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The famously stubborn George Lucas gave in to Star Wars fans five times, from shrinking Jar Jar to deleting Luke's scream
The Holiday Special, the Special Edition scream, Han and Greedo, midi-chlorians and Jar Jar Binks: when the creator of Star Wars listened.
September 19, 2026 5:21 pm
Shrek fans will get to step into the swamp: the 2001 film is being reworked for giant immersive domes ahead of Shrek 5
Cosm and Universal are reworking DreamWorks’ 2001 film for LED dome screens, the first animated title in their shared reality format. Tickets go on sale this autumn.
September 19, 2026 2:03 pm
Sam Raimi makes movie from horror survival video game, yep, with Toy Story 4 director
Sam Raimi is plotting a big-screen take on a smash horror survival game, with the Toy Story 4 director aboard, as 20th Century Studios snaps up the rights.
September 18, 2026 4:37 pm
HBO's Harry Potter gives Lucius Malfoy a backstory in season 1 — the villain who actually needs one is Quirrell
‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ is set to deepen one villain — yet, for Season 1, it’s another who’s crying out for a proper backstory.
September 18, 2026 2:58 am
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
HBO's Harry Potter lands on Christmas Day and the wait between seasons stays long - Bloys has dropped the ten-year plan
Bad news for the Harry Potter TV show: a downbeat release date update has fans bracing for the worst.
September 17, 2026 2:13 am
Dwayne Johnson hit 282lb for Benny Safdie's last film - for the next one he cut to 235lb to play a 70-year-old
Dwayne Johnson says he’s shed serious weight for Benny Safdie’s Lizard Music, and the figure he gives in a recent Instagram video is properly eye-watering.
September 16, 2026 10:59 pm
Amanda Seyfried told Vogue in January that Thomas Sadoski sacrifices a lot for her career - now they have confirmed the split
Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski have called time on their nine-year marriage — and the statement confirming it quietly slips in a detail you might not expect.
September 16, 2026 10:10 pm
'They were the abusers, but at some point they were the abused': Johnny Flynn on the Lucius Malfoy he plays from episode one
HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ is set to delve into one of the story’s most fascinating figures — and the unexpected pick is bound to get fans talking.
September 16, 2026 5:11 pm
Keegan-Michael Key voices an evil 1990s children's TV mascot in Buddy, a $3 million film that has taken $21 million
Cristin Milioti’s Buddy is pulling off a box-office trick you almost never see, turning a modest budget into a hefty return.
September 16, 2026 2:54 am
Carrie-Anne Moss's Baba Yaga series gets a film-festival world premiere, then makes you wait until 23 October
AMC+ has set a date for its witch-hunt horror-mystery led by Carrie-Anne Moss.
September 15, 2026 12:45 am
Netflix is making a Crazy Taxi film out of a game with no plot, and the Naked Gun writers have to invent one
The team behind 'The Naked Gun' are switching lanes to Netflix for a film based on a ’90s-born racing game — and the pick might surprise you.
September 14, 2026 11:40 pm
Christian Bale’s a hero off camera — he helped launch a foster care home
Turns out Batman wasn’t a phase for Christian Bale — after three films as the Dark Knight, he’s pulled off something properly heroic in real life.
September 14, 2026 10:43 pm
Nope — Cody Walker isn’t playing Brian O’Conner again in Fast Forever
As chatter builds about Brian O’Conner returning in Fast Forever, Cody Walker reckons there’s another way to make it happen — and it doesn’t involve him.
September 14, 2026 10:41 pm
Critics disliked Tales from '85, and Netflix is back with ten more episodes on 17 September
Stranger Things — Netflix’s 2016 sci‑fi hit led by Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven — has a new release, and you’ll want to know what it is.
September 13, 2026 10:33 pm
A Harry Potter star has shared Alan Rickman’s heartwarming off-camera mission
Gary Oldman has lifted the lid on a quietly heartwarming behind‑the‑scenes mission Alan Rickman maintained on Harry Potter, underlining the late star’s famed kindness.
September 13, 2026 9:06 pm
Noah Schnapp will lead Stealing From Pablo, about kids who partied in Escobar's mansion
Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp is set to star in a thriller based on real events, with a Gotham actor and a City of God star also aboard.
September 12, 2026 11:52 pm
Dan Schneider's Quiet on Set appeal failed, because the court agreed it never called him an abuser
Dan Schneider has taken a hefty blow on appeal in his fight over Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV — and it’s hardly good news.
September 12, 2026 4:05 pm
Fast Forever bringing back Paul Walker might spark debate, his brother says
AI could bring Paul Walker back for Fast Forever — but Cody Walker explains why that idea might not sit well.
September 10, 2026 11:28 pm
Why did Rick leave The Walking Dead? Six years later he got a whole series to come back
Andrew Lincoln announced in 2018 that he was leaving The Walking Dead, and Rick Grimes's last episode as a series regular aired that November, midway through season 9. The reason wasn't money or scripts, and AMC never actually killed the character — the exit was engineered to set up a film trilogy that never got made, before finally becoming the 2024 series The Ones Who Live. Here's the whole chain of events, in Lincoln's own words.
September 10, 2026 5:18 pm
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