of the Yellow Hills, a vile villain who leads a band of Brigands to ensure destruction across the galaxy. It’s a setup pulled straight from the source material,…

Just, say it out loud for a second. A cockroach wakes up human. Decides to become a crime boss. Gets played by Chris Hemsworth. Kockroach has officially wrapped filming in Australia, and first-look photos featuring Hemsworth and Taron Egerton are now out. The New York-set crime pic follows a mysterious stranger in the city’s criminal underworld as he turns himself into a boss in a city where power is everything. That reads like a perfect brief, and then you find out where the curse “mysterious stranger” comes from. The film is basically the opposite of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Instead of…

David Harbour and Gaby Hoffmann are venturing into new territory. The two have signed to star in Little One, a dark comedy currently in pre-production in Los Angeles. Little One marks Alex Kavutskiy’s feature directorial debut, reuniting Weapons producing partners Zach Cregger and Roy Lee. Character details are currently being kept under wraps. Filming this month under a California tax credit for Little One, the film is about a sudden change in a child’s behavior that threatens to pull a perfect family apart. It is a concept that’s clearly in Cregger’s wheelhouse, though this one is clearly heavier on the…

Nearly 70% of Americans play video games for at least one hour each week. That’s the headline number from the Entertainment Software Association’s 2026 Essential Facts About the U.S. Video Game Industry report, published Wednesday. The Essential Facts report estimates the overall number of U.S. players at 212.3 million between the ages of 5 and 90. That’s 3 percent, or 7.2 million people, more than in last year’s report. That’s more Americans than go to church, watch live sports, or go to movie theaters in a given week. Gaming is no longer a hobby. It has become the default. The…

Tim Curry is making a return to the Stream universe and this time, there’s much more of him. Curry was in short order in the first film, but he’ll be playing a much bigger role in the sequel. The team has revealed the acting legend will be back in Stream 2. Director Michael Leavy made it clear from the start that this was part of the plan. “Tim Curry is someone who has inspired generations of horror fans and filmmakers alike,” “From the beginning, we envisioned his character as part of a much larger story within the ‘Stream’ universe.” Leavy…

The Streets of Rage film adaptation at Lionsgate has a new team in charge. Duo Pat Casey and Josh Miller have been brought in to write the screenplay. They’ve joined forces with Jeymes Samuel, who signs on to direct. Casey and Miller replace Derek Kolstad, who wrote an earlier draft when the property was first picked up by Lionsgate in 2022. Kolstad is best known as the creator of the John Wick franchise. The fact that Kolstad is out doesn’t mean the project is on hold, however. Casey and Miller have already co-written Sega and Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy.…