Author: Alizee Ali Khan

PBS Kids is bringing back two of its most recognizable children’s franchises. Clifford the Big Red Dog is being rebooted in a new PBS Kids animated series. Separately, Super Why’s Comic Book Adventures, a spinoff of Super Why!, has set its PBS Kids premiere date of October 5, 2026. The new Clifford The new Clifford comes from 9 Story Media Group. It aims to teach preschoolers “important foundational social skills.” These include social problem-solving, making friends, and including others in play. The reimagined series centers around Emily Elizabeth. She is a kid with big-hearted ideas. Her giant best friend Clifford…

The 2026 Cannes Classics lineup just opened and… it’s crazy. A special 4K restoration of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth will get a pre-opening screening. The 20th anniversary of the fantasy gem’s Cannes debut, which led to a record-breaking 22-minute standing ovation, and del Toro will be there. Presented for the first time in 4K, it was lovingly restored from its original 35mm negative. The fantasy feature is being honored in Cannes for that record-breaking ovation. It also took home Oscars for its cinematography, art direction and make-up. It will be screened on Tuesday, May 12 at 2:30 at the…

The first full trailer for Evil Dead Burn is here, and it does not ease you in gently. New Line Cinema has released the first full-length trailer for the film, the sixth entry into Sam Raimi’s canon of Evil Dead films. The tagline makes the premise clear right away: “Family is the root of all evil.” Evil Dead Burn is the third standalone entry in the franchise, following Evil Dead (2013) and Evil Dead Rise (2023). Directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who broke out with Infested in 2023, the trailer confirms a plot. It centers on a grieving family. They stumble…

On Star Wars day, the White House shared a post featuring Donald Trump as the Mandalorian from the popular Disney+ series. It placed him next to Baby Yoda/Grogu alongside an American flag. Literally nobody asked for this crossover. And yet, here we are. The post captioned with: “In a galaxy that demands strength — America stands ready. This is the way. May the 4th be with you.” Clean references to Star Wars. But what makes the entire post awkward is the timing. The post comes as Disney launches a massive PR campaign around the first Star Wars movie in seven…

Gasoline, a story deeply set during the punk rock era of the 1990s, directed by James Merendino, with principal photography beginning this August. The feature project represents the filmmaker’s poignant return to the sub-culture that he brought to mainstream audiences almost 30 years ago. A young singer, broke and clinging to sobriety, convinces his teenage brothers to take the family van and spend their summer performing dysfunctional shows across America. That is the messy, road-weary premise of Gasoline. Though the story is based on true events with the band Eight Buck Experiment. Evan O’Meara, the band’s founder, produces the inde…

YouTube has just made its AI-powered likeness detection tool available to the entire entertainment industry. The platform says the technology is now open to celebrities, talent agencies, and management firms. They can identify AI-generated videos that feature fake versions of their faces. They can then take action against them. Here’s how it works: a celeb, creator or public figure, or, more likely, someone on their team, opts in to the program and uploads their likeness to the system. They don’t even have to have a public-facing YouTube channel. The system then scours YouTube and flags potential clones for that celeb’s…

A new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey dropped Monday night and it does not disappoint. Universal released the latest look at the Greek epic from Homer. It features Matt Damon’s Odysseus doing battle with the Cyclops. It also shows Robert Pattinson’s villainous Antinous trying to take the throne of Ithaca. The trailer debuted on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, on which the full cast list was also confirmed. Damon stars as Odysseus, with Tom Holland as his son Telemachus. Anne Hathaway plays his wife Penelope. Charlize Theron appears as the nymph Calypso. Pattinson plays the conniving suitor Antinous,…

Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios will open world sales before the Cannes market on Critterz, an AI generated animated family film. Described as “human-led but AI-assisted,” it is being positioned as among the first mainstream commercial family films. It will incorporate AI across all of its production pipeline. The feature is an all length adaptation of a 2023 viral short of the same name, which was among the first films to use OpenAI’s creative tools. Chad Nelson, a creative strategist at OpenAI, initially drew the film’s characters with OpenAI’s DALL-E image generator. This happened before the project expanded into a full…

After 16 years, the End the Backlog campaign has successfully driven rape kit reform legislation in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. For Mariska Hargitay, the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actress turned longtime activist, it’s a milestone she’s worked toward since 2010. Maine is the 50th and final state to commit to the reform. Governor Janet Mills’ enacted budget (LD2212) commits $267,000 in annual funding to establish a statewide rape kit inventory and tracking system. Joyful Heart Foundation Hargitay, best known for playing Captain Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, founded the Joyful…

Curry Barker isn’t just here to put another coat of blood on a fifty-year-old franchise. The filmmaker wants to dig deeper, and he’s already being upfront about where his focus will land. Barker, a YouTube comedian and filmmaker announced as the writer and director of the upcoming A24 reimagining, explained his interest. He is drawn to the unsettling dynamics within the family that raised Leatherface. Speaking to Total Film, he didn’t hold back on where he plans to take things. “I want to lean into the uncomfortability of the family, I want to lean into the rawness of what’s going…