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HBO's Harry Potter Plans to Outpace Percy Jackson

HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series is aiming to avoid the long gaps between seasons that have affected other fantasy shows. Set for viewers to unwrap this Christmas, the adaptation carries a reported production cost of $100 million per episode. By comparison, the Hulu/Disney+ Percy Jackson and the

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Which Sci‑Fi Hero Are You Most Like?

A sci‑fi personality quiz pairs you with one of five iconic heroes by probing instincts, values and how you face impossible situations. Eight questions guide the result. The possible matches are Paul Atreides, Captain Kirk, Princess Leia, Ellen Ripley and Max Rockatansky. The quiz asks about leadership under pressure,

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God of War Laufey won't replace Kratos, Barlog says

God of War Laufey shifts the series' spotlight away from Kratos to his dead wife Laufey, or Faye, as she navigates a perilous afterlife run by power‑hungry deities. The 20 minutes of footage shown at PlayStation State of Play in June 2026 highlighted a more luminous aesthetic, with

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Tom Holland Accused of Spoiling Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Ending

A viral post on X claims Tom Holland revealed roughly a nine-minute sequence from the end of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. The short clip, taken from a GQ interview, was said to have been removed online, though the full interview remains available. The allegation spread quickly, and many

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Which MCU Hero Are You? Marvel Personality Quiz

Which MCU hero are you? Six heroes. One destiny. Answer 10 questions to discover which Marvel Cinematic Universe hero shares your personality, values, and fighting spirit. The quiz asks about motivations and everyday choices: "What drives you to do what's right?", "It's 2

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Insomniac's hairy Wolverine prompts debate over body hair

PlayStation's State of Play opened with a 10-minute deep dive into Marvel's Wolverine, which launches Sept. 15. The footage showed the gruff anti-hero fighting alongside Jean Grey to rescue young mutants captured on the orders of Bolivar Trask, and made clear Insomniac’s investment in its

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‘It’s a relief … I’m irrelevant!’: Rufus Norris on life after the National Theatre

There were several big endings for Rufus Norris in 2025, all crammed into the same few seismic months. The close of his tenure as director of the National Theatre after a decade at the helm collided with the loss of his mother, who died three weeks before he left the

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Wolverine reveal's violence feels unearned

I enjoy grisly work—Braindead is my favorite zombie movie, The Fly one of my all-time films, and I’ve been delighted and horrified by season four of From—so I’m not squeamish. Even so, after watching Insomniac’s lengthy Wolverine reveal I came away exhausted and disappointed by

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Cape Fear review: Javier Bardem terrifies in Apple TV reboot

Apple TV’s Cape Fear reimagines the story that inspired the 1991 film and the 1962 original, with creator Nick Antosca delivering a modern, episodic retelling. The series is not a direct remake but pays clear homage, with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg credited among its executive producers and a

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Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving?

Horror survival quiz: Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you're not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Eight questions will figure out which one. Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A season 12 lifts all Pokémon restrictions

Pokémon Legends: Z-A didn't get quite the same reception as its prequel, Pokémon Legends: Arceus. The city setting highlighted some of the visual and technical limitations in the subseries, and as a result it went down as a decent entry rather than a standout. Still, its multiplayer battling

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Jason Momoa Debuts as Lobo in New Supergirl Image

A new image for Supergirl offers the clearest look yet at Jason Momoa as Lobo. He sits astride his cosmic motorcycle, cigar clamped between his teeth, riding away from a landscape on fire — the 1990s comic-book Lobo intact with chalk-white skin, red eyes and a particular kind of swagger. Director

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Coppola Calls Shia LaBeouf His Most Difficult Actor

It takes a certain level of creative madness to create something like Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola's long-gestating film that finally saw its release in 2024 after his script sat on the shelves for over 40 years. The director fully realized his passion project with a self-financed, freewheeling portrait

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What to know before visiting Greece, from a local

I was born in Athens and now split my year between the US and Greece, so I’ve spent plenty of time in the country. Beyond Mykonos and Santorini, Greece has more than 200 inhabited islands; places like Kimolos, Astypalaia, Paxoi, and Folegandros often feel like hidden gems. The mainland

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Three Golden Buzzers in the AGT Season 21 Premiere

The America's Got Talent season premiere saw three acts earn Golden Buzzers as judges and host began handing out the season's prizes. Howie Mandel, Mel B, Simon Cowell and Sofía Vergara judge the auditions, while host Terry Crews also has Golden Buzzers; each has two to

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D&D's Dungeon Masters gears up for Ravenloft season finale

Dungeon Masters, Dungeons & Dragons' official actual play show, is about to close out its first season with a finale to its Ravenloft campaign. The team is led by Dungeon Master Jasmine Bhullar. A brief animated trailer teases the confrontation, its art style striking and cinematic. It shows Professor

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God of War Laufey's combat revives aerial combos and soul magic

Laufey — Faye — takes the lead instead of Kratos, and the next God of War looks no less violent, with crunchy, fast-paced fighting at the fore. As the Golden Hand of the Jötnar she proved more than a match for Thor, and her combat feels in some ways more God of

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Forget your go-to maxidress — less is more this summer

One sunny day recently I looked around and realised that every woman in my vicinity was wearing the same dress. Not the same dress, exactly, but the same maxidress: colourful, floaty, often with a tiered skirt, wholesome and vaguely rustic yet a bit fancy. The short sundress is on the

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Working with Nolan made Tom Holland see Marvel movies as a factory

Tom Holland is set to star in two major releases this summer, Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey. After working with Christopher Nolan, Holland told GQ that Marvel’s approach felt “more like a messy factory and less like the set of a talented auteur director,” and he began

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First Trailer for 'By Any Means' Stars Mark Wahlberg, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Paramount has released the first official trailer for By Any Means, which pairs Mark Wahlberg with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Directed by Elegance Bratton and written by Sascha Penn, the action thriller is set in 1966 Mississippi as a notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent probe the murders

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Sci-Fi Survival Quiz: Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive?

This Sci-Fi Survival Quiz asks eight questions to figure out which of five sci-fi universes — The Matrix, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Dune, and Star Wars — you'd survive. Questions probe instincts and choices: whether you pull on every thread to understand a broken world, what resource you'd

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I took my four kids on a three-week trip around Europe — never again

Last summer I planned what I thought would be an epic adventure: an amazing trip with my husband and four kids for my 50th birthday. My sister and her family joined, and then my brother and my mom, too. We planned to start in Spain, travel up through France, and

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Prime Video cancels Stargate series over fan-focused approach

Prime Video has scrapped the Stargate series that Martin Gero announced last November. Gero had said he would not be rebooting the franchise but instead would draw on decades of canon from three live-action shows and three films, and he promoted the project in a video alongside the leaders of

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Project Hail Mary Surpasses The Sixth Sense With $679 Million

Project Hail Mary, starring Ryan Gosling in what amounts to a one-man show, has reached $679 million worldwide. The film’s emotional story of a lonely scientist who becomes humanity’s last hope continues to draw audiences during its international run. That total pushes Project Hail Mary past The Sixth

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Apple TV's Cape Fear Is One of the Year's Best Psychological Thrillers

Reimagining Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated Southern gothic thriller and John D. MacDonald’s 1956 novel The Executioners, Nick Antosca’s Cape Fear stretches the original into a 10-episode limited series. Apple TV’s version isn't content to simply remake what came before; it uses the original's