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The Iron Claw to leave Netflix on June 18

A24's wrestling drama The Iron Claw, directed by Sean Durkin, is scheduled to leave Netflix on June 18. The film dramatizes the rise and fall of the Von Erich family in a somber biographical story. It stars Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson as Kevin, Kerry

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Pregnant Alex Cooper breaks silence on rumors of 'marital issues' with Matt Kaplan

Alex Cooper pushed back on claims that she and husband Matt Kaplan are having marriage problems during Wednesday's episode of her Call Her Daddy podcast. Cooper, who is pregnant with their first child together, said the chatter about their relationship has been misplaced. She pointed to their May

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Will The Legend of Vox Machina end after season 5?

The Legend of Vox Machina is currently in season 4, and season 5 has been presented as the final run for the group's shared story. That expectation, however, may not be definitive. Travis Willingham, executive producer of The Legend of Vox Machina and the voice of Grog Strongjaw,

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Jason Momoa drops out of the Helldivers movie

Jason Momoa has left the Helldivers movie. Deadline first reported the departure, and The Hollywood Reporter later confirmed it. The project is still moving forward with Justin Lin directing, but losing Momoa is a notable setback. He first drew attention as Ronon Dex, the Satedan renegade on Stargate Atlantis, and

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Avatar co-creator says AAA game wasn’t canceled, teases July update

After the upcoming film leaked online, reports emerged that Paramount Games had canceled a AAA Avatar action-RPG being developed at Saber Interactive. Paramount and Saber announced the project in 2024; it was billed as a new-story entry set thousands of years in the past, letting players assume a “never-before-seen Avatar,

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Arrival Lands on Pluto TV in June Update

Arrival (2016), Denis Villeneuve's acclaimed alien film, has been added to Pluto TV as part of the service's June update. The movie stars Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker and Michael Stuhlbarg. Adams plays linguist Louise Banks, who must help humans communicate with extraterrestrials after giant

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No fairytale: the real children behind fiction’s best-loved characters

I had loved those children long before I knew they existed. There was the little boy in an approximation of hunters’ skins, posing victorious; the dark-haired girl with the offset gaze; and the big-eyed, dimple-chinned seven-year-old in a soft sweater, clutching the teddy bear that would become more famous than

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Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive?

A sci‑fi survival quiz asks eight questions to place you in one of five universes — The Matrix, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Dune, or Star Wars. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you'd actually make it out of alive. The Matrix suits a

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Archetype founder regrets Exodus looks too much like Mass Effect

Exodus has repeatedly drawn comparisons to Mass Effect. Archetype was founded by BioWare veteran James Ohlen and includes other former BioWare devs, and Ohlen says 'Mass Effect had a big influence.' Now that he has left Archetype and the games industry, he admits he 'failed to get

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Alien Isolation 2's stormy colony steals the show

After playing the prologue of Alien: Isolation 2 at Summer Game Fest, the most striking element wasn’t the Xenomorph but the sequel’s new setting: a storm-ravaged, Earth-like colony world. Much of the demo still takes place in a familiar location—a crashed Weyland-Yutani vessel—but the prospect of

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One of the Best Scenes in Sci-Fi Movie History Comes From an '80s Remake

Before CGI was commonplace, 1980s science fiction leaned on vivid imagination and highly realistic practical effects. John Carpenter's remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 The Thing raised that bar with a blood‑curdling 12‑minute sequence that pushes fear, paranoia, and mistrust to the fore. The sequence begins

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Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Film?

Ten quick questions aim to match your tastes to one of five Best Picture winners, revealing which film was made for the way your mind works. Parasite rewards close attention: it operates on multiple levels, shifting genres while examining class, desire and the architecture of inequality — darkly funny, deeply suspenseful

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Which Taylor Sheridan World Do You Belong In?

Ten questions will reveal which one of Taylor Sheridan's worlds you were made for: Yellowstone, Landman, Tulsa King, or Mayor of Kingstown. Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people

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Showrunner Praises Mariska Hargitay's Short Hair: 'Freaking Gorgeous'

As Captain Olivia Benson, Mariska Hargitay has worn many hairstyles, and showrunner Michele Fazekas names the shorter cut as her favorite. Fazekas hopped aboard SVU as showrunner in Season 27 after previously writing for the series from 2001 to 2006, so she has seen Benson's looks evolve from

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Alien: Isolation 2 evolves the alien and expands into exteriors

Two years ago Sega and Creative Assembly announced they were returning to the world of the 2014 game, and the sequel keeps the original’s tactile design and intelligent alien at its core. Isolation’s alien became notable for stalking players with its own senses rather than following set patrols,

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Resident Evil Veronica remake will be treated like a mainline entry

Capcom’s Summer Game Fest 2026 reveal confirmed a remake of the Dreamcast-era Resident Evil Code: Veronica, the series’ first fully 3D entry that continues the stories of Claire and Chris Redfield. Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi said Veronica is being treated with the reverence of a numbered Resident Evil game and

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Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Could Be a Standout

The Avatar franchise is enjoying renewed attention: a sequel film leaked earlier this year, a movie release is planned for later in the year, a new sequel series called Seven Havens is in development, and the second season of the live-action show arrives on Netflix later this month. Another entry

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Dragon's Dogma 2 adds unlimited fast travel ahead of Dark Arisen DLC

Dragon's Dogma 2's latest update introduces a long-requested change to fast travel: the Eternal Ferrystone. The game's previous system required one-use items or riding oxcarts that could be ambushed, leaving players to do a lot of on-foot backtracking. The Eternal Ferrystone works like a

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Fabien Frankel on Criston's Darker Path Ahead of Season 3

Fabien Frankel says fans should expect even worse for Ser Criston in the new season, and admitted he had hoped viewers would once again root for the character. "Dude. I know, so was I. It was a bit of a turn that I didn’t expect, but you know

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Quiz: Which Horror Villain You'd Have the Best Chance Against

An eight-question quiz calculates which horror villain you have the best chance of surviving. It evaluates your instincts, strengths, and how you think under pressure to match you with one of five killers: Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Pennywise, or Chucky. Jason is relentless but predictable — he moves in

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Kyle Cooke reveals terms of Amanda Batula divorce without a prenup

Kyle Cooke said he plans a “walkaway” divorce “in lieu of a prenup,” meaning both he and Amanda Batula would leave the marriage with the assets and property they already have rather than seek financial concessions from one another. Cooke recalled that Batula took the first legal step in mid-March

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword is shaping up to be one of 2026's best

A hands-on preview at Summer Game Fest revealed more of Onimusha: Way of the Sword beyond the demo already available on consoles and PC. The session covered areas not in the public demo, including a horror-filled open level and demonstrations of Miyamoto Musashi's combat at high skill. In

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Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer features character from delisted spin-off

Kingdom Hearts 4's new trailer drops viewers back into the series' knotty lore. In one brief moment a black-haired younger man wearing a dark face mask and blazer appears amid Sora's battle with a gigantic Heartless in the middle of a city. That figure looks

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Saw: Genesis Is a Promising Multiplayer Game — But a Questionable Fit

The Saw films are known for meticulous worldbuilding centered on John “Jigsaw” Kramer’s twisted philosophy. Saw: Genesis, revealed at Summer Game Fest, is an asymmetrical horror game that borrows much of the franchise’s iconography while loosening a timeline that has long been tightly controlled. At Summer Game Fest’

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Scarlett Johansson's The Exorcist Reboot Wraps Production

Filmmaker Mike Flanagan has confirmed that his new take on The Exorcist has finished production. Photos from the movie's set were unveiled last week, and Flanagan posted an image of an inverted cross from a priest's robes on Instagram with the caption, "That’s a