Skydance Merges Warner Bros. Games and Paramount: 12 Things to Know About the New Games Giant
Gaming News Oct 12, 2026
Skydance is merging Paramount Games Studio with Warner Bros. Games under Tony Driscoll after the roughly $110 billion Warner...
The Social Reckoning Review: 12 Things That Decide Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook Follow-Up
Movie Reviews Oct 12, 2026
The Social Reckoning review: Mikey Madison is excellent as whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeremy Strong makes a chilling Zuckerberg,...
China’s AI Micro-Drama Takeover: 13 Things to Know as Hengdian’s Studios Fall Silent
AI & Future of Film Oct 11, 2026
More than 90% of the 430,000 micro-dramas released in China from January to August 2026 were made with AI,...
Skydance Merges Warner Bros. Games and Paramount: 12 Things to Know About the New Games Giant
Gaming News 12th October 2026
Skydance is merging Paramount Games Studio with Warner Bros. Games under Tony Driscoll after the roughly $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery deal closed on 6 October 2026. Here are 12 things to know, from Hogwarts Legacy 2 and Rocksteady to Marvel 1943, layoffs and the UK studios.
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Hollywood’s Production Exodus: 12 Things to Know About the Unions’ 25-Year Report
Movie News 7th October 2026
Seven Hollywood unions released an EY report on 5 October 2026 showing the US share of studio film production spending fell from 74% to 42% since 1999. Here are 12 things to know, from the blockbuster exodus and the 20% federal tax credit bill to what it means for UK studios.
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Control Resonant Review: 9 Things That Define Remedy’s Boldest Reinvention Yet
Gaming Reviews 24th September 2026
Filmoria Review Dylan Faden gets his first look at what the Hiss has done to downtown Manhattan. Screenshot: Remedy Entertainment, via Steam. TL;DR: Remedy tore up its own rulebook and rebuilt Control as a melee-driven action RPG, and the gamble mostly lands. Dylan Faden is a genuinely compelling new... Read more
10 Things to Know About Hollywood’s New AI Deal-Making Boom
AI & Future of Film 21st September 2026
By the Filmoria News Desk Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup InterPositive was bought by Netflix for $587 million, one of several deals reshaping how studios use AI. Image: official press image via About Netflix. Quick Facts The trigger: Axios reported on 19 September 2026 that major studios are striking... Read more
Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s Record Box Office Run: 9 Things to Know
Box Office 18th September 2026
By the Filmoria News Desk Official poster © Sony Pictures / Marvel Studios. Source: TMDB. Quick Facts Film: Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) Domestic box office: $937.4 million (and climbing) as of 18 September 2026 Record broken: Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.66 million, held since 2016) Worldwide total:... Read more
12 Things to Know About the Jack Lowden James Bond Casting Frenzy
Movie News 18th September 2026
By the Filmoria News Desk Jack Lowden, the reported frontrunner to succeed Daniel Craig as James Bond, pictured at the Mary Queen of Scots premiere in Edinburgh. Photo: Scottish Government, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). Quick Facts Reported frontrunner: Jack Lowden (odds of 5/6 as of 15 September... Read more
Slow Horses Season 6 Review: The Body Count Just Went Up
OTT Reviews 13th September 2026
Filmoria Review Official key art © Apple TV+, via TheTVDB. TL;DR: Slough House’s rejects are getting picked off one by one, and the show that resulted is meaner, funnier, and more confident than it has any right to be six seasons in. Filmoria Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5) Quick Facts Showrunner/Based... Read more
10 Best TV Christmas Specials, From Only Fools and Horses to Gavin and Stacey
OTTOTT Features 17th December 2017
The best TV Christmas specials include Only Fools and Horses: Christmas Crackers (1981), Blackadder’s Christmas Carol (1988), Knowing Me, Knowing Yule (1995), The Office Christmas Special (2003) and Gavin & Stacey’s festive episodes, the most recent of which, The Finale on Christmas Day 2024, drew 19.1 million viewers. In... Read more
10 Most Iconic Birds in Film, From Kes to Hedwig
MoviesMovies Features 13th January 2017
The most iconic birds in film are the kestrel in Ken Loach’s Kes (1969), the attacking flocks in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963), Harry Potter’s snowy owl Hedwig, the Great Eagles of The Lord of the Rings, Disney’s Zazu and Iago, Pixar’s Kevin from Up, Aardman’s Chicken Run hens,... Read more
Cinematic universes are the in-thing in Hollywood at the moment, with franchises like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Extended Universe and Fox’s X-Men Movie Universe dominating the box office. There are more in the pipeline, with the likes of a Valiant Comics Cinematic Universe, a Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe,... Read more
16 Things You Need To Know About Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
MoviesMovies Features 28th June 2016
Guardians of the Galaxy was one of the most successful movies of 2014. The tenth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe earned a whopping $773.3 million at the global box office and garnered almost universally positive reviews from fans and critics alike. The huge popularity of what was essentially... Read more