EXCLUSIVE: In Monday’s press release revealing AMC Theatres‘ new distribution venture Leawood Films, distribution veteran Kyle Davies was listed as an advisor. However, we’ve come to learn that the exec is leaving Bleecker Street as President of Distribution to lead distribution at the No. 1 theater chain’s new film label. Leawood Films, AMC said, will
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Beautiful, mysterious, unpredictable and impossible to forget, Despina Mirou isn’t simply playing the part of a star. She is living one of Hollywood’s most fascinating lives. There is something deliciously old-fashioned about Despina Mirou. Not old-fashioned in the conventional sense. Nothing about Mirou could reasonably be called conventional. But she possesses something increasingly rare in
Hoda Kotb is looking into a developing story—her love life. The former Today co-anchor revealed she and a mystery man have “texted recently” after meeting by chance on a flight. “It was the weirdest connection in the world,” Kotb told Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones during the Aug. 21 episode of Today With Jenna
Director Casper Kelly’s Barney-inspired horror movie Buddy was a massive hit for Roadside Attractions and Saban Films over the weekend, managing to double its box office projections. The indie horror movie debuted in the #6 spot on the domestic box office charts against some real heavy hitters, scaring up $5,363,827 across the weekend in just


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The galaxy far, far away is set to expand, thanks to Star Wars: Starfighter, which is set to soar into theaters as part of the 2027 movie schedule. Set five years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker, the film will see Ryan Gosling play a new character named Kade Auberon. There was considerable
Dark Trip, independent game studio iWorlds’ mix of psychological horror with a dash of Lovecraft, will launch on Steam and Meta Quest on October 29, which coincidentally is during Valve’s annual Halloween festival, Steam Scream. Currently, the game is in Early Access on Meta Quest, while those PC players itching to check the game out
In Chloe Benjamin’s exquisitely imagined and emotionally rich Under Story, a woman moves to Antarctica in search of a fresh start and finds far more than she expected. It’s an extreme choice. The icebound landmass where McMurdo Station is situated sees “less rain than the Sahara” and is so remote that airplane travel is restricted
Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale’s Son Zuma Looks So Grown Up in Rare Photos on 18th Birthday Gwen Stefani is feeling cool about her son’s new chapter. The No Doubt singer celebrated her and ex-husband Gavin Rossdale’s son Zuma officially becoming an adult, ringing in his 18th birthday with a heartfelt video that highlighted the teen’s
Alan Ritchson and Sydney Sweeney star in two of the most ambitious upcoming sci-fi movies on Netflix. With the two powerhouses as the leads in the new sci-fi projects, it is hard not to see how Netflix is inching closer towards a whole new sci-fi era. When it comes to sci-fi movies, Netflix does not
Going back to Poe’s C Auguste Dupin and Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, procedural mysteries have an illustrious history in crime fiction. Damien Boyd’s new Seeing Red fits that popular model quite neatly. This is his 16th book in the DI Nick Dixon Crime series, and you feel like you’re in excellent hands from the opening
Switch 2 owners won’t have to feel left out with Frogwares’ The Sinking City 2, as the developer will be bringing the survival horror game to Nintendo’s console next year. Frogwares made the announcement late last week as part of the Future Games Show, complete with a new trailer. Released a few weeks back for
Do you ever feel like a beloved show goes off the air and the creatives hold on to the idea of revisiting the franchise, only for any future series to never get the green light? That’s sort of where Manifest was when it wrapped up after four seasons back in 2023. The series had been
Critic’s Rating: 4.1 / 5.0 4.1 Do you know that discourse about whether women should choose the man or the bear? Well, switch “bear” out with “storm,” and the answer remains the same. One simple camping trip out with friends can turn into something out of a horror movie if your man-picker is broken. Sheesh!
Can we just a minute to appreciate women? Actually, we’ll take a few minutes. Oh, yeah, and their allies, too, because shout-out to the best man on Furious, thank you very much. If anything, our Characters of the Week prove that women can hold their own and be compelling to watch in the process, so
The Big Brother gods gave us a little treat this weekend. After the 1,000th-episode extravaganza, Julie Chen Moonves introduced an unprecedented twist, while also informing us that live feeds would be unavailable until after Sunday night’s episode. But that doesn’t seem to be the case because feeds are back, baby! And there’s a lot to
TRAILMARK Games and developer Odaclick Game Studio revealed late last week during the Future Games Show at Gamescom that Negan, the ruthless leader of the Saviors, will be a playable character in the upcoming throwback beat-’em-up The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival. Armed with Lucille, his infamous barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat, Negan will arrive with
Best known as the lovably dim Andy Dwyer on NBC’sParks and Recreation, it was the lead role in Guardians of the Galaxy that turned Chris Pratt into a full-blown superstar. Aside from his transformation from goofy sidekick tocharismatic leading man, Pratt underwent a headline-making physical transformation to lead the rag-tag team of space misfits as
Saber Interactive will be giving Turok: Origins a little more time to cook. Originally launching this fall, Saber announced during Gamescom that Turok: Origins will now be heading to a spring 2027 release. To make up for the delay, we have a new extended story trailer that gives fans an even closer look at mankind’s
It’s hard to believe that the Big Brother Gods rewarded us patient fans with live feeds on Saturday evening, after host Julie Chen told us to go touch some grass and expect them back on Sunday evening. Her statement during Big Brother’s 1000th episode stirred up the fan base like never before because the very
The Miss USA and Miss Teen USA competitions will not be airing on The CW this year. The 2026 pageants have been pulled from the network’s schedule one week before their scheduled air dates on Aug. 27 and 26, respectively. “After careful consideration and conversations with the Miss USA Organization, The CW Network has decided
One of the most exciting upcoming action movies coming out this fall is the new take on Street Fighter. It includes all your favorite players from the video game, including Ryu, who will be played by Andrew Koji. The actor has a personal reason why winning the big part means a lot to him. Ryu
We only have a few updates for the Bloody Disgusting Horror Database and community this week, but we did deliver on one of the most requested features so far: Half star ratings! You can now rate films with a half star rating, and you can also preview your score before submitting. All previous ratings have
Looking back on cinema, you’ll notice that there have been quite a few movies based on urban legends. Most found their pop folklore inspiration without spending a lot of time and energy, but some others were a little more obscure in their choices. Either way, adapting urban legends always requires a good deal of creativity,
I’ve known for a while that Holly, Tate, Chanel, and Johnny are all leaving Days of Our Lives. I wish they weren’t — we have a shortage of interesting younger characters, and all of them have interesting storylines. Worse still, Days of Our Lives spoilers for the week of 8-31-26 suggest that these couples will
For Molly Sims, years in the makeup chair led her to this moment. The YISE Beauty founder chatted exclusively with E! following the launch of her latest product innovation, the Xtremely Quenched Peptide Instant Glow Moisturizer, which comes on the heels of a slight change for the brand: the name. “So many people couldn’t pronounce
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar has a phenomenal cast, but it’s often easy to forget about or overlook Timothée Chalamet‘s role. The 2014 sci-fi movie puts Matthew McConaughey in the lead role as Joseph Cooper, exploring him leaving Earth to travel the galaxy in search of finding a new planet for humanity to call home. In usual
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