Steven Soderberghis the rare auteur who doesn’t carry himself like an auteur. While he is a widely celebrated and influential visionary whose films are known for impeccable craft, Soderbergh is not bound by one style or theme. Where most austere directors take extended gaps between projects,Soderbergh works prolifically, often releasing a film annually. Throughout his career, he has preferred to operate in a genre mold, elevating familiar material with his usual sharp eye for set pieces and character....

Scarlett Johansson’s latest blockbuster is now playing in theaters everywhere, and although reviews for the film have been middling, itscolossal opening weekend box office totalhas helped lift her into a special tier. Thanks toJurassic World Rebirthgrossing $318 million at the global box office on opening weekend, Johansson has now becomethe highest-grossing movie star in history. Her total now stands at $14.8 billion, ahead of the $14.6 billion from her Marvel co-starSamuel L....

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Season 3 of The Umbrella Academy.]Created for television bySteve Blackman, the Netflix original seriesThe Umbrella Academysees the Umbrellas face off with the Sparrow Academy, after they took their place in the timeline, in their home, and with their father, leading to an immediate clash. At the same time, a destructive entity is destroying everything around them and the only way they can keep the universe from ending (again!...

20th Century Fox has dropped an evocative trailer teaser for the finalWar for the Planet of the Apestrailer, which will arrive tomorrow.Dawn of the Planet of the ApesdirectorMatt Reevesreturns for the follow-up, which picks up a few years after the events of that film finally spurred the all-out war between humans and apes. Caesar (Andy Serkis) sets out to exact revenge against The Colonel (Woody Harrelson), who has amassed a massive human army at a compound deep in the snow....

Tom Hardyis back for one last ride as Eddie Brock and his alien bestie, Venom, inVenom: The Last Dance. The movie opens in two weeks and now, courtesy of theUK’s British Board of Film Classification(their version of the MPAA), we know how long the movie will be. While the first film clocked in at 111 minutes, and its sequel,Let There Be Carnage, was a brisk 97 minutes, this final chapter is more in keeping with the original at 109 minutes, including credits, at the end of which there might well be a surprise or two....

It’s that time of awards season when the various guilds begin weighing in with their nominations, and on the heels of the Screen Actors Guild nods, the Writers Guild of America has announced the nominees for its screenwriting awards. Most surprising of the bunch is the fact thatRhett ReeseandPaul Wernickscored a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination forDeadpool. This was a script that they worked on tirelessly for years trying to convince 20th Century Fox to make the movie, and when it was finally realized onscreen last spring, the finished film apparently bore an extremely close resemblance to their initial screenplay....

[Editor’s note: The following containsspoilersforWonder Woman 1984.] At the conclusion ofWonder Woman 1984, Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) has thrown the world into chaos by granting everyone’s wish. The whole world has basically wished upon a Monkey’s Paw and gotten twisted versions back of the thing they wanted while Lord only amasses more power. Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), using her lasso of truth, is able to speak to the whole world and convince them to renounce their wishes to bring the world back to normal....

Thirteen years after the original series run, the Fox seriesThe X-Filesis back as a six-episode event series from creator/executive producerChris Carter. WithDavid DuchovnyandGillian Andersonre-inhabiting their roles as iconic FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, andMitch Pileggiback as FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, the event series will encompass a mixture of stand-alone episodes, both funny and scary, and those that further the original show’s seminal mythology. While at the TCA Press Tour, Chris Carter participated in a small roundtable with Collider (along with three other press outlets) where he talked about reassembling the writers room, whether he ever considered bringing on any new writers, how familiar it felt to return to the show, the structure of the season, whyThe X-Filesis suited for both TV and film, managing fan expectations, having the luxury of time to finish the effects, why he keeps returning to this world, and what he hopes fans take away from these episodes....

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for NCIS Season 22 Episode 10. NCISSeason 22 is quickly spreading some love in the air for its fellow agents. The side plot forNCISSeason 22, Episode 9, “Humbug"dealt with the team trying to figure out what secret plans Nick Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) had for the holidays. After saying he wants to spend Christmas by himself, the end of the episode seesTorres texting a mystery woman he refers to as “babe”saying they’re still on for their Christmas plans....

The DC Extended Universe’s woes continue. Even after Warner Bros. left no stone unturned in getting the word out about this week’sThe Flash, the movie is falling short of even conservative estimates, and is eyeing just $55 million across its three-day debut, and around $62 million across the four-day Juneteenth holiday weekend. We’re talkingShazam!($53 million debut) numbers here. This actually also putsThe FlashunderBlack Adam, which opened to $67 million late last year, before tanking with under $400 million globally, despite a publicity campaign with starDwayne Johnsonfront and center....

We are first introduced to the characters ofYellowjacketsas a 1996 high school soccer team on their way to Seattle with their coach, assistant coach, and the coach’s two sons, who then become stranded in the Canadian wilderness when their plane crashes. The survivors of the crash are forced to survive in the brutal climate for 19 months, with many perishing, and the rest resorting to cannibalism. The show isloosely inspired by the true story of the 1972 Andes Flight Disaster, in which a plane carrying 45 passengers, including the Uruguayan Rugby team, their families and friends, and the flight crew, crash-landed in the Andes Mountains....

It’s finally September which means it’s time to start watching all your favorite horror franchises in preparation for Halloween. One of the most popular horror series around isChucky. For 35 years our favorite killer doll has been terrorizing the big and small screens.Chuckywill be returning this fall forSeason 3of his beloved TV series, but before he takes over the White House, it has been announced thatChuckywill have his very own pinball table in Zen Studios upcomingPinball M....

It’s time to take the stage, asDisney+has announced that they are releasingThe Sum of It All, a four-part documentary series focused on the life and career ofEd Sheeran. The title is a reference to how the singer’s albums are named after basic math symbols, including his upcoming record,Subtract. Besides taking a peek behind the curtain at what happened during one of the biggest concert tours in history, the series will go beyond the music and dive deeply into Sheeran’s personal life....