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Scott Eastwood has offered a new explanation for his infamous feud with Shia LaBeouf on the set of Fury. Speaking on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast, the American actor reflected on his experience filming the 2014 World War II movie. At the time, he and his co-star got into a dispute over the latter’s method acting.
Eastwood explained the event that led to his infamous argument with LaBeouf. The incident occurred while Eastwood, LaBeouf, and Brad Pitt were filming a scene inside a military tank. While recalling the incident that sparked the feud, the 40-year-old said, “Brad Pitt sort of broke up a little tense moment.”
Revisiting the entire event, Eastwood said, “One day, he [LaBeouf] was having an episode and thought that I shouldn’t be spitting tobacco on the tank, which was in the script. And finally I said, ‘Enough is enough.’ I said, ‘Hey f— you. Said stop pulling your s—. I’m gonna whoop your ass,’ and then he got froggy, and everyone broke it up.”
Eastwood admitted it was “tough” working with LaBeouf on set, claiming, “he was clearly tormented.” The Monterey-born actor believed his co-star was “very method,” going to extremes, like pulling out his teeth or cutting himself, to develop his character.
How Brad Pitt stepped in to defuse tension between Scott Eastwood and Shia LaBeouf
Brad Pitt, who also starred alongside them, spoke about the incident in a 2014 British GQ cover story.
In that interview, Pitt recalled telling Eastwood not to “spit tobacco on the tank,” because the tank had become like a “home” to the cast during filming. He stated, “He’s disrespecting our home, you know? So I said, in the scene with the cameras rolling, ‘You’re going to clean that s— up.'”
Pitt continued. “Shia had the same reaction I did, and started having some words. But it soon got out of hand, then I had to get in after the cameras were rolling, and explain it to Scotty, you know…”
When the argument escalated, Pitt had to step in like a “dad trying to separate his kids” from fighting. However, at the end of the day, when they checked the script, they realized Eastwood had simply been following what was written. “So we were the knobs in the end…,” added the actor.
Directed by David Ayer, Fury was released in 2014 and was a commercial success, grossing nearly $211 million. The film was also critically acclaimed, earning a 75% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day just did what The Odyssey couldn’t in three whole weekends. The Odyssey nears $1 billion worldwide but loses its IMAX dominance as Brand New Day shatters global opening records.
The Odyssey box office nears $1 billion but loses to Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Deadline reports Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has reached a $911 million global cumulative total after three weekends. The Universal epic earned $136.2 million in its third global weekend despite competing against Spider-Man: Brand New Day. IMAX screens contributed $68 million to that weekend, marking the large format exhibitor’s second-highest grossing weekend ever.
Brand New Day dominated the global box office with a massive $927 million worldwide opening (via Deadline). The Sony/Marvel Studios sequel delivered the second-best global opening in motion picture history. Only Avengers: Endgame’s reported $1.22 billion global debut stands ahead of the Tom Holland-led blockbuster.
The Odyssey retained all IMAX screens in most markets during Brand New Day’s record-breaking opening weekend. However, China, Japan and Korea ran Brand New Day on IMAX screens since Nolan’s film hasn’t launched there yet. Brand New Day earned a combined $23 million from IMAX screens across those three Asian markets alone.
Universal’s success with The Odyssey helped the studio cross $4 billion at the year-to-date worldwide box office. This milestone makes Universal the first studio to reach that mark in 2026, ahead of Disney. The studio counts $1.53 billion domestically and $2.48 billion internationally across its entire 2026 slate.
Nolan achieved his best-ever third domestic weekend with $51 million for The Odyssey. The film added another $85.2 million from international markets during that same frame. Global IMAX hubs contributed $44.7 million over the weekend, pushing The Odyssey’s total IMAX cumulative to $221 million. That figure makes it the third-highest-grossing IMAX title of all time.
Brand New Day meanwhile broke all-time opening records in multiple markets including France, India, Brazil and Spain. The film also set records for the Spider-Man franchise, Zendaya, director Daniel Destin Cretton and Sony studios.
Originally reported by Vritti Johar on SuperHeroHype.
The X-Men ’97 Season 2 Episode 8 release date and time are right around the corner. The upcoming eighth episode is titled “The Dead Man’s Hand.” This episode will see the X-Men come face to face with an old acquaintance. The second season of the show, which premiered on July 1, follows the titular mutant team of heroes who navigate different eras in time as they struggle to find a way back home. In their absence, the original timeline comes under threat from numerous enemies.
X-Men ’97 is an animated television series based on the Marvel Comics’ eponymous superhero team. This show serves as a revival of X-Men: The Animated Series from the 90s. The new show features a notable voice cast that includes Ray Chase, Jennifer Hale, Lenore Zann, and more.
Here’s all you need to know about X-Men ’97 Episode 8’s release.
When is the X-Men ’97 Season 2 Episode 8 release date & time?
The episode’s release date is Wednesday, August 5, and its release time is 12:00 a.m. PT and 3:00 a.m. ET.
Check out its release times in the U.S. below:
Timezone
Release Date
Release Time
Eastern Time
August 5, 2026
3:00 a.m.
Pacific Time
August 5, 2026
12:00 a.m.
Where to watch X-Men ’97 Season 2 Episode 8
You can watch X-Men ’97 Season 2 Episode 8 via Disney+.
Disney+ is home to the catalogs of MCU, Pixar, Star Wars, and many more. Some of the biggest shows that fans can enjoy on this streaming platform include Daredevil: Born Again and Marvel Zombies, among others.
What is X-Men ’97 about?
The official synopsis for X-Men ’97 is as follows:
“The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.”
Christopher Nolan‘s acclaimed film Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon, will soon be available to stream on Peacock. In addition to being a box office smash, the film swept the Oscars, winning Nolan Best Director, as well as a slew of other major awards including Best Picture.
Oppenheimer begins streaming on Peacock in August
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer will begin streaming on Peacock on August 16, 2026, and will be the only movie releasing on the streaming service that day (via TV Guide).
Nolan wrote and directed Oppenheimer based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s 2005 biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie focuses on Oppenheimer’s life, his time working on the Manhattan Project as the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and his later years. Damon portrays Leslie Groves, a US Army Corps of Engineers officer who serves as the director of the Manhattan Project. Meanwhile, Cillian Murphy takes on the title role.
The film’s star-studded cast also includes Emily Blunt as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr. as Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss, and Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock. The movie premiered on July 11, 2023, at Le Grand Rex in Paris, France, before its release in US theaters on July 21.
Oppenheimer was warmly received by critics. It currently holds a 93% score on Rotten Tomatoes after 509 reviews. ComingSoon’s Jonathan Sim gave the movie an eight out of 10 rating, which equates to “great.”
Sim wrote in his review of the film, “Regardless of the rough edges, Oppenheimer is a tour de force from Nolan. A cinematic achievement where he takes a dramatic real-life story and makes it into a movie that must be experienced on the big screen. I saw this movie in 70mm IMAX, and I would encourage anyone who can do the same.” The movie made over $975 million at the global box office (via Box Office Mojo).
It also received 13 nominations at the 96th Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director for Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.
Notably, Nolan and Damon reunited after Oppenheimer for The Odyssey, which is currently in theaters. They also worked together on 2014’s Interstellar.
“A team of pioneers undertakes the most important mission in human history—to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars. Oscar®-winner Matthew McConaughey stars as the ex-pilot turned farmer who is forced to leave his family and a foundering Earth behind to lead an expedition traveling beyond this galaxy,” reads the synopsis.
The 2014 movie was directed by Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with brother Jonathan Nolan. In addition to receiving positive reviews during its theatrical run, the film also grossed over $705 million at the box office. Executive producers were Jordan Goldberg, Jake Myers, Kip Thorne, and Thomas Tull, with Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, and Lynda Obst serving as producers. The creative team consisted of composer Hans Zimmer, editor Lee Smith, director of photography Hoyte Van Hoytema, production designer Nathan Crowley, and costume designer Mary Zophres.
Wonder Man Season 2‘s cancellation has sparked concerns about MCU shows on Disney+. Recently, the studio canceled the series’ second installment, despite positive reviews and an Emmy Award for the lead. This has enraged Marvel fans who took to X to express their concerns over the trajectory of MCU shows.
User @McBDirect wrote, “For both Marvel and Star Wars, there are currently 0 upcoming live-action Disney+ series that haven’t already been filmed. There is VisionQuest, Ahsoka Season 2, and Daredevil BA Season 3. Nothing else is confirmed or even rumored to be upcoming past March 2027.”
Marvel wasn't kidding when they said they'd decrease their output of content.
Some users even wrote about “Marvel phasing out of the Disney+ shows.” After the success of the Infinity War saga, the studio began releasing shows like WandaVision, She-Hulk, Loki, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Secret Invasion, etc. However, not all of the shows were a major hit.
As user @nekonoani stated, “It seems that Marvel is phasing out the Disney+ shows. Maybe because bad shows like Secret Invasion have given the audience a wrong impression that all of them are bad. It’s really unfortunate because there are some really great Marvel shows there.”
Similarly, user @chrisbegley added, “Can’t help but feel like Marvel at least is pivoting away from the Disney+ TV show model. I feel like that’s going to be their spot for maybe a few limited series here and special presentations moving forward. And of course, finishing up legacy shows.”
What else is known about Wonder Man Season 2’s cancellation?
Word of the fan-favorite show’s season 2 cancellation was shocking to many. The news came after the studio greenlit the new season. However, it is reported that a writer’s room never opened up for Wonder Man Season 2. Moreover, the two writers, Andrew Guest and Destin Daniel Cretton, have carried on with other projects.
Guest is currently filming Uncanny Valley and executive producing Community: The Move. Cretton’s new movie, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, has theaters this weekend, and he is currently directing the Naruto live-action.
The lead of Wonder Man and Emmy-winning Yahya Abdul-Mateen II recently released a statement on the show’s cancellation. That said, although the second season of the Disney+ series won’t be in production, the actor is rumored to reprise his role in upcoming Marvel projects, including Avengers: Secret Wars.
A General Hospital star has made her OnlyFans debut at 85. The popular veteran actress’s motive behind this surprising move is quite thought-provoking.
Acclaimed actress Donna Mills, known for her beloved roles in Knots Landing and Dangerous Intentions, recently announced her new OnlyFans journey.
“I’ve always appreciated the incredible support and encouragement I’ve received from my fans over the years. Social media has been a wonderful way to stay connected, but I’m excited to join OnlyFans because it offers the opportunity for a more personal and direct connection,” said Mills in an interaction with Variety.
She also made it very clear that there’s a special reason behind her decision to join OnlyFans.
Donna Mills explains why she joined OnlyFans at 85
According to Donna Mills, OnlyFans is just another social media platform for her where she’ll get a great opportunity to connect with her fans on a more personal level. She explained, “It’s simply another platform to spend quality time with the people who’ve supported me throughout my career while staying true to who I am.”
“This is not about changing who she is. It is about giving her longtime fans more access to the personality, style and behind-the-scenes moments they already love,” said CEO of OnlyFans owner Creators INC, Andy Bachman.
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Bachman added, “She is approaching OnlyFans on her own terms and creating a space that feels authentic, personal and completely true to her.”
The veteran actress began her acting career in 1966 with a role in the CBS TV show The Secret Storm. However, it was her portrayal of Madeline Reeves in General Hospital that earned her widespread acclaim and multiple awards. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series.
As for her recent work, Mills was featured in 2015’s Joy alongside Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, and Bradley Cooper, among others. She also had a key role in 2022’s Nope by Jordan Peele and 2023’s Origin, featuring Jon Bernthal and Nick Offerman, among others.
Shrek and his companions have joined a popular fighting video game. Gamers can now use four DreamWorks characters as warriors in a brawl in collaboration with the beloved franchise.
On July 29, Ubisoftlaunched a Shrek crossover event. In collaboration with DreamWorks Animation, the titular hero has joined Fiona, Puss in Boots, and Donkey in their 2D video game Brawlhalla.
This partnership will run through August 19, 2026, and also includes other in-game features based on Shrek’s world. This event coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Academy Award-winning film, which is premiering its fifth installment next summer.
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Everything you need to know about the Brawlhalla x DreamWorks Shrek crossover
In a previously released trailer, it was revealed that Shrek, Fiona, and Puss in Boots will be playable characters with their own distinctive abilities. The titular ogre’s official description reads, “The irascible but lovable hero joins Brawlhalla as a Mythic Crossover and uses his ogre strength during battles.”
Fiona is known for her assertiveness and independence, and will use it to her advantage in the game. She “brawls in her signature green dress as a Mythic Crossover,” just like she did in the movies.
Puss in Boots is skilled in close combat and “will harness his swordsmanship—along with his suaveness and feline prowess,” according to the official profile. Unlike these three, Donkey will react to the battle’s events as a companion.
This crossover collaboration also includes other features, such as two maps. The first map is for competitive play, titled Shrek’s Swamp. The second is Shrek’s Muddy Swamp, a casual map with a mud hazard, developed specifically for this event.
Moreover, there are other franchise-inspired items, including Farquaad, Dragon, and Pinocchio emoji skins, as well as a KO effect of Mongo, the giant gingerbread man.
As per the official website, “Brawlhalla is a free 2D platform fighting game where history’s greatest warriors brawl to prove who’s the best in an epic test of strength and skill.” This game supports up to 8 local or online players. It is available for PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.
Shrek 5 is slated to release in theaters on June 30, 2027.
Matt Damon has finally shared why he passed on a role in Christopher Nolan‘sThe Dark Knight. While many actors would have seized the opportunity to join the iconic 2008 Batman film, Damon said he had a different reason for saying no.
On Josh Horowitz’s podcast, Happy Sad Confused, the actor spoke about his decision. He explained that he was forced to pass because he was already headlining another project at the time and chose to prioritize a lead role. The Odyssey star said, “The Dark Knight was a small role that I was offered. It’s a good role in a great movie. There was some other big movie I was doing where I was like, ‘Well, I can’t play Harvey Dent.’”
Matt Damon says he turned down The Dark Knight because it was a smaller role than the lead film he was already making
“The Dark Knight was a small role that I was offered.”
The role of Harvey Dent ultimately went to Aaron Eckhart, whose turn as Gotham’s “White Knight” and his tragic transformation became a central pillar of the movie.
Damon eventually teamed up with Nolan for The Odyssey. In the film, he stars as Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca. The film follows his dangerous 10-year journey home after the Trojan War. The cast also includes Anne Hathaway as Penelope and Tom Holland as Telemachus.
The biggest roles Matt Damon passed on during his career
Harvey Dent was not the only major role Damon missed. Another big role he rejected was Jake Sully in James Cameron’s Avatar. Damon chose the Jason Bourne franchise instead, even though Cameron reportedly offered him 10% of the movie’s box office profits.
Avatar went on to become the highest-grossing movie of all time. Damon has since joked that he will “go down in history” as the actor who walked away from the largest single payday in Hollywood history.
Early in his career, Damon also missed out on the role of Aaron Stampler in the 1996 legal thriller Primal Fear, which ultimately launched Edward Norton’s career. Damon later cited that rejection as a big motivation for his career, as losing the part inspired him and Ben Affleck to finish writing Good Will Hunting, which earned them the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
HBO Max has added two long-requested features for iOS and Android users. These features are designed to help users easily discover their next watch on the mobile application.
The two features, HBO Max Shorts and Ask HBO Max, are being tested on iOS and Android. Shorts allow users to discover content by highlighting iconic moments from the platform’s library in a vertical, scrollable feed.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, these are created using an in-house AI tool “which helps human editors select and verticalize content by using machine learning algorithms that utilize scene-level metadata to comb through thousands of hours of titles and suggests the most compelling, high-impact scenes for discovery.”
Ask HBO Max is an AI conversational search tool that allows users to discover content based on natural language. For instance, users can type “in a mood for a rom-com,” “psychological thrillers for Halloween,” or “movies with a surprising plot twist,” for recommendations.
These AI-based features help users get recommendations based on their previous watch history. This will curate their feed for a more personal experience. However, there is a catch.
Most HBO Max users will have to wait for the new features
These two new HBO Max features are in their testing phase. This means that only selected users on iOS and Android can access them. General users will have to wait until the official launch.
Once launched to the public, users can tap the “Shorts” icon and begin scrolling to find a new show or movie to watch directly. Another feature being tested is “Add To List,” which allows users to directly add a title to the “My List” section from the feed.
Image Credit: HBO Max
Deepna Devkar, HBO Max senior vice president of Machine Learning Engineering, stated, “We’re thrilled to launch this application of AI to accelerate the creation of these clips and look forward to quickly expanding to make even more of our amazing content offering discoverable through this new feature.”
Moreover, Liesel Kipp, Warner Bros. Discovery‘s executive vice president of Product Management, commented that these features are built on intuitive and familiar behaviors that subscribers use every day. He added, “Both ‘HBO Max Shorts’ and ‘conversational search’ translate those behaviors into new ways to discover programming across the HBO Max service, making it easier and more seamless for subscribers to find something to watch.”
During the recent 2026 San Diego Comic-Con, Academy Award winner Ryan Coogler finally announced the first official details about Blank Panther 3. He was joined by two returning cast members and one surprising new cast member. This comes ahead of the highly anticipated threequel’s theatrical release on December 15, 2028.
Confirmed Black Panther 3 cast
So far, Letitia Wright and Winston Duke are the only confirmed returning cast members for Black Panther 3. Before this, they will first reprise their respective roles as Shuri/Black Panther and M’baku in the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday movie, which comes out this December 18. Joining them is franchise newcomer David Jonsson, who has been tapped to portray the next Black Panther and T’Challa’s son, Prince T’Challa II/Toussaint. The British actor is best known for his roles in 2023’s Rye Lane, 2024’s Alien: Romulus, and 2025’s The Long Walk. T’Challa’s young son was introduced at the end of 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever during the mid-credits scene.
Although Coogler has already mentioned Academy Award winner Denzel Washington‘s involvement in Black Panther 3, Marvel Studios has not technically confirmed his casting yet. Should Washington indeed join the cast, this would mark his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and his first collaboration with Coogler. Further details about his character are still under wraps, but the Training Day star previously confirmed that the Sinners director specifically wrote a character for him in Black Panther 3.
Unconfirmed Black Panther 3 cast
Even though Marvel Studios has yet to announce the full Black Panther 3 cast, I’m sure that Wright and Duke won’t be the only ones returning for the new movie. After appearing in the first two installments, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, and Florence Kasumba are most likely set to reprise their respective roles as Nakia, Okoye, Everett K. Ross, and Ayo. Apart from them, I also believe that Coogler would surprise fans once again with the potential appearances of Michael B. Jordan and Angela Bassett. Even though Erik Killmonger and Queen Ramonda had already passed away, the creative team could still bring them back through the Ancestral Plane scenes.
Christopher Nolan just admitted the one type of movie that genuinely scares him, and it’s not what fans would expect. The acclaimed director revealed why he finds a particular genre “incredibly difficult” and would be “terrified” to attempt it despite his love for watching those films.
Why Christopher Nolan finds romantic comedies ‘incredibly difficult’
Christopher Nolan recently sat down with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show to promote his latest epic, The Odyssey. During the conversation, the acclaimed director opened up about why he stays away from lighter genres like romantic comedies. Nolan admitted that making audiences laugh genuinely intimidates him as a filmmaker.
The two-time Oscar winner expressed deep respect for directors who specialize in comedic storytelling. “I think doing a rom-com would be incredibly difficult. I love watching those movies,” Nolan shared. He went on to praise comedy professionals for taking on what he considers an enormous creative risk.
Furthermore, Nolan contrasted his own experience with dramatic films against the unique challenges of comedy. “If I show a film to people and maybe they don’t respond to bits of it, I’m like, ‘Ah, they don’t get it,'” he explained. However, he stressed that comedy strips away that protective layer entirely. “There’s no hiding behind that when you do comedy,” the director added candidly.
Meanwhile, his latest film, The Odyssey, adapts Homer’s ancient Greek epic for the big screen with groundbreaking technology. The production spanned 91 days across six countries and became the first feature shot entirely on IMAX cameras. IMAX engineers built a custom silencing system so Nolan could capture dialogue scenes with the notoriously loud equipment. Additionally, cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema devised a mirror rig allowing actors to maintain natural eye contact around the oversized cameras.
The Odyssey has already surpassed $600 million at the worldwide box office in its theatrical run. Matt Damon stars as Odysseus alongside Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Robert Pattinson. The ensemble also features Charlize Theron, Lupita Nyong’o, Jon Bernthal, Elliot Page, and Bill Irwin among others.
Prime Video has released an official trailer for Carrie. The upcoming original series is based on Stephen King‘s iconic novel of the same name. The miniseries is directed by Mike Flanagan.
The series logline reads, “A Misfit high‑schooler Carrie White (Summer H. Howell) has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan). After her father’s sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.”
The trailer introduces a fresh take on Carrie White, a shy high school student whose life takes a turn when she’s forced back into public school following her father’s sudden demise. There, she faces relentless bullying from classmates, the pressure of social media, and an overprotective mother at home. Meanwhile, Carrie discovers mysterious telekinetic powers that grow stronger along with her adolescence.
The series stars Summer H. Howell as Carrie White, Samantha Sloyan as Margaret White, Siena Agudong as Sue Snell, Alison Thornton as Chris Hargensen, and Joel Oulette as Tommy Ross. It also features Josie Totah, Arthur Conti, Thalia Dudek, Amber Midthunder, and Matthew Lillard.
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Mike Flanagan, Elizabeth Padden, Justina Ireland, Dani Parker, Elan Gale, Alexandra Magistro, and Rebecca Leigh Klingel wrote the first six episodes. Flanagan will direct four of the season’s overall episodes. Flanagan is also the showrunner while executive producing the series with Trevor Macy and Stephen King.
Carrie premieres on Prime Video on October 7 and will include eight episodes in total. A preview at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival is also set for this September.
Apple TV and Mattel Studios have released the first official Matchbox The Movie trailer. In it, John Cena leads an action-packed movie based on the iconic Mattel brand. Matchbox The Movie is set to release on October 9, 2026, on Apple TV.
“Inspired by the iconic Mattel toys, Matchbox The Movie is an action-packed, globetrotting adventure about a group of friends since childhood who have their lives upended when undercover CIA agent Sean (John Cena), their long-absent former leader, returns to their small town and unwittingly gets them embroiled in a frantic international pursuit to save the world,” reads the film’s official synopsis.
The first trailer for Matchbox The Movie highlights a group of friends who are thrust into a grand adventure. CIA agent Sean (Cena) returns to a small town and puts his childhood friends right in the middle of a world-saving pursuit.
Alongside Cena, Matchbox The Movie also stars Jessica Biel, Arturo Castro, Sam Richardson, Teyonah Parris, Danai Gurira, Golshifteh Farahani, Corey Stoll, and Bill Camp. The movie is directed by Sam Hargrave and written by David Coggeshall. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Robbie Brenner, Ynon Kreiz, and Jules Daly are producers on the project.
Matchbox The Movie is yet another entry in the long-running line of films made about an extremely popular IP. Mattel also has a litany of other projects based on its properties in the works, including movies about Hot Wheels, Barney, the American Girl dolls, Magic 8 Ball, and more.
Tom Holland recently opened up about how Peter Parker has changed in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The actor said that his upcoming version of Peter Parker will see his darkest side that the audience has never experienced.
How Spider-Man: Brand New Day explores loneliness, community, and asking for help
In a recent interview with Josh Horowitz, Tom Holland explained that the film opens up with Peter Parker at the lowest point of his life, though Spider-Man himself is stronger than ever. He said, “I think you really meet Peter Parker at the beginning of the darkest chapter of his life,” Holland said.
The actor explained that the movie focuses on the emotional side of living a life in isolation, and Peter struggles after choosing to carry everything on his own. He calls the movie “a cautionary tale for the dangers of living a life alone and not having a community, not having friends.”
Holland also referred to Spider-Man: No Way Home’s ending, saying Peter has ignored one of the most important lessons from Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man. “A lesson that he learned from Andrew’s character in the previous movie is that, you know, sometimes the bravest thing that you can do is ask for help. And he is actively ignoring that advice. And it is having a profound effect on his life as a human being,” he added.
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Tom Holland explained that Peter is going through a rough phase. Meanwhile, Spider-Man is thriving. That contrast between Peter’s isolated life and Spider-Man’s public success is something that Holland found most exciting to explore. He described the character going from “standing on the world stage” as a celebrated figure to returning home to “a pretty grubby New York apartment” at the end of the day.
Holland believes these moments resonate with younger people who quietly go through the same everyday life. He went on to add, “I love telling a movie on this scale that is something that I really think will resonate with young people.”
Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits theaters on July 31, 2026.
House of the Dragon‘s James Norton defends the show amid AI accusations. The star addressed claims that the show used AI in an interview, dismissing the rumors by saying, “Even the heads of the Dragons are real.”
James Norton says House of the Dragon relies on real craftsmanship
The Game of Thrones spin-off show, House of the Dragon, received criticism for using AI after an AI-generated poster was released to let viewers pick a side in the Targaryen war. The accusations also raised questions about whether the show used AI for its visual effects and other fantastical elements.
However, James Norton debunked these claims in an interview with the Table Manners podcast. The actor said, “In the world of AI… shows like House of the Dragon really [do] stand for something important because so much of what you see is actually real. Even the heads of the dragons are real,” when asked if AI was involved (via Digital Spy).
Acknowledging that AI could play a role somewhere in the production process, Norton added, “What you’re watching is a single head moving like the dragon with the wings, and then the body isn’t there, and behind them is this enormous blue screen. Then later on, special effects are added in. But it’s not AI… I mean, there’ll be AI involved.”
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Norton also spoke about CGI being involved and gave the hosts an insight into what it was like to be on set around the people involved in the show. In a world of AI, he called the experience “really humbling and encouraging.”
James plays the character Lord Ormund Hightower in the Game of Thrones spin-off show. The show focuses on the mighty Targaryen dynasty at the height of its power. Seasons 1 and 2 are currently airing on HBO.
The show’s third season will premiere on the streamer on June 21, 2026. A fourth season is in development, slated to release in 2028.
Kelsey Grammer stars in Gary Walkow’s new sci-fi movie Lars Shrike Walks the Night, which is out this week. The six-time Emmy winner spoke with ComingSoon’s Tyler Treese and discussed his latest film role, the movie’s unique meta approach to sci-fi, and teased Avengers: Doomsday. Lars Shrike Walks the Night is out July 24 on Digital from Filmhub and Vortex.
“Lars Shrike knows only two things: his name, and that he has escaped. Alone in a hostile desert landscape, he struggles to piece together who he is, where he came from, and what exactly he has fled. As fragments of memory, hallucination, and reality begin to blur, Shrike is pulled into an increasingly strange odyssey where every answer only deepens the mystery. Is he a prisoner on the run, a damaged mind inventing its own mythology, or a fictional character who has somehow stepped into the real world?” says the official synopsis.
Tyler Treese: Kelsey, congrats on Lars Shrike Walks the Night. This is such an interesting meta film. Before you took this role, did you go back and watch The Trouble with Dick? Because this is very much in conversation with that film.
Kelsey Grammer: No, I didn’t. Gary’s an old friend. I was not aware that he’d done The Trouble with Dick. He explained it to me later, once we were in the trenches with it.
I’m one of those—I don’t believe in checking out a lot of stuff. For instance, if I was playing Paris in the Troy movie, I would check out what his story was. I’d go to the library and find out what the story of Paris was. Because I did play Paris once in a play called Troilus and Cressida at the Shakespeare Festival in San Diego, I know where he comes from and why he was raised by wolves and all sorts of stuff. His name means wallet. I remember this stuff, but that’s just grist for the mill.
When it comes down to actually performing something, none of that stuff matters. It matters that you’re available and open, and people can understand you and hear you. That’s what you have to be able to do.
I loved this character off the page, so I didn’t really know anything else about it. I just liked that he’s a literal guy. He’s Lars Shrike. He’s walking the night. What is he walking the night for? He’s trying to figure out what the hell he’s here for, what that’s all about, who he is, and why he’s here. What is the reason for it? What’s his destiny? Where does he come from?
There are all sorts of wonderful things he encounters on his way. There’s a magical kind of journey, not unlike The Odyssey. It’s just without a big budget. He’s a remarkable everyman who’s facing all the things we all face every time he wakes up, every time he gets warm enough behind a rock or covered by something to take a moment to look at the sky and wonder what the hell’s going on.
It’s a great performance—I mean, it’s a great film, I think. Whether or not I’m great in it, who knows? But I loved the challenge of it, and I liked the result.
I think you gave a great performance, in my opinion. I thought this was so interesting because, as you mentioned, he’s very literal. You’re seeing a can of soda for the first time, and you’re like, “Ah, drinking cylinders. Clever.” You’re interacting with all these things that are very common in our universe, like a fork, and they’re completely alien to you. How did you find that minutiae in your performance?
I found it really wonderful. It was just like being a kid, honestly. The literal energy of this guy—everything is the first time. Everything.
A girl leans in to kiss him, and he’s got a split lip. It hurts. There are just wonderful things about it. Then he realizes, “Oh, that’s what we’re doing.”
Everything becomes what’s next. He goes from step to step and finds little pieces of information from other people, but mostly it’s the environment around him that feeds his next steps. He thinks, “I’ve got to go here. I’ve got to go there. I’ve got to do this.” Then he gets an address and thinks, “I’m going to go check that out.”
I just love his journey, and I love his open-mindedness to it all. This discovery at the end of the film, when he’s thinking about, “What have I learned?” In the end, it’s that we’re glad we’re here. No matter what it is, we’re still glad we’re alive. It’s an amazing thing.
You’re so used to playing roles like Frasier, where you’re the smartest guy. Here, you know absolutely nothing. Is that fulfilling, getting to play outside your normal type and your comfort zone?
Yeah. As an actor, you want to spend your life doing different roles rather than the same one. I was very happy to repeat and do Frasier for as long as I did, and I kept searching for other roles that would serve my own whatever that is—the hairpin in me that wants to try a different thing or create something that’s believable in a different set of circumstances.
I never quit on that. I’m just an actor. I like being an actor. I like going into different roles and putting myself into a different world if I can. Lars Shrike Walks the Night—there I am.
It’s a wonderfully rewarding opportunity I’ve had in my life because I keep looking for the thing that people don’t expect me to do.
Gary’s such an interesting writer. One of my favorite parts of the film is when you get asked if you’re glad you exist, and you initially say, “I have mixed feelings.” That got a good laugh out of me. Can you speak to the joy of Gary’s dialogue and crafting these really unique scenes for you to act out?
Kelsey Grammer: He’s a terrific writer. He’s got a wonderful brain and a wonderful way of taking what he sees and making it seeable on paper. That’s a very particular gift. Very few people actually have that gift.
He’s able to shoot what is written. He’s able to communicate what he wants to shoot to the actor, meaning me. We had a great relationship while we were shooting, where I said, “Look, you’ve got to shoot the first take.” A lot of directors don’t want to do that, but in this case, because it was such an important part of the characterization that he is seeing it for the first time, I said, “You’re going to capture some stuff that we wouldn’t otherwise capture.”
There is a thing that happens when it’s the very first time, and there’s a piece of equipment that can capture almost everything as subtly as a lens does that you won’t be able to repeat. You can get close. You can do a facsimile of it. But if you can capture that first take and see that genuine surprise, that genuine interaction with something he’s never seen before, that’s gold.
I think we have several moments in the movie that are like that. Of course, when you change the camera angle and stuff like that, you’ve got to be repeatable and pretend it’s spontaneous. But that first piece, that first time, the interaction with what’s going on in the film and what the camera is capturing, is really valuable to try to get upfront.
Gary embraced that. He had such a clear picture of where he was going. It was really great. He would set me into a scene, freezing cold, with rocks and an unbelievable, forbidding landscape all around, and then say, “Action.” It was great.
Narratively, it’s very interesting because it plays with the format a lot. There’s so much self-narration. Early on, there’s a scene where you’re thinking of different ways this interaction with a woman could go, and we’re seeing them play out differently. They’re all fantasy. What did you like most about that meta-contextual aspect of the film?
I loved the fact that he gave visual representation to the possibilities the guy was thinking. His imagination was suddenly pictured, so his monologue was actually part of the display of what we were seeing. It was part of the action of the film.
Whether or not it was true didn’t matter. It looked true for that moment because that’s how we are. We imagine things. We don’t question if they exist while we’re laying out the points, while the drama is unfolding. It’s only after the fact that we realize, “Ah, it’s bullshit,” or whatever it is we’re going to realize.
It’s, “Gee, I wish that could happen,” or, “I wish that—no, I’d rather go over here.” All that doesn’t matter in that one moment. That’s the truth. What you’re seeing is the truth in that moment, when you find out it isn’t.
One of the most impressive parts of your performance is that you play Lars Shrike as this very sympathetic person while also being constantly pretty ridiculous with how you’re interacting with these objects. As you said, he is like a newborn, in a sense, where this is his first time interacting with the world. How was finding that balance and straddling that line? I think it would be so easy for this to be off and for the film not to work at all, but you found the right balance.
Thanks. That’s kind of you. It was rewarding to play because he remained true to his desire to know more, and the universe around him kept unfolding. It kept giving him something that would pull him in one direction or another, and his decision was to simply go with it.
Because I’m on a search for, “What do I mean? What am I doing? Why am I walking in the night? Why is this happening? Where am I going?” Then, all of a sudden, a destination appears, or a human being points him in a direction and he thinks, “Well, I’ll try that,” or he falls through a window of some strange home he’s never seen.
Everything guides him to the next step, and you just have to surrender to it. So he surrenders to it, gathers information as he goes, and then finally has a moment where he can reflect on what he’s learned.
It’s wonderful. I really liked it. When I read it, I really liked it. I said to Gary, “I had something I wanted to play.”
In the final act of this film, you share so many interesting scenes with David Clennon. He’s no stranger to sci-fi, having been in The Thing. I like that while this film doesn’t have a ton of action — there’s no wild sci-fi shooting or anything like that — it still builds to this really satisfying conclusion, where that intellectual conversation at the end is just as fulfilling as if this film had led up to a big fight.How was it working with David and making sure those scenes had the gravitas of ending the film?
He’s a lovely actor. He’s rooted. He’s grounded. He’s doing the same thing. You’re playing with each other. You’re just discovering. Acting is reacting.
This guy said that. I’ll have this. My character has the idea of, “Who am I? What do you know about that? Why do you know who I am? Why are you involved in what my destiny may be?” Those are great questions, and David’s a terrific actor.
He was almost as innocent as I was because it was just as big a surprise for him to see me as it was for me to see him. That’s what I really liked—those moments and what they came to together. It’s great.
It’s funny that you have something like this, which makes the absolute most out of a small budget, and then an Avengers movie, which has a seemingly unlimited budget, coming out the same year. Can you speak to your love of acting and being happy to make the most out of this small, interesting project just the same as the biggest film of the year, which you’re also in?
Kelsey Grammer: That’s fun, isn’t it? That’s a pinch-me thing for an actor. You just go, “Okay. I’ve been given the grace by God or whatever to have a chance to work this stuff out in different ways.”
I suffered to shoot Lars Shrike Walks the Night. I actually suffered. In Avengers, it looks like we’re suffering, but we’re not. We’re living in a great place in London, and you drive out in a limousine. Somebody will take you to the set, and you throw on a costume. It’s almost like being in the lap of luxury, and you go out and pretend you’re in hell.
I was in hell when I did Lars Shrike Walks the Night because that’s all we had the money for. We could find hell and stick me in it in a prisoner outfit. It was really fun, though. They’re always fun. It’s remarkable. In the end, we’re always looking for some sort of universal truth, I think. Some reason to go on, to continue, to love why we’re here, and to love it while we’re here. I think all acting work is meant for that.
The big Doomsday trailer also released today. Are you glad that the veil of secrecy is starting to be lifted a little bit? That has to be so awkward to always have to talk about it.
Kelsey Grammer: We’re not really allowed to talk about it. I can say Beast has always been my favorite character. I love him. I’ve loved him since the moment I was asked to play him the first time. That’s 20-plus years now.
I think he’s fantastic. I would play him forever. I would love to do another five or six movies with Beast. Whether or not that’s in the cards is not up to me or anything else. I don’t even know how this one ends. That’s just the way it is. I’m sticking with that. I sure do like playing him. I hope people enjoy watching it.
You were just in Young Washington, which I really enjoyed. What was most fulfilling about that experience of playing Thomas Fairfax? He has such an important role in getting General Washington’s start.
Kelsey Grammer: Kicking him off. He started the whole mechanism.
Fairfax was a fun character to play because, when you play Englishmen, you always wonder, “Why the hell was he in America?” Lords come from families that are well-established and have been there for a thousand years. Usually, a guy who ended up in a colony somewhere was probably the third or fourth son. There was no way he was ever going to inherit anything.
He probably became a pretty self-made man in America, being the largest landowner in the colonies at the time. That made him fun to play. The spirit of finding something in somebody else that might be the defining factor in him, the one that says, “You’re going to go far.” I think that was implied in the scene I did with the young George Washington, with William. He’s terrific.
I’m a big American history fan. I love it, and I’ll go to the mat anytime, swinging for the Founding Fathers. When we got to do the George Washington story, they called me. I flew over to Ireland to do it, and I said, “Tell me you’re doing the scene about the bullets.”
I know about the bullets, the doublet and the greatcoat that had 50 holes in it, and nobody got him. This is real. George Washington was untouchable in that battle. That’s remarkable. They said, “Yeah, I’m doing it.” I’m glad they did it.
That’s a great moment in the film. I like how you play that character, too, because when you think of a lord of a big manor like Fairfax, you think he’d be uptight, but you’re actually cool with him sneaking into the party. There’s a nice humanity to that. Especially with these historical figures who seem so larger than life, it’s hard to imagine them as actual people. I really liked the small touches you found there.
Other than George Washington, I think the key is that we learn our Founding Fathers are actually the same size we are. Other than George Washington. I would say the monument on the Mall in Washington, D.C., is just not big enough. He’s that remarkable. But most of these other guys are our size. They have the same passions we have.
We’ve just lost touch with that. That’s a good journey, to try to remember that.
All these other guys would have gotten shot a few times in that battle.
Most of them would be dead.
Thanks to Kelsey Grammer for taking the time to talk about Lars Shrike Walks the Night.
