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Mindy Kaling is stepping in front of the camera for Running Point.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:00:00 -0400

The co-creator joins Season 3 of Netflix's basketball comedy as Divya, the outspoken CEO of a popular gambling app who becomes a thorn in Isla's side all season. It's her first on-camera role since 2023, and Kate Hudson makes her TV directing debut with the premiere. Filming is underway.

Source: netflix.com

Miyo and Kiyoka's wedding is coming, and so is trouble.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:00:00 -0400

My Happy Marriage returns with three special episodes on Netflix October 25. Wedding preparations are in full swing until a figure from Miyo's past throws everything off balance. Kinema Citrus animates again, with Reina Ueda and Kaito Ishikawa back as Miyo and Kiyoka.

Ex-Capcom producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi's new game is splitting critics.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0400

Stupid Never Dies, the pop-punk zombie roguelite from his new studio GPTRACK50, holds a 68 on Metacritic ahead of its Oct 21 launch on PS5 and PC. Critics love its style and soundtrack, but GamesRadar+ called the combat wonky and Polygon called it the worst game of 2026.

Source: gamesradar.com

The Hunting Wives are back, and someone is going down.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:00:00 -0400

Netflix just dropped the Season 2 trailer. Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman return as Sophie and Margo, who start the season on the outs until old secrets and new foes pull them back together. John Stamos, Dale Dickey and Kim Matula join the cast. All eight episodes land November 26, and Netflix has already renewed it for Season 3.

Apple has one more event this month.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:00:00 -0400

Apple is inviting press to a "Pro and Tell" event in Los Angeles on October 28, its third product showcase of the season. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects touchscreen MacBooks with OLED screens, more M6 Macs and an OLED iPad mini.

Source: engadget.com

Nicolas Cage, a prosthetic nose and a diner standoff.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0400

The first trailer for Best Pancakes in the County traps Cage and Justin Long in one explosive night at a small-town diner, where rogue federal agents, a con man with a dangerous past and a waitress with secrets of her own collide. Ken Sanzel writes and directs. In theaters and on digital November 20.

Hideo Kojima is in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:00:00 -0400

The Metal Gear creator confirmed he cameos as Hideyoshi Oshima, the braindance director players could find at Konpeki Plaza in Cyberpunk 2077. All 10 episodes of the TRIGGER and CD Projekt Red sequel are streaming now on Netflix.

Source: ign.com

Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller get tangled up with the Russian mob.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:00:00 -0400

NEON's new spot for James Gray's Paper Tiger follows two brothers in 1980s Queens who chase a lucrative business deal that drags their family into a Russian mafia scheme. It premiered in competition at Cannes and hits select theaters November 13, then everywhere November 25.

One Piece turns 27 today, and the Elbaph Arc English dub starts right now.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400

The anime first aired on Fuji TV on October 20, 1999. Crunchyroll's English dub of the Elbaph Arc premieres today at 9 AM PT with Episode 1156, and new dub episodes follow every Tuesday. Matthew David Rudd voices Loki.

Source: crunchyroll.com

The Green Room director is back with a Halloween nightmare.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:00:00 -0400

A24 just dropped the full trailer for Jeremy Saulnier's Slayground, a run-like-hell thriller that starts on Halloween. Imogen Poots, Cory Michael Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Sophie Wilde and James Badge Dale star. It was first set for this October and now hits theaters January 29.

The last Jumanji game is spilling into the real world.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Sony and Dwayne Johnson revealed the first poster for Jumanji: Open World, billed as "the last game." It puts Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black and Kevin Hart in a snowy city surrounded by giant ostriches under the tagline "Two worlds collide. One final game." It opens in theaters on Christmas Day.

Dune: Part Three tickets go on sale around the world today.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400

Denis Villeneuve's finale jumps 17 years ahead, with Timothée Chalamet's Paul now a ruthless emperor, Zendaya back as Chani and Robert Pattinson joining as the shape-shifting villain Scytale. It opens December 18 in theaters and IMAX, the same day as Avengers: Doomsday.

Sam Altman's World wants to put a "Human Badge" on your bank's video calls.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400

World launched World ID for banking and finance at Money20/20 in Las Vegas, a set of tools meant to prove a real person is behind transfers, trades, account requests and Zoom calls. To get the badge, the photo taken when you verified at a World Orb, a live selfie and your video feed all have to match. World didn't name any banks using it yet; Bain Capital, Pantera Capital and VanEck Funds are early design partners.

Source: decrypt.co

Final Fantasy 7 Revelation will let you pick Hard Mode from the very start.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:00:00 -0400

In Remake and Rebirth, Hard Mode only unlocked after you beat the game. Naoki Hamaguchi told Hardcore Gamer it has been "reimagined" for Revelation, which also adds an Enemy Strength setting that lets you choose between the returning Dynamic mode and static enemies. "Hard Mode is selectable from the very start of this game," he said.

Source: gamesradar.com

Four AI agents just beat Minecraft on their own.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0400

Google DeepMind dropped four Gemini 4 Argon agents into a random world with no assigned roles, strategies or game-specific tools. Over 27 hours and 14 minutes they wrote 2,783 programs, traded 229 chat messages, died 605 times and still took down the Ender Dragon. The whole run cost $1,620.

Source: the-decoder.com

Saros just got a free New Game+.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0400

Housemarque's Zenith update is out now for every Saros owner on PS5. It adds Eclipse Layers, a tougher New Game+ mode, and Overlord Rush, a boss gauntlet against all eight Overlords with global leaderboards. New accessibility options include an adjustable slow game speed and auto-fire.

Source: blog.playstation.com

Modern Warfare 4's campaign is winning over Steam.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:00:00 -0400

Infinity Ward's final Modern Warfare chapter hit a Very Positive rating, 92% across more than 3,100 user reviews, after campaign early access opened Friday for digital pre-orders. The campaign runs a little over six hours, and the full game launches Oct. 23.

Source: eurogamer.net

Classroom of the Elite Season 5 just showed its first teaser visual.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:00:00 -0400

The official account revealed a wrecked, sunlit classroom full of overturned desks with the tagline "Make a choice without regret." Season 5 was confirmed in June after Season 4 wrapped. No premiere date yet.

The Train to Busan director's next thriller has already sold to 118 countries.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:00:00 -0400

Yeon Sang-ho's Paradise Lost stars Kim Hyun-joo as a mother whose son vanished nine years ago with a busload of kids headed to camp, then suddenly comes home. CJ ENM says overseas sales alone have topped its production budget. It opens in Korea on Oct. 21 and in North America on Nov. 6 via Well Go USA.

Source: variety.com

Inscryption is finally coming to mobile.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:00:00 -0400

Daniel Mullins Games revealed the port during a fifth-anniversary Twitch stream with creator Daniel Mullins. There's no release date yet, and the team says no new DLC is planned because it sees Inscryption as "a complete experience." Pony Island 2 hits Steam on April 27, 2027.

Source: engadget.com

Hideo Kojima says Godzilla Minus Zero made him feel like Godzilla.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Kojima and Masahiro Sakurai were at the film's Japan premiere in Tokyo on Oct 19. Kojima said the climax made him feel like he was sprouting dorsal fins and firing an atomic ray, and he plans to rewatch it in IMAX. Sakurai's advice: kaiju films belong on the big screen. It opens in Japan Nov 3 and North America Nov 6.

Source: gameriv.com

Faraway lands November 5.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:00:00 -0400

Annapurna Interactive's minimalist arcade puzzler, where you play a shooting star drawing constellations to stay alive, launches on PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch and PC. Every run is randomly generated, with real-time visuals and interactive music.

Taika Waititi's Star Wars movie is officially on ice.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:00:00 -0400

"I hate to break this to you, but we're going to actually put it on ice and we're working on a different thing together," Waititi told Inverse while promoting Klara and the Sun. The Thor: Ragnarok director has been attached to a Star Wars film since 2020, with Tony McNamara writing. "It's very iced," he said. "I've got about four other movies I'm trying to do."

Source: ign.com

Netflix just fired its film chief.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:00:00 -0400

Dan Lin is out as head of Netflix Film, days after Netflix cut about 1,000 jobs and replaced content chief Bela Bajaria with former Fox and Disney executive Peter Rice. Netflix says Rice will oversee film until a new chief is named. Lin's slate still includes Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew. Netflix reports earnings tomorrow.

Source: deadline.com

Hunter Schafer's secret A24 horror movie is about vampires.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:00:00 -0400

At the Academy Museum Gala, the Euphoria star said she shot a vampire movie earlier this year and that it "might be my favorite thing I've ever filmed" because it's "batsh*t crazy." It's The First Omen director Arkasha Stevenson's untitled A24 film about a bachelor party that spirals into terror, with Emma Corrin, Sophie Wilde and Havana Rose Liu. Ari Aster executive produces.

Source: dreadcentral.com

Elon Musk says he'll give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0400

He says the giveaway happens in 2027 and calls it the "first of many." With more than 70 million U.S. kids and SpaceX trading around $146 a share, that's a gift worth over $10 billion. How he'll actually do it isn't clear yet. The pledge came hours after Anthropic said it's putting 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund.

Source: techcrunch.com

THE FINALS' announcer is about to shout your username mid-match.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:00:00 -0400

Embark's new Dynamic Commentary lets Scotty call out contestants by name after big plays like team wipes and revive streaks, mixing real-time lines with the existing commentary. It arrives in beta with Season 12, PRIME TIME, on October 20, and respects Anonymous and Streamer modes.

Peter Jackson's next movie as director is Tintin 2.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:00:00 -0400

Accepting an honorary award at the Sitges Film Festival, Jackson said he and Fran Walsh have already written the sequel to Steven Spielberg's 2011 The Adventures of Tintin. "That will be the next film I make," he said. It would be his first feature as director since The Hobbit trilogy wrapped in 2014. There's no release date yet.

Source: cbr.com

The Hunger Games is going back to Haymitch's Games.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0400

The new "Origins" featurette for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping heads 24 years before the first film, when 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) is reaped for the 50th Hunger Games, a Quarter Quell with twice the tributes. Ralph Fiennes, Elle Fanning, Jesse Plemons and Kieran Culkin co-star. In theaters and IMAX November 20.

Josh Hutcherson is the DCU's Mister Miracle.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:00:00 -0400

James Gunn and DC Studios confirmed Hutcherson will voice Scott Free and Mackenzie Davis will voice Big Barda in Mister Miracle, an adult animated series for HBO Max based on Tom King and Mitch Gerads' award-winning comic. It's from DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation, with a 2028 release window.

The $400 million "be careful what you wish for" horror hit is coming to Netflix.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:00:00 -0400

Obsession, Curry Barker's Focus Features breakout about a One Wish Willow that grants a crush at a sinister price, lands on Netflix in the U.S. on November 17. Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette and Andy Richter star. Netflix just dropped the official trailer.

The Edgerunners 2 director is making a dumb-android slice-of-life next.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400

Aniplex announced a 2027 TV anime of Kokamumo's Null-Meta, with Kai Ikarashi (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2) directing at studio Soigne. Tatsuya Takahashi handles series scripts and Shin Ogasawara designs the characters. The 4-koma follows high-schoolers remodeling a really dumb android named Kurumi.

Source: animenewsnetwork.com

Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Graham are hunting a killer who gets in your head.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:00:00 -0400

Apple TV's Nocturne drops its official trailer ahead of an October 30 premiere (first two episodes, then weekly through Dec 25). Schreiber plays detective Jonah Lynn, Beetz is FBI agent Saga Bauer, and Graham is serial killer Jurek Walter in a 10-episode drama based on Lars Kepler's The Sandman.

Jun Maeda, the writer and composer behind Kanon, Air, Clannad and Angel Beats!, has been diagnosed with pharyngeal cancer.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Visual Arts/Key says he chose palliative care over active treatment to save his strength for creative work. He has written Heaven Burns Red's story through the first half of Chapter 6 and mapped out the rest of the chapter, and the songs he's working on will be released on YouTube one by one. Key says he "remains strongly determined to devote himself to creative work through to the very end."

Source: animenewsnetwork.com

The Cat is counting down, and theaters open November 6.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400

Illumination and Warner Bros.' The Cat in the Hat just dropped a fresh official clip — "The more the merrier we say!" — pointing to a November 6 theatrical release.

Epic's CEO says don't give up on Fall Guys.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400

Replying to a fake post claiming Disney bought developer Mediatonic, Tim Sweeney wrote "Not so," then added: "There's a huge retooling underway that will make new things possible." He didn't say what's changing or when. Fall Guys hasn't had a big content drop since the Slime Factory update in September 2025.

Source: gamebeacon.co

The rebuilt Dragon Ball Super is now on Netflix in the U.S.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is an "enhanced" remake of Goku's first clash with the God of Destruction, with new and redrawn scenes, fully re-rendered footage and newly recorded voice work. New episodes land Sundays on Crunchyroll and Hulu, then on Netflix six days later. Episode 2 dropped Sunday.

Source: animenewsnetwork.com

Big banks are locking AI agents out of your account.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0400

JPMorgan, Citigroup and Bank of America are blocking outside AI agents from logging in to customer accounts. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon called it "just too risky for clients and for JPMorgan," and Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan says a person has to approve any money leaving an account. The pushback follows Meta's launch of its Muse personal AI agent in September.

Source: fortune.com

The West Wing's Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford are back together, and critics love it.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0400

The Diplomat Season 4 is streaming on Netflix, with Janney and Whitford promoted to series regulars as President Grace Penn and her husband Todd. Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell return as Kate and Hal Wyler, and the new season opened with a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. All eight episodes are out now.

A 30-year-old director just won a major animation prize in Spain.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:00:00 -0400

Kōhei Kadowaki's We Are Aliens won Best Animated Feature in the Anima't section of the Sitges Film Festival. It's the first Japanese film to win since Seven Days War, joining past winners like Makoto Shinkai's your name. and Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai, and Kadowaki is the youngest Japanese director to take it. The film already won the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September.

Source: animenewsnetwork.com

Anthropic says AI is changing who it hires.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:00:00 -0400

In a new report on its own workforce, Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% of its technical hires to 9%, as the hours worked by its AI agents rapidly grew. By August, those agent hours outnumbered employees' hours 6 to 1. People are meeting more, too: time in meetings per employee is up 20% from a year ago.

Source: techcrunch.com

DeepSeek's smallest model just got faster, cheaper and better at coding.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:00:00 -0400

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 with open weights under an MIT license. In DeepSeek's own tests it scored 77% on the DeepSWE coding benchmark at just under 20 cents per task, ahead of bigger models from Anthropic and OpenAI. API prices aren't changing, and DeepSeek is also opening its in-house search engine to developers.

Source: the-decoder.com

Wuhu Island is back, and this time you can skateboard on it.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:00:00 -0400

Nintendo Switch Sports Resort brings 12 motion-control sports to Switch 2, including returning favorites like archery, bowling, prop plane and power cruising, plus new thumb wrestling and skateboarding. Play solo, with up to four people on one system, or online with up to 16. It launches October 22, only on Switch 2.

Konami's president doesn't think AI is going to change gaming that much.

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400

In Konami's latest annual report, Konami Digital Entertainment president Hideki Hayakawa wrote that game engines and player-made content already made it easy to start making games, so AI "won't bring a significant change" to the market. Even if AI speeds up production, he said, the most important part of great games is still people and creators, because the "chemical reaction" of a team trading ideas "is not something that can be easily replaced."

Source: automaton-media.com

Attack on Titan 3 lets you play the whole story, from the first expeditions all the way to the end.

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:00:00 -0400

Koei Tecmo's new trailer shows the Omega Force game covering Hajime Isayama's entire saga. You play as your own member of the Scout Regiment and fight alongside Eren, Mikasa, Armin and Levi. It launches December 10 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch 2 and PC.

Street Fighter won the weekend. Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes doc stole it.

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:00:00 -0400

Street Fighter opened to $31 million ($13M Fri / $10.8M Sat / $7.2M Sun), the best Street Fighter movie start but short of Mortal Kombat II's $38.5 million. Right behind it, You Can See Everything locked a $15 million debut from just 855 theaters — Deadline's second-best documentary opening ever, behind only Fahrenheit 9/11. Whalefall managed $8 million.

Source: deadline.com

Steam's week of free demos starts tomorrow.

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:00:00 -0400

Steam Next Fest runs October 19 to 26, kicking off at 1 PM ET (10 AM Pacific). Valve's celebration of upcoming games lets you try demos of unreleased titles for free, and some demos are already live ahead of the start.

Source: partner.steamgames.com

Samuel L. Jackson is getting his own Taylor Sheridan show.

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:00:00 -0400

Paramount+'s teaser for Frisco King brings back Jackson as New Orleans gangster Lee Washington from Tulsa King, now turning a polished Texas suburb into his hustler's playground. Sheridan writes all eight episodes, and Sylvester Stallone makes a special appearance. It premieres December 18 with two episodes.

A small AI startup says its first model can out-see GPT-6 Astra on some tests.

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0400

Elorian, led by former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai, launched Glimpse, a model that keeps going back to images and video while it reasons: cropping in, pulling frames and running code to check what it sees. Elorian says it beat Astra on several of its own tests, including chart reasoning and video captioning, after training on only a few hundred GPUs. It costs $0.60 per million input tokens.

Source: techcrunch.com

Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe took on Everest in New Zealand, and Apple TV just showed how.

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:00:00 -0400

A new behind-the-scenes look at Tenzing goes on location with Hiddleston, Dafoe and Genden Phuntsok. The film tells the true story of Tenzing Norgay (Phuntsok), who with Edmund Hillary (Hiddleston) became the first to reach the top of Everest, with Dafoe as expedition leader John Hunt and Caitríona Balfe co-starring. Jennifer Peedom directs, and it's streaming now on Apple TV.