Resident Evil
A hapless courier (Austin Abrams) tasked with delivering a package
to a remote hospital. He soon finds himself caught in the middle of an outbreak
and must fight through hordes of
mutated creatures to survive. While driving through a snowy mountain area, he
gets distracted and hits a woman. As he tries to help, he discovers that the
town is descending into chaos as a viral outbreak transforms people into
violent, mutated creatures. Directed by Zach Cregger, the film
runs parallel to the events of Resident Evil 2, but takes
place in a modern day setting during a heavy blizzard rather than the original
1998 timeline.
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Drawn Together (Prime Video)
A romantic thriller about a wealthy heiress who falls in
love with her bodyguard while being targeted by
dangerous enemies from her father's past. Marfil Cortés
is a rich 20 year old student and ballet dancer living
in New York. One night,
someone
attacks and kidnaps her in Central Park. She wakes up
days later with no memory of what happened. Marfil's
powerful father, Alejandro, worries for her safety. He
hires a strict and guarded bodyguard named Sebastián
Moore to watch her around the clock. Marfil initially
hates feeling trapped by Sebastián. Over time, their
close proximity changes her resentment into a deep
physical and emotional attraction. Sebastián is hiding
his own secrets and connections to the conspiracy. The
movie ends on a major cliffhanger where Marfil is taken
again by her father's enemies, setting up the sequel
film, Drawn Apart.
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Crew Girl (Netflix)
Teagan Tao is a star rower in Los Angeles with dreams of
going to Stanford. Her life stops when
the FBI investigates her father for massive financial
fraud. Teagan and her mother, Ella, move across the
country to a small town named Eagle's Cove. Teagan
attends Easton Prep. The school has a boys' rowing team,
but no girls' team. eagan joins the boys' team as their
coxswain. She must use her tactical skills to steer the
boat and whip the unruly boys into shape.
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Finneas, Danish pop band Lukas Graham
and Irish singer Aaron Rowe, who were all
meant to open for Ed Sheeran on tour, have
dropped out in solidarity with Macklemore, who
was dropped from the tour after his statements in
support of Palestine. Sheeran’s touring band Beoga
has also departed the tour.
Quentin
Tarantino is writing a novel version of his
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood spinoff
Cliff Booth. It will debut later this
year, timed to the release of the forthcoming film
starring Brad Pitt, who reprises his
Oscar winning role as a longtime stuntman.
When Matthew Rhys accepted his second
Emmy of the night, for best actor in a comedy series
for Widow’s Bay, he made history. The
Welsh actor is now the first performer in history to
have won the lead acting Emmy across all three genres,
since he won on the drama side back in 2018 for The
Americans, and the first man to win two
lead-acting trophies in a single night.
Hacks star Jean Smart has won at
the 2026 Emmys for best actress in a comedy
series and made history in the process, becoming the
first female performer ever to win TV’s highest honor
for every season of a series.
Another big awards show could be on its way to a
streaming platform. The Television
Academy and Prime Video are in talks
about the Amazon owned streamer taking over as home of
the Primetime Emmy Awards telecast.
Robert De Niro is in talks to star
as Tommy Lasorda, the late two time World
Series winning manager of the Los Angeles
Dodgers and Hall of Famer, in the working titled
Tommy & Me.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney will not seek
the death penalty against Nick Reiner, who
stands accused of murdering his parents Rob
Reiner and Michelle Singer Reiner
last December.
The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey will get its
turn to tell the enduring, unsolved mystery of JonBenét
Ramsey’s murder when the limited series comes to
Netflix in December, with Melissa McCarthy
and Clive Owen stepping into the roles of
JonBenét’s parents.
Arriving in theaters next weekend, Avengers
Endgame: Encore is currently expected to pull
in somewhere between $19 and $28 million domestically,
per Box Office Theory. That would be a stellar number
for a re-release of any movie. Endgame made $2.79
billion in its original run, so anything at this point
is icing on an already well iced cake. Still, can it
make enough to give Marvel the number one film of
all time once again? Endgame" officially surpassed
Avatar as the highest grossing movie of all time in
its original run. James Cameron's
groundbreaking blockbuster had made $2.78 billion up to
that point. But it was a record that wouldn't stand for
too long because Cameron rereleased Avatar and took the
title back.
60 Minutes returned for its new season
with its smallest premiere audience of the 21st century.
According to Nielsen ratings, per The New
York Times, the season premiere drew 7.9
million total viewers, including 1.6 million viewers in
the key adults 25-54 demographic.