James Bond might not have much to worry about, but Marvel apparently wants a piece of the international spy game. The studio’s upcoming “Zodiac” series sounds like it’s trading the usual superhero theatrics for something a little more cloak-and-dagger, with globetrotting intrigue, double-crosses, and enough shifting allegiances to make you question whose side anyone is on. And according to Marvel Television boss Brad Winderbaum, the less you know going in, the better.

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Despite being involved in erotic thrillers and projects with sex scenes in the past, don’t expect to see actress Amanda Seyfried rushing into doing that again anytime soon, after some recent comments indicate she’s swearing off sex scenes for the foreseeable future.

Seyfried made the declaration during a chat with Alec Baldwin at the Hamptons International Film Festival (via People Magazine and Variety), expressing her feelings on the subject and the reasoning behind wanting to hit the pause button, as shooting those intimate but still uncomfortable sequences with strangers isn’t exactly a fun time.

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Ben Affleck may have hung up the cape and cowl, but his frustrations with the Batman years are proving harder to leave behind. While promoting his new Netflix kidnapping thriller, “Animals,” the actor and director revisited his troubled experience in Zack Snyder’s DC universe on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. In particular, Affleck expressed his anger over how Warner Bros. handled Snyder’s departure from “Justice League,” a bitter experience that also helped extinguish his own ambitions to direct a standalone Batman movie.

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Next month, a new thriller series focused on a group of Catholic schools called “The Body” is set to arrive on Netflix, which hails from creator and co-director Quinn Shephard, who was the writer-director of the Emmy-nominated mystery “Under the Bridge.”

We have a new series trailer to share which should give would-be audiences a good idea of what to expect from “The Body,” as the gritty, campy series is an ode to the 2000s.

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One of the smartest things about “Godzilla Minus One” was that Takashi Yamazaki never let the spectacle swallow the people living through it. “Godzilla Minus Zero” goes bigger, but its new trailer suggests Yamazaki is still working from the same basic principle. Godzilla can level cities. The movie still has to make that destruction hurt.

READ MORE: ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Review: Takashi Yamazaki Delivers Another Satisfying Kaiju Monster Romp [NYFF]

Originally shown during the film’s panel at New York Comic Con, the trailer opens on an ominous note from Dr.

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One of the legendary stories of DVD commentary is almost as famous as David Fincher’s dark, Sahara-dry sense of humor. On the commentary track for “Gone Girl,” Fincher recounts, in his sly, utterly deadpan fashion, how Ben Affleck supposedly held up production for hours because he refused to wear a New York Yankees cap. Affleck, a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan, apparently objected so strongly that shooting ground to a halt.

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Derek Cianfrance, the director behind films such as “Blue Valentine,” “The Place Beyond the Pines, and the romantic crime comedy “Roofman,” is teaming up with Netflix to adapt the acclaimed Gary Paulsen young adult survival novel “Hatchet” into a feature film.

As per the report from Variety, Cianfrance is set to write and direct, with Andrew Mittman (“Wednesday”) via the production banner 1.21 set as the film’s producer.

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More than five years after “CODA” became a historic Best Picture winner, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Siân Heder returns with another story centered on a community rarely afforded the Hollywood spotlight. Her new film, “Being Heumann,” stars Ruth Madeley as legendary disability rights activist Judy Heumann, whose fight for equality helped reshape federal law in the United States.

READ MORE: TIFF 2026 Preview: 30 Must-See Movies To Watch

Based on true events, “Being Heumann” focuses on the landmark 1977 protest that began after the federal government failed to implement Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities.

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For a filmmaker who has spent much of his career exploring the tension between desire and repression, Todd Haynes has never been particularly interested in playing it safe. But his upcoming gay romance, “De Noche,” starring Pedro Pascal (“Behemoth!”) and Danny Ramirez (“Top Gun: Maverick”), may prove less sexually explicit than originally envisioned. Once conceived as a potential NC-17 drama, the film now looks headed for an R rating, with Haynes suggesting the emotional exposure between its two leads matters more than how much skin they show.

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Jane Levy (“Don’t Breathe,” “Evil Dead”) and Jessica Rothe (“Happy Death Day” films, “Pulse”) have plenty of experience dealing with horror movie killers, but their latest film puts them in a particularly bad spot. The two star in “River,” a new slasher from writer-director Joshua Giuliano that premiered last month in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program. Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Atomic Monster picked it up following its festival debut, and the first trailer is now online.

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Nicolas Cage has never been shy about his opposition to artificial intelligence, but his convictions have apparently put him at odds with Amazon. Speaking at New York Comic Con on Saturday, the actor revealed a disagreement with the studio over his recently canceled Prime Video series “Spider-Noir.”

“Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said during his Spotlight panel, according to Variety.

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Well, we don’t have to use our imaginations anymore, as we now have our first glimpse of Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler in the new iteration of “Miami Vice,” with the two in-demand actors set to play undercover vice cops in the period crime pic “Miami Vice ’85,” which aims to take more of a page from the original TV series than the Michael Mann film from 2006.

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Nicolas Cage may finally be joining “True Detective.” More than a year after reports first surfaced that the actor was in talks to headline the fifth season of HBO’s crime anthology, Cage has offered his clearest indication yet that a deal could be moving forward.

“I think I might do a season of ‘True Detective,’” Cage told the crowd at New York Comic Con over the weekend, according to Entertainment Weekly.

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Nearly 40 years after Paul Verhoeven turned “RoboCop” into a brutal satire of corporate greed and American culture, the Dutch filmmaker is getting involved with the franchise again. James Wan, who is executive producing Prime Video’s upcoming “RoboCop” series, has revealed that he’s been working with the original director on the new adaptation.

According to ScreenRant, Wan confirmed the collaboration during Friday’s BlumFest panel at New York Comic Con (Wan’s Atomic Monster merged with Blumhouse not too long ago).

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A football game played in the shadow of one of World War II’s deadliest battles is the unlikely subject of “The Mosquito Bowl,” the new Netflix drama from Peter Berg. The streamer has released the official trailer for the true-life story, which stars Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis as college football standouts who enlist in the Marines and eventually prepare for the invasion of Okinawa.

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Nicolas Cage has an idea for “National Treasure 3,” and it’s probably not what Disney has in mind. The actor thinks his treasure-hunting alter ego, Benjamin Franklin Gates, should tackle something a little more contemporary than the Declaration of Independence or a long-lost presidential secret: the Jeffrey Epstein files. But there’s a catch. Despite director Jon Turteltaub recently suggesting the long-awaited sequel was moving forward with Cage attached, the actor says he hasn’t actually agreed to return.

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Amazon MGM Studios is taking another shot at reviving “Stargate,” this time by bringing in a familiar name from the Marvel universe. Jac Schaeffer, creator of “WandaVision” and “Agatha All Along,” is developing a new television series based on the long-running sci-fi property, giving it another chance to revive after an earlier attempt failed to get off the ground.

According to Variety, which broke the news, the project falls under Schaeffer’s overall deal with Amazon MGM Studios, announced earlier this year.

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So, there’s good news and bad news for Jessica Chastain. The good news is that Universal Pictures and Blumhouse’s “Other Mommy” gave the Oscar winner her biggest opening at the box office since “It: Chapter Two” took in $91 million in 2019. The bad news is, despite finding an initially potent $27.5 million, “Mother” looks like it’s going to crash hard.

In a rare move for the studio, Universal didn’t show critics “Mommy” until Thursday night.

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There was something almost startling, even thrilling, about watching “Lanterns” reach its finale without losing its nerve. After a season of murder, damaged superheroes, cosmic mythology, and Green Lantern lore, the HBO series didn’t suddenly decide everything needed to get bigger, louder, or more explosive. It didn’t pull a “WandaVision,” nearly abandoning what made the preceding episodes thoughtful and distinctive for an obligatory superhero punch-up. Instead, “Lanterns” trusted the story it had actually been telling and delivered something quieter, more morally thorny, and ultimately more resonant than another battle designed to reassure viewers that, yes, they were still watching expensive genre television.

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Guillermo del Toro has spent much of his career exploring humanity’s darkest impulses through monsters, ghosts, and fairy tales. But one of the most terrifying experiences of his life was very real and involved no supernatural elements. In the late 1990s, his father was kidnapped in Mexico and held for ransom for 72 days, an ordeal that profoundly changed the filmmaker’s life. Now, del Toro says he wants to return to Mexico to make a kidnapping drama, potentially drawing on a traumatic chapter of his own family’s history.

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The future never seems to get any brighter in the “Blade Runner” universe, though at least it keeps getting more complicated. Nearly a decade after Denis Villeneuve revisited Ridley Scott’s landmark science-fiction film with “Blade Runner 2049,” Prime Video is taking another trip into the dystopian future with “Blade Runner 2099,” an eight-episode limited series starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer.

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If any term defines Brad Bird’s style, it’s retrofuturism. The aesthetic carries an inherent contradiction: it tries to harmonize two disparate periods into a coherent fantasy. With his decades-gestating passion project “Ray Gunn,” the filmmaker might have finally met his match in two realms that prove impossible to straddle.

On the one hand, this animated action film feels like a classic Hollywood detective story made for families. “Ray Gunn” functions nicely as a “Baby’s First Film Noir” for young viewers not quite ready for “Double Indemnity” or “Chinatown,” much less a “Blade Runner” in the tech-noir space.

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Craig Zobel, the filmmaker behind “The Hunt” and acclaimed television series including “Mare of Easttown” and “The Penguin,” is returning to horror. Zobel will direct Blumhouse Atomic Monster’s feature adaptation of “Something Is Killing The Children,” the enormously successful comic book series created by writer James Tynion IV and artist Werther Dell’Edera.

The announcement came Friday during Blumhouse’s New York Comic Con presentation, where Zobel appeared to discuss the project.

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LaKeith Stanfield and Ben Mendelsohn are teaming up for “Molepeople,” the upcoming Blumhouse horror film from Rob Savage, the director behind “Host” and “The Boogeyman.” The project, produced in partnership with Paramount Primal, will arrive in theaters on August 27, 2027, with Stanfield’s involvement officially announced Friday during Blumhouse Atomic Monster’s presentation at New York Comic Con.

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Ten years after Ava DuVernay used “13th” to trace the ugly afterlife of slavery through America’s deeply inequitable criminal justice system, she returns to the Constitution and similarly incendiary terrain with “14th.” Another outstanding, sometimes enraging, and remarkably lucid documentary, it functions as a spiritual sequel while widening the frame. This time, DuVernay examines citizenship itself: who belongs, who receives the protections America promises, and what happens when those guarantees become inconvenient to the people holding power.

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