Matthew Rhys thanked everyone at the Emmys except Keri Russell — and it was her idea
Matthew Rhys made Emmy history twice in one night and found room in his speeches for his sister, his showrunner and an entire nation. Not for Keri Russell. That, it turns out, was her idea.
On 14
October 11, 2026 6:33 pm
Disney offered young Simba's singer $2 million — his mum turned it down for something else
Disney had a cheque for $2 million ready for a 13-year-old from Chicago. His mum sent it back, asked for $100,000 and a cut, and three decades later the internet is still auditing her.
Jason
October 11, 2026 5:03 pm
'A cheat code': Zach Cregger needed one Resident Evil to do what six Jovovich films couldn't
Six Milla Jovovich films never got past $60.1 million in America. Zach Cregger nearly matched that in his opening weekend, and is now past the series' two best US runs put together.
Four
October 11, 2026 4:12 pm
Three episodes in, the new Avatar series has been given what Nickelodeon never gave Korra
In 2014 the last Avatar was bundled off the telly halfway through a series. In 2026 the new one has four books guaranteed before most viewers have learnt her name.
Paramount+ has renewed Avatar:
October 11, 2026 2:46 pm
Blade Runner warned us about companies like Amazon — now Amazon is making the Blade Runner series
Blade Runner spent four decades warning us about a corporation that builds artificial people to replace the real ones. The new series is made by a company with $50 billion riding on OpenAI, and it
October 11, 2026 11:37 am
Warner Bros. decided Batgirl wasn't worth releasing. The boss who binned it just made $606 million
David Zaslav's $606 million payout from Paramount Skydance's Warner Bros. Discovery takeover, the executives' $1.1bn windfall and where DC lands now.
October 10, 2026 8:20 pm
Sorkin's Social Network sequel got his worst audience grade — and lost to a film audiences hated more
Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning got a B- CinemaScore and an estimated $6 million opening, losing the weekend to Jessica Chastain's D+ horror Other Mommy.
October 10, 2026 7:34 pm
Is Amistad a true story? John Quincy Adams really argued the case — the speech Anthony Hopkins gives was written in 1997
Spielberg's courtroom drama sticks closer to the record than most people assume, right up until the summation everyone remembers. Here's which parts happened, which were assembled, and what the real argument sounded like.
October 4, 2026 3:06 pm
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: where to start? One entry point needs zero homework — and Netflix is rolling it out weekly this fall
The JoJo anime is nine parts deep and 191 episodes long, which makes "where do I start" a fair question. One of the answers requires nothing at all, and it's the one currently going out weekly on Netflix.
October 4, 2026 10:31 am
Is Enemy at the Gates a true story? One character has never turned up in a single German record
Jean-Jacques Annaud's Stalingrad film is built around a duel between two real-sounding snipers. One of them has a Hero of the Soviet Union citation. The other has no paperwork anywhere.
October 3, 2026 4:41 pm