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What Castle in the Sky is based on, in Miyazaki's own account of the film's origins
Studio Ghibli's first release began with a comic Hayao Miyazaki read as a schoolboy, a satirical novel from 1726, and a research trip to South Wales. Where each piece of Castle in the Sky came from, in the director's own account — plus the four titles it nearly had.
September 20, 2026 5:03 pm
The People v. Gorilla Grodd is filming, and Skyler Gisondo says scenes are shot almost entirely on courthouse CCTV
Skyler Gisondo told Collider the DCU mockumentary from the American Vandal team feels like a play. HBO’s Casey Bloys confirmed filming but no air date yet.
September 20, 2026 4:49 pm
Stephen King meets The Matrix: Gerard Butler's forgotten flop Gamer is now free on Tubi
Neveldine and Taylor’s 2009 film, with Logan Lerman controlling Butler’s death-row inmate like a game character, is streaming free from 17 September.
September 20, 2026 4:21 pm
How accurate is The Pacific? Checked against the two Marines' memoirs it was built on
HBO's The Pacific was adapted from two Marine memoirs and a third man who never wrote one. Where the series follows Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie exactly, where it merges and rearranges them, and which of its hardest scenes came straight off the page.
September 20, 2026 4:02 pm
Resident Evil's ending, answered: what Bryan becomes, who flies the helicopters and where the cure went — 10 questions
What started the outbreak, which virus it is, what chased Bryan all night and why there’s a blizzard: Cregger’s Resident Evil, explained.
September 20, 2026 3:27 pm
James Gunn teased 'the blackest night is yet to come' with three Lanterns episodes left — the comics event where dead heroes rise
Gunn’s post on Threads quoted the Lantern Oath, and fans now expect Sinestro, a bigger Blackest Night saga or Hal Jordan’s return.
September 20, 2026 2:11 pm
Zack Snyder's wife told him never to watch Joss Whedon's Justice League — he still loves the 'I tried' sign under his credit
On Happy Sad Confused, Zack Snyder said he never saw the theatrical Justice League, but a meme showed him the homeless man’s sign in the opening credits.
September 20, 2026 1:18 pm
For a Few Dollars More, often called the best western sequel ever made, is free on YouTube
Sergio Leone’s 1965 western with Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volonté is streaming for nothing on YouTube.
September 20, 2026 12:02 pm
Six Emmys later, Vince Gilligan's Pluribus is back among the biggest shows on streaming
Vince Gilligan’s series with Rhea Seehorn won six of its 18 Emmy nominations and is back at No. 7 among Apple TV’s most-streamed series worldwide.
September 20, 2026 11:36 am
'Nobody's called, the sets are gone': Akiva Goldsman doesn't see Star Trek: Year One happening
The Strange New Worlds showrunner told RadioTimes the Kirk spin-off was never officially cancelled, but the sets are gone and the cast has moved on.
September 20, 2026 9:28 am
Tom Hardy says MobLand season 2 takes Harry's edge away: the fixer who was 'five steps ahead' is on the back foot
Tom Hardy told ScreenRant season 2 is the most kinetic yet, with the Harrigans split across the world and Johnny Flynn joining the villains.
September 20, 2026 9:04 am
NCIS: why did Jimmy's wife die? The off-screen death, and the writers' reason for it
Breena Palmer was already gone by the time NCIS came back to her, and the show delivered the news in a single line of dialogue. Here is when it happened, what the episode said out loud and what it left to inference, and the reason the writers put the loss on Jimmy rather than anyone else on the team.
September 19, 2026 6:41 pm
Money Heist's Berlin is the villain in Prime Video's new legal thriller — already one of the biggest shows on streaming
Eugenio Derbez and Pedro Alonso lead El Juicio, a Mexican legal drama about an assault case against a rich family’s son, released on 11 September.
September 19, 2026 1:12 pm
Zack Snyder has sold his Fountainhead series twice — both buyers backed out within a week
Zack Snyder has written 10 of the 12 episodes of his Ayn Rand adaptation and told Happy Sad Confused why studios keep getting cold feet.
September 19, 2026 12:47 pm
'It didn't take': Sharon Stone spoiled Cassie's Euphoria season 3 arc with a joke about Sydney Sweeney's lingerie line
Sharon Stone plays a Hollywood executive in Euphoria season 3 and told Variety what happens when she tries to get Cassie out of camming.
September 19, 2026 12:24 pm
The Big Bang Theory spin-off wanted Green Lantern — DC kept him for Lanterns, so the episode got the Flash
Co-creator Zak Penn explains why Stuart Fails to Save the Universe went to Gotham and Central City instead: DC would give them anyone but Green Lantern.
September 19, 2026 11:33 am
Charlize Theron is behind the first live-action Webtoon series in English — a mafia nanny romance with 338 million views
Hulu’s adaptation of Violet Matter’s Webtoon, with 338 million views, follows an elite nanny guarding a Venetian mafia underboss’s son. Max Gill is writing.
September 19, 2026 10:18 am
Superman's Jimmy Olsen says the DCU's Gorilla Grodd murder trial happens before Man of Tomorrow
Skyler Gisondo, back as Jimmy Olsen, says HBO Max’s true-crime mockumentary sits between Superman and its sequel, out on 9 July 2027.
September 19, 2026 9:52 am
Eddie is Conrad's son, raised as his grandson: the MobLand family tree you need for season 2
MobLand season 2 is streaming on Paramount+ from 18 September. Who’s who among Conrad, Maeve, Kevin, Bella, Eddie and Seraphina Harrigan, and how they’re related.
September 19, 2026 9:07 am
Who was on NCIS from the beginning? Only one of the original cast is still in the credits more than two decades on
NCIS premiered on CBS in September 2003 with five names in the main titles. Twenty-three seasons later, only one of them still turns up for work — and the man usually called an original cast member technically wasn't one.
September 18, 2026 9:01 pm
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