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Apple TV has released a trailer for a movie by actor Jonah Hill titled Outcome, which boasts a star-studded cast, including Reeves as an actor embroiled in a scandal and who is hoping to save his career. The movie starring Reeves, Hill, Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer, Susan Lucci, Laverne Cox, David Spade, Martin Scorsese, Atsuko Okatsuka, Roy Wood, Jr., Welker White, Kaia Gerber, and Ivy Wolk will be released on Apple TV on April 10...

Blumhouse's chief marketing officer Karen Barragan acknowledging people's hesitations about AI: "Photoshop, when it launched in the '90s, people weren't happy with Adobe. They felt like we were destroying craft. If you talk to the folks at Pixar, when 3D animation came out, that was really jarring for the industry. I think we're at that [point] that again"...

It's a good year to be a gamer and a cinephile. And, that's because 2026 could potentially be the biggest year for video game movies ever!. We have The Super Mario Galaxy Movie coming out in April, Mortal Kombat II - after a long delay - on May 15th, the new Resident Evil reboot from Weapons director, Zach Cregger, releasing on September 18th, and Street Fighter (probably my most anticipated) due out on October 16th. Not only that, but we ALSO have the third Angry Birds movie hitting theaters on December 23rd...

At the Shareholders Meeting, after departing boss Bob Iger made some farewell remarks, Josh D'Amaro appeared in a prerecorded segment where he seemingly took a shot at the recent battle over Warner Bros, indicating that the chaos we're seeing in the industry right now is because companies are realizing its something they have to do to compete, while Disney is riding high: "Simply put, while others in our industry are consolidating just to compete, are struggling to be relevant in a fragmented and disrupted world, Disney is in a category of one, poised to accelerate into our next era of innovation and growth."...

Jonah Feingold is applying startup logic to independent film, which may say more about him than the market. Or it may say where the market is headed.  He's directed four features, is about to release his fifth, and will start a sixth this summer. Now he is trying to raise $3 million for Romantical. To be clear, Romantical is not a movie. It's a pitch for a media company dedicated to romantic comedy and Feingold's attempt to build infrastructure around it. The plan is to produce films, digital series, live events, brand partnerships, and licensing, all feeding into a compounding IP engine. With his 13-page pitch deck, Feingold's Romantical is made for Y Combinator, not Sundance. For now, Romantical exists as a proof of concept built through branded rom-com shorts made with sponsors like Hinge, Tinder, and BetterHelp. Traditional independent film asks investors to underwrite a single asset — one film, one release cycle, one outcome. Romantical asks them to underwrite a business...

First Line Films announced today that its upcoming historical drama "As Deep as the Grave" (formerly known as "Canyon of the Dead") will, per an official press release, "feature actor Val Kilmer posthumously; a first-ever performance enabled by generative AI." The release also tells us that "Kilmer was originally cast in the role of Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist who was a historical figure at the San Juan Mission in Farmington, NM, and that the actor, who passed away in April of 2025, "was unable to film due to his deteriorating health condition." The film is billed as "an action-adventure true portrayal of southwestern archaeologists Ann and Earl Morris. The film tells the story of their excavations in Canyon De Chelly, Arizona and the history of the Navajo people." The film was directed, written, and produced by Coerte Voorhees, and also stars Abigail Lawrie (as Ann Morris), Tom Felton (as Earl Morris), and Abigail Breslin (as Anne Morrow Lindbergh), plus Hanako Footman, Ewen Bremner, Tatanka Means, Finn Jones, and Jacob Fortune-Lloyd. The Navajo Nation and The National Park Service facilitated filming in the real archaeological locations of Canyon de Chelly and across the Four Corners region...