Cinema isn’t just about the latest Disney/Pixar project or Star Wars spin-off. Memorable storytelling is happening all over the film industry, from Hollywood’s box-office-busting superhero smashes to small, innovative indie experiments. The Verge’s film section is here to help you sort through the latest Hollywood news and reviews, from favorite genres like sci-fi, fantasy, and horror to the independent movies that matter.
Alien: Romulus is a solid franchise tribute plagued by weird optics
Though Fede Álvarez’s new Alien film is gorgeous, its questionable optics leave much to be desired.
We’ve already seen the story of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry turned into a cinematic drama, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, director Eddie Schmidt is in the early stages of production on a documentary about the iconic smartphone.
Though Sony’s upcoming Kraven the Hunter feature probably won’t feature any Spider-Man cameos, the movie’s latest trailer is a reminder that at the very least, we’ll be seeing another Rhino variant when the movie hits theaters on December 13th.
She played both Ash’s companion and Team Rocket’s female lead from 1997 to 2015 across TV, film, and commercials. She also voiced some Pokémon like Jigglypuff and Goldeen, including in the Smash Bros. games.
Her sister Laurie Orr and her “Ash” co-star Veronica Taylor both confirmed the news. Here’s her IMDB page with other roles, including Your Lie in April and Hunter x Hunter.
Correction: Lillis was 55, not 46.
The world likes Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s team-up, which injected Deadpool into the MCU and brought Jackman’s Wolverine (and lots of other Marvel characters) along for the ride.
Deadpool & Wolverine has made $1.029 billion at the global box office, through today, putting it just a little behind 2019’s Joker as the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, according to Deadline.
Correction: Deadpool & Wolverine made $1.029 billion, not $1,029 billion.
Horror movies need to be more than a big mood
With MaXXXine, Longlegs, and Cuckoo, this summer is about the scary movie that has nothing to say.
But Disney’s live-action/CGI Lilo and Stitch feature will hit theaters next summer.
If Rachel Zegler’s live-action Snow White wasn’t so busy humming and whistling while she worked in the film’s new trailer, she might notice that Gal Gadot’s Evil Queen is clearly trying to poison her.
D23 2024: all the biggest trailers and news out of Disney’s biennial showcase
Disney’s D23 showcase of new projects from Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and more is upon us.
We knew Disney Plus’ new Star Wars: Skeleton Crew series (out December 3rd) would feature Jude Law as clever Force user, but the show’s first trailer is all about the kids getting into Goonies-style space mischief.
Disney chief creative officer and Frozen co-director Jennifer Lee took to the stage at this year’s D23 to announce that the Frozen 3 will debut some time in 2027, and be followed up by a subsequent film.
Pixar closed out its D23 presentation with some solid news: Incredibles 3 is in the works.
Look like modern electronics (read: tablets) are going to be the hot new toys in Toy Story 5, which now seems to be coming out in “Summer 2026.”
Though Pixar’s Elio was initially slated to debut next March, during its presentation at this year’s D23 expo, the studio announced that it will now hit theaters sometime in the summer.
Disney kicked off its big Entertainment Showcase at this year’s D23 with a new Moana 2 trailer that reveals more about how its titular wayfinder will set sail to reconnect the islands across Oceania.
A multiverse kinda feels like the last thing Star Wars needs right now, but the first trailer for Disney Plus’ LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy mini(fig)series actually makes its premise seem like the rare modern Luke Skywalker story that might liven up the franchise when it premieres on September 13th.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga only hit theaters a few months ago, but Warner Bros. announced today that the film is already making its way to Max next week on August 16th.
Seeking Mavis Beacon, Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross’ documentary about the real woman who became the face of one of the world’s best-selling typing games, was one of the most promising debuts at this year’s Sundance. And Neon’s finally bringing it to select theaters on September 13th.
Even though you can’t see Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise in this new teaser for HBO’s It prequel series Welcome to Derry, it’s pretty obvious the clown’s going to be up to his regular, degular demonic tricks when he makes his small screen debut.
Following up on its surprise Godzilla Minus One drop earlier this summer, Netflix is now streaming the film’s moody black and white cut as well.
Now that the first season of The Acolyte has wrapped, Lucasfilm is shifting attention to the next Star Wars spinoff, Skeleton crew. In addition to revealing the first images for the coming-of-age series, the studio also confirmed that it’ll start streaming on Disney Plus on December 3rd.
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In lieu of footage, we at least got this look at the Fantasticar from Fantastic Four, which gives a good sense of the film’s 1960s, retrofuturistic vibe.
Marvel confirmed that the upcoming film will be called The Fantastic Four: First Steps. But don’t get your hopes up about a trailer any time soon, as production doesn’t kick off until next week.
The pandemic and arrival of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds put the kibosh on a Paramount Plus series built around Michelle Yeoh’s Philippa Georgiou. But the Mirror Universe empress is back in the first trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 — Olatunde Osunsanmi’s upcoming film that will dig deeper into her dark past.
Shudder’s In a Violent Nature was one of my favorite films at Sundance this year, a slow-burn slasher that took place from the perspective of the killer. And while we don’t know anything about it just yet, the movie is indeed getting a sequel.
Netflix has been so quiet about its Bioshock film adaptation that it almost seemed as if the project might have been put on the back burner. But during a panel at this year’s SDCC, producer Roy Lee assured fans that, while Netflix has “reconfigured” the movie to be smaller and more personal, it’s still very much in the works.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’s grimy, sketchy aesthetic was one of the coolest things about the film. And judging from the opening sequence of Paramount Plus’ new Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the spin-off’s take on the film’s visual language is going to be just as inspired.
Though the new Transformers One trailer doesn’t feature nearly enough of Steve Buscemi’s Starscream, it does reveal quite a bit of the film’s general story — which might be a feature rather than a bug if you were on the fence about catching it in theaters on September 20th.
It has been 20 years since Edgar Wright kicked off his (Three Flavours) Cornetto Trilogy with Shaun of the Dead, and to celebrate the film’s legacy, a remastered cut of it is being re-released in US and UK theaters beginning August 29th and September 27th, respectively.
Hayao Miyazaki’s opus — which originally hit Japanese theaters last July, and was long expected to be the director’s final film — will stream on Max on September 6th. For more on the movie, be sure to check out our interview with supervising animator Takeshi Honda.