Star Wars spin-offs often arrive under intense scrutiny, and according to the report, that pressure has only grown as recent franchise projects are quickly sorted into best-of or worst-of conversations. But Star Wars: Visions has already shown that the brand can deliver something more adventurous. The anthology series brought in top animation studios from around the world and let them tell stories with major creative freedom, whether or not those stories fit into official canon. Two shorts from Japanese studio Production I.G. proved especially popular, leading Disney and Lucasfilm to expand that corner of the galaxy into a new spin-off.

Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi continues the story of Lah Kara, a hopeful Jedi padawan searching for her father, Lah Zima. Her journey becomes even more complicated when she and her companions run into Nawaam, a ruthless warlord determined to take control of the galaxy one planet at a time. The report says Kara’s personal mission is kept in the background while this larger threat drives the action, giving the series a mix of emotional stakes and broader conflict.

Visually, the series is described as a standout, with hand-drawn animation that compares favorably to some of the biggest names in modern anime. Rather than leaning too heavily on familiar Star Wars iconography, the show uses lightsabers, starships, and echoes of the Skywalker saga as supporting details while focusing on its own characters and ideas. The report also notes that the fantasy elements are more pronounced here than in the films, including a planet populated by elf- and dwarf-like beings, which adds to the story’s mystical tone.

One of the most distinctive elements carried over from the original “Ninth Jedi” short is its approach to lightsaber color and meaning. That concept returns in new ways as the story moves forward, especially in later episodes that dig deeper into the characters’ inner lives and moral choices. According to the report, the show is at its strongest when it leans into those original ideas, even if some of its villain and super-weapon elements feel closer to classic franchise storytelling. Overall, The Ninth Jedi is presented as a bold continuation of one of Star Wars: Visions’ most admired concepts.

Source: collider.com

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Netflix’s adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude continues to stand out as a visually striking translation of the novel, and the final stretch of the series leans fully into the story’s larger themes of destiny, family collapse, and the cost of progress. After the first eight episodes introduced Macondo as a place of wonder and possibility, the next chapter makes clear that the town’s isolation has never protected it from history, conflict, or the consequences of the Buendía family’s choices.

According to the review, Part 2 follows a family increasingly split by politics, ambition, and personal desire. Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s campaign against the Conservative Party puts him at odds with his mother, Úrsula, who wants to preserve peace. Once a quiet artist, Aureliano becomes hardened by war, and even after the need for fighting has faded, he remains trapped in its violence. His life also expands into a tangled web of relationships, including fathering 17 sons with 17 different women, all of whom arrive in Macondo seeking acknowledgment from the family.

The next generation carries the story into a new phase, with José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo taking the town in different directions. José Arcadio’s inventive work helps open Macondo to outsiders and leads to the arrival of a banana company, bringing economic change along with devastation. Aureliano, meanwhile, is drawn to pleasure and to Petra Cotes, whose relationship with him has an unexpected effect on the town’s livestock. His marriage to the deeply religious Fernanda del Carpio adds another layer of instability, especially as he continues his connection with Petra. The result is a long run of love, grief, and loss that reinforces the series’ sense of inevitability as Macondo moves toward its doomed end.

Directed by Laura Mora and Carlos Moreno, the reviewed episodes are described as a forceful confirmation that the Buendías cannot escape the curse shaping their lives. Even with moments of invention and apparent progress, the story keeps returning to the idea that every new arrival and every major decision pushes the family and the town closer to collapse.

Source: collider.com

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Christopher Nolan has built one of the most closely watched filmographies of the 21st century, and a Letterboxd ranking offers a fresh look at how his 13 feature-length films stack up with users. The list uses each movie’s average score out of 5, and when two titles are tied, the one with more fan ratings lands higher. According to the report, the results may surprise viewers who have strong personal favorites among Nolan’s work.

At the bottom of the ranking is Following, Nolan’s 1998 debut, which earned a 3.5/5. The low-budget black-and-white thriller follows a young writer in London who starts trailing strangers for inspiration before being pulled into a criminal world built on deception, burglary, and voyeurism. The article notes that the film already contains many of the director’s recurring ideas, including memory, identity, and nonlinear storytelling, even if it lacks the scale and visibility of his later releases.

Also sitting at 3.5/5 is Tenet, the 2020 sci-fi action film that imagines a future shaped by environmental collapse and a device capable of reversing entropy. In the story, John David Washington plays a CIA agent known as the Protagonist, who is recruited by the secretive Tenet organization to stop Andrei Sator, played by Kenneth Branagh, from assembling a doomsday weapon. The report describes the film as one of Nolan’s most intricate time-bending experiments, built around “inversion” technology that lets characters and objects move backward through time while everything else moves forward.

The ranking reflects the range of Nolan’s career, from a scrappy first feature that helped establish his style to a large-scale blockbuster that pushed his fascination with time even further. While the article emphasizes that fans will likely disagree about the order, it presents the list as a snapshot of how Letterboxd users currently value the director’s films across his evolving body of work.

Source: collider.com

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The Walking Dead may have ended its original run years ago, but the franchise is continuing to prove it still has plenty of life left. According to the report, Netflix and AMC Global Media have reached a new multi-year global licensing agreement that covers the full Walking Dead universe, putting the zombie saga back in the streaming spotlight.

The deal gives Netflix and AMC co-exclusive streaming rights to the main series as well as all six of its spin-offs. Altogether, that adds up to 371 episodes, making it a major library expansion for viewers who want to revisit the franchise from the beginning or catch up on its larger world.

The original series ran for 11 seasons and 177 episodes, and the franchise has continued to grow well beyond Rick Grimes’ first appearance in the post-apocalyptic world. Nearly 16 years after that debut, the property remains one of AMC’s most durable hits, with new chapters still extending the universe. The report notes that this is a developing story, so more details may follow as they become available.

Source: collider.com

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Pearl Studio’s animated fantasy feature All Wishes Come True! climbed to the top of the mainland China box office over the July 24–26 weekend, earning RMB314.8 million, or $46.3 million, in its second frame. The film, directed by Mu Zhengyang, has now reached a cumulative total of $112.5 million.

Positioned as a family-friendly mythological comedy, the title centers on eight ordinary mortals who are forced to rely on their intelligence and bravery to outwit powerful deities, eventually becoming known as the Eight Immortals. Its strong second-week performance was enough to overtake the weekend’s previous leader.

Shenzhen Film Studio’s Kung Fu Soccer moved into second place in its third weekend, adding $33.9 million and lifting its total to $286.6 million. Directed by Stephen Chow, the sports comedy follows an amateur women’s team that blends martial arts moves with professional soccer as it competes for a championship.

Elsewhere on the chart, Damai Entertainment’s sci-fi epic The Decisive Moment opened in third with $6.4 million for the weekend and $8.6 million including early screenings since its July 25 launch. The film, directed by Zhang Disha and produced by Huang Jianxin, was previously the closing title at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Universal’s Obsession debuted in fourth with $4.9 million, while Enlight Pictures’ youth drama A Part of Me finished fifth with $2.7 million in its second week, bringing its total to $21.6 million.

Overall weekend box office in mainland China came in at $102.3 million. Year-to-date revenue for 2026 now stands at $3.15 billion, which is 33.6% below the same period in 2025.

Source: variety.com

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Na Hong-jin’s science-fiction thriller Hope continued to lead the South Korean box office over the July 24–26 weekend, holding onto first place as the market eased. According to KOBIS, the Korean Film Council’s tracking service, the film earned $5.5 million from 767,366 admissions in the three-day period, giving it a 66.8% share of total weekend revenue.

The film, which stars Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Jung Ho-yeon, Michael Fassbender, and Alicia Vikander, follows a fight for survival in an isolated harbor town after locals encounter a mysterious alien presence nearby. After a record-setting opening weekend, the local tentpole has now reached $25.3 million from 3,415,707 viewers.

In second place, Minions & Monsters brought in $793,103 from 117,916 admissions and has now totaled $3.9 million since opening on July 15. Disney’s live-action musical Moana finished third in its third weekend with $593,187, while Toy Story 5 landed in fourth and is approaching the $20 million mark in Korea with a cumulative $19.8 million. Faith-based animated title David took fifth, and local thriller The Eyes came in sixth with a local total of $10.6 million.

Japanese animated feature Dream Animals The Movie debuted in seventh place, followed by Josh Safdie’s table tennis comedy-drama Marty Supreme in eighth. Showbox’s action-horror hit Colony placed ninth, lifting its lifetime gross to $42.6 million, while horror title Hokum rounded out the top 10. Overall weekend revenue across the market came to $8.2 million, down sharply from $17.1 million the week before.

Source: variety.com

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A new release is on the way for fans of The Terminator franchise. Makinarium has unveiled the T-800 Optics, a limited collectible that will serve as the first entry in its new Makinarium Studio Edition range.

What makes this item stand out is the way it was made. According to the report, the project came together through a team based at Pinewood Studios, using the same materials, techniques, and craftsmanship associated with major film productions. The result is a recreation of part of the actual Terminator, rather than a standard shelf collectible.

The piece is officially licensed from both The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and it was created to mark the 35th anniversary of the latter film. Pre-orders are already open, and the first units are expected to ship soon. For collectors, it adds another notable item to a franchise that has long inspired merchandise, but this one comes with a closer connection to the films themselves.

The T-800 remains one of cinema’s most recognizable figures, and the new release leans into that legacy by focusing on a single, highly specific part of the character. As a debut item for Makinarium’s new collectible label, it also signals the company’s intent to position the line around film-grade craftsmanship and officially sanctioned screen properties.

Source: collider.com

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Elon Musk has weighed in on The Odyssey after Christopher Nolan’s version of the story began racking up major box office numbers. Posting on X, Musk said his AI tool Grok Imagine will create a full-length adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic that he described as both “historically accurate” and faithful to the poem’s artistic spirit.

He said the project should be finished by the end of 2026 and shared the comment alongside an AI-generated three-minute short of The Odyssey that had been posted by another X user. The move appears to extend Musk’s long-running interest in the material, which he had previously criticized before Nolan’s film opened.

There is an obvious tension in Musk’s framing, since Homer’s poem includes cyclopes, a many-headed monster and a sorceress who turns men into pigs. The source notes that the work is nearly 2,800 years old and is generally regarded as fiction, making the idea of a “historically accurate” version a strange one on its face. The report suggests Musk may instead be referring to casting, after he previously objected to Lupita Nyong’o being linked to Helen of Troy and accused Nolan of bias in a post earlier this year.

Musk also amplified transphobic commentary related to Elliot Page, who was initially rumored to be playing Achilles before later being confirmed as Sinon. Meanwhile, Nolan’s The Odyssey has been a major success for Universal, with a $264 million worldwide opening weekend and signs that it could become the filmmaker’s highest-grossing movie yet.

Source: variety.com

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Tom Hardy has spent much of this year back in the conversation thanks to the ongoing attention around MobLand, but one of his most acclaimed films is now getting a fresh wave of interest for a very different reason. According to the report, Hardy’s performance in The Revenant is drawing renewed attention as the film climbs on video-on-demand services.

Hardy’s career has stretched across several major franchises and high-profile collaborations, from the Venom films to Mad Max: Fury Road and his work with Christopher Nolan on titles such as Inception and The Dark Knight Rises. Still, The Revenant remains the project that earned him his only Oscar nomination so far, arriving in 2015 for his role in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s western epic. While Leonardo DiCaprio ultimately won the Academy Award for his performance in the film, Hardy’s turn was widely seen as one of the strongest of his career.

More than a decade after release, the movie still does not have a U.S. streaming home. Even so, it is currently surging on digital platforms including Prime Video and Apple TV, suggesting that interest in the film has not faded. For viewers looking to revisit Hardy’s work outside his blockbuster era, the renewed VOD momentum is giving The Revenant a new kind of spotlight.

Source: collider.com

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One of the most celebrated revisionist Westerns ever made is currently available to stream for free in the United States. Robert Altman’s 1971 film McCabe & Mrs. Miller, often discussed as an anti-Western for the way it turns genre expectations upside down, remains a major title in film history.

The movie stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and it also drew a memorable reaction from Quentin Tarantino, who has praised and challenged Western traditions in his own work over the years. On the Pure Cinema Podcast, Tarantino said he has a complicated relationship with Altman’s film and singled out its opening section for especially harsh criticism. He described the first reel as the worst-mixed reel in Hollywood history and said he found the early stretch so unpleasant on VHS that he stopped watching before finishing it.

According to Tarantino, it took seeing a 35mm print before he gave the film another chance. He even considered passing that print along to Richard Linklater, which led him to revisit the movie with fresh eyes. That second viewing changed his reaction, even as his earlier comments made clear how strongly he had once rejected what he saw and heard in the opening act.

The report underscores how a film can be both widely admired and sharply disputed, even by one of the most influential directors working today. For viewers curious about a landmark Western that helped redefine the genre, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is now an easy one to catch without paying for it.

Source: collider.com

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Star Wars spin-offs often arrive under intense scrutiny, and according to the report, that pressure has only grown as recent franchise projects are quickly sorted into best-of or worst-of conversations. But Star Wars: Visions has already shown that the brand can deliver something more adventurous. The anthology series brought in top animation studios from around the world and let them tell stories with major creative freedom, whether or not those stories fit into official canon. Two shorts from Japanese studio Production I.G. proved especially popular, leading Disney and Lucasfilm to expand that corner of the galaxy into a new spin-off.

Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi continues the story of Lah Kara, a hopeful Jedi padawan searching for her father, Lah Zima. Her journey becomes even more complicated when she and her companions run into Nawaam, a ruthless warlord determined to take control of the galaxy one planet at a time. The report says Kara’s personal mission is kept in the background while this larger threat drives the action, giving the series a mix of emotional stakes and broader conflict.

Visually, the series is described as a standout, with hand-drawn animation that compares favorably to some of the biggest names in modern anime. Rather than leaning too heavily on familiar Star Wars iconography, the show uses lightsabers, starships, and echoes of the Skywalker saga as supporting details while focusing on its own characters and ideas. The report also notes that the fantasy elements are more pronounced here than in the films, including a planet populated by elf- and dwarf-like beings, which adds to the story’s mystical tone.

One of the most distinctive elements carried over from the original “Ninth Jedi” short is its approach to lightsaber color and meaning. That concept returns in new ways as the story moves forward, especially in later episodes that dig deeper into the characters’ inner lives and moral choices. According to the report, the show is at its strongest when it leans into those original ideas, even if some of its villain and super-weapon elements feel closer to classic franchise storytelling. Overall, The Ninth Jedi is presented as a bold continuation of one of Star Wars: Visions’ most admired concepts.

Source: collider.com

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Netflix’s adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude continues to stand out as a visually striking translation of the novel, and the final stretch of the series leans fully into the story’s larger themes of destiny, family collapse, and the cost of progress. After the first eight episodes introduced Macondo as a place of wonder and possibility, the next chapter makes clear that the town’s isolation has never protected it from history, conflict, or the consequences of the Buendía family’s choices.

According to the review, Part 2 follows a family increasingly split by politics, ambition, and personal desire. Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s campaign against the Conservative Party puts him at odds with his mother, Úrsula, who wants to preserve peace. Once a quiet artist, Aureliano becomes hardened by war, and even after the need for fighting has faded, he remains trapped in its violence. His life also expands into a tangled web of relationships, including fathering 17 sons with 17 different women, all of whom arrive in Macondo seeking acknowledgment from the family.

The next generation carries the story into a new phase, with José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo taking the town in different directions. José Arcadio’s inventive work helps open Macondo to outsiders and leads to the arrival of a banana company, bringing economic change along with devastation. Aureliano, meanwhile, is drawn to pleasure and to Petra Cotes, whose relationship with him has an unexpected effect on the town’s livestock. His marriage to the deeply religious Fernanda del Carpio adds another layer of instability, especially as he continues his connection with Petra. The result is a long run of love, grief, and loss that reinforces the series’ sense of inevitability as Macondo moves toward its doomed end.

Directed by Laura Mora and Carlos Moreno, the reviewed episodes are described as a forceful confirmation that the Buendías cannot escape the curse shaping their lives. Even with moments of invention and apparent progress, the story keeps returning to the idea that every new arrival and every major decision pushes the family and the town closer to collapse.

Source: collider.com

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Christopher Nolan has built one of the most closely watched filmographies of the 21st century, and a Letterboxd ranking offers a fresh look at how his 13 feature-length films stack up with users. The list uses each movie’s average score out of 5, and when two titles are tied, the one with more fan ratings lands higher. According to the report, the results may surprise viewers who have strong personal favorites among Nolan’s work.

At the bottom of the ranking is Following, Nolan’s 1998 debut, which earned a 3.5/5. The low-budget black-and-white thriller follows a young writer in London who starts trailing strangers for inspiration before being pulled into a criminal world built on deception, burglary, and voyeurism. The article notes that the film already contains many of the director’s recurring ideas, including memory, identity, and nonlinear storytelling, even if it lacks the scale and visibility of his later releases.

Also sitting at 3.5/5 is Tenet, the 2020 sci-fi action film that imagines a future shaped by environmental collapse and a device capable of reversing entropy. In the story, John David Washington plays a CIA agent known as the Protagonist, who is recruited by the secretive Tenet organization to stop Andrei Sator, played by Kenneth Branagh, from assembling a doomsday weapon. The report describes the film as one of Nolan’s most intricate time-bending experiments, built around “inversion” technology that lets characters and objects move backward through time while everything else moves forward.

The ranking reflects the range of Nolan’s career, from a scrappy first feature that helped establish his style to a large-scale blockbuster that pushed his fascination with time even further. While the article emphasizes that fans will likely disagree about the order, it presents the list as a snapshot of how Letterboxd users currently value the director’s films across his evolving body of work.

Source: collider.com

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The Walking Dead may have ended its original run years ago, but the franchise is continuing to prove it still has plenty of life left. According to the report, Netflix and AMC Global Media have reached a new multi-year global licensing agreement that covers the full Walking Dead universe, putting the zombie saga back in the streaming spotlight.

The deal gives Netflix and AMC co-exclusive streaming rights to the main series as well as all six of its spin-offs. Altogether, that adds up to 371 episodes, making it a major library expansion for viewers who want to revisit the franchise from the beginning or catch up on its larger world.

The original series ran for 11 seasons and 177 episodes, and the franchise has continued to grow well beyond Rick Grimes’ first appearance in the post-apocalyptic world. Nearly 16 years after that debut, the property remains one of AMC’s most durable hits, with new chapters still extending the universe. The report notes that this is a developing story, so more details may follow as they become available.

Source: collider.com

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Pearl Studio’s animated fantasy feature All Wishes Come True! climbed to the top of the mainland China box office over the July 24–26 weekend, earning RMB314.8 million, or $46.3 million, in its second frame. The film, directed by Mu Zhengyang, has now reached a cumulative total of $112.5 million.

Positioned as a family-friendly mythological comedy, the title centers on eight ordinary mortals who are forced to rely on their intelligence and bravery to outwit powerful deities, eventually becoming known as the Eight Immortals. Its strong second-week performance was enough to overtake the weekend’s previous leader.

Shenzhen Film Studio’s Kung Fu Soccer moved into second place in its third weekend, adding $33.9 million and lifting its total to $286.6 million. Directed by Stephen Chow, the sports comedy follows an amateur women’s team that blends martial arts moves with professional soccer as it competes for a championship.

Elsewhere on the chart, Damai Entertainment’s sci-fi epic The Decisive Moment opened in third with $6.4 million for the weekend and $8.6 million including early screenings since its July 25 launch. The film, directed by Zhang Disha and produced by Huang Jianxin, was previously the closing title at the Shanghai International Film Festival. Universal’s Obsession debuted in fourth with $4.9 million, while Enlight Pictures’ youth drama A Part of Me finished fifth with $2.7 million in its second week, bringing its total to $21.6 million.

Overall weekend box office in mainland China came in at $102.3 million. Year-to-date revenue for 2026 now stands at $3.15 billion, which is 33.6% below the same period in 2025.

Source: variety.com

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Na Hong-jin’s science-fiction thriller Hope continued to lead the South Korean box office over the July 24–26 weekend, holding onto first place as the market eased. According to KOBIS, the Korean Film Council’s tracking service, the film earned $5.5 million from 767,366 admissions in the three-day period, giving it a 66.8% share of total weekend revenue.

The film, which stars Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Jung Ho-yeon, Michael Fassbender, and Alicia Vikander, follows a fight for survival in an isolated harbor town after locals encounter a mysterious alien presence nearby. After a record-setting opening weekend, the local tentpole has now reached $25.3 million from 3,415,707 viewers.

In second place, Minions & Monsters brought in $793,103 from 117,916 admissions and has now totaled $3.9 million since opening on July 15. Disney’s live-action musical Moana finished third in its third weekend with $593,187, while Toy Story 5 landed in fourth and is approaching the $20 million mark in Korea with a cumulative $19.8 million. Faith-based animated title David took fifth, and local thriller The Eyes came in sixth with a local total of $10.6 million.

Japanese animated feature Dream Animals The Movie debuted in seventh place, followed by Josh Safdie’s table tennis comedy-drama Marty Supreme in eighth. Showbox’s action-horror hit Colony placed ninth, lifting its lifetime gross to $42.6 million, while horror title Hokum rounded out the top 10. Overall weekend revenue across the market came to $8.2 million, down sharply from $17.1 million the week before.

Source: variety.com

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A new release is on the way for fans of The Terminator franchise. Makinarium has unveiled the T-800 Optics, a limited collectible that will serve as the first entry in its new Makinarium Studio Edition range.

What makes this item stand out is the way it was made. According to the report, the project came together through a team based at Pinewood Studios, using the same materials, techniques, and craftsmanship associated with major film productions. The result is a recreation of part of the actual Terminator, rather than a standard shelf collectible.

The piece is officially licensed from both The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and it was created to mark the 35th anniversary of the latter film. Pre-orders are already open, and the first units are expected to ship soon. For collectors, it adds another notable item to a franchise that has long inspired merchandise, but this one comes with a closer connection to the films themselves.

The T-800 remains one of cinema’s most recognizable figures, and the new release leans into that legacy by focusing on a single, highly specific part of the character. As a debut item for Makinarium’s new collectible label, it also signals the company’s intent to position the line around film-grade craftsmanship and officially sanctioned screen properties.

Source: collider.com

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Elon Musk has weighed in on The Odyssey after Christopher Nolan’s version of the story began racking up major box office numbers. Posting on X, Musk said his AI tool Grok Imagine will create a full-length adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic that he described as both “historically accurate” and faithful to the poem’s artistic spirit.

He said the project should be finished by the end of 2026 and shared the comment alongside an AI-generated three-minute short of The Odyssey that had been posted by another X user. The move appears to extend Musk’s long-running interest in the material, which he had previously criticized before Nolan’s film opened.

There is an obvious tension in Musk’s framing, since Homer’s poem includes cyclopes, a many-headed monster and a sorceress who turns men into pigs. The source notes that the work is nearly 2,800 years old and is generally regarded as fiction, making the idea of a “historically accurate” version a strange one on its face. The report suggests Musk may instead be referring to casting, after he previously objected to Lupita Nyong’o being linked to Helen of Troy and accused Nolan of bias in a post earlier this year.

Musk also amplified transphobic commentary related to Elliot Page, who was initially rumored to be playing Achilles before later being confirmed as Sinon. Meanwhile, Nolan’s The Odyssey has been a major success for Universal, with a $264 million worldwide opening weekend and signs that it could become the filmmaker’s highest-grossing movie yet.

Source: variety.com

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Tom Hardy has spent much of this year back in the conversation thanks to the ongoing attention around MobLand, but one of his most acclaimed films is now getting a fresh wave of interest for a very different reason. According to the report, Hardy’s performance in The Revenant is drawing renewed attention as the film climbs on video-on-demand services.

Hardy’s career has stretched across several major franchises and high-profile collaborations, from the Venom films to Mad Max: Fury Road and his work with Christopher Nolan on titles such as Inception and The Dark Knight Rises. Still, The Revenant remains the project that earned him his only Oscar nomination so far, arriving in 2015 for his role in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s western epic. While Leonardo DiCaprio ultimately won the Academy Award for his performance in the film, Hardy’s turn was widely seen as one of the strongest of his career.

More than a decade after release, the movie still does not have a U.S. streaming home. Even so, it is currently surging on digital platforms including Prime Video and Apple TV, suggesting that interest in the film has not faded. For viewers looking to revisit Hardy’s work outside his blockbuster era, the renewed VOD momentum is giving The Revenant a new kind of spotlight.

Source: collider.com

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One of the most celebrated revisionist Westerns ever made is currently available to stream for free in the United States. Robert Altman’s 1971 film McCabe & Mrs. Miller, often discussed as an anti-Western for the way it turns genre expectations upside down, remains a major title in film history.

The movie stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and it also drew a memorable reaction from Quentin Tarantino, who has praised and challenged Western traditions in his own work over the years. On the Pure Cinema Podcast, Tarantino said he has a complicated relationship with Altman’s film and singled out its opening section for especially harsh criticism. He described the first reel as the worst-mixed reel in Hollywood history and said he found the early stretch so unpleasant on VHS that he stopped watching before finishing it.

According to Tarantino, it took seeing a 35mm print before he gave the film another chance. He even considered passing that print along to Richard Linklater, which led him to revisit the movie with fresh eyes. That second viewing changed his reaction, even as his earlier comments made clear how strongly he had once rejected what he saw and heard in the opening act.

The report underscores how a film can be both widely admired and sharply disputed, even by one of the most influential directors working today. For viewers curious about a landmark Western that helped redefine the genre, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is now an easy one to catch without paying for it.

Source: collider.com

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