Jeremy Renner has confirmed he is not part of Avengers: Doomsday, saying at a recent fan Q&A that Marvel never contacted him about the film. The actor joked that the Avengers "will probably lose" without his character, Hawkeye, on the team.
"Cupertino" is a CBS legal drama, created by Robert and Michelle King, about two Silicon Valley lawyers who sue tech companies over harms linked to artificial intelligence. It premiered on October 8, 2026, and has drawn strong reviews for using courtroom cases to dramatize real debates over AI oversight, from chatbot harms to algorithmic decision-making.
RAI 1 aired "Sul cammino di Francesco – La vita di Biagio Conte" on October 11, 2026, a television film about the Palermo lay missionary who gave up a wealthy life to found a mission for the homeless. President Sergio Mattarella attended the national preview in Palermo on October 5, and the film is now streaming on RaiPlay.
John Turturro plays Harry Lehman, an aging New York pickpocket, in Noah Segan's "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York," which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. The 69-year-old actor, best known for roles in Coen brothers films, says the character's "humanity" drew him in, and the performance is now generating awards-season attention from distributor Sony Pictures Classics.
Paris Filmes is re-releasing all five existing Hunger Games movies in Brazilian cinemas starting October 15, 2026. The marathon runs ahead of the new prequel "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping," which opens in Brazil on November 19.
Netflix's six-episode thriller "Below" stars Josh Hartnett as a Newfoundland fisherman confronting a sea creature tied to a decades-old family tragedy. The series premiered October 8, 2026, became Netflix's most-watched show worldwide, and has earned strong critic scores alongside a cooler audience response.
There is no single "Halloween" order because the 13-film Michael Myers franchise splits into four separate continuities, each of which treats different sequels as canon. Every path starts with Halloween (1978); after that, the sequel you pick next depends on which timeline you want to follow.
Prime Video's eight-episode "Carrie," created and partly directed by Mike Flanagan, premiered October 7, 2026, retelling Stephen King's 1974 novel with cyberbullying and social media replacing the book's locker-room cruelty. The series reworks Carrie White and her mother Margaret as more sympathetic figures than in earlier film versions, a change critics and cast members say shifts the story's emotional center.
Other Mommy is a 2026 supernatural horror film, directed by Rob Savage and starring Jessica Chastain, about a doppelgänger that terrorizes a young girl from inside her mother's shape. It opened to sharply negative reviews and a rare D+ CinemaScore, yet still topped the North American box office on its October 9 release weekend.
Matthew Lillard says his career went through a prolonged downturn after 2004's Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed underperformed at the box office, following the success of the 2002 original in which he played Shaggy Rogers. He said he and his wife sold their house and cars to get through the lean years that followed, before rebuilding as a character actor in films such as The Descendants.
Director Danny Boyle told the London Film Festival on October 9, 2026, that "28 Years Later: Part III" is currently "on the back burner" because the production still lacks financing. He said screenwriter Alex Garland has already written a script, but Garland is tied up directing an "Elden Ring" film adaptation, and Cillian Murphy's character remains central to the planned story.
John Wayne was personally offered the role of the Waco Kid in Mel Brooks' 1974 comedy-western Blazing Saddles but turned it down, reportedly telling Brooks that the script's content was too explicit for his fans. Gene Wilder took the part instead, and the film went on to become one of the most celebrated comedies in American cinema, a status reaffirmed in 2026 when the American Film Institute named it the funniest film ever made.
Scarlett Johansson will play NYPD detective Julie Miller in "The Exorcist: Martyrs," the seventh film in the Exorcist franchise, written and directed by Mike Flanagan for Universal Pictures. The supernatural thriller is scheduled for a March 12, 2027 theatrical release, after Flanagan took over the project in 2024 from a cancelled David Gordon Green sequel.
John Malkovich's performance as a CIA officer in Martin McDonagh's "Wild Horse Nine" drew strong reviews and vocal support from the director at the film's BFI London Film Festival premiere on October 9, 2026. McDonagh told reporters at London's Royal Festival Hall that the performance is "worthy of three Oscars," days after Malkovich won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at Venice.
Crystal Lake, a prequel series to the Friday the 13th film franchise starring Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees, premieres with all eight episodes on Peacock in the United States on October 15, 2026, and on Sky and NOW in the UK and Ireland on October 19, 2026. The show, created by Brad Caleb Kane, follows Jason Voorhees' mother in the year after his drowning, before she becomes the killer of the original 1980 film.
9-1-1 season 10 premieres on ABC on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 8/7c, streaming on Hulu the next day. Angela Bassett returns as Detective Athena Grant in an opening episode built around a downtown Los Angeles sinkhole that triggers a volcanic eruption, while Peter Krause's Bobby Nash remains written out after his season 8 death.
VisionQuest is a new Marvel series premiering October 14, 2026 on Disney+, following Paul Bettany's Vision as he goes on the run with a mysterious young man who may be his reincarnated son. Marvel surprised fans at New York Comic-Con 2026 with an early screening of the first episode and panel appearances from the cast and showrunner Terry Matalas.
Roseanne Barr has secretly shot an eight-episode comedy series called "Meemaw" in Austin, Texas, marking her first major scripted TV project since ABC fired her from the 2018 "Roseanne" revival. The privately funded show has no network or streaming distributor yet, and features Randy Quaid, Drea de Matteo and Omar Gooding.
Marvel Television has confirmed a new live-action spy thriller titled "Zodiac," set to premiere on Disney+ in 2028. The project was unveiled on October 8, 2026 at New York Comic Con, with no cast, creative team or plot details released and filming not due to begin until spring 2027 in London.
No — Kingstown, Michigan does not exist. The Paramount+ series, now also streaming on Netflix, invented the town, but co-creator Hugh Dillon based its premise on his hometown of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, long nicknamed the "prison capital of Canada."
Aaron Sorkin's "The Social Reckoning" dramatizes Frances Haugen's 2021 leak of internal Facebook documents and the Wall Street Journal's "Facebook Files" reporting. Starring Mikey Madison as Haugen and Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, the film opened in US theaters on October 9, 2026, to sharply divided reviews and a 67% score from 55 critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
"Artificial" is Luca Guadagnino's dramatized account of OpenAI's founding and rise, with Andrew Garfield playing CEO Sam Altman. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 5, 2026, and reconstructs the 2023 boardroom crisis in which Altman was briefly removed and then reinstated as CEO.
Netflix's seven-episode "East of Eden," created by Zoe Kazan and starring Florence Pugh, premiered October 1, 2026, and became the platform's No. 1 English-language series with 6.5 million views in its first four days. The adaptation gives Cathy Ames an invented backstory not present in Steinbeck's novel, a choice critics have debated.
On October 4, 2026, Japan's TBS aired episode 19 of VIVANT season 2, showing captured agent Wada tortured — fingers severed, torso stabbed — by a rival spy group. An on-screen violence warning preceded the scene, but it still triggered heavy social-media backlash over how graphic prime-time drama should be, even as ratings held above 15% in the Kanto region.
HBO's Lanterns ended its first season on October 4, 2026, revealing that Sheriff Kerry Kane shot Hal Jordan after learning her son Noah was a Manhunter. John Stewart keeps the ring, claims Earth's Green Lantern post, and the finale sets up Man of Tomorrow and a possible second season.
Avengers: Doomsday has already crossed $40 million, then $50 million, in U.S. advance ticket sales months before its December release, according to a Dark Horizons report. Italian presales opened on October 5, while a new poster shows Robert Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom alongside three masked Latverian witches whose identities have not been confirmed.
"Tatort: Explosive Mischung," the Ludwigshafen-based episode of Germany's long-running Sunday crime series, aired on ARD on October 4, 2026, with detectives Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern investigating a fatal ATM bombing told in real time. The episode drew heavy audience interest and mixed reviews, and aired about seven weeks after the sudden death of former cast member Andreas Hoppe.
Marvel Studios has opened ticket pre-sales for "Avengers: Doomsday" through Fandango, with the film set to open in U.S. theaters on December 18, 2026 (December 16 in the United Kingdom). Advance "Infinity Vision" tickets became available on July 20, 2026, followed by general sales, alongside a sweepstakes for a trip to the Los Angeles premiere.
This week's streaming slate is led by Netflix's seven-part "East of Eden" adaptation starring Florence Pugh and HBO's legal drama "War" with Dominic West and Sienna Miller. Disney+/Hulu add the teen-witch series "Coven Academy," while Paramount+, Starz and AMC+ bring back returning dramas and new thrillers.
Cinematography is the technical and artistic practice of capturing moving images, combining lighting, lens choice, camera placement, movement and composition to tell a visual story. According to the American Society of Cinematographers and the American Film Institute, these choices — not just dialogue or plot — shape how audiences read a scene's emotion and meaning.
Drishyam: The Conclusion, the Hindi-language finale starring Ajay Devgn, earned around ₹95.10 crore worldwide on its October 2 release day, the biggest opening of Devgn's career. The India net collection stood at ₹66.75 crore, making it the second-biggest Hindi opener of 2026 after the top-ranked 2026 release reported by trade outlets.
The Walking Dead: Dead City has not been officially renewed for a fourth season by AMC. Franchise chief content officer Scott M. Gimple says the spin-off is "performing well in the numbers" and has "a good shot" at renewal, but no decision has been confirmed since Season 3 concluded in September 2026.
According to a Dartmouth College research guide, film noir functions as both a genre and a stylistic movement, built around a cycle of Hollywood crime films made mainly between 1940 and 1959 and marked by low-key lighting, a cynical tone and a doomed protagonist. Alongside it, the classical studio era organized production into recognizable genres such as the Western, the musical and the screwball comedy, each built on its own settings, character types and plot patterns.
Disney has agreed to license a batch of films and TV series — including the five Ice Age movies, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and Will Trent — to Netflix starting October 4, 2026. The agreement is non-exclusive and time-limited for several titles, and according to whats-on-netflix.com it represents a notable shift from Disney's previous reluctance to license content to Netflix since Disney+ launched in 2019.
Understanding great cinema starts with spotting the techniques a director repeats across films rather than just following the plot. This guide walks through five tools critics and historians actually use — auteur theory, mise-en-scène, montage, camera method and shot-by-shot editing — with examples from Eisenstein, Kurosawa, Hitchcock and Kubrick.
Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have combined into a single company called Skydance, in a deal Paramount's own announcement valued at $110 billion in enterprise value. A federal judge cleared the merger after a lawsuit from a coalition of states, and the transaction is expected to close on October 6, 2026.
Chad Lowe is an American actor best known for playing Jesse McKenna, a young man living with HIV, on the drama series "Life Goes On," a role that earned him a Primetime Emmy Award in 1993. Over the following decades he built a steady career in television and film and later moved into directing episodic TV.
Digger is a satirical black comedy film directed by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu starring Tom Cruise, set to release in the United States and United Kingdom on October 2, 2026. The film centers on a powerful oil tycoon who causes a catastrophe in Greenland; it received mixed reactions from critics.
