Tim Burton’s YA spin on the Addams family turned out to be a smash hit for Netflix, and Wednesday returns for a second season in August. Set to The Phantom of the Opera overture, the second trailer for season 2 sees the brooding goth Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) returning to Nevermore Academy for the new school year alongside her brother Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez). After saving the school for outcasts from...

Production company/distribution studio A24 announced on Wednesday that it will bring 2025’s biggest international box office hit back into theaters, now in a new English version. Ne Zha 2, sequel to the 2019 animated movie Ne Zha, sits atop the 2025 worldwide box office, with nearly $1.9 billion in theatrical receipts. It’s the most profitable animated movie ever, and one of the top 10 biggest box-office earners of all time,...

Ever since the 1978-1987 run of Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve ended, filmmakers have been puzzling over how to make the character vulnerable in a meaningful way, to ensure that dramatic conflict in his stories doesn’t look like a breeze for such a godlike figure. Usually, this has involved looking to whatever version came directly before. With 2006’s Superman Returns, director Bryan Singer tried to tease emotion out of the...

By now, it’s a familiar pattern: A new Jurassic Park franchise movie movie comes out during the summer, garnering middling and sometimes exhausted-sounding reviews. Yes, it has some decent special effects and maybe a fun set piece or two, but it’s not a patch on Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original. Terms like “out of ideas,” “incurious,” and “shell of its former self” have been thrown around to describe the latest iteration,...

In 2018, Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom gave the 25-year-old Jurassic Park franchise its most ambitious, startling shift since the first movie brought dinosaurs into the modern world. Until that point in the series, the various resurrected dino species had been confined to parks, islands, and experimental facilities, which hapless humans had to enter for various reasons. Fallen Kingdom ends (seven-year-old spoiler!) with dinosaurs escaping captivity en masse and...

The second and final season of Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, which kicked off July 3, is the first project to move forward since the writer was accused of sexual assault, leading to pauses in production on Good Omens season 3, Disney’s adaptation of The Graveyard Book, and many other adaptations of his work. Fans of the series will have to grapple with the classic question of whether...

As Warner Bros. Games reworks its gaming department, the company has released DC Worlds Collide, a free-to-play mobile RPG, on Monday, July 7. The game is a squad-based experience set in the DC Universe, where players can assemble their favorite heroes and villains from over 70 playable characters to engage in 3D turn-based battles against challenging enemies. DC Worlds Collide features daily events, PvP, and 12 other solo and competitive...

Fans at Anime Expo in Los Angeles were treated to a bevy of announcements, world premieres, and release dates for some of the most anticipated anime slated to release shortly. Some high-profile titles like Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, and Bleach: The Thousand-Year Blood War are set to return. Meanwhile, titles like Hiromu Arakawa’s (Full Metal Alchemist) Daemons of the Shadow Realm (Yomi no Tsugai) and a sequel series...

Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampire Queen are back in Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special #1, a new comic from Oni Press, with story and art from Eisner Award winner Caroline Cash (PeePeePooPoo, Girl In The World.) Polygon has a sneak peek at the comic, which should be utter bliss who wanted more after the Adventure Time special Obsidian. Adventure Time: The Bubbline College Special takes place in an alternate...

AMC Plus’ ongoing adventure series Nautilus is set before the events of Jules Verne’s classic science fiction novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, following a young Nemo shortly after he built his submarine. That gave Star Trek: Discovery’s Shazad Latif the chance to make the mysterious captain his own. “I had free rein, because we haven’t met this character at this young of an age, so this is the origin...