Avengers: Endgame Is Back in Cinemas — With New Connections to Doomsday
Marvel has done something unusual with one of the biggest movies ever made. Seven years after Avengers: Endgame brought the Infinity Saga to an emotional conclusion, the film has returned to cinemas as Avengers: Endgame Encore. But this isn't simply Marvel putting an old blockbuster back on the big screen. The new release contains additional material connecting Endgame with Avengers: Doomsday. In other words, Marvel has taken what was once the ending of its biggest story and turned it into part of the setup for its next one. Endgame isn't quite over anymore The original Avengers: Endgame felt remarkably final. Tony Stark sacrificed
Movie Villains Who Actually Had a Point (They Were Just… Very Dramatic About It)
Villains in movies have a habit of ruining their own argument. Not because their point is bad, but because somewhere between “I have a valid concern” and “here’s my plan,” they take a hard left into kidnapping, elaborate traps or trying to destroy civilisation. That’s the tragedy of a good villain. Sometimes, if they had just calmed down and spoken to someone — maybe over coffee, maybe in therapy — they could have resolved the whole thing in under an hour and saved everyone a lot of trouble. But then we wouldn’t have a movie. And if we are being
Gachiakuta is jumping from manga to anime to video game with Breakout
The world of Gachiakuta is getting bigger again. Com2uS has officially revealed GACHIAKUTA: BREAKOUT, a survival action RPG based on the manga and anime property, with the game scheduled for release in 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam. Previously announced under the working title GACHIAKUTA: The Game, the project received its official name alongside new gameplay footage during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2026 broadcast. Welcome back to the Pit Gachiakuta follows Rudo, a boy living among society's discarded people before being falsely accused of a crime and thrown into the Pit. There he discovers
The Remarried Empress looks like the fantasy K-drama event fans have been waiting for
There are messy royal divorces. Then there is The Remarried Empress. Disney+'s fantasy romance has released a major new trailer and poster featuring Shin Min-a, Ju Ji-hoon, Lee Jong-suk and Lee Se-young ahead of its 4 November 2026 premiere. For fans of the original web novel and WEBTOON, the central confrontation needs very little introduction. For everyone else, prepare yourself. Navier has a better response to divorce than anyone expected Shin Min-a plays Navier, Empress of the Eastern Empire, alongside Ju Ji-hoon's Emperor Sovieshu. Their marriage is thrown into crisis when Sovieshu falls for Rashta, played by Lee Se-young, and
Crunchyroll’s Fall 2026 anime season is absolutely packed
Anime fans are going to need more hours in the week. Crunchyroll has revealed its Fall 2026 streaming slate, and several major returning franchises are arriving alongside a substantial collection of new adaptations. Among the biggest names are Black Clover Season 2, The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 and Aoashi Season 2, while new titles include Firefly Wedding and Overgeared. That combination makes this one of those seasons where the problem is not finding something to watch. It is deciding what you are willing to abandon sleep for. Black Clover returns Black Clover Season 2 is scheduled to begin on 3
Wildwood looks like LAIKA’s biggest fantasy adventure yet
Seven years after Missing Link, LAIKA is finally returning to cinemas with another stop-motion feature. Wildwood opens on 23 October 2026, and the studio has now released its final trailer as tickets go on sale. For fans who fell in love with the eerie handmade worlds of Coraline, ParaNorman and Kubo and the Two Strings, that alone is an event. But Wildwood looks considerably bigger than a simple return to familiar territory. Into the Impassable Wilderness The story follows Prue McKeel, a young girl whose baby brother is taken by crows. Her search draws her into a hidden wilderness and
Has Resident Evil finally found the right way to become a movie?
Resident Evil has spent more than two decades trying to work out what it wants to be on the big screen. Paul W.S. Anderson's films turned the games into increasingly enormous action spectacles centred on Milla Jovovich's Alice. Welcome to Raccoon City attempted a more recognisable recreation of game locations and characters. Now Barbarian and Weapons filmmaker Zach Cregger has taken a third route. His new Resident Evil opened in cinemas on 18 September 2026, starring Austin Abrams as Bryan, a medical courier who finds himself entering a nightmare around Raccoon City. The crucial difference is that Cregger is not
The new Hunger Games trailer shows just how brutal Haymitch’s story will be
We have known Haymitch Abernathy for years as the cynical, damaged mentor who attempts to keep Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark alive. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is taking us back to the event that helped make him that man. A new trailer for the film arrived this week, giving fans another substantial look at Joseph Zada as the teenage Haymitch during the 50th Hunger Games, better known as the Second Quarter Quell. And this was not a normal year in the arena. Instead of the usual 24 tributes, the Capitol demanded 48. Haymitch before the drinking and
Alan Ritchson could replace Jason Momoa in the Helldivers movie – but the deal is not final
Sony's Helldivers movie has found a potential new recruit. Alan Ritchson, best known to many viewers as Jack Reacher in Prime Video's Reacher, is in talks to join the film adaptation of Arrowhead Game Studios' enormously successful science-fiction shooter franchise. The important phrase is in talks. Ritchson has not, as of 25 September 2026, been formally announced by Sony as the movie's new lead. What happened to Jason Momoa? Jason Momoa was announced as the star of Helldivers earlier in 2026, with Sony setting a 10 November 2027 theatrical release. Fast & Furious filmmaker Justin Lin is directing. By June,
Stranger Things isn’t over: Tales From ’85 season 2 is already streaming
The live-action story of Stranger Things may have reached its enormous cultural moment, but Netflix is clearly not finished with Hawkins. Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 has returned for a second season, with the new episodes arriving on Netflix on 17 September 2026. The animated series takes viewers back to Hawkins and reunites us with younger versions of Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas and Max, along with Nikki and the rest of the Hawkins Investigators Club. This time, the gang has another paranormal problem to investigate. Because apparently nobody living in Hawkins is ever allowed to have a quiet school