Author: Alizee Ali Khan

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…

More than 15 years after directing the original Thor, Kenneth Branagh has admitted he “would love to finish my relationship with that character.” He already has a specific vision in mind. But in a conversation with Business Insiders this week, Branagh said he has “a couple of ideas, more in the territory of James Mangold’s brilliant Logan.” That’s a pretty stark departure from a franchise that has leaned heavily on comedy and spectacle since his 2011 original. “I would love to see Chris Hemsworth and the others have their own individual final story that takes Thor into a glorious twilight,” he…

Dave Franco is now officially on board to star opposite Sophie Wilde in the alien invasion thriller Soon You Will Be Gone And Possibly Eaten. The news arrived as Cannes Market was arriving, and sent a definite jolt of urgency through one of the more interesting genre films in play. Franco will play opposite Wilde, with the film adapted from a short story by Nick Antosca. Egor Abramenko, who helmed Sputnik, will direct. Writing is from Luke Piotrowski and Ben Collins, who also wrote Hellraiser and the Night House. Franco and Wilde play Rob and Sabile, a young, soon-to-be-married couple…

Netflix has unveiled the first look at The Last House, a sci-fi survival thriller formerly known as 11817, directed by Louis Leterrier. Starring Greta Lee and Wagner Moura, the film is officially set to hit Netflix globally on August 7, 2026. The Last House follows a family of four suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out. They are forced to work together to survive against dwindling resources. They also face a mysterious, looming threat keeping them trapped. Lee and Moura play the parents at the center of that fight. Early on, Past Lives star Lee and Kingsley Ben-Adir…

Motion Picture Exchange (MPX) has acquired world sales rights to U.S. indie horror film Swipe. It is directed by Sean Whalen. The film features a murderous family of sadistic mute women. The company will present the female-driven chiller to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Marché du Film. Swipe centers on a young woman named Rina trying to save her brother Mike after a dating app hook-up leads to his abduction. Her search brings her to the isolated Doyle property, home to an elderly matriarch named Abigail and her three mute daughters: Marla, Willa, and Elsa. Elaine Hendrix, Hana Mae Lee,…

Roger Sweet, a toy designer known for creating He-Man for the Mattel He-Man and the Masters of the Universe line, has died. He passed away at age 91 after a long battle with dementia. Sweet died peacefully at his care facility Tuesday morning, wife Marlene said. Most of the headlines about Sweet will be from his time with He-Man. And understandably so. But his work goes far beyond that toy line. Prior to Mattel Prior to Mattel, Sweet worked in the industrial design business, first as a designer at Walter Dorwin Teague Associates and later on their in-house team. He…

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, the newest spin-off from The Big Bang Theory universe, has a launch window. The HBO Max show will debut in July but the exact date hasn’t been confirmed. The news came out on CCXP Mexico City where Kevin Sussman, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Posehn and John Ross Bowie revealed new concept art and first-look pictures. The show’s first-look images were also revealed at the event. Stuart Fails to Save the Universe will be the first spinoff set after the events of The Big Bang Theory. Created by Chuck Lorre, Zak Penn, and Bill Prady, the…