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We knew Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, a four-part animated miniseries airing September 13th, would play amusingly fast and loose with canon.

But an entire Dark Falcon with Darth Jar Jar and Darth Rey and a Beach Luke?! Amazing. That’s the leak from Clay Bricks, who says it’ll cost $179.99. “X-Fighters” and “Tie-Wings” are reportedly coming too.

Sony confirmed in a CineEurope presentation that there’s a sequel to the Uncharted movie in the works, according to Variety. I hope this new one is more interesting than the first; I fell asleep watching it on an airplane, woke up 30 minutes after, and felt like I didn’t miss a beat.

Side note: I highly recommend playing Uncharted 4, which I beat last month.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival belonged to the madness of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, and now that Lionsgate has secured the film’s distribution rights, we can expect to see it in theaters on September 27th.

Say what you will about Marvel’s What If...? Disney Plus series, but it has obviously had at least some influence on Warner Bros.’ new animated Watchmen films that are scheduled to debut some time in the near future.

Apple used The Instigators during WWDC to show off some new features for the Apple TV, but now we have a trailer that actually, you know, let’s you see what the movie is about. The heist flick starts streaming on August 9th, with a limited theatrical run the week before.

As reported by Consumer Affairs, data shows that the average price of “video discs and other media” reached $44.06 in April 2024, a 29 percent increase compared to last year.

That price may only continue to rise as stores like Best Buy and Target turn away from physical media. I guess I started raiding Walmart’s $5 DVD bin at the right time!

Summer camp played a significant role in I Saw the TV Glow, but it’s going to be an even bigger part of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma — director Jane Schoenbrun’s upcoming horror comedy about “a queer filmmaker hired to direct a new installment of a long-running slasher franchise.”

the first Wake Up Dead Man set photo just dropped. It doesn’t reveal much about the next Benoit Blanc mystery, which started filming today, but it does confirm the detective will be sporting a new look in 2025.

And he’ll be joined by quite the cast, including: Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church.

We’re a month out from the conclusion of Ti West’s genre-defying horror trilogy. It started with X, continued with Pearl, and on July 5th will wrap up with Maxxxine, an ‘80s Hollywood murder mystery that once again stars Mia Goth. Honestly though? I kind of want to watch the fake horror movie teased at the beginning of Maxxxine’s latest trailer.

Just as The Acolyte carves out a new space for Star Wars, the just-launched free-to-play shooter Hunters is going to plenty of familiar places. I’m not sure the world can handle another multiplayer arena shooter, but hey, this one does have a Wookie named Grozz.

If you missed it in theaters, the gritty, John Wick-inspired of action of Monkey Man will start streaming on Peacock starting June 14th. The film is both directed by and stars Dev Patel, and will also be available to buy (you know, on physical media) on June 25th.

Following months of merger rumors, CNBC reports that Paramount and Skydance have finalized an agreement that it will announce in the “coming days.” Shari Redstone, the head of Paramount’s parent company National Amusements, still needs to sign off on the deal.

That’s the latest video game franchise Hollywood is chasing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The live-action adaptation will reportedly have Blue Beetle director Ángel Manuel Soto, along with The Fall Guy producers Kelly McCormick and David Leitch on board.

The first two episodes of the Star Wars series will appear in theaters before it starts streaming on Disney Plus on June 4th. Showings are only available in select theaters in the US — and most of them are already sold out.

Just a day after an all-too-brief teaser featuring George Clooney and Brad Pitt getting annoyed at each other, comes a much longer trailer that also features them getting annoyed at each other — only this time with more banter and action. Wolfs hits theaters on September 20th, and is expected to stream on Apple TV Plus sometime thereafter.

The first teaser for the next Moana movie — animated, not live-action — looks a lot like the original but larger in scale, which means some very impressive water effects and gigantic sea creatures. The movie hits theaters on November 27th.

Both Garfield and Furiosa: A Mad Max Story tied for number one at the box office this weekend, having apparently garnered about $25 million each at US theaters.

That’s not a great take, particularly for Furiosa, but it’s also a bad showing for movies, generally, as Variety notes that it’s “the worst Memorial Day opening weekend in nearly three decades.”

Problemista — Julio Torres’ brilliant surrealist comedy about finding your people — is finally hitting Max on June 28th. But if that’s too long a wait, and you’re itching for some of Torres’ absurd humor a bit earlier, his new series Fantasmas is scheduled to premiere on June 7th.

That’s the first thing that struck me in the new trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, a sequel that reunites director Tim Burton with stars Michael Keaton and Winona Ryde, while adding Jenna Ortega to the festivities. It hits theaters on September 6th.