Avengers: Endgame overtakes Avatar again to become the highest-grossing movie of all time
The film's worldwide total has reached $2.9255 billion, edging past James Cameron's blockbuster
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Marvel drops the first Avengers: Doomsday trailer, set to open against Dune: Part Three this December
Doctor Doom, the X-Men, and Steve Rogers return as Marvel tries to make superhero movies feel like events again
Highly anticipated: Marvel has released the first full trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, bringing together nearly every corner of its cinematic universe for what may be the studio's biggest test since Endgame. Robert Downey Jr. returns to the MCU as Doctor Doom, facing a lineup that includes the Avengers, the New Avengers from Thunderbolts, the Fantastic Four, Wakanda's heroes, and characters from Fox's original X-Men films.
12 states sue to block Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. deal, warning of a "media behemoth"
The suit argues the merger would mean pricier movie tickets, cable bills, and streaming subscriptions
How Pixar recovered Toy Story 2 after a Unix command deleted nearly the entire film in 1998
Oops: Twenty-eight years ago, Pixar nearly lost 90% of Toy Story 2's digital files – not because a system crashed, but because someone ran a routine Unix command that engineers had been using for years without a second thought. The command /bin/rm -r -f instructs the system to recursively delete everything under a directory without asking for confirmation. At Pixar in 1998, it was apparently executed in the wrong location.
Canada is imposing a 15% tax on streaming services to support local content
"No one ever likes being regulated," especially in the US
Star Wars heads back to cinemas with two back-to-back films
Disney bets on Mandalorian and Ryan Gosling to reboot Star Wars on the big screen
Disney is considering movie premieres inside Fortnite
The entertainment giant's $1.5 billion stake in Epic could lead to a bold test of interactive cinema
Baldur's Gate is getting an HBO TV series set after Baldur's Gate 3
Penned by The Last of Us' Craig Mazin – a 1,000-hour Baldur's Gate 3 diehard
Google rolls out Gemini AI to Google TV and Android TV devices
"Conversational" AI to millions of screens, starting with some TCL devices
Behind the numbers: Why Rotten Tomatoes scores keep climbing
Is Rotten Tomatoes still a trustworthy gauge for moviegoers?
TiVo: Binge-Watching Before Streaming
Legends of Tech Before Netflix and streaming, TiVo quietly rewired how we watched TV by introducing pause, rewind, and binge habits we now take for granted. This is the story of the box that changed everything.
Netflix's Assassin's Creed series is finally moving forward after years of delays
TV show follows a 2016 film adaptation that received mixed reviews and only modest box office success
Netflix still leads but share of most-watched shows drops from 80% to 50%
Netflix is responsible for four of the top 10 shows so far this year
Mel Brooks returns from the retirement home to save a galaxy 'very, very, very, very, far away'
May the Schwartz be with you!
Apple CarPlay will soon let you watch videos while parked
For safety, the feature will only work while parked
A real-life Severance keyboard is here, complete with built-in trackball
Praise Kier for this keyboard
A Minecraft Movie beats Super Mario Bros. for biggest video game adaptation launch
$157 million domestically, $301 million globally
Apple loses more than $1 billion a year on Apple TV+ streaming service
Just a drop in the bucket for the company
How many episodes should you watch before giving up on a TV show (and what do statistics say)?
Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em
'Flow' movie was made with Blender, open-source just won an Oscar
Even more impressive? The final renders used Blender's semi-realtime Eevee engine. That reduced the compute required by orders of magnitude - the director said a render farm wasn't necessary because his local workstation could produce final-quality 4K frames in 0.5-10 seconds.
US Copyright Office rules out copyright for AI created content without human input
AI-assisted editing is allowed, but AI-generated images are not
A new Resident Evil movie is in development from the writer-director of Barbarian
Going back to its horror roots
2024's 10 top-grossing US films were all sequels and prequels
Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine dominate a slightly down year
The future of high-end cinema shines bright with LED, led by Chinese companies
While expensive, they promise hugely improved visuals