Ryan Reynolds' 'Mayday' Is One Day Closer With This Major Update

It has been announced that filming for upcoming action-adventure flick,Mayday, has wrapped. The film will starRyan Reynolds, known for action films such asThe Hitman’s Bodyguardand upcoming Marvel featureDeadpool and WolverinealongsideHugh Jackman.Maydaywill also starSirKenneth Branagh, known for writing and directing the Academy Award-winning featureBelfast,and starring recently inA Haunting in Veniceas Hercule Poirot, marking the latest installment in his well-regarded Agatha Christie trilogy. The announcement was made via X on June 03, 2025, via directorJonathan Goldstein, who has teamed up with fellow directorJohn Francis Daleyon the film....

July 8, 2025 · 2 min · 397 words · Heidi Aguilar

Serial Season 3 Trailer: Taking on the Criminal Justice System

The hit podcastSerialhas returned (just about – it will start dropping new episodes September 20th), but fans may be a little hesitant to embrace it with as much fervor as in the past. After an unexpected, haunting, dynamic first season that investigated the relatively unknown and controversial case of Adnan Syed, a young man imprisoned for murdering his girlfriend in high school, listeners were hooked toSarah Koenig’s reporting and the unfolding of a devastating story without a clear resolution....

July 8, 2025 · 3 min · 435 words · Mary Ellis

Tenet's New Release Date Has It Opening Internationally Before the US

Tenethas become an albatross around the neck of Warner Bros. What was once intended to be one of the studio’s biggest films of 2020 has been repeatedly pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was originally slated to open on July 17th before being pushed back to July 31st and then pushed again to August 12th before Warner Bros. decided to pull the film from its release slate entirely....

July 8, 2025 · 3 min · 439 words · Kristen Smith

The 10 Best Ryan Gosling Sketches on 'Saturday Night Live,' Ranked

Last Saturday,Ryan GoslinghostedSaturday Night Livefor the third time in an episode so good thatTaylor Swiftherself announced her approval of the monologue. The sketch comedy show has been known for being inconsistent, given how little time there is to prepare and write for the week’s show; the skits often get weaker as the night goes on. But sometimes an episode comes along that’s funny practically the whole way through, and Gosling is one of those guests who has one every time he shows up....

July 8, 2025 · 9 min · 1849 words · Robert Duncan

The 2025 Anime of the Year’s Upcoming Season Might Be Getting Canceled

Solo Leveling’s future remains uncertain as its production studio,A-1 Pictures, has received some bad news. According to the latest financial reports for the previous fiscal year, the company has reportedly incurred a loss in the millions. This left many to wonder how the studio landed on the red, despite the numerous successSolo Levelingreceived this year. According to the published financial report posted on GameBiz, A-1 Pictures showed a net loss of 178 million yen (~ $1....

July 8, 2025 · 2 min · 413 words · Chelsey Simpson

The Best Movies on Avoiding Deals with the Devil

And while there have always been movie adaptations of these tales, cinema has created some of the most visceral and original stories on the matter. Whether it beAl Pacinochewing the scenery as John Milton inThe Devil’s AdvocateorOrson Welles’ final performance inThe Transformers: The Movie, these are the best movies that really teach us what’s at stake when we make deals with the devil. Devil’s Advocate Would you make a deal with the devil if he was also your lawyer?...

July 8, 2025 · 6 min · 1267 words · Angela Burke

The Best Part of HBO's 'We Own This City' Isn't Jon Bernthal

HBO’s acclaimed miniseriesWe Own This City,byThe WireandTremé’sDavid SimonandGeorge Pelecanos, is set in the fraught years following the police killing of Freddie Gray –– a Black man who died after injuries sustained during a “rough ride” by law enforcement officers –– and features a nuanced examination of police brutality and institutionalized corruption in the Baltimore City Police Department (BPD). It specifically focuses on the real-life story ofWayne Jenkins(Jon Bernthal), a former police officer currently in federal prison for his extensive crimes while on the city’s once prestigious Gun Trace Task Force....

July 8, 2025 · 4 min · 694 words · Maria Jackson

The Last Jedi Reaction Not Influencing Rian Johnson's New Star Wars Trilogy

Fan reaction toStar Wars: The Last Jediwas loud, that’s for sure. With a worldwide gross of $1.3 billion, theForce Awakenssequel was seen bya lotof people, but if you went on social media there was a heated divide between some fans—those who loved writer/directorRian Johnson’s bold new direction for the franchise, and those who hated it. Regardless of how you feel about the film, Johnson isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Lucasfilm presidentKathleen Kennedyhad such a positive experience with the filmmaker onThe Last Jedithat she signed him to create a brand newStar Warstrilogy with new characters and a new setting, and he’s hard at work crafting that three-film arc right now....

July 8, 2025 · 2 min · 398 words · Chad Stephens

The Purge 3 Trailer Shows Patriots Proudly Saying "I Purged"

Of the modern horror franchises that have come about over the last decade or so, none have been as promising asThe Purge. Sure, the firstInsidiousis great, andThe Conjuring, it’s off-shot, is pretty strong all things tolled, butInsidious 2was a disappointment and the less said aboutInsidious 3, the better.The Purgebegan with a sharp concept, executed with style if not focus, andThe Purge: Anarchy, it’s sequel, improved by anchoring the story in the chaos of the titular street war and finding a thrilling lead inFrank Grillo, who will next be seen as the deadly Crossbones inCaptain America: Civil War....

July 8, 2025 · 3 min · 441 words · William Cisneros

The Safdie Brothers’ Heaven Knows What Remains Their Most Difficult Film

The story goes something like this. One day, filmmakerJosh Safdie– he of the SafdieBrothers, the fraternal writing and directing duo who, at the time of the telling of this particular anecdote, only had a handful of scrappy D.I.Y. indies to their name – was undercover, so to speak, in New York City’s Diamond District. The Safdie method is one that requires a full-immersion approach, and even the most seasoned New Yorkers are generally wary of the ruthless social hierarchies that rule this aforementioned slice of 47th Street....

July 8, 2025 · 6 min · 1237 words · Heather Lewis

Titans Season 2 Trailer Teases Brenton Thwaites as Nightwing at Last

Season 2 ofTitanscomes to a close next Friday, and with it comes a big superhero reveal that fans have been waiting for:Brenton Thwaitesstepping into the role of Nightwing in earnest! The season finale’s trailer teases a big face-off between the newly arrived Nightwing and the imposing threat that is Deathstroke. It also features a great look at the super-team’s costumes, but we’ve got even better shots of the supersuits thanks to a behind-the-scenes event put on by the creative team at DC Universe....

July 8, 2025 · 1 min · 210 words · Kimberly Barnett

Top 100 Essential Movies Every Serious Film Fan Should See

If you’re a budding cinephile, it can be difficult to know where to start or even to find a baseline. Cinema becomes more daunting every year as new films are released and old films are reappraised. With this in mind, the staff of Collider.com has collaborated on 100 movies we think every film fan needs to see.To be clear, this list is not an ending, but a beginning. It’s meant to serve as a starting point....

July 8, 2025 · 14 min · 2869 words · Victor Perry

Treadstone Star Jeremy Irvine on Stepping into the Bourne Franchise

From show creatorTim Kring, the USA Network drama seriesTreadstoneexplores the origin story and present-day actions of the infamous covert program that turns recruits into unstoppable superhuman assassins. Having created super spy Jason Bourne, the CIA black ops program Operation Treadstone is now seeing sleeper agents across the globe mysteriously resuming their deadly missions. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, British actorJeremy Irvine(who plays J. Randolph Bentley, a spy sent by the CIA to eliminate a key target, but then surprisingly finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy) talked about why he was a huge fan of theBournemovies, the appeal of this series, shooting such brutal and physical fight scenes, the most challenging and most fun days of the shoot, the process of discovering all of the twists and turns, how he felt when he learned where things would end up this season, what made this one of the most collaborative jobs he’s ever been a part of, and whether he’d like to continue telling this story for a bit....

July 8, 2025 · 12 min · 2400 words · Greg Rogers