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VisionQuest's new Avengers live inside Vision's head: FRIDAY and EDITH have to fight Ultron from his Mindscape
On the Pinewood set of VisionQuest, Marvel showed how Vision gets his own team of AIs, and Tommy’s actor refused to say if he gets super-speed.
September 19, 2026 2:54 pm
How did Festus leave Gunsmoke? Ken Curtis played him for close to 300 episodes — and then never once appeared in the TV movies
Ken Curtis played Festus Haggen for 11 years and 304 episodes of Gunsmoke, then sat out every one of the five reunion films CBS made between 1987 and 1994. Here's how the series actually ended for him, and what kept him out of the movies.
September 18, 2026 6:11 pm
Ready your pause button: Paul Bettany promises a ‘surplus’ of MCU Easter eggs in VisionQuest
Expect to be pausing a lot: Paul Bettany says VisionQuest is brimming with MCU Easter eggs, plus familiar cameos and a few major reveals on Disney+.
September 18, 2026 5:22 pm
Bill Skarsgård, Pennywise himself, will lead Kojima's new spy game — the one PlayStation walked away from this month
You’ll want to know who Kojima’s tapped: the actor behind Pennywise is leading action-espionage game Physint, announced during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2026 broadcast.
September 18, 2026 2:36 pm
Who is Marcello in Harry Wild?
Series 4 of Harry Wild finally produces the one relative the family had managed to avoid for decades. Here's who Marcello is, how he connects to Harry and Charlie, and why his arrival in Dublin brings the Wilds a great deal of trouble.
September 18, 2026 2:11 pm
Far Cry TV series ups the ante with Brendan Gleeson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hamish Linklater
FX's upcoming Far Cry series has beefed up its cast with a clutch of heavyweights — the kind of names that'll make you do a double take.
September 18, 2026 11:29 am
Matthew Lillard says he is ashamed he took Scream 7 after Melissa Barrera was fired — 'I didn't say no'
Matthew Lillard has spoken about his Scream return after Melissa Barrera’s firing — and he isn’t exactly proud of how he handled it.
September 18, 2026 12:22 am
The Odyssey Oscar predictions: category by category, for the best-reviewed film of Nolan's career
The Odyssey is the best-reviewed and highest-grossing film of Christopher Nolan's career. Here's how that converts into an Oscar campaign — the categories it can't lose, the ones Universal has a genuine strategy problem in, and the record it's chasing.
September 17, 2026 8:16 pm
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: what the title means — Kesey wrote the novel on night shifts at a psychiatric ward
The title of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes from a nursery rhyme, but the novel came from a night job at a Californian veterans' hospital and a CIA drug programme. Here's where Ken Kesey got both.
September 17, 2026 3:17 pm
Ron Howard's Medal of Honor drama with Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway takes Christmas Day 2027, the corridor that carried 1917
You’ll see Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway team up in Ron Howard’s next for Amazon MGM Studios, reportedly slotted into a competitive holiday corridor.
September 17, 2026 7:17 am
Told to create the character, a young Tom Cruise shaved his head - the Taps director found out when he took his hat off on set
Tom Cruise has admitted a naïve early‑career blunder — shaving his head without permission while filming, leaving his director stunned.
September 17, 2026 6:56 am
Eleven Emmys in two seasons, and HBO Max's answer to The Pitt is a French copy about Paris paramedics
HBO Max has announced a new French drama inspired by The Pitt's success — not a spin-off, but close enough to wind up some fans and delight others.
September 17, 2026 4:10 am
The DCU has its first R rating - Clayface cited for gore, nudity and drug use, in cinemas on 23 October
Brace yourself: Clayface’s DCU movie is steering into body horror, with an MPA rating teasing it won’t skimp on the gnarlier stuff.
September 17, 2026 3:48 am
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu spent 125 million dollars on a dark comedy with Tom Cruise - early tracking puts the opening at 20 million
Tom Cruise’s next outing, Digger, isn’t exactly off to a flying start, with early box office tracking hinting at trouble well before its 2 October 2026 release.
September 17, 2026 2:34 am
Iain Armitage played Sheldon for seven years and is keeping his distance from the spin-off - the showrunner says he will come back
A Big Bang Theory spin-off looks to be angling for another crossover, as its showrunner teases a possible return for the actor behind Sheldon — but nothing’s confirmed.
September 17, 2026 12:38 am
Tom Cruise's hardest role is not a Mission: Impossible, not Magnolia and not Eyes Wide Shut — he named it to GQ
Tom Cruise says the toughest character he’s ever played isn’t the one you’d expect — as he lines up an ambitious project with Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu.
September 16, 2026 8:02 pm
Cate Blanchett was sent to erase humanity. Alpha Gang left Telluride on 83%, with Chris Pine and Dave Bautista as her crew
Dave Bautista and Chris Pine’s sci‑fi comedy Alpha Gang is off to a flyer on Rotten Tomatoes, outperforming what fans had braced for.
September 16, 2026 3:31 pm
Danny Boyle's Ink lands on Netflix with Guy Pearce as Murdoch — the villain of the piece is the editor he hired
Danny Boyle’s Ink tackles The Sun’s rise, with Jack O’Connell’s Larry Lamb crackling through a scathing tabloid drama — but how far does it really go?
September 16, 2026 1:17 pm
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