Mortal Kombat II’s trailer has arrived, set to deliver a video game-accurate Mortal Kombat tournament, with all the carnage and dark humor the franchise is known for. In the trailer, Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage is spotted at a bar, where a fan recognizes him and cracks some meta jokes about his career and Hollywood reboots. Not long after, Raiden (Tadanobu Asano) and Sonya (Jessica McNamee) approach him in a parking...

Five years after initial reports, Netflix has officially confirmed that a live-action Assassin’s Creed series is in development. Netflix’s deal with Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft has been in place since 2020, with the project cycling through multiple creative teams over the years. But Roberto Patino and David Wiener, who was also one of the writers for the Halo show, are officially set as the series’s showrunners, creators, and executive producers....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns for season 3 on July 17, kicking off with “Hegemony, Part II,” the action- and horror-packed conclusion to season 2’s cliffhanger finale. But the series, known for its genre shifts, changes gears in the second part of the two-episode premiere, delivering lighthearted romance with “Wedding Bell Blues.” Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) and Spock (Ethan Peck) had a brief fling in season 2, which...

The hype for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon (and roughly half of Hollywood,) is very real. The movie doesn’t hit theaters for another year, but its trailer is already crashing the party in front of summer blockbusters like Superman and Jurassic World Rebirth. And because patience is as extinct as the dinosaurs, IMAX tickets are already on sale — and they’re already selling out. Listings on IMAX’s website...

Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to Simon McQuoid’s 2021 film starring Lewis Tan, is slated to arrive later this October, and the newest teaser trailer, featuring Karl Urban’s Johnny Cage, is our first taste of what fans can expect. As expected, the trailer puts Cage’s action-movie moves and persona on display. He’s pushing his sunglasses up his face with a raised middle finger aimed at his enemies, and using cheesy...

“Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich? Malkovich!” is what no one will be saying at Marvel Studios’ premiere of the upcoming Fantastic Four: First Steps. Director Matt Shakman confirmed to Variety on Wednesday that the legendary character actor, who was slated to appear as the cosmonaut supervillain Red Ghost, has been cut from the completed movie. The slight against Malkovich-heads arrives 15 years after plans for Spider-Man 4, in which Sam Raimi hoped...

When director Dean DeBlois agreed to make a live-action version of his 2010 DreamWorks Animation hit How to Train Your Dragon (co-directed with Chris Sanders), he faced criticism from the start — including from his own past words. He’d publicly said in the past that he’d skipped watching live-action remakes of animated movies. “I’m not interested in them,” he said during an Annecy International Animation Film Festival event in 2020. “I...

Get over here! DC Comics is putting its heroes in a Mortal Kombat-esque tournament starting fall 2026. The publisher announced Wednesday that a new “slugfest event of the century” kicks off in October with the five-issue limited series DC K.O. Co-created by Joshua Williamson and Scott Snyder, DC K.O. pits 36 heroes a tournament with the fate of the universe on the line. “DC K.O. is a knock-down, drag-out fight...

Here are some things that happen in Smurfs, the 2025 animated movie about those little blue guys called Smurfs. A long montage of character introductions, with the names of each character splashed on the screen: Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy Smurf, Hefty Smurf, Sound Effects Smurf, Baker Smurf, and so on. Some of these characters barely appear again in the movie; many are visually indistinguishable Multiple musical numbers, with the Smurfs...

Netflix teased a very action-heavy final season of Stranger Things with its first teaser trailer. Set in the fall of 1987, more than a year after the events of season 4, the trailer reveals how Hawkins has been transformed by the rifts Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) opened. The town is under military quarantine, with soldiers using controlled burns to try to contain the influence of the Upside Down. That doesn’t...